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i think the world doesn’t know what it really means to live in a theocratic dictatorship. Let me tell you about our experiences living in the islamic regime of iran.

1. Your parents were born to muslim parents so they’re automatically muslim. You’re automatically a muslim too. You didn’t choose your religion and you can’t opt out of it or you will be executed.

2. The compulsory hijab law makes you a criminal if you choose not to wear hijab even tho you didn’t choose to be a muslim and you don’t consider yourself a muslim but the regime has forced you into that role whether you like it or not. And when you ‘break that law’, they can do with you as they please.

3. little girls as young as 7 yrs old are forced to wear hijab at school even tho the islam itself says the age is 9. and all the schools are gender segregated so imagine how they force you to get used to hijab even when you’re just surrounded by other girls. And all day long at school they tell you horrible stories about what will happen to you in hell if someone sees even a strand of your hair.

4. the regime modifies all the textbooks, story books, cartoons and movies to represent the ideal woman with full on hijab. The iranian media is ordered to photoshop every photo of a woman that may be showing a little skin. And if they’re iranian, no hair is supposed to be seen or that will be photoshopped away. Women are mostly excluded from billboards and tv commercials.

5. imagine going to work or meeting up with a friend when suddenly the morality police kidnap you in broad daylight and force you into a van to take you to a station where they will treat you like a criminal and if you don’t agree to get humiliated and do as they say, they will put you in prison. And in case of Mahsa Amini and so many more before her, they will beat you to death. My sister was barely 18 when she got kidnapped and they didn’t let her call home and she’d been so fucking scared and we had no idea where she was. Imagine all the psychological trauma.

6. If you’re in a car and not wearing hijab they will fine you and seize your car. So when u get into a taxi the driver will ask you to keep your hijab on otherwise they’ll get fined. And if you refuse they’ll ask you to get off the car.

7. And its not just about hijab. In Ramadan, they get even more vicious. If they catch you eating or even drinking water on the street they will give you lashes as punishment and even imprison you for breaking the law. If you work in a state-owned company it’s even worse. They will close the cafeteria and take away the water dispensers. All restaurants are banned from delivering food before iftar. It’s a fucking mess. Everyone has to pretend they’re fasting or they’ll be severely punished.

8. And how could I forget about this! iranian women are banned from singing! the islamic regime prohibits women’s singing voices to be heard by men so imagine the horror of having 50% of the population banned from ever becoming a singer. If they identify a female singer in iran, they will take her to jail and force her to repent her sins in the most humiliating way so that she will never dare sing again.

9. And every time the regime gets wind of a private gathering of men and women trying to have fun and live their fucking private lives, the police crash the party and take everyone to jail bc the Islamic regime bans iranian men and women from having fun.

10. Did you know that the islamic regime doesn’t allow women’s faces to be printed on their obituaries or headstones? They put a flower for our faces instead and if they see a headstone with a woman’s face printed on it they’ll smash it to pieces. That’s how religious dictatorship continues to oppress and erase women even after their deaths.

11. For some reason, women aren’t allowed to ride motorcycles and the government won’t issue any license for them. In some cities, women are barred from riding a bicycle.

So if you see Islam has become for many iranians a symbol of oppression and torture and discrimination, that’s why. The regime uses islam as a weapon to silence and punish anyone who opposes them. You can love islam all you want from the safety of your home in a free country and talk about how kind and benevolent the religion is, but in iran, it’s a whole different story.

Our economy is fucked. All govt officials are corrupt as fuck. Most websites are banned in iran. Even tumblr is banned. The world has cut the iranian ppl from many services. We don’t have intl credit cards like visa card. Amazon doesn’t do delivery to iran. We cant get netflix, spotify or even a gamepass subscription. we don’t get any Apple services here. iran isn’t listed as a country you could choose when signing up for a lot of services. and when we decide to leave iran and escape this hellhole, every country out there will make it sooo much harder for us to get a visa just bc we had the misfortune to be born in iran at the wrong time.

