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  • Iranians are not Muslims. They are Magian Zoroastrians in disguise as Shia. Persians had religion in which their persian prophet fucked the followers of the wife.

  • HINDUS are like cancer, tumor and aid to humanity.

    Watch these videos HINDUS SHARE THEIR WIVES WITH OTHER MEN, THESE PIMPS HAVE NO RIGHT TO LIVE:

    youtube.com/watch?v=eyQHJpASDB­A

    youtube.com/watch?v=eyQHJpASDB­A

    youtube.com/watch?v=R8B41vJkTP­0

    You ugly sons of bitches, you have filled whole Dubai with your sisters and mothers as prostitutes and white men come to your country very frequently to fuck your women.

    Now these Hindus are feared to death by Zaid Hamid Sahab!

  • @ProudPakistani2000 So... You like Hindus?

  • @ProudPakistani2000 Right on! Fuck Hindu Mushriks and their lovers! I ain't cow meat every day and all day, the same cow these fuckers worship.

  • TITS PLEASE!

  • as a muslim i dont believe in the death penalty, it is not in your place to decide who lives and dies, they are not God

  • @CaligirlSofia Not even god honey

  • Some people take their religion way to serious.

  • Just shows how backward and brainwashed they really are ,a country in the dark ages so sad ....

  • Iran or Iraq are not musilams just so u kno

  • @huntersxscape Yes , iran is a muslim country.

  • What's up with all the racist bullshit on TYT's videos? Why do you people watch his videos, he's a Turk and his wife is an Armenian...

    I love Iranians.

  • fucking rubish.....

  • MrRedFredSaid

    i wish you die soon. i'm sure you are son of pitch

    i think you like your mother get fucked by strangers and your sister by your friends while you know that, and some times you fuck your sister with your friends

  • They're fucking ragheads! Why would you be surprised if they are executed. What goddam planet are you from?

  • @buddybleau

    I really hope you die.

  • Any man that says he wouldn't like to experience his wife and another sexy wife blow him, is a fucking liar.

    Watching your wife fucking another guy while you fuck his wife.....I bet it's better than bowling.

  • @HeathenRage gross! You would really let someone screw your wife?

  • i wonder how much say the wives have in this arrangement.

  • Bomb Bomb Bomb IRAN >D

  • Speak it! Religions, old cultures, and traditions are and will be the fall of man.

  • i dont feel sorry for the swinging but for closed minded goverement who needs to let our hikers go.. and the swingers

  • ☻/ This is the sick pervert known as Muhammad.

    /▌ Copy and paste him.

    / \

  • It's democracy... the people in Iran have collectively decided under their constitution that the are going to keep moral checks on each others and its their choice. It's no different than the choice that US citizens have made not to keep moral checks.

    At the end of the day, both nations are trying to build the best civilization for themselves and the time will be the judge.

  • TYT and everyone reading....

    If I now said "its wrong to make a law for adults to have sex with girls under 18. How a person has sex with another and who he chooses to do with consentially is none of anybody's business." Would you agree with me? So similarly, it isnt our business how another country judges morality and how the implement their laws to keep society being affected by such immoral acts.

  • Their way of punishment for crimes has justification in their and the public's eye just as the U.S has their justice legal system to prevent a 40 year old screwing an underage girl. So isnt it kinda hypocritical to judge and say what other countries/cultures inforce justice when someone believes in "freedom". A pedophile can say "U.S law takes away my freedom to have sex with underage girls. Who are they to decide whats morally right or incorrect?"

  • In my country we judged people for being jews and send them to the gaschamber. It was realy a cultral thing and definitely intended to protect society, so it shouldn't be judged ...

    If one does not rise when others get killed for something he/she does not think is a crime, then he/she might as well nail his or her ass to his or her chair.

  • I feel sorry for those people, but... what kind of self-respecting man or woman would like to swap partners? Doesn't that desecrate the idea of being married to a partner?

  • If you don't know the difference between having sex and makeing love, you've missed on a lot of fun.

  • stoning someone to death for cheating is going too far I think it's ridiculous.

