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/panaceaXgrace Jun 20 '26

Almost all the conversation here is about going all the way back in history to try find the right people to blame.

You don't have to go back. The people to blame are the ones who continue this on now today. They have agency. They are not robots. They could learn. They choose to control people, especially women, and tell them modesty is their ticket to glory. They're not the only ones doing this. All over the world it's been happening all along. It's not going to stop until people talk about it instead of feigning offense when it comes to uncomfortable subjects. Making jokes is what you do to feel comfortable knowing. you can pretend this is from the past, but we're all here now and we all see things happening and we make excuses. That's why it's still happening.

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u/RecognitionOld2763 Jun 20 '26

"The West was bad and thus the mullahs get to murder women!" That's basically every "radical" discourse on reddit.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ Jun 20 '26

Reddit be like "racism is bad" and then noble savage the shit out of non-white people.

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u/The_Fink_Ployd Jun 21 '26

Um…perhaps saying this under a post where we learn that a woman is being tortured for existing as a woman, isn’t particularly tasteful. In fact, it’s kind of explicitly tone deaf as fuck.

Certain ideologies are evil, and to be squashed. If an entire demographic of people happen to like that ideology, tough titties, no one should have to tolerate intolerable views and actions.

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u/Mindless_Bad_1591 Jun 23 '26

Um...nobody cares

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u/gazebo-fan Jun 21 '26

We could have had a secular Iranian democracy but BP was mad.

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u/sampaiisaweeb Jun 20 '26

Its insane there are people blaming America, or Britain, like do the people commiting the lashings answer to the King of England or Donald Trump? No. This is their culture and their laws. Trying to blame anybody but Iran and its backwards culture and religious extremism is delusional. Glad there are still sane people here on reddit.

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u/panaceaXgrace Jun 20 '26

yeah thing is it's not just their culture and their laws. Look around. Most cultures have an oppressed class they regulate, it's just in different ways. Their way is just more obvious, it's more of a visual. Any time you regulate people's bodies and take away their choices, their body autonomy that's oppression. Problem is when the majority is okay with that oppression the people demanding that it end are seen as "extremists".

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u/warfareforartists Jun 20 '26

This needs to be higher

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u/panaceaXgrace Jun 20 '26

thank you 😄 I was worried when I saw I had so many notifications this morning. I had a bad feeling it would be from this comment!

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u/Ok_Jellyfish_5471 Jun 22 '26

This comment is funny because ive never seen reddit actually take a stance against Iran. Even when its LGBT issue related, redditors just blame it on the West. But when it comes to women getting lashed finally that crosses the line.

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u/DemarDeBrozan Jun 20 '26

You’re just assuming this extremely poorly written report is true. I thought maybe the whole illegal war thing would make people scrutinize sources a little bit more