SEEMS theocratic?? SEEMS!??!
and yeah 25000 jews. kept as dhimmis. down from over 700,000 before the "glorious islamic revolution" when every jew who copuld, fled to israel, the US, and wherever else they could get to. they had been victims of pogroms before, and they knew hopw the wind was blowing so they packed up their shit and bailed.
also, the "tehran alone" comment is specious and implies there are more than ONE jewish enclaves in iran.
the iranians boast about their "generosity" with their jewish dhimmis, and proidly proclaim that they have TWO jewish butcher shops and THREE hebrew schools (which are run by, and staffed with moslems, and most of the curriculum is delivered in farsi, not hebrew)
and kim jong il can show the western press the super awesome department store full of incredible consumer goods that the people of north korea can enjoy...
brace yourself for schmaltz.
further, khameni, the "ayatollah supreme" is curently cracking down on the baha'ia for their wicked and anti-islamic beliefs, like respect for differing faiths, and even atheism. those bastards!
you seem to love to pick a side, and then blindly declare them to be faultless and perfect even when their pimples, and herpes wounds are obvious to all.
iran, and in fact most of the islamic world's religious and political authorities are pox ridden whores, the israelis may not be perfect, but they are not evil, backwards and vicious. many arabs (christian and moslem too) live within israel, as full citizens with the vote, religious freedom, and economic liberty. the same can not be said of jews christians, coptics, hindus, or any non moslem is most moslem nations.
i encourage you to look into the history of india and pakistan's manumission from the british crown. there are many paralells.
in areas of india where moslems were the minority, many packed up and moved to pakistan, in areas of the land which became pakistan, where moslems were the majority, hindus chrisitans and buddhists fled in droves, were forced out, or simply killed.
the chaotic chinese fire drill in the partition of pakistan from india had violence on all sides, but the violence was EPIDEMIC in what is now pakistan, and merely sporadic in india. even today india has a large population of moslems and many mosques. pakistan has very few christians, and hindus. (pakistan is 95% moslem, the remaining 5% split between christians hindus, sufi, jains baha'ia, and many others, by comparison india is 13.7% moslem.)
the facts are plain, when moslems are in the majority in a nation, they nearly always institute a theocracy or a rigid theocratic monarchy, followed by oppression of non-molems, and everybody else flees. other peoples, societies and cultures do NOT generally impose similar restrictions on moslems. moslems live and worship in EVERY free nation on earth. only the socialist dictatorships and a few madcap non-moslem theocracies oppress moslems.
Turkey is the only moslem majority nation i can think of which is not an oppressive theocratic or autocratic dictatorship, and the only moslem nation i can think of where non-moslems are treated as well as moslems (lately). historically though, turkey was pretty much Iran Version 1.0, with awesome REAL genocides, which racked up a MUCH higher bodycount than 137 dead in a breif and violnet struggle to eliminate rocket batteries. the aremneians could tell you a thing or two about what genocide looks like when put into full swing. the ottoman turks were even more efficient than the germans in their extermination program.
