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Young Iranians Are Rising Up Once Again

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0:00 thank you [Music] so we're going to talk about Masha amini she is the uh I believe she was 22 years old she's an Iranian woman who uh was caught by the morality police oh for not wearing her hijab correctly do they have a fashion police out there too in Iran what they are but I mean out of any type of fashion police these would be the most brutal they took her and they were going to take her to like one of those centers where they kind of re-educate you on the thing that you ████ up on this is what a good Muslim woman does yeah and then instead she ended up dead oh oh ████ and they're saying that um this is the official authorities are saying that no she just suffered a heart attack out of nowhere um but she had no existing heart

0:50 conditions she's also really young and uh yeah they are everyone believes they're lying and now there's huge unrest in several different countries and cities there's protests going on right now and because we have the stupid American luxury of protesting to absolutely no real consequence out there there's at least 30 protesters that have been killed up to this point like morality because they're burning hijabs they're burning uh pictures of the of the Iranian leader they're they're going off and they're getting killed over it yeah I saw a video yesterday on Reddit of the Iranian National Guard pulling out AKs and shooting into the crowd oh they were blasting just protesters they're just killing the women out there yeah yeah and then like one of the morality police Chiefs too uh he got beat the ████ of he was all bloodied and

1:41 also they grabbed they're they're getting some too they're getting good I mean they're killing their friends the girls are trying to stand up for themselves so the girls are beating the guys up it's all always around yeah everyone just beating everybody up yeah they're men on on the girls side too absolutely okay because it's not just like a bunch of ladies like yeah it's just she got arrested and then now she's dead and then so everyone's like well what the ████ was it was it this the same story did you see that uh like they went to the center and started beating her was it she went that's the one yeah she went in a coma like yeah they took and she like suffered like she was having symptoms of like severe concussion they finally took her to the hospital after like an hour or two of her suffering and she went in

2:31 a coma and passed away but I think one of the friends um was like asking like what is happening we didn't need to take her to the hospital and they were lying saying oh that ambulance is for someone else not your friend but it was actually her friend um wow and they didn't allow uh her father to see her when once like once she was already you know uh and they when they finally did her body was completely wrapped up so you couldn't really tell and then like a mummy yeah other than her they beat her yeah they ████ her up then they're trying to hide it her head and her feet were out and they said um that that she had bruises where you actually could see her wow that's wild man the question is so they have these morality please right do they also have other police or is that like

3:22 their police system out there like what is this morality police group they're just that morality police is solely for the I believe like the uh Sharia yeah the Sharia law to be um they had them in a presentation um Malaysia when me and Bart went um man was it during Ramadan I forgot what it was but they were saying like there are the guys that are here checking IDs and ████ like that so they don't care if you're Chinese or a tourist they're they're looking for um Muslim kids that are violating their laws right but they do have crazy laws like from all the places we performed at this one was like guys on this side girls on that side and then they would say like if a girl comes up and hugs you like um you should probably just do like one of these none of these like none of

4:14 these like the American style hug hell no well we can't we can't go hug yeah yeah yeah but if they hug if they hug us it's like just do one of these one of these things it was like a lot of like a lot more not just like stage briefing of the concert but like these additional rules that you have to be really conscious of yeah but they're not like Iran where you're getting your ass beat because you violated right like alcohol rules or whatever right like it's it's a but those are the things that that seems extreme for an American but it gets for that I heard is loose already for a Muslim country yeah so that's already relaxed so like imagine a hardcore one like Iran like oh you didn't wear it right and then they're beating your ass why do they have to be like armed and stuff though that's what I don't get I mean yeah if you're gonna

5:04 have that law Place give them a testisk and educate them if that's what you want but like you don't need guns and things to beat people with yeah and who really knows what goes on in the re-education yeah I mean like we don't even know yeah when I I think I've seen a lot of people uh protesting around the world too and like trying to I guess bring awareness to it do you do you know what the overall goal is is it to get enough countries involved where other people have to or humanitarians to go in there and kind of stop what's going on or it's it's hard it's really hard to gauge that because you also have to consider the fact that whenever something like this that's kind of more on the anti-muslim law thing is like it gets really Juiced hardcore from uh a capitalist Countryside yeah you know what I mean like if you're gonna read the news in the US they're gonna go yeah we got to

