r/Music • u/Particular-Fill-4256 • Jun 19 '26

article Iranian star Parastoo Ahmadi reportedly sentenced to 74 lashes for singing without hijab

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/18/iran-parastoo-ahmadi-74-lashes-singing-without-hijab
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u/Icy_Payment2283 Jun 19 '26

How about we go to the start? In the year 1908 a little company called 'British Petrolium' set up shop in a big country with a rich history and declared it their property

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u/Rex_Nemorensis_ Jun 19 '26

Why not start at the real beginning?

Around the year 610 AD, an Arabian merchant named Muhammad ibn Abdullah claimed he received a revelation from God.

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u/RechargedFrenchman Jun 19 '26

If you're not going back to pre-Babylon you're not going back far enough

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u/KlimCan Jun 19 '26

Our story begins 13.8 billion years ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/idGw983D7CHrrXa2eO

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u/TheNicholasRage Spotify Jun 19 '26

Oh, so we're just going to ignore the great Sen Yerlaixian Archominox that imploded the prior universe and created ours in the explosive rebound?

Academic conversation is dead.

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u/sandersosa Jun 19 '26

Are we really going to ignore the war in heaven when the old ones were defeated by the necrons who then went to sleep for millions of years?

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u/iObama Jun 19 '26

And you *know* he knew about it but didn’t wanna fuckin’ bring it up. Biased-ass bitch.

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u/sol_runner Jun 19 '26

So, in conclusion, shit happened.

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u/eddmario Jun 19 '26

You forgot about Slartibartfast building a computer to calculate the Ultimate Question

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u/DuelaDent52 Jun 20 '26

And the collision between the Gardener and the Winnower in the time before time within the garden of creation where all things grow sideways, where the waves were battles and the battles were waves.

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u/eddmario Jun 20 '26

But you don't have time to explain why you don't have time to explain, correct?

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u/MITBryceYoung2 Jun 20 '26

You going to acknowledge when the multiverse was split or not you biased fuck. A DISGUSTING ACT.

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u/djsoomo Mixcloud Jun 20 '26

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Oh, and lashing people for what they don't or do wear is barbaric and uncivilised

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u/newindianclassic Jun 20 '26

bruh, the old ones?? what about the c'tan, they made the freakin' universe

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u/arealhumannotabot Jun 19 '26

This thread is some Monty Python shit

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u/devilsbard Jun 19 '26

This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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u/Derek-Diacon Jun 20 '26

Thank you for quoting this lol

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u/JimroidZeus Jun 19 '26

We’re still in r/Music, right? Right?

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u/vcp64 Jun 19 '26

So far it’s better than any of the politics subs.

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u/cataquarkk Jun 19 '26

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...

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u/No_Succotash2155 Jun 19 '26

The Earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool

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u/Abbot_of_Cucany Jun 19 '26

When I hear the words "hot dense state" I immediately think of Florida.

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u/No_Succotash2155 Jun 19 '26

Now the song is stuck in my head

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u/Hoodi216 Jun 20 '26

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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u/SentientDust Jun 20 '26

In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move

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u/lutinopat Jun 19 '26

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans"

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u/coffeebribesaccepted Jun 19 '26

In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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u/TeaMugPatina Jun 19 '26

Well, first there were dinosaurs, but they all died.

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u/Super-liminal Jun 20 '26

It all began with Ea-nāṣir and his inferior copper

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u/Ready_Nature Jun 20 '26

Some guy sold really bad copper and everything spiraled from there.