Via Metafilter comes this wonderful offering:
...conservative lawmakers are promoting a wide range of social legislation designed to rein in sex and unshackle the Koran
From new limits on sex education classes to penalties for living in sin, the proposed laws would remake Iran's public life in myriad ways. They would sanction prayer in public schools, subsidize religious schools and allow the Koran to be taught in school.
One bill purports to help women make “the transition from work to home.” Another wants the legislature to recognize “a Muslim God” as the deity for most Iranians.
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“It’s time to get back to the basics,” [she] said. “Our country has been hijacked by liberals. We’ve had people with left-wing ideas pushing us away from what made Iran strong.”
I have to confess, I've edited this, but only slightly. See if you can work out what I have changed by comparing it to the original.
More here, showing the depths to which legislators appear to be willing to sink (and their appalling standards of literacy).
From the same appalling woman comes this:
Sex education belongs primarily in the home. Since it involves the body, the physical part belongs in a medical doctor’s office. Since it involves morals, the spiritual part belongs in churches.
Have you seen the logical flaw yet? That's right - sex education belongs in the home - except that is the bit relating to the body - and of course the moral bit which belongs in church. Now tell me please - what is left?
These are the people who complain about Islamic fundamentalism! These are the people who complain about teaching Darwinism! These are the people who call themselves the leaders of the free world!
