Iran has hanged 21 men in the latest of a series of executions that have been criticised by the EU and human rights groups, state media have reported.

Authorities executed 17 convicted drug smugglers in the north-eastern province Razavi Khorasan and four criminals in the southern city of Shiraz.

The hanging of the four men in Shiraz was reportedly watched by large crowds.

The number of executions in Iran has risen since July, when police launched a crackdown on “immoral behaviour”.

Murder, rape, adultery, armed robbery, apostasy and drug smuggling are all punishable by death under the Islamic state’s particular version of Sharia law.

A justice department official said that at least one criminal had been executed each week in Fars province, of which Shiraz is the capital, since the Iranian New Year on 21 March.

“This shows the efforts of the judiciary system in bringing about permanent social security and a serious confrontation with those people who are corrupt,” Abdolnabi Najibi told the Fars news agency.

Amnesty International has protested against the rising number of executions in Iran this year, which had reached 124 before Wednesday’s hangings.

The European Union has criticised Tehran’s human rights record and expressed concern about the use of the death penalty.

Here is my part, most of people that I know approve that some of people that executed by IRI’s regime weren’t thugs, probably they were political prisoners or just they had different belief systems which the latter is highly expected to be true.

My question is, why do they execute them in front of people? if we accept they convicted a crime (any kind that against Islam rules) why should they get punished in front of people in street? Iran is no exception because Saudi Arabia does the same. They punish people in public. Why is it so? Do they want to spread fear to public people? Is this part of Islam or is it just current politics and nothing to do with Islam?!

They are a volunteer based Iranian paramilitary force (Basiji) which is subordinate to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Sepah-e Pasdaran). These guys are teen and very young and most of the time they are attending school (Intermediate/High schools or college). In Islamic Revolutionary Guards they brainwash to Islamic teachings and they are getting ready to fight for their religion. They will learn they should spare their life for their religion and they will get reward in heaven! At the end, these guys will be next-generation of Islamic terrorists. President Ahmadi Nejad was one of them and he still is. They had terrors in Iran and overseas.

Some of you would say, Islam is a religion and nothing is wrong with it but honesty these teachings are destructive for humanity and I couldn’t justify it with anything else but Islam itself. Don’t you believe?! Ok. Just go ahead and read Quran for yourself then you will find out how that God (Allah) is a killer and continually punish people and kill them! Specially it punish infidels (like me ) so bad and it asks his follower to do so. Revolutionary Guard has a long history massacre in Iran .e.g. Forgotten Massacre of 1988 in Iran; Now they are passing their experience of violent terrors and brutal manners to youngsters.

We have held them accountable for their Islamic crimes and insanity and they will respond to it soon of late.

You should study science!

It’s not fun to take photo with arm’s explosion!

That guy in the poster killed himself like a suicider, you shouldn’t!

It’s not your way, your future is not in war and Islam!

Here is the story highlight:

Study: Majority of American Muslims worried hijabs could lead to discrimination
American Muslim says wearing headscarf is “God’s wish”
Egyptian: “I do believe in modesty and you shouldn’t be showing off yourself”

I leave it you to have sneak peak on series of video clips and think about it. As far as I watched, it supports my article, Religion is the enemy of civilization. Also it shows religious people in different positions with their prejudice and stupidity which comes from religion, can burn everything and everyone.

Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly is an Islamic NGO which they got their name from following quote of Quran:

“Surely, Allah desires to keep away uncleanness from you, the Ahl-ul-Bayt, and to purify you a (thorough) purifying.” (Surah Al-Ahzab: Verse 33)

And they answer why they chose the name:

The reason for selecting “the Ahl-ul-Bayt (A.S.)” [the Infallible Household of the Holy Prophet of Islam (s.a.)] as the pivot of the activities has been due to the fact that besides the Holy Quran, the distinguished members of the Ahl-ul-Bayt (a.s.) constitute a holy focal point in the Islamic culture, which is accepted unanimously by all Muslims.

And this world assembly intorduce itself:

Today, there is a tangible necessity for modern foundations, which could prepare the grounds for exchange of views and thoughts, and introduce the common heritage of Muslim communities, including that of the followers of the Ahl-ul-Bayt (A.S.), to the world.