  • Nah, I think its too soft. We need to chop off their feet and make them run a mile.

    If they make it they get to live!

    Am I not merciful?

    lmao

  • What a bunch of idiots making fun of something so tragic. So what if this people where swingers?

  • Are you retarded? No ones making fun of it, they're discussing how wrong it was you asshole

  • Who's the real retard here? Btw, this answer was not addressed to you so back the fuck up.

    They are clearly making fun of this people.

  • BTW

    saying "Who's the real retard here"

    at the beginning of a sentence without and following or preceding evidence makes you look like a retard. Thats a statement reserved for the end of a point haha.

    Now who is the real retard here?

    And apparently it wasn't addressed to anyone seeing as its not attached to another comment like this one is

    Are you special ed?

  • Wow, you most be lonely dude!

    Taking so many comments personally and replieing with such a heat.

    Concerning who the real retard is, there is no doubt you're miles ahead on that.

    What's wrong with you? Stop being so freaking angry man and take cool down a bit.

    Enough for off topic!

  • I like how you

    1 - have yet to provide any evidence towards either Cenk and the others "making fun" of this tragedy or how I am the retard.

    2 - Have resorted to simple insults. I'm not gonna dignify the lonely remark or the angry remark with a response other than this.

  • Eh, maybe Zena lives in Iran...

  • I'm stoned on TYT!

  • Should just get a Mutah!

  • no they shouldn't

  • This is more or so like Swingers in other countries.

    Oh fucking well.

  • Insecure about their moral? That's an incredibly polite way to put it!! It's not about moral. It's about controlling peoples choices in order to gain power.///

  • I agree with what Cenk said about the moral insecurity that leads to making moral laws. This is why the government should have no place in passing moral laws, such as who is allowed to get married or not. Everyone needs to think for themselves. The only laws the government should pass are those that protect a person's well being and civil rights.

  • there is no law that says who can get married or who can not. why are you misrepresenting? the law is once you are married you can't do it to anyone else..... i hardly call that insecurity, it might be a complete disdain for those who can't tell the difference between their own spouse v. their friend's spouse.

  • Sorry about the confusion, but the thing about the government telling you who you can't marry was an example of a moral law which has to do with the debate in the US about homosexual marriages.

  • nothing to be sorry about. i am a fellow American. i wouldn't call my self a Dem or a Pub. i am a political dropout. Basically i think all politicians have some form of psychopathy. Personally I think the only people that deserve any form of leadership are the ones that don't want leadership and believe in a spiritual reformation (in oneself first) rather than a social reformation first.

  • You deserve a bullet in the brain. That's just how I feel. Idiots like you who think that ALL people have to follow your morality shouldn't be walking among us.

  • That's not what he's saying at all. In fact, your disapproval is a contradiction. We all don't want someone forcing their idea of morality on us. What averagebodybuilder was saying is that leaders should not be concerned with social reform, especially if they don't have their own personal moral issues sorted out (as many obviously don't). The leaders I'm against are those who think as you do that people who disagree with you (no matter how right or wrong) should be killed or ostracized.

  • That is exactly what he was saying and I'm against people like you who think that people who think that people who impose morals on others "just don't agree". It is far worse than that!!!! They deserve death because that is what their thinking does to people who oppose their point of view.

  • I can't tell what your point is. Who are you suggesting should die? Are you talking about people who oppose their moral views on others or "people like me"? Because, if your talking about people like me, then I don't see how my point of view would cause death to anyone. To be perfectly clear, I believe in the greatest level of personal freedom possible up to the point that it restricts any other's freedoms. I am against a government that would dictate and enforce moral values with violence.

  • *correction: impose

  • I'm not saying you should die. I am saying I am against your point of view that all people who disagree are entitled to disagree. If a person's opposing point of view results in the death of another, (i.e. the stoning to death of someone for "immoral acts"), then those leaders must be executed for crimes against humanity.

