Iran Busts A Move On Rap Music

As told in this Breitbart (AFP) article, Iran plans to institute a nationwide crackdown on rap music, citing that a majority of rap music lyrics are “obscene” or offensive:

“There is nothing wrong with this type of music in itself,” the official for evaluation of music at the Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry, Mohammad Dashtgoli, was quoted as saying.

“But due to the use of obscene words by its singers this music has been categorised as illegal,” he said.

“In coordination with the police, illegal studios producing this type of music will be sealed and the singers in this genre will be confronted,” he said.

Dashtgoli said a large number of illegal rap singers have been already identified.

The Islamic republic’s hardline officials have repeatedly complained about a “cultural invasion” by “decadent” western music which they believe diminishes Islamic values.

Where we generally agree with their assessment that the music is obscene, what really “diminishes Islamic values” is not the music, but is the public hanging of gay boys, and stoning of women who had sex, lashes for rape victims, and death threats for anyone who accurately describes Mohammad as a vicious child rapist or murderer without morals or conscience.  The religion of perpetual rage needs to kick back, spark up a blunt, and move into the 21st century.

Flights Of Fancy

Airline ‘discount’ charges heterosexual customers more – 10% penalty applied if buyers don’t get tickets from ‘gay’ site

Here is an excerpt from this World Net Daily article:

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air have announced a new program that will charge heterosexuals 10 percent extra for their air travel to specific locations during the Christmas season.

The company actually offers the 10 percent as a discount but only if the purchaser obtains the ticket through a “gay” page of the company’s website, a location not typically patronized by families seeking travel arrangements, according to an Idaho activist who was distressed by the offering.

Bryan Fischer, of the Idaho Values Alliance, told WND the company boasts of its “nondiscrimination” policies, but, “here they are blatantly discriminating against heterosexuals in their pricing structure.”

Word of the discount came through an airline employee, who needed to remain anonymous because of concerns over retaliation. The employee reported the company had sent e-mails out announcing the “very soft launch” of the new promotion.

“They are giving preferences to male passengers who want to wear dresses on the planes, and giving them preference over married couples,” Fischer said, noting families typically buy more tickets than individuals or pairs traveling together.

“It just doesn’t seem like it’s smart business for them to stick their thumb in the eye of the main passengers,” he told WND.

He said he had called the company’s reservations number and the clerk was unaware of the program and it didn’t come up on the general list of discounts available to reservations agents, but he did verify that the “gay” page discount was valid – but only by going through the “gay” page.