Posted on 11/13/2025 9:18:04 AM PST by Eleutheria5
n a land where rivers have run dry, lakes have vanished, and fertile soil has turned to dust, men in clerical robes still stand on pulpits without shame and declare: “Women’s unveiled hair causes drought!”
This is not satire, nor the delirium of a lone village cleric. It reflects the mindset of a regime that has ruled Iran for forty-six years, a regime still incapable of understanding that the connection between clouds and rain is scientific, not moral or religious.
From its inception, the Islamic Republic was built on ignorance and superstition. Today, it stands idle before the greatest environmental catastrophe in Iran’s modern history. Drought has become a silent, devastating war displacing thousands of families from their land every day. Yet instead of reviving water resources, reforming agriculture, or managing dams, the rulers perform rain prayers and send unveiled women to prison.
In this regime’s mind, the unveiled woman is the enemy of God, not the corrupt official or the reckless dam builder. In their eyes, the earth burns with thirst because young women walk the streets without headscarves. And when a cleric reduces the universe to a veil and a turban, there is no room left for science, reason, or technology.
For over four decades, this government has had no coherent plan for natural resource management. The Ministry of Energy has become a factory for falsified reports, while Iran’s water has fallen victim to the Revolutionary Guard’s reckless dam projects and the greed of semi-state contractors.
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Something tells me I should pity their plight, but I just can’t seem to do it.
Ah, the religion of hate, ignorance, misogyny, and lies continues successfully to avoid the inconveniences of progressing beyond the sixth century AD. That’s AD, not CE liberal slime.
Islam has a very long history of turning productive land into deserts. Much of the southern Mediterranean coast was very productive land before Islam conquered it.
After Islam conquered the area, the cities became depopulated as the productive land was destroyed by goat herders who did not respect Christian property rights.
Gaza used to be productive land. Citrus trees, salad vegetables. Then the Israeli government kicked the Jews out, and jihadis destroyed the farms and greenhouses they left behind.
Agreed. I think they just don’t want to mention the year of our Lord.
CE isn’t particularly ‘common’ as it is the year 1447 in the Islamic calendar and 5786 in the Hebrew calendar.
Bkmk
Allah is angry. Throw those veilless harlots into a volcano.
Ever since we were coaxed into meddling in the ME, all we got out of it was busted wallets, dead and broken Soldiers, and mass migration as these people flee what we caused. From LBJ to Trump, we are Israels pitbull, and we keep losing the dog fights.
The droughts are Man caused, as we use Planes to Geoengineer the climate. We did it in Vietnam, we do it in the ME and even in our own country. Spraying chemicals and dessicants to dry up soil, and water, and direct it where????? It is a new form of warfare. New from managing monsoons in Nam, to Hurricanes in the Atlantic.
One mentions Christ’s birth. Another eradicates it. More Christian culture erased. One step at a time.
Thailand calendar is 2568 BE (Buddhist Era)
Ever since we were coaxed into meddling in the ME, all we got out of it was busted wallets, dead and broken Soldiers, and mass migration as these people flee what we caused. From LBJ to Trump, we are Israels pitbull, and we keep losing the dog fights.
Also, there has been overreaching.
As President Trump has said, we should have demanded Iraqi oil to pay for the war.
We should have kept Bagrahm base in Afgahnistan. Easy to defend, and easy to aid an American friendly regime to stay in power.
We should have taken out the Iranian regime after we conquered Iraq.
None of those things were done because of Democratic politicians and the opposition of the Old Dominant Liberal Media.
Very many very bad results could have been prevented, including the Ukrainian/Russian war.
You could have heard a pin drop when I told my visiting family that this was the time of the Islamic conquest.
So it isn't only desertification and retrograde agriculture, it is art as well. See my tagline.
Imagine people in the modern world who still believe in curses...
Balaam tried to curse the young nation of Israel, but being as he was a prophet and therefore a sort of puppet, G-d changed all of his curses to blessings. Noah cursed Ham’s fourth son Canaan, because Ham had prevented him from having a fourth son by castrating him. Not exactly fair, but he was over 600 years old, so he might have become cantankerous, especially after being cooped up for a year feeding and cleaning up after animals on a cramped ship.
Truthfully, a person’s faculty of speech has great power, since it’s one of the ways in which we resemble G-d, Who created the world with His power of speech. Jews are very careful not to curse anyone for this reason, and even if mentioning a calamity that might possibly befall someone, say “G-d forbid”. Arabs, also being Semites, often deliberately tell lies about someone they hate in the hopes that they have made the lie truth (in olden times, wealthy families would hire poets to curse their rival families in the public square [see The Arab Mind by Raphael Patai for further elaboration), and also deliberately curse their enemies.
This does not mean that Joe Kennedy was actually cursed by a tzaddik on a boat. That is the legend. I am just explaining the context of a Semitic world view in which there are indeed potent curses and also blessings. I have a close Arab friend who has repeatedly blessed me with wealth and all manner of happiness. Thus far, it hasn’t taken, but I’m holding out hope that one day it will. I similarly have blessed him in turn. Gypsies might believe in curses, too, so I’ve heard.
Lots of people believe in curses. Christians are specifically enjoined not to curse others.
It was a very strange feeling to hear such belief in the 20th Century (about 1988).
Tangentially related...the writer Alan Moore said in ye Medieval times, a bard could write a song denigrating a monarch. That song could become popular enough to influence the populace, and thus effect policy or even the downfall of a king. And in that sense, words affecting reality, magic is real.
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