    The person you defended made a previous commit that Americans should keep their nose out of other people's business in a matter of speaking and later made the comment you saw

  • Look. Youtube doesn't allow enough characters to fully explain the details. Basically it boils down to this. Anyone who believes they have the right to commit violence against someone else just for acting a way they don't like deserves to die themselves. You defended a stone throwing Muslim because you think he just has a different opinion. So I am against you. That means I don't like you. It doesn't mean you should die. But I think he should die.

  • I wish we weren't having this whole long conversation in the youtube comments, but I just want to defend my position. I would never defend someone who believes in stoning. I think that this whole thing is just a misunderstanding of what each person is saying. Btw, averagebodybuilder lists his country as Saudi Arabia on his profile, but he said that he was American in the comment. Maybe I interpreted him wrong, but I don't think he is in favor of stoning. If you think so, then you should ask him.

  • Crystal just a FYI but there are americans that live in other countries. Some people think that just because I LIVE n saudi Arabia that i MUST be an Arab. Small minds... what can you do about them?

  • Please if you think I should die, why don't you practice what you preach and go to Iraq and Afghanistan. There are enough people for your target practice there and the US government will pay for your airfare. You are already ahead of me 2.3million to none. While you want people to live their personal lives, I just want people to live. Can you see the difference? And I repeat if you think that what they are doing is merely a personal choice anything you say about morality is irrelevant.

  • When you actually believe things like that you really should be unplugged and pulled off the internet. Go take some psych medication. It's probably better for you than that. i am sure you already know this but the government monitors the internet and these kinds of threats while not necessarily taken seriously, can be.

    you so far have proven that you are not the right person to make even a sentence fragment for moral statements.

  • When you actually think it's okay to impose morals on other people then you should be unplugged from the internet. Perhaps you should take some medication, or better yet, get a real education.

    By the way, I had no idea you were from Saudi Arabia, I can only wonder about you. Saudi Arabia is a shit hole. I live in the Philippines and while it may be a shit hole too, it is a free shit hole unlike Saudi Arabia.

  • glad you backed off your threats. threats don't work with me.

    if you say its okay to kill for my opinions, which i didn't do to you, i repeat, nothing you say about morality is relevant.

    if you really want to kill then go to iraq or Afghanistan, you are ahead 2.3 million to none.

    about SA being a shit hole, it is but:

    1. you pinoys keep coming in droves DESPITE the problems.

    2. about phili being free, tell us Americans expats how many people arroyo had killed to cover up her election scam.

  • I'm an American. I'm not a Pinoy.

    No, I don't think you should die for your opinion that the group sex people's morality is irrelevant. You have a right to be wrong all you want.

    And Crystal was right. It was a misunderstanding. I thought you were making a follow up commit about why those people deserve to be hit with a rock over and over again until they die for not believing or agreeing with the community they may have been trapped in and no choice to leave.

    Look at who I responded to.

  • You know how they stone you to death? They bury you up to your chin and then people throw rocks at your exposed head until your skull is smashed.

    Horrid.

  • I'm not islamic but maybe they are abiding to the idea of only being as strong as their weakest member...

  • You think Cenk is hitting Ru Paul?

  • Conservatives have the balls to complain about their rights 24/7. They have GAZILLION more rights than some people in the world.

  • Cenk, accross town? How about why would I care that my neighbors are wife swapping? As long as they're not "shoving it down my throat" (lol, buttars) I don't really care what or where or how they do it (as long as the how isn't particularly loud and at 1 am)

  • Groupsex is great.

  • Damn having sex with 12 different married women sounds nice. But 12 guys pounding your wife is pretty unappealing

  • ...forcing moralityon someone?????????? Sounds a lot like the Republicans and the abortion issue, I may be wrong, but it sure seems that way to me.

  • Nothing makes Cenk happier than slutty men and women.

  • Wikipedia: "In 2002 Iran's judiciary indicated that stoning will no longer be practiced in Iran. However, it continued according Western sources. In 2008, Iran's judiciary once again said it planned to stop stoning as a form of punishment; however, it would still be a legal form of punishment."

