It is the paradox of Tehran today — a city and people surprisingly cosmopolitan and far different from Western stereotypes, paired with an ultraconservative government working to consolidate its power and at sharp odds with the West.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071004/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_two_tehrans
2007-10-04 15:12:30 · 8 answers · asked by avail_skillz 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
here ya go mike...
right-wing = it is generally used to refer to the segments of the political spectrum often associated with any of several strains of conservatism, monarchism, right-libertarianism, reactionism, traditionalism, royalism, some forms of populism, the Religious Right, nationalism, militarism, producerism, nativism, realism or simply the opposite of left-wing politics.
2007-10-04 15:19:08 · update #1
thanks for sharing an example of your vast wisdom Jadis, and I don't mean that as a compliment either.
2007-10-04 15:21:02 · update #2
yes suckstobu, the article describes the liberalism that is being opposed by the Iranian ultra-conservative government.
2007-10-04 15:22:48 · update #3
The arts of power and it's minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks it's victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal it's own abuses and encroachments. ( Henry Clay, March 14, 1834
2007-10-04 15:54:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Calling the thug dictators in Iran "conservative" is a deliberate attempt by a typically liberal AP writer to discredit conservatives in this country. These people are totalitarians and have nothing to do with U.S. style conservatism. A pretty weak try both on her part and on yours.
By the way, when Ahmadineghad was in the US and speaking at Columbia, he used the talking points of the democrat party and the American left, not of conservatives. This is the case whenever an Islamofascist holds court. They sound like Harry Reid or Dick Durbin! Listen to the last tape of Bin Laden. It should be very disturbing to the left that one cannot tell any difference between their words and those of the worlds most reknowned terrorist!
2007-10-04 16:01:13 · answer #2 · answered by bucksbowlbound 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, they're not the same.
American conservatives are a unique creature. Iranian/Saudi conservatives have more things in common with neo-cons than they do with Canadian or Japanese or British conservatives. But what is considered "conservative" in the non-US western world would be seen as flaming liberal in the red states of the US.
So no, not all conservatives around the world are like American conservatives. (thank god)
2007-10-04 15:24:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
apples and oranges. Clearly, even the super hardcore Conservatives in the USA are not radical Muslims.
It is fine by me for you not to agree with them. However, you should at least make a good argument for your cause.
2007-10-04 15:25:45 · answer #4 · answered by TLB 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why, yes. Expect the plane to be flown into your living room at any moment.
You're amazing....and I don't mean that as a compliment.
2007-10-04 15:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by Jadis 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
wow,thats alot of ism's listed there,although I am not extremely conservative,I am not liberal either.seems the liberal left only believe in one ism.......socialism
2007-10-04 15:25:31 · answer #6 · answered by BarneyFife 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Maybe. The left-wing may be the same everywhere too, bigoted, judgmental and critical and insulting of everyone who doesn't believe the way they do.
2007-10-04 15:17:46 · answer #7 · answered by pgb 4 · 7⤊ 5⤋
can't answer that until you give me your leftist oriented definition of RIGHT WING
2007-10-04 15:16:07 · answer #8 · answered by Mike 7 · 5⤊ 4⤋