Iranian police have arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Friday.

The report said the suspects were arrested on Thursday night in Shahryar County, west of the capital of Tehran, for “spreading the culture of satanism and nudity.” It did not elaborate.

It was not clear how such a large number of arrests were made in one night — if the suspects were in one location, at some gathering or party, or not.

Gatherings where unrelated men and women are seen together are illegal in Iran and considered a sin under Islamic law.

  • @stevedidwhat_infosec
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    I imagine this is what the GOP wants to see happen in the US.

    Imagine leaving one tyrant for their restrictions on your religion only to come back to reimplementing a few centuries later.

    Regressionists man.

    • @Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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      A lot of the pilgrims were the fundamentalist crazies that Europe didn’t want, and the towns they founded had laws like this and more.

      • @stevedidwhat_infosec
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        1829 days ago

        Right but, before the declaration of independence and after are different stories

        Regardless, we shredded through a genocide to take the land away forcibly.

        We’ve been hypocrites since day one

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        Yeah but it wasn’t just fundamentalist religious zealots. It was also a lot of corporations and capitalists determined to make a profit no matter what, even at the cost of great human suffering and they dragged over a bunch of indentured servants and slaves and oh wait I think this explains a lot about the US.

      • @vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        328 days ago

        In the defense of those zealots, they eventually evolved into John Brown types and then even later on into modern progressive christians. The modern evangelical movement mostly evolved out of the southern churches which mostly organized to justify slaver and maintain the southern social order, which is a far cry from the egalitarian religious nutjobs of say the Massachusetts bay colony.