frigidweirdo
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Fine, whatever, let's focus on the human rights abuses from ALL countries in the middle east.
Why is Iran so special? Er... well.... the right want to invade because they're OPEC and have lots of oil.
Just like Iraq, Libya and Venezuela, what happened to them?
In 2001 the three leaders of those three countries aren't with us.
Two were deposed with US help or by the US, and the other suffered a coup d'etat the US helped, didn't work, but then he died.
Coincidences? No.
My, my, my. It certainly looks that if someone writes about the abuses in Iran, there are many who get on step about this. Strange, but it is a reason to wonder why. However, whomever can't stand to see anything written about abuses in Iran is free to ask the Iranians here in the U.S. their opinion about what is going on. There is nothing like getting it from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
I don't doubt human rights abuses in Iran, this isn't the point. The point is, why Iran and not all the other countries with human rights abuses? The answer is clear, some people have an agenda and are using the press to push that agenda.
Why is it that people like you seem to get so upset when Iran's human rights abuses are discussed in an article, but are very quiet when human rights abuses have been discussed here in Saudi Arabia and even Qatar? Do you have an agenda which includes nothing being said about Iran's human rights abuses?
Now nobody is stopping you from going to any of the various forums and talking about the human rights abuses going on in different parts of the world. Have at it.
I'm not upset that Iran's human rights abuses are being discussed. What I'm upset about is that it's ALWAYS Iran and never other countries.
If this were done on an equal basis, then fine, however the Saudis almost never get found out, while the Iranians, who aren't as bad as the Saudis, get it all the time.
Also, why is it people like you always get upset when people bring up human rights abuses in places like Saudi Arabia?
It appears that you are the one who got upset about the article from a Nobel Laureate about human rights abuses in Iran or else you wouldn't have made the comment that you did. This woman didn't win the prize for just sneezing. Let me reiterate. Human rights abuses have been discussed in Saudi Arabia and Qatar on this forum. I am sorry that you were too busy elsewhere to notice this. Meanwhile, is anyone stopping you here from posting an article about human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia? I certainly would have no problem, and I don't think the others would have either. I don't think anyone tied up your hands, thus preventing you from doing so. So go for it and post an article about what is happening in Saudi Arabia when it comes to human rights. This way you might feel better and not have such a hang-up when an article about Iran appears.
I didn't get upset in the slightest.
I'm making a point. Firstly, the title of the post is that someone says we should focus on human rights abuses in Iran.
I'm suggesting that we should focus on human rights abuses everywhere.
Then I pointed out that focusing on human rights abuses in specific countries is often used as a tool to target specific countries while ignoring other countries who have equal, or even worse, human rights abuses.
I'm also not saying that human rights abuses haven't been discussed elsewhere on the forum. I didn't make the claim that they have never been discussed here, so I'm not really sure what your point is there.
Yes, I can go discuss human rights abuses elsewhere. However the topic here is about this woman making this comment. And my opinion is that she's wrong. We shouldn't focus on human rights abuses in Iran. We should focus on HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES. That means everywhere.
I'm sorry if you don't like my opinions, I'm sorry if you don't want to take on board what I'm saying, but hey, deal with it.