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It took nearly 8 years for Ahmad’s mom to get her pooshesh right. Bounding across the pages of the 1987 Farsi primer, their destination the 1st day of 2nd grade, mother & son represented the severity of virtue, of proper Islam, Islam as it was meant to be according to the IRI
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@Swarthy_Bastard Draped entirely in formless black, the mother embodied what we’ve come to expect from a postrevolutionary curriculum purportedly devoted to the inculcation of political Islam, her piety and devotion matched by the Second Grade textbook's back cover.
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@Swarthy_Bastard Young girls in full-length chadors, marching alongside defiant boys, fists raised beneath the accompanying text: "We with faith in God, with purity and good works...with hard work, sacrifice, and thrift, do defend independence, freedom, and the Islamic Republic."
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