    (continued)

  • (continued)

    "In August 2008 the Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women announced that there were still at least eight women and one man sentenced to die by stoning for convictions of prostitution, incest and adultery.Two were granted amnesty, two received reduced sentences of imprisonment and/or lashes and five cases are under review"

    Judging from those informations, I think (I hope) it's unlikely those swinging couples will be stoned to death.

  • stone to death i think that bit harash

  • for some reason, i dont like the new guy. no offence to him, but i rather have just anna and cenk.

  • he's not new

  • this has nothing to do with being insecure about ones morality. certainly iran would not want to have the disfunctional society that america has become where these things are allowed. why doesnt the west leave people alone? this is the fundamental reason muslims hate you: because you are the biggest fucking interventionists in history.

  • GodzApostle: How does allowing wife swapping make a society dysfunctional?

  • And another thing, GodzApostle: If you don't want to be involved in wife swapping, that's fine. But executing people for it is NOT OK. You don't get to defend murder as a legitimate cultural difference.

  • @revelwoodie

    it is not murder it is punishment for a crime. just because your society sucks and says that it is okay to share other people's dicks and pussies like dogs and bitches, doesn't mean you are right. in fact it makes you people wrong.... very wrong... and that iranian morality needs to be brought to america and europe.

  • "and that iranian morality needs to be brought to america and europe."

    too bad for you that's never going to happen, and every year the middle east and all the world inherits more and more of the western cultures, and old antiquated ideas about morality will be wiped off the face of the earth along with people like you. :)

  • too bad for me... i am not even in iran... so i couldn't care FELLOW AMERICAN... yep that's right....

    and last i remember from all the news no mid-easterner was ready to have non-islamic (this does not mean American) ideas on a mass scale. so far American values have resulted in 1.3 million lives in Iraq (no wmd) and 1 million lives in Afghanistan. Who's antiquated? Iraqis would love to eat that poison known as McDonalds. But they still put their sticks in the right hole. the one they married.

  • @averagebodybuilder

    You mean the one they were forced to marry in when they were 12?

    Just kidding..

    my last post was merely a statement of fact. I don't advocate wars or having sex outside of marriage or eating unhealthy food. I'm only stating a simple fact that the world seems to prefer a free society rather than one controlled by some antiquated morality. people are slowly beginning to want more control over how they live their personal life, and nothing can change that.

  • your first sentence, though you were just kidding shows that subaltern racism that you have against the poor brownies. ... the ones that you say are so inferior.. the ones that you claim have no rights... the problem is in your head...

    one aspect of having control over how one lives is by actually being able to live... you know without depleted uranium... which no one never had until you guys gave it... so that they could live their lives .... according to THEIR choice... what a shit

  • @averagebodybuilder

    My first sentence was a tongue in cheek response to your stereotype of the west people. The only difference is that I said that I was kidding, and you weren't kidding.

    You said that I think middle easterners are inferior? Where did you pull that from? I'm criticising the government for interfering in their people's PERSONAL lives. Now you're going on a tangent. Too bad.

  • dude my statement about the west isn't even a stereotype."About 60 percent of men and 40 percent of women will have an affair at some point in some marriage 'Monogamy Myth'"

    # Younger people are more likely; in fact, younger women are as likely as younger men to be unfaithful.

    # 70 percent of married women and 54 percent of married men did not know of their spouses' extramarital activity.

    These may be fake stats but it fits in with the attitude of most of the peanut gallery and you have.

  • And so arranged marriage is common in mid east as well. You're stereotyping Americans as unfaithful people who, all they do is eat junk food. Then when I do the same thing as a joke, you call me a racist?

  • great that is not a stereotype, its actually true. arranged marriages even in dinette set Mid West are more stable than the conventional ways.

  • Try to keep track of the conversation. Yes, arranged marriage is common, that's what I said in my last post, but being forced into marrying someone you don't want to marry was what I was referring to, as a joke. I was mocking your stereotype.. ...You know what, nevermind

  • 40 percent will have an affair? That's not so bad. I'm guessing that percentage would've been lower if our government threatened to kill us as well. I'd rather have that percentage than the government stoning them to death for being unfaithful..

