During some international womyns’ soccer competition being played in Strylia, seven members of the Iranian team ran away and sought asylum.
Apparently, five of the women, when given the choice:
a) go back home to Iran where you will be beaten for not wearing a head covering, run the risk of being blown to bits by one of the Great Satan’s bombs, be forever a second-class citizen, be married off to some random stranger; OR
b) stay in Australia,
…decided to take option a).
Says it all, really.
“You can lead a horse to water but you can’t force it to drink”
Enjoy Hell bitches. You had your chance.
Note – I might be in the minority here but I also don’t like this war. – that being said. Fuck Iran’s leadership.
Those women are stupid. I guess there’s no law against stupidity.
You do know that the main reason most of them went back was because their families were being threatened?
That!
Take your family with you on the trip to begin with if you think you will apply for asylum or decide if you even like your family.
I get your point – there’s not easy answer.
Either way – thats the girls choice
I think its a stupid choice
Good luck getting the permits to take your family along on a mere athletic competition. I knew a Polish man who just took vacation to Yugoslavia and then a ferry across the Adriatic to Italy, where he asked for asylum. This was in 1978.
Apropos Communist philosophy in general, we were skiing in Mammoth and a commercial for Erich von Daeniken’s Chariots of the Gods appeared on the TV and he commented that von Daenken reasoned like the communists. Rather than asking why, and what other explanations would answer the questons, he would immdiately jump to “It must be ancient aliens.” It must be a conspiracy against the proletariat. The guy with the bug eyes and the levitating hair on Ancient Aliens is also an old hand at that mighty leap in logic.
Maybe it’s possible all the bad things the US gov’t-media complex has put out about Iran are just more lying rumors as it seems want to do.
I haven’t been to Iran but I’ve seen plenty of videos and especially Rick Steve’s travel show about Iran and not only are most of the US manuf’s (Coke, McDonalds, etc.) firmly embedded but the US sentiment is everywhere there.
Bluntly, I believe almost nothing the gov’t-media puts out about anything and everything. Lying criminal bastards that they are.
I thought the United States offered the Iranian soccer players asylum as well.
Far more important things to pay attention to than this.
Keep bombing Iran until they establish a civilized regime. We can use dumb bombs on them. We don’t need to spend a lot of money on this at all.
You missed the tiny detail that the families of all 7 were threatened with death if they did not return. The sad part is that their emotions clouded logic as all of the returnees AND their families will be tortured, raped and murdered anyway, regardless. Pray enough of the Mule-has and sycophants are killed off before they return.
Yeah, return home or we kill all of your family. That might have been a small motivator in their decisions. Surprised our host left that part out.
Exactly – they had families who were explicitly threatened.
Actually, I knew all that; I was just having a go at Australia.
And quite right too! If I was a manufacturer of globes, I would omit Australia, on principle. It’s not shaped like anything, and white people can’t establish civilization on an island that isn’t shaped like anything (see also: Ireland). Australia’s the one place where exterminating the natives didn’t work out and we’ll have to give it a second try at some point.
I think New Zealand will disagree about that. There are an awful lot of Kiwis who have mixed ancestry, including Kiri Te Kanawa, and the Maoris are still a sizable political force there.
Any place whose population is largely descended from convicts will also have a substantial number descended from jailkeepers. Guess which moiety will prevail.
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…it would be a coin flip. Which is why Australia is known as a nation of tossers.