This is the story of iran for the past 44 years. Held hostage by a corrupt regime that uses religion to suppress and torture the people and being abandoned by the rest of the world bc our lives don’t matter.

Please be our voice. Once they shut down the internet completely and silence our voice, they will start slaughtering us to stifle the protests just like they did in 2019. Please help us. We want this fucking regime gone.

#I follow a queer Persian Jewish man on instagram and it always a splash of cold water to be reminded jusy how many people are unaware of #what goes on in Iran

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Can tumblr make it easier to block on sideblogs or better yet if I block someone from my main it just blocks them from all my blogs

#mecore

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Coming here to crowdsource a blessing from jumblr for seeing a guinea pig, there are blessings for animals in general, but not piggies

youre right! jumblr, help create a blessing for guinea pigs!

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I hate it i hate it I hate it I hate that none of you care about Jewish people I hate that I now can’t go a day without seeing something antisemitic online no matter what I try to do I hate that not a single non Jewish person I know gives a single flying fuck about antisemitism No you don’t care about me and we aren’t friends if I can’t talk to you about antisemitism

#little vent cause I saw two antisemitisms in a row and I’m having a bad day already #mecore

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Coming here to crowdsource a blessing from jumblr for seeing a guinea pig, there are blessings for animals in general, but not piggies

youre right! jumblr, help create a blessing for guinea pigs!

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People who assume I think the Israeli military is like infallible are so funny to me babe I will be the first one to talk about how much any military sucks if you just give me a chance I hate the military with a passion

#do I think Israel or any country just poof away their military no I don’t that could present dangers especially for Israel but I do not #support the fucking military people need to learn that unconditionally supporting somehting and acknowledging that it serves a needed #purpose but is not above critic are not the same thing #mecore

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we should use ladino casually the same way people use yiddish casually. ladino is a beautiful language and it should be used more often! the more people who even just know two words, the less likely this wonderful language and important piece of history is to fully die out. the more jewish languages that are used regularly the better!

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Ambulance Bill Passed Due

I hate to log back in to Tumblr just to beg for help, but I have 14 days to cough up $1200 for an ambulance bill.

I would really appreciate if you reblogged this for reach. Thank you 💓💓💓

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it’s insane to me that people are painting the protestors at columbia and yale as “anti-war.” in fact they are very much pro-war! they have cheered for iranian missiles and hamas rockets, shouted “october 7th will be every day” and “burn tel aviv to the ground.” they don’t want the war to end, they just want the side they support to succeed in killing more jews. absent that, they themselves are happy to harass and physically assault local jews that they can get their hands on.

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Ambulance Bill Passed Due

I hate to log back in to Tumblr just to beg for help, but I have 14 days to cough up $1200 for an ambulance bill.

I would really appreciate if you reblogged this for reach. Thank you 💓💓💓

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is that bump under your kippah a guinea pig or is your skull just shaped really weirdly

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27 April 2024 - 19 Nisan 5784

Yes, today is the fifth day of Passover and Shabbat! Shabbat shalom! Today is Day 4 of the Counting of the Omer. Tonight: Count 5.

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favorite thing abt judaism is how at the end of torah study there are always at least 5 people who still have a comment to make and we havent nearly made it through all the texts we wanted to get through because we had so many good comments and conversations that it took up all our time

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I miss when I didn't have to be afraid of all the people I thought were my friends

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no honey you can't support Hamas and be a fundamentally good person that just doesn't add up

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a chassidic tale- a young boy woke up every morning hours before he needed to be awake just to go into the woods before school. when he got home, his mother would ask him what he was doing awake so early again. he told her “i go into the woods to talk to Gd”, to which she replied “you don’t need to go to the woods for that. you know Gd is the same everywhere, right?” and the little boy said “i know. but i’m not.”

#he just like me

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Leashed sex. You agree, rb