  • Why don't you ask the people having group sex if they agree with your morality? Do you think those people chose to be born in that country and thus agreed to live in that society? Will your government assist them in moving abroad if they don't agree with your morality? Or does your "society" enslave people born in that country the same way America does to theirs?

  • @manilaenglish

    if they are having group sex then their opinion on ANY form of morality is irrelevant. there are some forms of morality that are obligatory on ALL people, not just those who choose. a man for HIS wife, a wife for HER husband... not for someone else's

  • "there are some forms of morality that are obligatory on ALL people, not just those who choose."

    Spoken like a true brainwashed arab.

  • Persia don't play

  • iam one of the "unconfedence" people who cant make a choice in their life . if you dont know what are you talking about just stop talking

  • This is why I love being an Atheist.

  • well now they're going to die for it. so I hope it was worth it.

  • If your a guy. Its probably safer to cheat in Iran because you can just say the women tempted you and she will get blamed...

  • THat is what happens when you have no separation of church and state!!!!!!

  • All this is directly America's fault.

    This is what happens when you overthrow the democratically elected and popular liberal government of a country and replace it with an unpopular monarch who is clearly a puppet of foreign nations.

    U.S did exactly that which in turn gave way to the religious revolution, so that's why people are being stoned to death in Iran today.

    Just thought i'd point that out in case you didn't know or you forgot.

  • For the record I agree with you but dont say America by itself, more appropriate to say UK/America as technically it was the UK who started it.

    Wow I just defended America, next I will be dividing by zero

  • 1st. I'm a liberal. I don't support Bush.

    2nd. Iran was not overthrown. That was Iraq.

    3rd. People have been being stoned to death in Iran long before Iraq was overthrown, long before Bush ever became president, long before Washington ever became president.

    How old are you?

  • maniaenglish, you are incorrect.

    The person is referring to the overthrow of the democractically elected (and highly popular) prime minister of Iran in 1953.

    The U.S. and Britain instigated a coup because Iran had taken control of its oil fields away from Britain.

    We imposed the Shah, a brutal dictator, and supported him for decades. His oppression and brutality caused Iranian moderates to align with the mullahs and remove the Shah from power, resulting in the mullahs taking over.

  • I understand what you are saying and I was not aware of that. I had forgotten about the British colonial period. I apologize.

  • And again, I was wrong. I guess that period had nothing to do with British colonies in Pakistan, Egypt and other countries. You are saying that the US and the Britain put the Shah in power. That is my understanding of what you're telling me. And if that's the case then I have to agree.

  • Please do grow a brain. This is not the US's fault. Mohammed Mosaddeq was overthrown 56 years ago and the Iranian Revolution was 30 years ago. I think it's time to blame what goes on in Iran today on the Iranians themselves and not on some exaggerated American boogeyman.

  • Wikipedia:

    "The U.S Central Intelligence Agency overthrew the government of the popular Prime Minister Mosaddeq at the request of, and with support from the British government. In what the CIA called Operation Ajax, the U.S. enabled Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to become an authoritarian monarch[4], who went on to rule Iran for 26 years until he was overthrown in 1979.[5]"

    No one was being stoned to death in Iran in the 50's I can guarantee you that.

  • we don't care. why even bother. keep your stick in the proper pussy.

  • Wow. You are so eloquent. Epic fail here.

  • Thanks for rehashing old news for me that i have know for a while and that I acknowledge in my initial statement. However, my point was that the barbaric internal policies that are in place in Iran today of current regimes own making.

    To blame it on on a coup that occurred 55 years ago is naive and ignorant.

    And I will take you up on your boast! Prove there were NO stonings in Iran during the 1950s.

  • totally agree with Cenk, gotta love that guy. But I love Anna sexually, sooooooo she wins

  • those two JERKS are making fun of this story, FUCK YOU

  • maybe you aren't listening carefully.

  • safer than getting a girlfriend? omg have u ever been to iran? u can walk hand in hand with ur gf in the mall. omg TYT ur no better than the mainstream media in exaggerating this stuff!

