Iran bans Buddha statues: Buddha joins Barbie and Bart Simpson on list of banned icons

Iran has banned Buddha statues and police have begun confiscating them from shops in capital Tehran because they have been deemed to be symbols of 'cultural invasion'.

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[Samith Madushan]

Name "Iran", which in Persian means "Land of the Aryans", was a country mostly influenced by Buddhism, now dominated by Islam extremists. Sigh !

[holseyd]

i just got done watching Argo. just when i thought i couldn't despise iran enough i hear this.

[ASIC Man]

the muslim people keep saying islam is peace religion, my ass!

[ImperialGuardOf Shah]

because if u know the History of Iran before and after Islamic revolution. u would really soon understand that "Argo" is Hollywood CIA fabrication. for example they say Iranians were "poor" before revolution what they clearly were not, they were even 10x richer as they are now and many other lies

[ikickasteroids]

Really, how so?

[holseyd]

that's fine with me i assure you : )

[FirasTeinz]

I was going to have a reasonable discussion with you but then I saw your profile picture, and how offensive and Simple minded it is, you're not worthy of being reasonable with.

[holseyd]

ok fine you're right i'm going to pack my bags and go to iran right now and enjoy the good life.

[ImperialGuardOf Shah]

Persepolis is Ok, but Argo and "300" are really SHIT

Argo - mostly CIA Fabrication about the Life before 1979 in Iran

300 - Stupid Greek shit, The movie is from the Greek point of view and it show Iranians as wild what we cleary are not.

[holseyd]

iran's new stealth fighter is about as real as a paper airplane, the monkey in space story is noensense and the 2009 election was fraudulent which is why the people rose up against ahmedinijad and the mullahs who control him only to have the country's military turn on it's own people. Argo, Not Without my Daughter and Persepolis are some of the best movies ever because tyrannical islamic police state shit hole that it and 300 is a great movie. i don't give a shit what you think, you get it now?

[ImperialGuardOf Shah]

This anti-Iranian regime came to power by force in 1979 with support & approval of western powers intent on removing the late Shah of Iran whose independent energy policy was not in their favour. Also with Iran's growing influence and prominence on the world stage this was seen as a threat to western influence in the region. have you get it now?

[holseyd]

ok thank you again i feel so enlightened now. my mother used to live in iran and my father was stationed their while he was in the air force so please tell me all about the wonderful islamic republic of iran.