Liberty in Iran?

I needed at least one more week to prepare for a new series of posts for Freedom Friday, so I was searching for something that would be interesting yet stay faithful to the topic of the day. Ironically, it was Iran, a theocratic dictatorship, that supplied the necessary item for today’s post.

It’s easy with our Western perspective to jump to conclusions about what is going on in that part of the world. We want so desperately to see those in that area experience a taste of freedom from both religious and political tyranny. It’s easy to confuse the current protests in Iran with the struggle our Founding Fathers faced in their battle for freedom. Though the two may have some surface similarities, they might not be as identical as we would wish. Read the rest of this entry »