  • Cheating (having a girlfriend on the side when you're married) is much riskier than 'swinging'.

    Maybe you should listen next time before you comment. Fucking idiot.

  • Cenk was saying girlfriend as IN, having a wife AND a girlfriend at the same time. swapping wives is safer than having a WIFE and a girlfriend. SIGH*

  • Exaggerating? They stone people to death for dumb, and usually sexist, reasons.

  • how many times does that actually happen? a few times a year in small rural communities maybe. homophobic and racist murders happen in the US too, but the media doesnt report it like it happens all the time all over america does it?

  • It is true that many horrible things happen in the US everyday. However, in some countries it is common practice to stone women for things such as not covering up, being alone with a man in a car, not trying hard enough to prevent rape, etc.

    Therefore, as I stated, they were exaggerating. That was my only point.

  • Iran: Fair and balanced.

  • She looks hot!

  • I don't get it since a form of prostitution called "jawaz al mutaa" is legal in iran. so in a way they are more liberaated than alot of other countries.

  • Most of these assholes don't realise they're literally murderers. How twisted are the fuckers in the east. Thinking they're doing god's holy work by killing people and bringing nothing but pure evil. That IS pure evil.

    Islam ...oh sorry...Jizz-lam HAS to GO!

    The rational world doesn't need you Jizzlamists.

    Domz with Jizzlam.

  • 1.3 million iraqi dead... 1 million afghans dead...

    no no... FUCK YOU...

  • Oops. Meant to say DOWN with JIZZLAM!

  • Wish they would put these stoning deaths on TV for all to see.

  • these assholes are upset over the banning of a silly minoret, now wheres the outrage over wanting to charge people for voluntary sex. Everywhere religion rules people seem to live in a man made hell was lunatics try to make a man made heaven.

  • Before being outraged you should worry about extremism in your own country. Then you might have the right to be outraged at others. Let me know where you are from and i will show you extremists who are a lot worse. Your outrage only demonstrates your ignorance.

  • Well ok. I am Born Antigua, West Indies, live in Englan and of Jewish/British and Nigerian (Niger not Nagiria) ancestry. Now I am betting the religious an moral extremes have all come from Islamic zealots but you shoot for gol and show me in those three nations where religious extremes are rooted. B4 you do, I was raised Shi'ite and have many Iranian Muslim and Christian friends who find the idea of a morality police to be simply dictatorial. But lets see what you come up with. peace

  • They are not in power here...

  • Don't know why you're so surprised, Cenk. It is well known that there is a big liberal constituency in Iran, and also many people who are having a secret life of parties, orgies etc.

  • Iran, where it's okay to marry and rape a 9 year old girl - but god forbid you have a consensual orgy.

  • congratulation your an idiot. It is illegal in iran to marry a 9 yr girl. Furthermore a form of prostitution called "jawaz mutaa" is legal in iran. next time before misinforming people check your facts there are a lot of idiots who would believe anything.

  • Someones never read the Quran.

  • More like burning it along both bibles and other comparable piece of shit.

  • get jiggy in IRan!!!!

  • Haha, is it just me or does the dude to the right of Cenk look like Clive Owen?

  • It doesn't matter which religion or culture allows such things. The main issue is:

    Stoning people to death is wrong.

    Killing people (unless you are REALLY short of food) is wrong. There are ALWAYS other ways to deal with people - prison etc.

    Denying people the right to choose for themselves what to do in their private lives is wrong because it grants some people free will and denys free will to others.

    Freedom is for me to do what you don't approve of.

    No-one has a right not to be offended.

  • I'm far more pro-Democrat than Republican, but please don't compare it to such a horrible government like Iran's. Khamenei and Ahmadinejad are both dictators, and Iran or any country deserves better.

  • And really, how is this any different than the Republican party?

  • Cenk's entire description of the insecurity of Iranian people applies to conservative Christians in the U.S. perfectly. I'm surprised he didn't point that out.

