Interview With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad joins Christiane Amanpour on "This Week." For more, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/ahmadinejad-us-answer-shourds-release-release-...

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[FritZz81]

@baghali222 ow and what punishment do you get for adultery in countries like iran? Btw, I wasn't talking about iran in specific, I know teheran has it's modern sides. Still they hang people and stone women for adultery. And I'm not negative about islam, I'm negative about people who actually think religious dogma will create higher morals. It will only create a false sense of morals. Religion has had its chance for thousands of years, and it ALWAYS led to violence intolerance and prosecution.

[baghali222]

@FritZz81 I cant handle? i have no interest in what people do, and i have no interest for them to do what i do. Im pointing out reasons of why that culture preserves dignity. Also that culture isnt against sexual activity, it only states that you should legitimize your relationship, i.e. marriage.. not have a girlfriend that you can replace when you've had enough. Even they know what theyre doing is wrong, but theyre used to it, because of the mainstream culture theyre immersed in.

[baghali222]

@FritZz81 You have a nagative image of islam and so your twisting reality to make them look bad to prove your point. People are strong in Iran, they dont have a reason to commit suicide. If they kill themselves then they're dead so it wouldnt matter what the family thinks.

[baghali222]

@FritZz81 I never implied that only religiosity can bring about happiness, morality is the key with happiness. People in some African countries are much more happier than others, you just wont see it in the standard happiness statistics because its hard to take questionnaires of them, its only case studies that show it.

[baghali222]

@FritZz81 Suicide doesnt come from the poor, it comes from people that live an empty life, and that comes through the culture that they are nurtured with.

[baghali222]

@FritZz81 it doesnt create a superior moral 'on the surface', if you go to Iran and talk to any religious woman, or if your a woman and talk to a religious man, they'll talk to you with endless respect and dignity, and thats what this culture has enwrapped them with. However alot of the new generation are more like westerners, and dress alot more freely, with headscarfs loosely on their heads, but this is not a bad thing as morality is still largely kept.

[baghali222]

@FritZz81 No your wrong, just because you dont hear news of child molestation doesnt mean they do it secretly! Christian priests for some reason arent allowed to have a wife (the bible doesnt support this) therefore some of them justify that if not a wife, then a child.. but the priest equivalents in Islam are allowed to marry..

Countries like Iran arent sure of how to deal with gays, because on one side gays are condemned in the quran, on the other it may be a natural predisposition

[FritZz81]

@baghali222 but what exactly are you saying? You want to force people by law to stop wearing "sexy outfits"? Because (on the surface) that will create a superior moral and take away natural urges? Just like the church did for centuries (while molesting millions of children)? Btw in the islamic world child molestation is probably just as present, the only difference is that no one talks about it. They just pretend it doesn't exist, just like they pretend homosexuality doesn't exist.

[FritZz81]

@baghali222 Where do you get this from?? You act like everyone is doing everyone here, like they're all fucking each other in the streets. And even if they were, who cares? No one is forcing them to do it, so let them do whatever/whoever they want. The most scary thing is that YOU can't handle other peoples choices. Maybe the reason everyone should adapt to you is because YOU have personal issues with your own urges? Keep your superior morals to yourself, and stop dictating others how to live :)

[baghali222]

@FritZz81 No im not saying other countries should follow what countries like Iran are doing. But if you go to Iran and experience the people, you'll see they have some strengths and values that we dont have much of, and its the preservation of their culture that has kept their strengths.