...is "boring".
Why not "repressive"?
Well, I'm guessing that though we all know how restrictive of thought and action these regimes are, most of us might survive the misery of being restricted in thought, word, and deed; but considering the other word, "boring", we would have to subtract far more activites from our lives because the Islamic fascists had decided they were also anti-Islamic.
Russia never told its citizens what they had to wear, nor threatened to flog them or stone them to death for being "immodest", unless maybe by "immodest" you mean "out in public while nude."
They also restrict what you are allowed to read, to hear, to know, to say, probably to smell, I'm sure if you ate a dog they'd stone you, not for the preciousness of the dog but because you had defiled yourself. No unclean people in our society, you dirty filthy so and so. The music you listen to, restricted. The movies you're allowed to see, restricted. No nightclubs, no alcohol, no dancing. Noisy celebrations are for men only. Dating is probably out in most places. Engaged couples only, sanctioned by both families.
Meanwhile, women are turned into faceless, characterless blobs. Do you know what "thinging" someone means? It's the act of turning human people into "things", the way the Nazis turned Jews and Poles and Hungarians into things so that arresting them, relocating them, experimenting on them, killing them, would be easy. No one gives a crap about a "thing". And so these Muslim tyrannies turn women into things, and treat them like things.
For that matter, most men are things, too. No, you can't gamble, not even rolling dice in the street. No, you can't play cards, not even an innocent game like Bridge. Things have no rights.
Just say no.
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It's more legitimate to focus on the repression, as you do, rather than on the boredom.
ReplyDeleteFor me, as an atheist, I look at any theocracy, or religious community with restrictions on behavior, of any religion and I see boredom. But as a liberal, I hold the ridiculous value of tolerance and I try to see what value there may be. For example, I know a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses and he's one of the happiest people I know.
For someone like Prager, who obviously respects the concept of religion and all its rituals and its restrictions on behavior, to talk about the "boredom" of Muslim theocracies, it is unfortunately evidence of a bias against Islam. Would he talk about the "boredom" of the Amish way of life? I doubt it. I know, I know, "SIXHERB". Whatver. He needs to face it, he pretty much can't stand Islam.
I agree with you about repression being a far more important issue than boredom. But that doesn't mean the boredom isn't worth mentioning.
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