Songs of Defiance

I hear and read Americans saying that what happens in foreign countries is of little interest to them.

Is the fact that Islam is advancing and growing in the West and threatens to dominate Europe soon, a horror that can be ignored?

I hate all religions. Yes, hate them. But as Islam in our time is much more destructive of civilization than any other religion, I hate it more than any other.

So I repeat this news of Afghanistan, taken from the left-slanted Guardian newspaper, in the hope of making others hate Islam as much as I do:

Quote:
Afghan women, both inside and outside the country, have posted videos of themselves singing in protest against the Taliban’s laws banning women’s voices in public.

Late last month the Taliban published new restrictions aimed, it said, at combating vice and promoting virtue. The 35-article document, which includes a raft of draconian laws, deems women’s voices to be potential instruments of vice and stipulates that women must not sing or read aloud in public, nor let their voices carry beyond the walls of their homes.

As rights campaigners reacted with horror, Afghan women began pushing back. Across the country, women began uploading videos of themselves singing, in defiance of the Taliban’s systematic efforts to erase women from the public sphere.

“No command, system or man can close the mouth of an Afghan woman,” one 23-year-old said after posting her own video.

The 39-second video showed her singing outdoors. The song she sang had been carefully chosen for its lyrics, which spoke of protest and strength. “I am not that weak willow that trembles in every wind,” she sang. “I am from Afghanistan.”

Comment:
The defiant women within the country risk being imprisoned, tortured, and very possibly killed.

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Shia Islam:

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The regime in Tehran mirrors the brutal reign of Ismail I of the Safavid dynasty (22 December 1501 – 23 May 1524), who, 900 years after the Arab invasion, rose to power and established Shi’ism as the official religion in Iran. Ismail I’s rule … was founded on extreme violence and bloodshed … executing, dismembering, and torturing those who opposed him. When no external enemies were available, he even directed his violence towards his own family. Anyone opposing Shi’ism was condemned to death by the sword. Ismail I spread terror throughout the land with relentless massacres.

Historical records, including those housed in the British Museum, detail his ruthless killings, including the burial of the living and the exhumation of the dead. Declaring jihad, he reshaped Iranian history through the lens of Shi’ism. On the day of his coronation at the central mosque in Tabriz, he brazenly proclaimed, “I have been appointed by God, and the prophets are with me. If the people resist, I will draw my sword and leave not one of the 300,000 people of Tabriz alive.” After 520 years, is there any discernible difference between him and Khamenei or Khomeini?

In Mazandaran, Ismail executed his opponents by forcing their necks into iron cages and setting them on fire.

He also orchestrated the massacre of 7,000 people in Tabas.

His successor, Sultan Ismail II, driven by deep-seated rage, continued the brutal massacres, killing and blinding 12,000 people during his brief reign. Sultan Abbas’s 40-year reign was similarly marked by relentless bloodshed and massacres. He exiled opponents to the fortress of Alamut, blinded two of his sons, and killed one. …

Read more if you have the stomach for it:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mullahs-rule-in-iran-a-saga-of-deceit-and-fear/

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The singing protests of the Afghan women is similar to the protests they did against head coverings - and will have the same results - imprisonments, torture and death for many women.
Islam is the worst religion, as you say, because it has been the most impervious to the influence of civilization. In fact, it is “retrograde”, as Churchill noted.

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