5:54 get everyone together and stop this ████ from ever happening again but then I I don't think there's such a clear indication of how the people in Iran are protesting like what what is their actual real goal for them because they've had their internet to completely cut out they can't even it's the crazy they can't even like uh put out how they feel like as much as you know it's more like other news outlets that are filming them that are getting the info back out I thought it was pretty nuts already how the women were taking off their hijabs and burning them that's insane he was like whoa because Nadeem was telling us that um when he accidentally walked into one of his cousins or something like that in the bathroom she did one of these because then she's all like you can't see my my face and then like he was like that's the same thing as like if you walk into a bad girl and then you see

6:45 your boobies you know that's how you you know you can't see that ████ out there right so I was like damn that's one crazy dude didn't you live in a Muslim country for a minute doing bible stuff yeah I was a missionary in Iraq holy ████ yeah I lived there they thought he was gay because he didn't have a mustache isn't that like wouldn't you just be Marked for Death trying to spread Christianity in a Muslim country yeah well I mean that wasn't so the idea of like being a missionary there was just I was just living there living my life I never was there handing out pamphlets and ████ like I I made relationships with people in France and they would come to me and they'd be like you're a Christian right and they just have questions yeah because Muslims believe in Jesus too but I never wanted to cross the lines I just was there to be their friends and make relationships I'm a Christian you're a Muslim kind of thing and yeah they

7:36 a lot of their idea of religion his religion is based on morality about being good and like reverence in these things and at a certain point you can see like you know so much of this stuff is just ████ ████ you know like uh so they're what do you mean by like so much of it is ████ like what what specifically that's right and what's wrong solely based on your behavior because it happens here in America too right like yeah um a lot of churches these days right now are policing people's social media and calling that Christian too right like we have a morality police in a sense by whatever Church you're Affiliated to as well but yeah like there was obviously a lot of splitting of the Sexes there's like no alcohol in this so to find alcohol where I was at

8:28 was in the Christian village because Christians are allowed to drink hey hey jeez my afternoon Christina because that was his American Marine girlfriend's name and he's Muslim but he'd go to the Christian village to drink all the time and they'd call him out he's like no I'm a Christian but it says Christina so they so there's a lot of loophole jumping too you know because that's what I mean by so much of his just ████ like that's I don't know does that get you into heaven you know really like any of this stuff like covering your head I think long story short it should it's just human rights like people should be able to believe and do what they want not saying anything is right or wrong but if someone believes in that culture and you know doesn't want to show their

9:18 face and stuff amazing for you if someone was born there and people are telling them what to do and these women just want their own rights I mean it's that fine line I just I just feel bad for it I've seen so many videos I think it's crazy like you were saying their phones literally don't work they cut off all their phone services they can't text their family their friends to make sure people are safe that's why like they're so scared one girl like finally got service to get like a tick tock video out or something she's just crying in a room like I can't communicate with anyone or show what's going on like none of us can like it's really scary even Anonymous you know the hacker group yeah they uh they came in and uh they took out a ton of Iranian government websites in an effort to like help the protesters and help people they were like shutting down all these

10:08 websites we need Elon to give them the internet that's actually what's happening right Skynet right Terminator yeah I think Joe Biden to announce some ████ to work with starlink to get them internet access but then in Iraq I met a guy who spoke English he learned it from watching friends and they watched like great like friends or sarcastic talks like a sitcom yeah he dressed up like Chandler and everything but could there be any more protests he told me about how he had a girlfriend but um her her dad disapproved of it and I think he caught them in bed together told me that he had to go to the hospital for he was hospitalized because

10:58 he got beat the ████ up wow and when I asked about his girlfriend he was shook like traumatized they killed her they think they killed her oh yeah so that was the kind of ████ like I like the kind of people I was meeting and living within seeing like what morality means to them you know it's just such a crazy idea really like of piety or holding Hannah has a schoolmate where uh there's a big Muslim population in England and she has a schoolmate where um one of the students got into a relationship that wasn't okay by the parents something happened and the parents killed the kid what it's called an honor killing I'm killing him they killed the kid and then um because they wanted to save you know whatever morality reason for their

