I Left Iran for the U.S. to Get AWAY From
a Theocracy | Opinion
Newsweek,
by
Ari Honarvar
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
6/30/2022 3:29:26 PM
People used to ask me how women of Iran could allow their rights to be taken away. The overturning of Roe v. Wade provides a glimpse of how swiftly, in broad daylight, decades of progress and half the population's rights can be trampled. I grew up in Iran, where the fundamentalist Guardian Council doesn't allow any laws to pass without their approval. Several recent rulings by a fundamentalist U.S. Supreme Court favoring religious ideology and the expansion of gun rights, despite legislative efforts, show that we're heading in a similar direction here. This feels eerily familiar.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 6/30/2022 3:32:09 PM (No. 1202136)
Your daily load of horse manure from Newsweak.
This time off loaded by a Muslim.
Not interested in your lies.
No theocratic overtones here you lying piece of leftist, imported garbage.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/30/2022 3:38:11 PM (No. 1202147)
Go back to Iran, Muzzie.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
David Key 6/30/2022 3:40:51 PM (No. 1202148)
Ignorance or deliberately falsification. If the states can decide for themselves how to limit or not abortions how is this establishing a theocracy. The Supreme court merely acknowledged that the constitution does not address the issue of abortion, therefore it is in the legal responsibility of the states to decide whether or not to allow abortions. Don't like it where you are move to a state that provides whatever you wish. Can't get enough people in the state to agree to kill babies in the womb, then you move to some state that thinks its ok.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
harold2002 6/30/2022 3:44:17 PM (No. 1202149)
Abortion is not a "right" enshrined anywhere! Abortion is the killing of a human. That is illegal, Most people, of all religious beliefs, support that legal stance. You are either misguided, intellectually challenged or just a propagandist, Ari.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/30/2022 3:45:05 PM (No. 1202151)
You need to go back to Iran instead of spreading your dung here.
We have the 2nd. Amendment to keep us from being Iran and as you are from there you should know that.
Also no one took any rights away from women. Murder has never been a right. I might also add that the Supreme court did not pick this case out of the woods. The case was brought to them by liberals . The liberals lost and now they want to cry about it. They have no one to blame but themselves.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/30/2022 3:47:10 PM (No. 1202152)
1/2 of the states in this the country will still allow abortion. The Constitution says nothing about abortion therefore the 10th amendment takes over:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So now we can decide on abortion by how YOUR state house and senator stands on this issue. This woman needs to read the Constitution because she is just showing her leftists lunacy.
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You might try educating yourself on our Constitution before commenting and showing your total ignorance. That is all…
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 6/30/2022 3:55:26 PM (No. 1202160)
No rights were taken away. The rights of the states to deal with this issue were restored. If enough people want abortion to be a Constitutional guarantee, change the Constitution through the amendment process. It's not easy. It's reserved for only the most important issues and only happens when a super majority of people agree. I would hope that the killing of babies is NOT something to be enshrined in the Constitution. It's tragic that even some of the states are doing it.
Only people that have no understanding or respect for this Country and its long established institutions would think like this author.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 6/30/2022 4:03:44 PM (No. 1202168)
Relax sweetie. Sending legislation back to the state level where it belongs is light years away from the states becoming Muslim theocracies.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jimboscott 6/30/2022 4:13:04 PM (No. 1202178)
Actually, Roe v. Wade was the RESULT of a theocratic dictate handed down from liberal atheists who worship their own god of convenience.
NOW, with Roe overturned - the PEOPLE get to decide. Not the atheistic self-worshiping theocracy.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/30/2022 4:13:44 PM (No. 1202179)
Ari, I appreciate your candor. Here in Amerika, we have no theocracy. Just the reverse. In Amerika, belief in the Lord Our Savior, has been replaced (so the dims think) with obeyance to a deep state. Non-theocratic.
Not sure which is better - enslaved to a deep state or enslaved to a "religion of peace". Hmm...aren't these one and the same. As for me, Ari, I prefer a third choice. Belief in the United States of America, as founded and underpinned by God. "There, I said it" (as Mark Levin would say).
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
andyboy 6/30/2022 4:16:04 PM (No. 1202181)
If you can find where in the US Constitution it says there is a right to abortion, let us know. If you can find any country on earth besides China or North Korea where abortion rights are as expansive as they are in New York, Virginia, or California, let us know. You are free to openly criticize the US judiciary and falsely call them theocrats. Please do tell us what would happen if you went to Iran and ran a piece openly criticizing Iran's judiciary.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Vesicant 6/30/2022 4:24:42 PM (No. 1202192)
Yes, we all know how much muslims respect women. But I can see how abortion would be important if you have seven 13 year old brides that you've been grooming since they were 5 years old.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/30/2022 4:36:00 PM (No. 1202207)
If the author lives in California nothing has changed.
If the author lives in New York or New Jersey nothing has changed.
If the author is pregnant anywhere in the USA and can travel to the above nothing has changed.
BS article.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/30/2022 4:36:02 PM (No. 1202208)
Look around the US today, and you will see mainstream movies that verge on pornography, daily murders in our big cities, corruption by POTUS and his family, fading church attendance and an ongoing national moral collapse. We are as far away from being a theocracy as you can get.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 6/30/2022 5:10:54 PM (No. 1202241)
In a word. Taqiyya. Muslims specialize in that.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
franq 6/30/2022 5:30:04 PM (No. 1202264)
As expected, my employer has jumped on the "we'll pay travel expenses" bandwagon. 😵 I'm not surprised, but am disappointed.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MDConservative 6/30/2022 5:30:59 PM (No. 1202267)
There is no right to abortion. It's that simple. And no one needs a "refugee" from Iran or anywhere else to lecture on the Constitution and its penumbras, etc.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
kono 6/30/2022 6:13:26 PM (No. 1202303)
Biggest threat of theocracy in the U.S. is from the woke religion's grip on the Left.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 6/30/2022 6:38:37 PM (No. 1202323)
It is not possible to govern in the absence of 'religion', for even the absence of a religion is atheism (or some variant), which is a religion by default.
The only real question remaining is by which religion will America choose to be governed? Historically, Judeo-Christian morality has held sway, but that is in progress of being replaced by atheism/humanism/relativism/nihilism.
Either way, some religion will guide America's governance...we'd better choose well.
And please look up the definition of the word, 'theocracy' before using it in a sentence.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DaddyO 6/30/2022 7:11:56 PM (No. 1202374)
Newsweek commenter Matt had the best line:
“I left a country where I was a second-class person, where freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and equality are severely diminished. But I think I want to go back because America won’t let me indiscriminately murder babies."
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
robertthomason 6/30/2022 7:14:01 PM (No. 1202375)
Nitwiterry
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mifla 7/1/2022 3:55:55 AM (No. 1202695)
Ari, what would the government of Iran do to you if you wrote an article like this criticizing them? If you don't like this country, move elsewhere. No one is holding a gun to your head.
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