Such foundations could establish intellectual relations and collaborations with other organizations in the Islamic world to solve their cultural, social, and other problems; and make efforts to reinforce the solidarity among Islamic communities. They can also confront the socio-cultural conspiracies of enemies of the holy Quran and Islam by taking advantage of Islamic and Quranic records and exploiting rich resources of Islamic teachings.

History has proved that the followers of the Ahl-ul-Bayt (a.s.) have continuously had the honor of defending Islam and Muslims, and have made the most sacrifice and devotion in this way.

Evidently, under present conditions of the world, it would not be so easy to achieve a perfect and desirable success in fulfilling the abovementioned responsibilities. Rather, it requires consultation and cooperation. Based on this fact, the Ahl-ul-Bayt (A.S.) World Assembly was founded as a global and nongovernmental organization (NGO) by a group of brilliant figures of Islamic world.

Well, these guys gathered from all over the world to attend to this conference yesterday. A brilliant photographer took some pictures which is really funny for this conference. It seems these so-called distinguished members of brilliant figures of Islamic world are just get bored and fall asleep. What was wrong with them? or the whole subject was boring?

Is this group nap or just an Islamic NGO meeting?

What is he doing? This famous brilliant figure of Islamic world which is known for Iranian people are looking for camera:

This is another distinguished members of brilliant figures of Islamic world instead of listening, he’s taking pictures:

What did they accomplish so far was just having some meetings and wasting petrol money on inviting people over and let them enjoy their nap and get relax.

Well, it seems people couldn’t react well enough and I don’t think so any reason can justify closing the old thread. As long as comments are not personal attacks, we shouldn’t react like this! It’s free speech, right? Everybody has the right to comment on their idea. I don’t like to see people get upset because they’re defending an ideology or a religion.
Anybody has the right to talk and discuss their points, if there’s a disagreement, Just disagree! Why people using “insult” word to take power here and there?

One can say: The whole religions are insulting to human wisdom which I believe it’s right. People have the right to comment on religion and ask for it. It shouldn’t bother anyone here.

Just people are taking comments too personal. I do believe Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an outstanding lady who has courage to defend an idea about Islam. Some people suggests she is insulting Islam and they should kill her! Some others want to destroy her character and some just ignored her. Different kind of reactions is depending on many things but whatever it’s, it shows how much we can tolerate free speech.

Closing the thread was just to enforce ones opinion to others. This is dictatorship. If people can’t practice free speech here on the net, they can’t take it in their real life. There are sacrifices that people should pay to have a democratic environment.

Religion is an ideology and nobody can insult an idea and it’s not sacred. If anybody thinks so it’s sacred then you feel easily insulted because you think people touch that sensitive sacred part of you. If religion (or any ideology) is something from God, who the hell are you (any humankind) to protect it? Who left you this responsibility to measure something is insulting to religion (or any ideology) that you believe or not? If you believe in something so enjoy your belief and don’t criticize people because they don’t share same interest in your beliefs.

And something else is bothering me when I read some people are preaching their religion and ideas which it’s not professional. I do suggest you preach when people ask you to do it.

I respect everybody’s opinion (specially people who diagree with me), just not the one who suggests killing people because of their idea! and I always stand against these kind of reactions and human stupidity.

In following interview, Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali says:

“I don’t find myself in the same luxury as you. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom, because you don’t know what it is not to have freedom. I haven’t. I know there are many things wrong with America, and I know that there are many things wrong with Americans, but I still believe it’s the best nation in the world.”

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I admire her thoughts and I give her my best gratitude.

Let’s look back and see what really happened. it heated right after 9/11 and highlighted religion as the major source of conflict in current civilization. Oh, wait, I have to clear it here and now, although we, human, are happily using some words like civilized and civilization but honesty humankind just reached to an advanced state in material and some cultural developments but intellectually! I am sure right now there are people who yell at me and say where have you been? haven’t you read anything from philosophers?! Ah, you’re right but I consider whole human population not just some philosophers.

Let me just explain it. In material advancement, for example today we produce notebooks; tomorrow we will produce smart-notebooks. Consumers have always bought products and they have had feedbacks and they have asked for better products. Even people who live in deserts have had their own opinion about products and they asked for something to satisfy their needs. so anyway people has cooperated in material advancement in this so-called civilization.

