Iran moves to execute porn stars

[democratic]

Source: AP

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies.

With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that "producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corruptors of the world and could be sentenced to punishment as corruptors of the world."

The term, "corruptor of the world" is taken from the Quran, the Muslims' holy book, and ranks among the highest on the scale of an individual's criminal offenses. Under Iran's Islamic Penal Code, it carries a death penalty.

The "main elements" refered to in the draft include producers, directors, cameramen and actors involved in making a pornographic video.

Read more: AP

[DavidDvorkin]

1. If that regime falls

They could seek exile in the U.S. and run for Congress as Republicans. Fit right in.

[ret5hd]

2. Well darn! Just after i invested in all those Iranian Porn Stocks!

[krispos42]

3. NOOOOOOO!!!!!

C'mon, man... Iranian woman have super-hot ankles!!!!!!!!!!!






(Just kidding, although I will admit I do love the big eyes and long straight dark hair they typically have....)

[KingFlorez]

4. And killing people over movies isn't a criminal offense

These people don't realize how sick and deluded they are.

[NaturalHigh]

5. Iran has porn?

Who knew? :shrug:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

11. Debbie Does Dogma

It's a classic...

[NastyDiaper]

20. Behind The Green and Red Door

"Debbie Does Dogma" :rofl:

[rayofreason]

56. Jihadis gone wild!

Those wacky mujahadeen on spring break. Who would have thought!

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. They can have my Iranian porn when they take it from my cold, dead hands

On second thought, here ya go.

I think it was the great Emo Phillips who once said, "Give me liberty or give me death" is a bit extreme. I am more along the lines of "Give me liberty or stub my toe"

[DeepModem Mom]

7. I'll be one of the first to address this post seriously.

The U.S. does not hold the patent on outrageous acts, as some here, I think, seem to believe. Executing these people is an outrage, and I'll call it one.

[Mike Daniels]

8. And yet any time their glorious leader speaks he gets "atta boys"

from a select group of DU'ers simply because he's given Bush the verbal finger a few times.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Oh, this is just a mistranslation.

They probably really said they'd execute the industry, not the people. Deliberate misreporting my Western media.

[Mike Daniels]

12. Given that the Iranian leadership has no qualms about killing homosexuals

I see no reason they wouldn't apply the same penalty to pornographers.

[DavidDvorkin]

13. I didn't think I needed the sarcasm glyph

But I guess I did, since some on DU really do leap to defend the Iranian regime with such arguments.

[Mike Daniels]

17. I thought your response may have been sarcasm

but given that it was such an accurate representation of that select few I wasn't sure.

[DavidDvorkin]

25. I understand the confusion

A month or so ago, I posted a poll in General Discussion that was something like, "Ahmadinejad - just brilliant, or brilliant and semi-divine?" One of the mods deleted it, thinking I meant it seriously.

At first, I was annoyed, but then I realized that the confusion was understandable.

[rayofreason]

55. Just think about gay porn...

...you get killed twice!

[Tempest]

21. Any time?

Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?

[silvermachine]

45. Sounds like it to me...

...I haven't seen much love for him here.

[Mike Daniels]

47. Not so much love as a general willingness to dismiss any negative news

as a mistranslation of the Iranian government's positions even when the story is covered by every major paper in the world.

[Tempest]

49. The mistranslations are well documented

When they exist.

You made a blanket statement and have yet to defend it.

[silvermachine]

50. I guess I haven't seen most of those posts...

...I've seen a few, but that's about it. What I have noticed is a tendency for a lot of people to treat the opposition movement in Iran like tools of Dubya when (for once) that usually is not the case. Many don't seem to realize a lot of Iranians, especially those under 45, want better relations with the West and reject the more extreme elements that support Ahmadinejad.

[OnyxCollie]

9. Fatwa on Ron Jeremy! nt

[bamacrat]

14. That sucks, I would like to see some good Iranian porn..

That kinda sounds wierd.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

24. Talk to the five legislators who voted against it...

I'm thinking they probably have a kick-ass collection!

[bamacrat]

27. Yeah, but it would seem if making it is punishable by death,

wouldnt owning it be also? Or hell even voting against something the Quran said?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

33. I think everything in Iran is punishable by death...

Nearly as I can tell, these guys are really big on probation.

[ShortnFiery]

38. Only if you buy into PROPAGANDA. However, many more things in Saudi Arabia can get you beheaded. nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

59. So Iran is a hotbed of liberalism....

On the whole, I'd rather live in Cincinnati.

[jmowreader]

44. I'm thinking they're just slightly more moderate than the majority

I'm fairly sure "do not watch other people having sex" is in the Koran--and what but "watching other people having sex" is porn?

MAKING porn definitely comes into modesty violations and sexual impurity, among other things.

Porn in a Muslim society is anathema; perhaps the five who voted against making producing it an act worthy of execution thought exceptionally long prison sentences in one of Iran's finer prisons was a more suitable punishment.