11:50 family or whatever but yeah it's some crazy stuff dude like it's just it's just the the culture and the rules are just so different like I don't know man I think one of the goals obviously is just to get Justice for Masa Omni is to get the officials in the government to admit that what happened to her was wrong because they're lying about they're saying they had no apartment like how she she's not guilty weak ass heart yeah youngest heart attack to ever just randomly happen from a healthy person getting bruised all over it yeah like a lot of people think if they don't study history right they think Iran is this extremist Nation but it's that's recent like they were one of the most secular and for forward nations in the Middle East if you see pictures from the 60s and before yeah 70s and before

12:40 they're like it looks pretty yeah the cities are so nice they're like modern right yeah what happened um just like when you have a dictator in every country they had someone call The Shop um and he was like a puppet leader of I would say some Western Nations and and yeah it was Progressive or like it was prosperous for some not for all because that's the unfortunate truth about um new emerging Nations right like you have a lot of Rich middle class but you still have poor people that are down and out it gives perfect opportunity for crazy ideal is like like extreme ideals to kind of seep in and then that's where the uh I think it's homani or something

13:32 like that it's Iranian extremist like uh leader he came in his crew came in and all of them just it their ideas spread like wildfire and then they took over so like Argo is about Argo yeah yeah yeah or they had all the Americans and Canadians had to get out I mean when there's instability or like there are people who are down and out it's always perfect opportunity for crazy people to come in and swoop them up just like just like Hitler did you know like every every every every example there's always somebody that comes in and they're like oh no one's giving you guys attention well guess what I'm here to help you and then they they rally them up and then they ████ take over that's what happened in Egypt too they had their I've got what it was called something spring Arab Spring that's great yeah and

14:23 then the people rose up and pushed out their longtime dictator but what happened in that power vacuum they have a military dictatorship oh yeah and it's more corrupt than ever yeah yeah it's it's crazy because like I understand the uh the different cultures and how they have things that they value and they have customs and stuff uh but I think it's pretty widely agreed that people shouldn't be killed over any of these things yeah you know just as much as like so severe yeah like it is kind of a funny thing like when you look at America and how like if you were burning across publicly you're probably not going to get killed over it people probably wish you died and celebrated like 50 years ago say a lot of ████ about you I'll kill you at least you know yeah there's no that's good but right but they're gonna want you to die as much as people wanted uh Kaepernick to die for kneeling at the game you know

15:13 but they're not nope there's no assassins coming after him you know so it's one of those things where maybe that's a sign of a failed Society from another point of view at a different country but in general it's like that's not a death sentence and especially if it is say that it is instead of and hiding it they know it's they know they ████ up yeah if if you have to hide it then you're not like being like Singapore like yeah we threw him off the plane that guy's a corrupt politician Singapore's badass don't be like anyone who's corrupt we're gonna take them up on the plane we're gonna throw him out with no parachute oh you're chewing gum homie I'm gonna ████ whip your butt with a freaking leather whip you know they're straight up they're like that sounds nice I'll take it that's how they work though they're like uh you know corrupt you get executed that's that's that's the thing but at least they're honest about it

16:03 right it's like yeah that's the main thing and I think that's where the Injustice started it's that like well she just had a heart attack because that culture already knows that there's a morality police and they already know that that's a pretty big deal to like wear your hijab incorrectly like that's that's a known thing but then they didn't sign up for this ████ and that's where it really is like whoa how the ████ no one should die for wearing uh their their hijab incorrectly that's just ridiculous dude so hopefully there's a gonna be a lot um this unrest is going to be fine for the all the all the rioters and all the uh protesters is what's crazy that you know when we think about the luxury of of having a protest out here even when it's not peaceful yeah and you're fine uh looting the REI nothing's gonna happen to nobody but then and then you see these and you're like okay that's yeah that's really the thing right there it's

16:54 like they're they're getting killed for this yeah that's wild man yeah foreign

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