Jan. 8, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
07:06
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| Here's a country that is behind the attempt to annihilate Israel and create another Holocaust, Iran. | |
| From the Daily Telegraph, Iranian woman whipped 74 times for refusing to wear a hijab. | |
| The 33-year-old was charged with encouraging permissiveness after several terror on outings. | |
| Roya Hashmati, 33. You know, she didn't even wear a head covering on her way to prison. | |
| See, this is a hero. | |
| She should be the person of the year, excuse me. | |
| An Iranian woman received 74 lashes for refusing to wear the hijab, defying the strict dress code even as she was taken to be whipped. | |
| 74 lashes? | |
| I could see that. | |
| Necessitating hospitalization. | |
| I could see that creating scarring. | |
| Roya Hashmati. | |
| Are you going to put the article up on my website? | |
| It's a beautiful woman. | |
| Your heart breaks. | |
| And if she weren't beautiful, my heart would break too, just for the record. | |
| But I do have eyes and I report what I see. | |
| Roya Hashmati was charged with encouraging permissiveness after appearing unveiled on several occasions in the capital. | |
| Is it unveiled or no head covering? | |
| I'm curious. | |
| You have to wear a veil in Teheran? | |
| I think they got this wrong. | |
| Her penalty of seventy-four strokes of the lash was carried out in accordance with the law and with sharia. | |
| That's Islamic law. | |
| And for violating public morals, the judiciary's Misan online website said late on Saturday, Ms. Hashmati was also reportedly ordered to pay a fine of 12 million rials, rials of the Iranian currency. | |
| You know how much 12 million rials is? | |
| 225 pounds. | |
| You realize, I mean, they should reconfigure their currency. | |
| Go to the grocery store, you spend millions of rials. | |
| How's that for depressing? | |
| The convicted encouraged permissiveness by appearing disgracefully in busy public spaces. | |
| Yeah, they were wrong about the veiled line, the telegraph. | |
| They have to be careful. | |
| It's a good paper. | |
| All women in Iran have been required by law to cover their neck and head shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. | |
| Whippings for breaching the dress code are uncommon, although officials have increasingly cracked down on those defying the rules after the practice surged during anti-government protests that began in late 2022. The mass demonstrations were triggered by the September 2022 death in custody of Masa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd. | |
| Arrested for an alleged breach of the Islamic Republic's strict dress code for women. | |
| During the protests, female demonstrators cast off their headscarves or even burned them. | |
| Yeah, they killed a woman for not wearing a head covering. | |
| As the lashes struck my body, I whispered, In the name of woman, in the name of life, dawn will come. | |
| BBC Persian quoted her as saying, well, by the way, it's very interesting she didn't do in the name of God. | |
| What Iran has produced is probably... | |
| The highest percentage of atheists in young people of any country in the world. | |
| The percentage of young Iranians who are atheists might be greater than in Finland. | |
| My wife and I were in Australia. | |
| Why were we there? | |
| I guess I was there to give a speech. | |
| Why do I go anywhere, basically? | |
| And we were going to go to the Sydney Opera. | |
| We did go to the Sydney Opera, but either prior to or right after, we sat outside at a beautiful cafe, and a beautiful waitress came over to our table, and we began talking to her, and I asked her where she was from. | |
| She said, Iran, I said, are you Muslim or Christian? | |
| Because a fair number, or Jewish, I think I even added Jewish, because there are a lot of Iranian Jews outside of Iran. | |
| And he said, well, I was born Muslim, or I was raised Muslim, but I'm an atheist. | |
| When religion is presented as despicably as it is in Iran, as a source of evil, It is. | |
| Religion, see, I'm quite in the middle here. | |
| The end of religion in America is the end of America. | |
| The end of religion in Iran is not the end of Iran. | |
| It would be a renaissance for Iran. | |
| Circumstances determine things. | |
| If you kill a person while... | |
| Robbing them, it's murder. | |
| If you kill a person while defending your family, it's self-defense. | |
| I would love to see more secularism in Iran and I would love to see more Judeo-Christian religious life in the United States. | |
| I don't believe that's complex. | |
| My bottom line is what is good? | |
| What promotes good? | |
| To think that the... | |
| My God. |
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