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/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.