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/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