Re: The joy of Democracy

On Mon, 4 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 21:43:19 +0100, D wrote:
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The most civilized I have met are iranians, egyptians and jordanians. Of
the iranians, none were religious.

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That is true for the Iranians I've known. However it's a self-selected
group since they had gotten the hell out of Iran during/after the
revolution.

This is the truth for all those groups of people I've met. They all left and went to sweden. Except the Jordanians, my father was working with the jordanian government but that meant his counter parts were probably amongst the higher levels of society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separation
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The film itself is interesting for showing the conflicts between a
secular, middle-class family and a very religious lower class care giver.
In one scene the caregiver calls dial-an-iman on her cellphone to find out
the correct doctrine.
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The second reason it is interesting is it was made in Iran. The writer/
director had been banned from making the movie for a short time but was
allowed to continue.
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