Iran bans US films

[bee]

Thursday 20 October 2005, 17:02 Makka Time, 14:02 GMT

Iran has banned American and other films that promote Western culture in a move to combat what the Islamic government calls attempts to damage and humiliate eastern traditions and culture.

Iranian state-run television said on Thursday that the country's Supreme Cultural Revolutionary Council, headed by hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, issued the ban on foreign movies that promote what were termed "arrogant powers", a propaganda term the Iranians use to refer to the United States.

The ban affects films that deny the existence of God as well as those seen to promote immorality, violence, drug usage, liquor consumption, secularism, liberalism, anarchy and feminism, the television report said.

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emphasis mine.

fundies. :banghead: ours would do the same if they could.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/44A407C1-CD07-4279-A249-324F5428D215.htm

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. And our government wants to pick a fight with these guys?

They have the same agenda!

[bee]

7. so true. I was reading this and thinking...

man... it sounds like a pat robertson wet dream.
(sorry for the visual) ;)

[ixion]

2. shades of things to come here in 'Murika

I can't figure out why these fundies are warring... they both like the same things. :shrug:

[YapiYapo]

4. it all come down to

My god is better than your god ;)

[Tesha]

3. Our fundies would allow "Liquor consumption". :-) (NT)

[Mithras61]

6. You sound like you haven't spent much time in the bible belt...

We have "dry" counties (you can only buy beer, wine & liquor in "private" clubs that you have to buy a membership to be in - usually less than $5 for a membership, though) all over Texas. It was the same in several other states I was in as well. I really believe that if the fundies thought they could get away with it, alcohol would be illegal (and hence, far more profitable).

[Tesha]

10. It obviously isn't illegal.

> We have "dry" counties (you can only buy beer, wine & liquor in
> "private" clubs that you have to buy a membership to be in -
> usually less than $5 for a membership, though) all over Texas.

But liquor obviously isn't illegal, it's just kept behind closed
doors, much the same way the fundies treat their raft of sexual
preversions (sic). They enjoy them just fine, they just don't
want people to know that they do.

Tesha

[Mithras61]

14. I believe that it only isn't illegal because...

the Feds repealed the 18th amendment with the 21st amendment. If they thought that the law wouldn't be thrown out by the Federal courts, they would have banned it long ago. The "private clubs" thing is just their work-around. If they didn't allow it in private clubs, it would be challenged in court.

[Canuckistanian]

5. The Iranian collective IQ just went up about 18.3 points

But now they have a serious deficit of VanDamm movies. The good with the bad, I guess.

[rainidame]

17. Totally agree,

I am so amazed that we as parents can't figure out why children have no family values, but so much of our children's time is watching shows/movies that basically tell the children they are smarter and better than their parents and caregivers. . . .duh! I can't count how many times I finally won arguments before they got out of hand with my kids by realizing this and saying, "Uhm wait a minute, you do realize that the concept that at the age of X you could be smarter, wiser, more experienced than I at the age of X+25; only happens in the movies right? and their little eyes would begin to clear, and their lettle minds would back off on the media hyped egos. . . .and then would at least LISTEN to what I had to say, and ultimately it would make sense.

We owned only one tv, in the front room, so everyone had to share and/or agree, and after an in family scientific test which encompassed everyone including the adults (I was actually the worse addicted) gaming devices were banned with everyone's agreement, the last gaming device we had was a Super Nintendo. . . .

But if you look at the timeline of family decay in the US and the timeline of tv . . . . . . . .

[Tight_rope]

8. Can't say that I blame them...Most of the movies are trash anyway!

Hell, I live in the US and won't pay to watch the trash.
So I definitely don't expect another country to import them.

[YouthInAsia]

9. well, that appears to be ALL of our movies. What are they gonna

show, Pinocchio?

[Zenlitened]

11. Plenty of fundies here in America who would do EXACTLY the same...

... if they could get away with it. Their attack on "the evils of Hollywood" is one of the main things that animates them.

All of them -- muslim, christian, whatever -- give off the same stink with their fear, their anger, their hatred of anything different. Atheists, secularists, liberals, feminists? The fundies would destroy us all if they could -- then smile and pat themselves on the back for having done such a "great deed" for their imagined god.

The next few years in America will be very telling. If we succeed in pushing back against the religionists here, I fully expect some of them will start strapping bombs to their bodies and blowing themselves up in crowded public spaces -- just like their fanatical counterparts elsewhere in the world.



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[bee]

13. I completely agree.

a fundie is a fundie is a fundie. Havent ours been known to blow up abortion clinics? And have people not died as a result? Its half step away imo. American fundies are simply more complacent.

[Enraged_Ape]

15. Our fundie psychos are better than their fundie psychos

Because, hey, they're 'Murkan.

[Boomer]

12. Movies promoting feminism?

Hah! I wish.

[ucmike]

16. i'm surprised they were ever allowed.

[Bridget Burke]

18. Iran is not as backward as many assume.

The mullahs & the military are far too powerful, but quite a few younger people would like some liberalization.

Women DO have more rights there than in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia.

Bombing, invading & occupying won't "bring freedom" to the Iranian people.