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Life in the Islamic Republic of Iran is hellish enough as it is, but if its hapless citizens want even more, they can line up at the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ hellish new theme park, which is designed to give visitors an up-close and personal experience of the torments of hell. Hey, what could be more fun on a leisurely late spring afternoon?
Fun, of course, has nothing to do with it. The Ayatollah Khomeini himself famously railed against fun, saying: “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.” And so this particular theme park isn’t exactly a walk in the park.
Iran International reported Tuesday that the exhibit is meant to “offer a visceral experience of the afterlife—particularly the torments of hell.” If it’s remotely realistic, this place could be more than a little hair-raising, as the Qur’an dwells lavishly and repeatedly on the torments of hell, saying: “Indeed, we have prepared fire for unbelievers. Its tent encloses them. If they ask for showers, they will be showered with water like molten lead that burns their faces. Calamitous the drink and evil the resting-place.” (18:29)
Wait, there’s more: “But as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them, boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads, by which what is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted, and for them are hooked rods of iron.” (22:19-20) And: “Indeed, those who disbelieve our signs, we will expose them to the fire. As often as their skins are burned up, we will exchange them for fresh skins, so that they may taste the torment.” (4:56) There is much more of this sort of thing, but you get the idea.
And so the oddly named Heaven Time theme park at the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps base in the northern Iranian city of Fouman allows visitors to walk across “a suspended bridge surrounded by real gas flames—meant to simulate the searing heat of hell. Actors in grotesque costumes moan and writhe amid the fire and smoke, while loudspeakers blast Quranic verses describing punishments for sin and disbelief.” As if that weren’t fun enough, the exhibit also “includes a dramatization of grave questioning by Nakir and Munkar—two angels in Islamic theology believed to interrogate the dead.”
Meanwhile, if any curious visitors actually come to Heaven Time expecting a glimpse of Islamic paradise, there is also a portion of the park devoted to that, but it is a trifle underwhelming: “The nearly barren pavilion features a patchy lawn, a narrow pond meant to represent paradise’s milk and honey streams, and a few scattered potted plants—leaving many visitors unimpressed by its aesthetics or spiritual feel.”
One thing that renders both paradise and hell unimpressive at this Iranian theme park is the absence of babes. Islamic hell, especially in the Islamic Republic of Iran, should be filled with women who dared not to cover their heads. In 2022, Iranian dissident Maryam Mazrooei recalled her childhood in Iran: “When I turned nine, I was close to the age of puberty and it was time to observe religious obligations. I was taught that if a man saw my body, it was me who would be burned in hell, where I would be hung by each strand of hair that had been visible.” Yet lecherous Iranian men who visit the park hoping to ogle unveiled women will be disappointed. One visitor remarked bitterly: “There wasn’t a single unveiled woman in the hell that you built at so much cost. All these years you said unveiled women would go to hell, but none is to be seen there now that you have built a display of hell.”
Paradise, likewise, is bereft of houris, the famous heavenly virgins who are described in the Qur’an as “large-breasted women of equal age” (78:33). Depicting paradise as the Qur’an depicts it would be more gentleman’s club, as they’re called in the West, than heavenly choir, and that was apparently a bridge too far for Iranian authorities. So parkgoers will have to content themselves with those lovely potted plants.
All in all, Heaven Time sounds like a big disappointment: hell is not as hair-raisingly scary as the Qur’an depicts it, and the park’s sad paradise is far from the eternal Las Vegas of Islamic tradition. Iranians will have to content themselves with living through the hell of daily life in the Islamic Republic.
How do people get this screwed up?
Islam, this totalitarian ideology that passes itself as a reigion, is the answer.
For all that Khomeini BS about ““The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer” is meant for the abused and fleeced people only – while their tyrants do have lots of fun and gorge themselves with everything enjoyable on earth. Khomeini himself had lots of fun on earth, e.g. with Sayyid Sahib’s 4/5 years old daughter, one night in the 1980s, as Husayn al-Musawi reported.
The Great Satan gives his full support of Iran’s stone age backwards ideas
Those Iranians sure are twisted. I knew plenty of them in Orange County CA, including my dentist and his assistant who had the hots for me, and they were all normal. Those mullahs are obviously psychos. Hellland? Disneyland is bad enough.
Maybe if they had a Paradise theme park with the 72 Virgins ride, they’d get more visitors?!
Iranian leaders are demons from hell. They are advertising their home.
