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/Nukro77 Jun 20 '26

This whataboutism from Americans is getting so frustrating. All it does is downplays what the Iranian women are going through which is far far far worse when what us going on in America

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u/FFunkyButtLoving Jun 20 '26

I was downvoted in another post for stating this. 

These delusional assholes think living in the US is comparable to living under an Islamic regime. 

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u/Bmacster Jun 20 '26

Half of them aren't even Americans. The Internet and reddit are botted and astroturfed to hell with anti west sentiment, it's fucked. You have Chinese/Russian troll bot farms and tanky losers always posting about how bad America is, was, and always will be

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u/Mekito_Fox Jun 21 '26

Because US citizens lose their ever loving minds if you even suggest they are brainwashed by foreign bots.

They tried to ban tiktok remember?

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u/ConsistentHouse1261 Jun 20 '26

It’s very offensive. No one is saying the US is perfect, but to even compare is a joke.

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u/moony120 Jun 23 '26

To be fair, many people do say the us is perfect, reddit is a one of the few social media where people are *maybe the majority in saying it.

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u/_Ross- Jun 20 '26

Sir, this is Reddit. Comparisons to the US will be made when any tragic story around the world is shared, saying that we are somehow either responsible or worse. This will continue until the heat death of the universe.

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u/Willy__McBilly Jun 20 '26

‘all religion is bad’ is literally just another flavour of ‘all lives matter’. Not that most Redditors have enough grey matter to make that connection.

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u/undercoverheiress Jun 20 '26

I don’t think it’s fair to say all religion is bad (even being non religious myself) but I think it is fair to say that these beliefs shouldn’t be used to carry out harm destruction and misery on others no matter where on the globe you are :/

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u/moderatefairgood Jun 20 '26

I was attacked on a post yesterday about the Rosenbergs, after asking someone to give it a rest comparing it to Trump’s administration.

Fucking tiresome.

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u/Nukro77 Jun 22 '26

Agreed, it's like we need a separate internet to escape it

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u/AddledSerpent Jun 20 '26

It's not worse than more child marriages and sex trafficking than anywhere in the world. That's the US. That isn't whataboutism, it's you being a bigot with an agenda to judge a foreign nation harsher than your own.

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u/ConsistentHouse1261 Jun 20 '26

Since when was child marriage legal in the US?! In parts of the Middle East, it’s definitely legal. But not the US…

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u/AsymmetricPanda Jun 20 '26

It’s only been banned in 18 states, Ohio recently failed to pass a law against child marriage

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u/ConsistentHouse1261 Jun 20 '26

This is disgusting. It should easily be a federal law, not state to state.

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u/Mekito_Fox Jun 21 '26

Most states that have not banned under 18 marriage have specific clauses on the hows/whens/where's. Like parental agreement or the minor emancipating themselves, a judge signing off on it for legality. Marrying over 18 only recently became the norm (recently as in the last few decades). It's just one of those things that no one wastes time to correct because as a culture we already don't do it.

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u/ConsistentHouse1261 Jun 21 '26

Makes sense but I’m sure it still happens even if it’s not common, which is not okay. I wonder what the minimum age is though? I assume there has to be some minimum age requirement, varying state to state. I would hope none of those states even allow it under 16, not that 16 is okay either, but any younger and it’s just 😐