Iran stops 300 from showing in Pakistan
posted at 9:15 am on May 6, 2007 by see-dubya
Not content to censor their own people, Iran is exporting touchy intolerance to Pakistan as well. Because there was a grave shortage of touchy intolerance.
Meanwhile, guess who says Iran ought to get “peaceful” nuclear energy? Hint: he wears Prada. But our guy doesn’t really disagree with the “peaceful” part.
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Pakistan has a no balls leader. Let AQ into their country and now Iran tells them what to do. Hey Muffy, you have the weapons to tell all these people to go pound sand. Take a leadership position.
Wade on May 6, 2007 at 10:21 AM
The US, by definition, is the only country on the planet with a right to nuclear weapons. We developed the technology, we went thru the angst on whether or not to use them, we developed the delivrey system. Every other country either stole the technology from us or bought it. They didn’t have to go thru any of the discovery process or the angst in their development and repurcussions. It was just “they have them; we want them too”
lorien1973 on May 6, 2007 at 11:48 AM
It looks like the pro american pro Bush Nicolas Sarkozy may be the next French president. The liberal Segolene Royal warned that there would be riots in the streets if Nicky baby won.
Bring it on you French faggots! The French police haven’t had to bust some heads in a while, and, I’d like to see a frenchman have some balls and do a beat down on someone.
csdeven on May 6, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Ding Dang DAMN!
Lorien!
I dunno if you forgot the /sarc off tag, but I have to say.
I agree!
well put!
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on May 6, 2007 at 12:06 PM
The Iranians just don’t want the Pakis to think all Persians are disfigured monsters, you know, protecting their image an all of that. Perception is reality in the muslim world.
Sarkozy wins, that’s good news but don’t get too excited, French “conservatives” are like our moderate liberals. The French election was between the center left and the fall off the edge of the world far left.
Tony737 on May 6, 2007 at 12:16 PM
Perhaps, but Sarkozky (or whatever is name is) is at least pro-american. The socialist was anti-american and attempting to appease (and appeal to) the islamic extremists in her own country (violence/riots) as a way to win. I hope it won’t work, but this is france, so who knows.
lorien1973 on May 6, 2007 at 12:18 PM
There was never a point in which the producers, writers or director of the film 300 ever said that the movie was historically accurate. What is accurate is how it portrays the Persian Islamic army and its lust for power and rule over the whole earth, and how the are still some people such as the Spartans that will spill blood and die to keep that from happening. This film may be a loosely based on historical facts, but it is quite relevant to the times in which we all live.
americaslaststand on May 6, 2007 at 12:48 PM
You do realize that the events portrayed in 300 took place 1000 years before Mohammed was born, don’t you?
billy on May 6, 2007 at 1:00 PM
Billy, I think he means today’s Persian (Iranian) islamic army.
Has anybody ever seen the 1961 version? “The 300 Spartans” was more accurate but also kinda cheesy.
Tony737 on May 6, 2007 at 1:16 PM
That’s a fact. We have to remember that no matter what he’s STILL French. Just like the eskimos have a couple of dozen words for “snow”; I wonder how many different ways you can say “surrender” in French?
I’ll bet Nazi propoganda films are big in Pakistan. It’s funny how you can see reruns of “Baywatch” all over the world but a semi-historical film isn’t allowed. The rise of Islam will be the death of reason.
Mojave Mark on May 6, 2007 at 1:33 PM
I wouldn’t call what we’re seeing with Islam a “rise”.
mesablue on May 6, 2007 at 1:40 PM
In terms of numbers you’re right. I’m talking about all the attention it’s getting on the world stage. If Christendom is paying attention it will take steps to protect itself from the retrograde effect that Islam has on progress.
Mojave Mark on May 6, 2007 at 1:49 PM
Do we have any source that Iran stopped 300 from showing in Pakistan besides an Iranian news agency, in other words do we have this from anyone who is actually credible?
jic on May 6, 2007 at 1:54 PM
I have a copy, and as far a anything goes, censorship is still chensorship. What the mullahs are afraid of is obvious to all who live in non-mawslem countries.
The real question is why are they repressing their people. The “hugging incident” is a symptom of the disease. Help cure islam.
tormod on May 6, 2007 at 2:00 PM
I’d disagree with you here. Look at the subservience islam already gets in Europe, in the democrat party and even in mainstream america. It seems that blowing up stuff all the time is working as well as the Digg tantrum did last week. concessions and concessions.
lorien1973 on May 6, 2007 at 2:02 PM
I’d disagree with you here. Look at the subservience islam already gets in Europe, in the democrat party and even in mainstream america. It seems that blowing up stuff all the time is working as well as the Digg tantrum did last week. concessions and concessions.
lorien1973 on May 6, 2007 at 2:02 PM
Are you talking about the Richard Gere/Shilpa Shetty “hugging incident” involving outraged Hindus in India?
jic on May 6, 2007 at 2:06 PM
Read the “prada” link. That’ll explain the hugging.
lorien1973 on May 6, 2007 at 2:33 PM
Not exactly.
Wade on May 6, 2007 at 2:45 PM
Well, Wade, you’re technically right.
It is true that OUR captured German scientists developed our ICBMS (and the Soviet’s captured German scientists developed theirs).
And it is also true that many of OUR Manhattan Project scientists (but not all) were Europeans who fled Nazi Germany, including the granddaddy of it all, Einstein — who, BTW, wrote FDR in 1940 to start developing nuclear weapons, ASAP). And it is also true that our ally England assisted our efforts in developing it as well.
But the American taxpay paid the bills to build them, test them, and used them against Japan, and to most people, this means that we “own” the technology.
It is also fair to say that since the Soviets stole the weapons technology from us (thank you, Julius and Ethel), that a good part of the weapons techology that Pakistan and India have was derivitive from that stolen US technology, while the rest was stolen directly from us by Indians and Pakistanis.
lorien1973′s claim that we are the only country with the right to own nuclear weapons fails to be convincing in the same vein that the inventors of gunpowder (China) would be if they claimed that only they had the moral right to own modern firearms.
Like that old Walt Disney cartoon, nuclear weaponary is a genie that, like it or not, is out of the bottle. And it won’t go back again.
georgej on May 6, 2007 at 3:15 PM
The movie is long on style and short on substance. I’ll be buying the special edition DVD on day one. Big, loud and stupid and the perfect action film.
The only history in that movie is that Leonidas and 299 other guys (blus a held off a massive Persian invasion for a long enough time for the rest of Greece to rally.
The actual history is far more entertaining than the film. If the movie serves as a gateway for people to learn about one of the pivotal battles in the western world, then great.
Krydor on May 6, 2007 at 4:30 PM
blus? Stupid backspace key and train of thought derailment. I blame GIANT BALD XERXES!
Krydor on May 6, 2007 at 4:30 PM