His name is Donald Newhouse, billionaire democrat and managing director of the Associated Press, a leftist propaganda organ comitted to undermining the GOP at any cost, including the security of the nation.
Posted on 12/25/2005 11:04:54 PM PST by presidio9
A young woman driving through the Iranian capital blared the Eagles' "Hotel California" from her car speakers -- an act that would have gotten her pulled over by police, and possibly arrested, 20 years ago during the frenzy of the Islamic Revolution.
To Pari Mahmoudi, who grew up in an era when many of the 1979 revolution's restrictions have been dropped or ignored, a new ban on Western music ordered last week by Iran's hard-line president seems too ludicrous to be real. "Don't take this man seriously," the 25-year-old scoffed Tuesday, referring to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
But some fear the ban that Ahmadinejad enacted Dec. 19 is a sign of more to come. The order affects only state-run television and radio. However, some worry it is only a first step toward the wider bans imposed after the revolution, which forbade all popular music -- including Iranian -- as "un-Islamic." That crackdown was applied to music shops, musicians and even music in people's homes and cars.
"We are concerned about the cultural policies of this government," said Hamid Vafaei, director of a music school in Tehran. "History has proved that a policy of restrictions can't work for long. One of the reasons for brain drain in our country is the restrictions imposed by the government on the nation."
Ahmadinejad was elected in June after promising a return to the values of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolution. So far, his ultraconservative stances have been reflected more in foreign policy, taking a tough line in nuclear negotiations with Europe and outraging the West with a series of anti-Israeli comments.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the ban shows that Ahmadinejad "is taking Iran 180 degrees from where the rest of the world is going."
Ahmadinejad has purged government ministries, replacing pragmatists from
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Don't take this man seriously," the 25-year-old scoffed Tuesday, referring to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Yahhh, well you better take them seriously, these are the lunatics you passively let run your country and who the rest of the world has to deal with.
I'm outraged!
Who's allowing her to drive?
By the same token, it's so much more fun to listen to rock-n'-roll when it's forbidden.
Once again the AP propagandists try to equate radical islam with the GOP by labeling it as conservative.
Radical communists were also called conservative by this tool of the left.
Radical leftists like Hitler and Stalin... sheesh we miss 'em so
His name is Donald Newhouse, billionaire democrat and managing director of the Associated Press, a leftist propaganda organ comitted to undermining the GOP at any cost, including the security of the nation.
Who's the tramp he's with?
One of the awful-est movies ever, and directed by Nancy Walker (yes, the Bounty paper towel lady), no less!
Maybe we should arrange screenings, the Iranian mullahs would all drop dead from aneurysms.
Any party or group that calls for strict adherence to the status quo is by definition 'conservative'. It isn't just a political movement in the US, so try not to take offense. :-)
So the left-wing Canadian Liberal party is conservative?
The new government of Iran is simply nuts!
they are out of touch with the world and the president of Iran is mentally ill
This new cult running my country is dangerous and should be dealt with one way or another
Yes, by the definition of "conservative" that the newspaper is using.
bttt
The ban isn't about the music. The ban is about control. Brute control with the ability to pick up most anyone at anytime for something as ridiculous as having a Kenny G. Album (though it is a crime of bad taste). Expect additional laws to be put on the books along with KGB style knocks on the door.
If western music is banned from Iranian radio stations, the hot new item will now be satellite radio receivers. You also have podcasts over the Internet. The net effect will be young people no longer listening to Iranian media at all
Iran is simply adding to my theory that they are a fascist state. I await their next announcement that "Western films" are forbidden. Before long, they will close their universities and blame it all on the Jooooooooooooooooos!!!!!!!!!!!
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