[RebelOne]

15. The complete article is on CNN.com.

[louis-t]

16. One thing you've all missed......

What does Iranian parliament consider "pornography"? My guess is that just about anything showing a woman not covered by a burka would be considered obscene.

[pretty_lies]

34. Your Ignorance Is Disturbing

Iran is not Saudi Arabia. Nobody in Tehran wears a burka. They have hijab, ie. hair covered.

This story is kind of funny, in a way. Everyone's spitting mad about stuff that our BEST BUDDIES Saudi have been doing forever.

[harun]

35. Saudi is 10x more conservative than Iran but expecting people

to go out of their way to actually learn about Iranian culture is a bit of a stretch.

Having it defined by CNN is the way to go I guess, they are so accurate and honest with their descriptions of everything else outside the U.S.
:sarcasm:

[rayofreason]

57. Saudi strippers...

...on the web, no less. For free!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reeAwlQ7DJ8

Sexual repression leads to all kinds of creative revolt.

[louis-t]

42. My point was-what does Iranian parliament consider pornography?

No need to call me ignorant, just making a point.

[KurtNYC]

48. What?? I suppose next you'll tell us that Iranian are not Arabs

;-)

[AlinPA]

18. It won't be long before we read that about the U.S. with all the right wing

fundamentalists involved in running the government.

[Tempest]

19. Per LBN rules

Please provide a link to your article.

[dubyaD40web]

28. Found a link for the article:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/06/13/0613iranporn.html

[pretty_lies]

22. How Terrible, We'd Better Invade Iran Now!

Of course, none of our allies (for example, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan) would do this sort of thing...

Oh wait. Yes they would.

It's almost as though someone's publicizing social features of Iran that are common to most of the developing world in order to generate public outrage calculated at justifying a war to grab their natural resources, isn't it?

Now, who could those people be...?

[Zodiak]

26. It is in the script

A. Decide to go to war

B. Dehumanize the enemy

C. Kill them

We are on B right now, and since this Iaanian law is anathema to Americans (which it is), then time to put that in the papers in bold print and get a little outrage. A few more will dismiss Iranians as inhuman....then the bombing can begin in earnest (because bombing them to save them is so 21st Century and cool).

No "atta boys" from me, but then again...the "atta boy" argument was a deliberate exaggeration meant to denigrate other DUers and sew some discord. Leave the strawmen at home, please.

[pansypoo53219]

23. problem-what is porn to iranians

may want to kill actors in a PG 13 film.

[bluestateguy]

29. Such a shame

because Iranian women are really beautiful.

[ShortnFiery]

37. The Iranian PEOPLE are beautiful. Again see Saudi Arabia for TRUE thuggish executions.

But no, they're our business buddies so they can execute and repress their people as much as they like.

Context people: CONTEXT. :shrug:

[Enrique]

30. will they be hung?

[ShortnFiery]

39. Yes, but ... Oh nevermind!

:yoiks:

[rayofreason]

58. Only the men.

[AngryAmish]

31. Way to go, Bush!

[SayWhatYo]

40. I'm still trying to figure those posts out..

:P

*those, as in your other similar posts.

[pretty_lies]

43. You Are Correct, In A Way

Insofar as Ahmadinejad's election victory in 2005 over the more moderate Rafsanjani, was the result of a conservative Iranian backlash caused directly by American hostility to Iran and the US invasion of Iraq.

Ahmadinejad is the Iranian version of Bush - a beady-eyed, fundamentalist, reactionary dumbfuck whose constituency is credulous, xenophobic people outside the major cities.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

32. ugh!

[ShortnFiery]

36. Oh brother, not this again? ... like clockwork.

:eyes:

[superconnected]

41. Obviously that country is run by the insane - who are getting away with

their sickness further than our own politicians.

But still that's no reason to kill them and topple the only they have. Bush would make things worse.

If Bush were capable of implementing a new system, I'd say go for it. But he is not. That is something only for the educated. And I say it again, they can start with Rosseau's Social Contract.

[Yavin4]

46. This Is What Happens When You Merge Church and State

You deny freedom to the individual.

[SKKY]

51. This kinda blows (no pun intended) because Iranian women, in general...

...are pretty hot. I wouldn't mind seeing some Iranian porn.

[Poll_Blind]

54. Persians, Arabs, Jews, Latinas (in no particular order) are...

...some foxy examples of humankind. Ok, Thais, Japanese and Koreans, too. And Africans. Hell, maybe I should have said them earlier. Europeans- what the hell was I thinking? And the east Indians. And of course American Indians, wow- some raven-haired stunners there. Damn, and of course the European stock. I'd eat my weight in lutefisk for some of them beauties....

  Damn, I guess I'm just a horn-dawg. Pretty much any woman who smiles a geniune smile is very, very beautiful in my book, I guess.

  I'm not making a snarky point. I really started out like that...and added a few more...and a few more.

PB

[Algorem]

52. gotta be a mustache joke in here somewhere

[Qutzupalotl]

53. If it bothers you, don't look at it.

:shrug:

Really, who can corrupt anyone without their consent?