Iran's Election?

Yesterday Iran voted in a general election.  The vote was riddled with problems since some parties were barred from participating due to not being Muslim enough.  This is wrong.  In a vote everybody should be allowed to participate regardless of religion. 

This sounds familiar,  oh I know, this is happening here in the US.  Barack Obama is "not Christian enough".  The conservatives are trying to bar him from running or scare voters into not electing him because of his religious believes.  We could also go into how he is "not black enough"  how he is "not patriotic enough"... I could go on and on.

This might seem like a pro-Obama blog but it isn't, this blog is a pro-freedom blog.  The people of Iran got to vote, that is a step in the right direction, but people should be able to vote and  to run regardless of who they are.  Heck, a Christian should have the right to run in Iran, if that person believes in freedom, and should not run into problems created by the people who don't want that person to run.  If a person is creating problems then the country does not really have a free election system.

Just like here in the US, we should let anybody on the ballot.  There is no such thing as "not enough".  It is about who can run the government and protect the freedoms we all believe in, if we look for the "not enough"  then we are giving up the freedoms we all profess to live by.  (The first Muslim sworn into congress, used Thomas Jefferson's Koran,  that I think Thomas Jefferson would be proud of.)