  • You know, sometimes Cenk seems to have quite an ignorant view of the outside world. I think he has a romanticised view of the US and judges other countries accordingly. Why wouldn't Iranians be open-minded sexually? Iran has a liberal well-educated population. If you judge Iran by their leaders you must have nothing against foreigners judging the US based on Bush. Does anyone know how old Cenk was when he came to the US? I'm beginning to think he must have been quite young...

  • that was not his point. Au contraire, he's criticizing those who refuse others the right to be free in their private lives. Those being the religious police and hardcore islamists who rule the country and execute people for something they just disapprove!

  • So? I'm referring to his comments at the beginning of the vid. It's kind of ignorant to assume all people in a society are blind followers of what the government preaches. He has constantly criticised US policies in the past so it seems a bit hypocritical. But I don't think he's being an ass on purpose - I think he simply has a narrow-minded view when it comes to some things which is odd since he has experience living overseas. Maybe he lived a sheltered life in Turkey too. :/

  • I guess you didn't catch on to the fact that Cenk spoke about the leadership in Iran (obviously they are responsible for the legislation and punisments for crimes) and not the people themselves. Maybe if you watched some earlier TYT vids you would understand how obvious that is.

  • "I was a little surprised - yeah, that they're doing wife-swapping in Iran." "Hey Reza, your wife looks pretty good."

    Yeah, sounds like a well-travelled and open-minded individual. ;) That was an ignorant statement - and he did admit it as well. But I'm just saying that it's surprising that he is so sheltered coming from an international background. There is a lot to complain about when it comes to turkish policies too and I would have assumed he'd know the contradiction. :/

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  • He has brought up Turkish cultural issues before, but the topic of this particular one is about Iran; why would he complain about Turkey here? Also, I'm sure he's aware that Iran is home to a very large progressive population who despise the government, I've seen him discussing the protests in earlier videos :)

  • He doesn't speak about the people, in that clip, but about the government. He judges those who created those laws. In this way, his point of view isn't really ignorant because it is true and it is true that in the U.S, while it isn't the most liberal country, it is way more open-minded (no legislature against swapping, as an example). But, to answer your question, I think that he was a young teenager.

  • I think a culture that enforces stoneing to death (for any reason) for sexual encounters deserves to be critisized

  • You mean like the christian culture? Maybe you should check the bible again....

  • Any country that has the death penalty is insane

  • While I agree wih Cenk when he says it's about insecurity I also would like to point out that it's MOSTLY because of religion.

  • I don't like that infotainment approach to the topic. Iran is a brutal theocracy, and the fact that the couples could face execution for a life-style choice makes jokes a la "oh, I never knew there were kinky Iranians" (what were you thinking? that Iranians are some different species??) completely inappropriate.

  • Nah I think it's more like when I heard of people spraypainting Slayers logo on buildings in Iran. Of course there are Iranians who'll like Slayer, but it doesn't seem likely that Slayer has a fanbase in Iran, and if there are fans, I'd think they hid it as well as possible.

    I mean, I'd probably keep all my sexual "deviances" hidden if I had to live in Iran. Either I'd protest for freedom and risk death, or I'd hide that shit as well as possible.

  • in some of these Islamic countries like Nigeria and Malaysia in the regions where Sharia law is in force, those who stop believing in god face execution.

  • I can't believe these societies can survive for so many centuries. Those people must be suffering from birth to death, I really can't imagine living in a hell like that.

  • Arabs need to get laid....badly.

  • Iranians are Persians not Arabs.

    They are Indo-Europeans while Arabs are Semitics.

    The closest race to Arab are Jews.

  • And Ethiopians, don't forge that.

  • All humans are the same race... If you're going to try and invoke taxonomy to prove the difference between Arabs and Persians, at least get your taxonomy right ^^

  • I simply provided a piece of info, many ppl have this wishy washy image of the middle east. I met some educated ppl who think Arabs speak Indian & Iranians speak Arabic.

    If clearing their confusion makes me a racist in your eyes.. then I am a racist.

    And yes, were all Homo sapiens.

  • Indian is not a language, it's a nationality. Hindi (along with hundreds of other languages and dialects) is spoken in India

  • Thanks for the info, and I said "they think".