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As per an announcement two days ago; duration TBD.
But prior to that, a young female journalist posted the following information about the situation within the general population:
Over 60% of Iran’s mosques are now closed per demands of the people
Clerics are being chased off the streets
Half the population no longer identifies as Muslim
Young women are burning hijabs in public squares.
This is a mass exodus from Islam enforced by the state
Youth unemployment is over 27%
Inflation at 45%
Women are jailed for showing hair.
Protestors are executed after 15 minute trials.
People are selling kidneys to survive
After the execution of Masa Harina for removing her hijab, 350 cities erupted in protest, 328 civilians were killed, 1400 were arrested and still women kept burning their hijabs, teen girls shouted down clerics, and grandmothers joined the marches.
Of the under 29’s 52% have left Islam.
Even Marine Le Pen’s recent statements track this line: personal Islamic practice is compatible with the Republic; replacing French law with Sharia is not. French Muslims who are simply citizens practicing their "religious faith" “have no reason to worry” about a Le Pen election victory.
But can one be a practicing Muslim without demanding and practicing Sharia?
Eph 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Eph 3:21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Serious numbers of migrants arrived in Massachusetts from 1630 - 1640. Roughly 21,000. By 1700 they had become 91,000. Their immediate priorities: having families, building farms, forming towns, and building institutions Old England never developed on local levels. But the new Americans didn’t just reproduce the country they left. They built institutions England didn’t yet have.
Year 1 — a seagoing vessel launched at Medford, 4 July 1631. The shipwrights had been sent out in 1629, ahead of the fleet.
Year 4 — representative government. Elected deputies sitting in the General Court.
Year 6 — Harvard. £400 voted for “a schoale or colledge.”
Year 8 — a printing press, the only one in British North America. Glover died on the voyage out; his widow Elizabeth moved the operation to Cambridge and got it running.
Year 10 — the Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in America.
Year 11 — the Body of Liberties, read aloud at every General Court.
Year 12 — the 1642 law: every ...