We believe in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. They believe in Death, Submission and Eternal Misery.
We must destroy Iran’s nuclear program and we must do it now. You simply cannot let people like that have nuclear weapons. You just can’t.
satanic islam drives people straight into Hell fire…
islam is satanic…
Breaking all the Ten Commandments…
Hell fire does exist !!!
I taught at the top private school in Iran in the late ‘70’s before the Shah was deposed. Even under the despotic but pro-U.S. Shah, Iran itself was hellish. The traffic was beyond belief, old ladies with shopping bags trying to get on buses were mocked by many people on the sidewalk, Almost 100% of the audiences in movie theaters were males. The snack bars had only male customers and only had two snacks—bowls of yogurt and cows’ brains. Children typically manned carts selling cigarettes, All vegetables and fruits had to be soaked in bleach before being eaten to kill the dangerous bacteria. Traffic congestion was mind boggling. Wreckage from accidents piled up alongside some main roads.The school had no textbooks for the students. (When the ayatollahs took over all books in the school’s library were burned.). Inflation was sky high so I was paid $850 a month but rent was $800. I had to borrow a lot of money every month to survive. My passport was confiscated. I was stalked one night by a pack of wild dogs with yellow eyes, and miraculously they didn’t leap on me before I safely got behind the gate of a friend’s apartment building. I went for a required hepatitis shot at a local hospital and when I entered the room where the shot was to be given there were about 75 buttocks up in the air waiting for the shot. Another time I was on a surgical table being prepped for surgery to remove a couple of cysts that developed on my head (common problem for westerners working there) and the surgeon came in and said they didn’t look so bad and sent me home. An enthusiastic man in a tuxedo welcomed customers as they entered a supermarket. “Welcome to the largest supermarket in Teheran,” he said. It was large but there was only one problem : the shelves had no food. There were a few boxes of Kleenex tissues and a couple of huge freezers that literally contained entire frozen cow thighs!! I had to take a second night job teaching English. I had already had experience teaching writing and literature at Harvard and Penn State. However, in the small English class one “student” kept interrupting and challenging me and correcting me.. It was pure macho hubris on his part. Chaos and backwardness marked the society. An American engineer who worked there trying to teach Iranians how to install air conditioning units on missiles regaled us with stories of Iranian backwardness. Iran was a living hell 50 years ago, and I’m sure it still is.
There’s no room for festive activities , music, dancing, happiness fun or humor in Islam.
For example , Ayatollah Khomeini had declared “The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam . There can be no…joy in whatever is serious.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 348.
That honorifically cruel and misery and death inflecting Islamic regime of Iran brutally oppresses the people and denied them their natural hum rights, the Bible in Proverbs 15;15 reads “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.” [N.I.V.]
About that Sharia law which that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran is based on. That Islamic tyranny has the official title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran” and also about the chief and head Imam, Ayatollah Khomeini, who had a strong hand in establishing this so called “Republic “
The Islamic Republic of Iran is an actual oppressive tyranny in every sense of the word. It even puts women under extreme physical and life threating duress to force them wear the hijab.
This should serve as a reminder the very actual essence of that Islamic tyranny, Ayatollah Khomeini had made in known that “The Islamic Republic of Iran would be Islamic and nothing but .He declared ‘What the nation wants is an Islamic Republic . Not just a Republic, not a democratic Republic, not a democratic Islamic Republic. Do not use the word “democratic” to describe it. That is the Western style.” [1]
[1]`THE HISTORY OF JIHAD by Robert Spencer, page 318.
That horrifically brutal, cruel oppressive malicious and murderous Islamic regime of Iran, denies the Iranian, people their basic natural human rights. As in consequence the people of Iran would and should revolt against that horrific tyranny.
Accordingly, the Iranian people are right and righteous by engaging in bitter and strong protests against those cruel malicious and murderous tyrants in power of that cruel and oppressive Sharia based dictatorship of that Islamic regime of Iran.
In other words, those vicious despots of that horrendously horrific Islamic regime have provoked the people excessively too far.
In addition, some of the people who trapped in and forced to exist in the Islamic dictatorship of Iran might not know about the intellect philosopher John Locke, but his ideas do apply to them. For Mr. Locke taught that any good government has the duty to ensure the security and safety of its citizens. Yet when a tyranny is the people in the tyrannical government do have every natural and ethical right to overthrow that terrible and oppressive tyrannical government.