Can we apply same model to intellectual advancement? No and that’s the whole point. The product of intellectual advancement is intellect which we, human, have made it already but in a wrong way. We can calculate faster and provide more numbers. we can use overloaded information on the net and media broadcasters but this intellectual advancement instead of making more decisive people it has made more followers and apathetic people. people instead of thinking fundamentally are just kinda like to think shallow, specially when it comes to religion (our topic), still we are in surface. Don’t we? I raise this question; What percentage of current world religion’s adherents have thought about their religious symbols like God, prophets, books and so on? let me tell you, for most of them even thinking about this topic is taboo!

A simple basic element of intellect is reasoning which it comes after questioning. how can we ask for intellectual advancement while we run preventive role on people’s head? This so known taboo about religious symbols like God, prophets, books and so on is in the heart of religion which prevents people to think about them and as long as there are preventive methods in people’s life, we couldn’t expect intellectual advancement and as a result more intellects.

Unfortunately I should say it’s just some small fraction of human population is intellectually advanced, The rest were not part of intellectual development process in the past and they are not going to be if they still be followers and submissive.

Just keep in mind as much as scholars try to advance intellect in the society, on the other hand institutionalized religions will try much harder to stop them with their preventive role on people’s mind. This preventive role not only will stop intellectual advancement but also it is very destructive for society as we can see in religious societies which it forces me to write religion is the enemy of civilization. I think so scholars should take more responsibility than before and be more outspoken to crystal clear role of religion on being retarded in intellectual development, with participating in public debates and open discussions specially with religious leaders.

On the other hand, people should study more specially out of their religious borders and research on other religions would help a lot to discover truth which is the source of knowledge and civilization. Also it is objective of this article.

Albert Einstein once said “If something is in me which can be called religion then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it… I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism…”

They say, IRI has rebuilt 200 schools, 150 places of worship (mosques), 30 clinics and 25 bridges. The official budget for this year is about £60 million (US120 million) and the key priority is repairing the national road network. This is one year after war with Israel, triggered by Hezbollah’s cross-border rocket attacks!

And you tell me, for what reason should IRI support these terrorist organizations with Iranian Petrol oil? IRI is paying their salaries, blood money, arms, and now! Repairing their road and building their mosques?! With our money?! My major question comes toward to PMs in Iran, what are you doing there? You are responsible for these generosities for terrorist organizations and this is not just about khamenei’s group.

Lebanese’s should be happy to get US120 million for free! Right? Some yes, some no!
Well some of them expect more and some of them don’t like a regime like IRI make a good terrorist ally in their country which I think so they are right.

For example, Hussein Subeiti, who lives in Ghandouriyeh, said: “We’re expecting the Iranians to do a good job. I think now the road will be much better than before. We are very grateful to the Iranian government for their contribution.”

Ok Sir! Just relax! We do our best to make you guys in Lebanon happy!

But Misbah Ahdab, a pro-government MP said “I’m very frightened by this meddling, the money channeled through Hezbollah and backed by Iran is ensuring that everything is being done to undermine the Lebanese state.”

We are worried too sir! Why can’t you control your own people sir? What’s the problem with them? Are they looking for seats in parliament? So please make sure it happens and kick out IRI regime of your country! Will you?

It seems no way! They can’t do anything about it! Poor guy, he said “we’re powerless to prevent Iran from funding independent projects. The money is going directly to Hezbollah, so we can’t stop it. What they are doing is working on their own state, which is not part of Lebanon.”

It seems when you can’t do anything just giving up on your land is easier solution to the major current problems! How about future? Did you guys ever think about what will happen to democracy while you grow a terrorist region in your heart? Seriously ever think about it?

During Ahmadinejad’s visit to Syria, they had their fair share of Iranian petrol, just US1 billion dollars! What the heck? While Ahmadinejad’s government have not defined poverty threshold since he took over the presidency which it means economy is in the worst shape ever here in Iran, how did they justify these generous spending in Arab countries?

No wonder why Terrorist Arabs (just terrorist ones) are working for IRI even inside of Iran and they are participating in torturing students, activists and executing civilian people.

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The Islamic Republic of Iran’s (IRI) police recommended that don’t take your husband/wife hand because it’s hard to differentiate that you are married or not which it makes us to assault you. So for your own safety don’t take your married partner’s hand!