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Western Couple Travel to Middle East to Prove It ‘Gets a Bad Rap’ — End Up in Iranian Prison
Pluralist ^ | September 12, 2019 | Pluralist

Posted on 09/13/2019 3:27:21 AM PDT by C19fan

A blogger couple who traveled from Australia to Asia and the Middle East in an attempt to “break the stigma” surrounding developing countries was reportedly arrested in Iran. The duo were recently identified as Jolie King and Mark Firkin, the BBC reported on Thursday. Although the couple was arrested 10 weeks ago near Tehran, it wasn’t until Wednesday that the news became known. In 2017, they planned to leave Australia and drive from Asia to London. Along the way, the pair shared videos documenting the trip with their thousands of followers on social media.

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Paying the price for virtue signaling.
1 posted on 09/13/2019 3:27:21 AM PDT by C19fan
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stigma won!


2 posted on 09/13/2019 3:30:06 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: C19fan

Yep, pretty much what I expected

3 posted on 09/13/2019 3:32:28 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Woke late gen-X morons.


4 posted on 09/13/2019 3:42:48 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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She’s probably real popular in an Iranian prison. More Western bubbleheads who will get a real lesson in Islam, if they live through the experience.


5 posted on 09/13/2019 3:44:54 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

He’s the one they’ll go after. She’ll be forced to do the chores. If he had any constipation issues before...they’re over now.


6 posted on 09/13/2019 3:50:08 AM PDT by albie
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
When's the execution?
I want to watch.
And laugh.
7 posted on 09/13/2019 3:53:21 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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To: C19fan

I could easily omit 90% of all countries from any travel plans I may think of.


8 posted on 09/13/2019 3:58:31 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: C19fan; Fred Nerks

Australians Jolie King and Mark Firkin remind me of American social jistice warrior Rachel Aliene Corrie. who was killed by a bulldozer when she refused to move out of the way in a weapons smuggling tunnel demolition in the Gaza Strip.

Liberals are just SO stupid. They think they can impose personal ideology onto cultures and civilizations that have evolved over thousands of years, as if they can invoke some kind of cultural Gestalt and save the world that does not really need salvation at all, modern missionaries who are just as ignorant as their missionary predecessors.......ideological ego run wild instead of colonial religion running wild as it did in the 16th Century onward...gets them killed or imprisoned.

It is to laugh. Maybe someone is Oz will put up enough cash to get King and Firkin released.But they could literally die before then, the more they whine, the more they will be beaten,...the race against time is now on.


9 posted on 09/13/2019 3:59:34 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Truth29

She even got on a horse with strangers and rode off with three men. Wow, I don’t even have the words for the stupendous stupidity displayed.


10 posted on 09/13/2019 4:01:07 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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What I'd like to know is - who funds their adventures? Jolie King has gorgeous breast implants, and Jolie sounds like a made-up name.

They write very poorly. Examples include: - A local Shepard, (who spoke zero English) rode up on his horse, got off, then offered his horse to go for a ride,”

- “Our biggest motivation… is to hopefully inspire anyone wanting to travel, and also try to break the stigma around travelling to countries which get a bad wrap [sic] in the media,”


11 posted on 09/13/2019 4:01:17 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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I don’t think she rode off on a horse with 3 men. These 2 write very poorly, but what I think happened is that she took a short jaunt on the horse and then with nothing but a smile and a wave, the horseman rode off down the valley with 2 of his mates who had also shown up. But punctuation, spelling, etc. mean nothing to these dingbats, so the way you read it might well be right.


12 posted on 09/13/2019 4:05:36 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

The Liberal Duo: THOT-girl and her sidekick, SoiBoi.


13 posted on 09/13/2019 4:10:53 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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Let them go so the can visit North Korea and end up like Otto Warmbier.


14 posted on 09/13/2019 4:20:18 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: C19fan

Will Australia pay ransom to get them back...?


15 posted on 09/13/2019 4:22:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: Bulwyf
Her brains are in her boobs.


16 posted on 09/13/2019 4:28:36 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Wait wait wait! Didn’t prince Hairy say far away traveling is a no no now? I am soooo confused.....


17 posted on 09/13/2019 4:31:14 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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Her brains are in her boobs.

I'd reckon her IQ is about 38.

18 posted on 09/13/2019 4:34:27 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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One is a clone of the other. Both shrunken mummies. It’s obvious what they see in each other: themselves.

Self-absorbed delusional social justice warriers go to muzzy country and find out that they are not welcome.

I doubt they will learn their lesson.


19 posted on 09/13/2019 4:38:34 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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More:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7456149/British-travel-blogger-Jolie-King-scared-disoriented-intimidated-Iranian-jail.html


20 posted on 09/13/2019 4:39:41 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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