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🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 117 minutes
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0:00.0 | Once again, I've found an answer to the age-old question, |
0:04.6 | why do you speak out against religious thinking so much, |
0:07.3 | S.R? |
0:08.7 | Well, because just weeks ago, Tumage Salihi |
0:11.7 | was sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic of Iran. |
0:16.0 | To Mej is crime? |
0:17.8 | Using his music to highlight the atrocities of the Islamic regime and rejecting an ideology full of hate. |
0:25.0 | Tomage has been known to advocate for such radical things |
0:28.0 | as the right to free expression, |
0:32.0 | the right to free thought, and the right to actually have a say in the government that |
0:36.7 | makes laws that affect you and for this immovable focus on human rights |
0:41.5 | to Maj was told he was spreading corruption, |
0:44.0 | and the only acceptable punishment is his death. |
0:48.0 | This backwards and intolerable decision was made |
0:52.0 | because of a death-loving cult, an ideology that hates |
0:56.6 | joy and freedom and a belief that lies and brutality are better than truth in reconciliation. |
1:04.6 | The battle we fight as atheists is a global fight, |
1:08.1 | and it is not even close to over. |
1:11.2 | Fannie Lou Hamer said it best, nobody's free until everybody's free. |
1:17.6 | And we are not safe until Tamage is safe. |
1:21.4 | And our fight is not over until this never happens again. |
1:26.0 | The world will hear Tamage's voice and until he is free, we should lift ours. |
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