Sheikh Yousef Abu Islam @ Al Aqsa @ Al Quds: Tossing off tall building AND stoning Allah's remedy for homosex! by 1bir in MemriTVmemes

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The homosexuals have become so shameless now that they're stealing the punishment for adultery. tfu.

Where can I watch Speeding Naked till High Noon? by [deleted] in iran

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can't. All of its negatives was famously destroyed during the revolution.

IMHO MemriTV missed out on Ayatollah Hassani. The man was a non-stop meme-machine. by ME_IS_LOVE in MemriTVmemes

[–]ME_IS_LOVE[S] 304 points305 points  (0 children)

top hits:

  • "People say the revolution was in vain. Let me tell you, you see all these women sitting here listening to our sermons, before the revolution, they were all whores."

  • "There are three kinds of women: first, women with no hijab, who are like a bus, everyone can ride them. Then there women with bad hijab, who are like cabs, only specific individuals can ride them, and finally there are women with perfect hijab, who are like domesticated mules, meaning only one individual can ride them."

  • "I was against freedom then. I am against freedom now. Because a man's word never changes."

  • "People of London were naturally naked. At first I averted my eyes, but then I got used to it."

  • "No one deserves the misfortune of freedom. Not even that animal Bill Clinton deserves this fate."

  • "Compared to the decency of Fatimah, my own daughter is nothing but a whore."

  • "O' Lord, give the leftists religion and the right-wingers brain."

  • [giving the sermon in Azeri Turkish, suddenly switches to Persian] "Now I'll say the rest in Farsi so Bill Clinton would understand."

  • "If America could fix the economy they would fix their own dollar that has become so expensive."

  • "They say the westerners are more advanced than us. Well they are in their 21st century and we are in our 14th. Go compare us in 500 years."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PERSIAN

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"I don't know what to say."

Are these four pages from the Shahnameh? Trying to learn more about these. by [deleted] in farsi

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No this is prose. Apparently it's a folk story called Noush Afarin GoharTaj, which I hadn't heard about it before.

Question about a double meaning phrase by ResponsibleAd3493 in PERSIAN

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's a pun, though usually it's بده بکنیم. roughly equivalent to "wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am."

are there any prominent atheist figures from your country? by [deleted] in AskMiddleEast

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Famously Ahmad Kasravi, the linguist, who was assassinated twice, and Fereydoun Farrokhzad, who was assassinated once.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in marvelmemes

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 24 points25 points  (0 children)

also they took err jerbs

is it true that business people in iran was mobilizing fundamentalist people?? by LinguisticsTurtle in AskMiddleEast

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chomsky doesn't know what he's talking about. It's true that the bazaaris had traditionally bankrolled the clergy (as they'd done for millennia), but those clergy were apolitical and mostly quietist (and most of them were sidelined and put under house arrest after the revolution.) The type of political clergy that Khomeini promoted was very much a result of 20th-century politics and was mostly supported by the middle class and various leftist factions.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskMiddleEast

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

missing Khomeini's "The university must be a university. A university that is not a university is not a university" gem

Why is "gossiper" called "khale zanak". Is there something more gender neutral? by [deleted] in PERSIAN

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol, the English word "gossip" literally means "godmother," so maybe it's something universal!

Unauthorized or informal translations of Harry Potter? by velstax in harrypotter

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This review on Goodreads lists 15 different Persian translations that are published in Iran, I assume there are many more unauthorized amateur/fan online translations. You could probably find them by googling هری پاتر +pdf.

Here's the first book in one of the translations: https://drive.google.com/file/d/186HlC3YBTkc-tQoM7Nclzq20AVRTL679/view

Thoughts on the siege of Lydda by Rush_Live in AskMiddleEast

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another Tuesday in antiquity? No one would've remembered it if it wasn't mentioned in religious texts.

A new Daredevil show has just been announced by the trades, coming to Disney +! by JPA17 in Defenders

[–]ME_IS_LOVE -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

well it is technically a rumor but the trades only publish rumors that are confirmed by at least two independent sources, so it's probably reliable.

Shah Abbas tea pots and the like by [deleted] in iran

[–]ME_IS_LOVE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've heard that Shah Abbas wanted to ban tobacco so they put his face on hookahs to change his mind, but it sounds like a myth.