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September 24, 2004Top * Put your black and white glasses down It is a very common practice amongst us, Iranians, that we look at people or their works and then try to connect them to any sort of predefined school of mind or philosophy or manners [Do we look like Iraqis?]. It seems we enjoy dividing people to a few sets. This is named strictly prejudice. This is named ideology that we all hate and insult people who have it but we practice daily one way or the other. While I completely agree on your position against radical Arabs, it is worthy to imagine for once if you and people like you could put your prejudicial view about Mr. Esfahni's artworks away and look at his cartoons once again carefully. As you can see often in his cartoons there are two parties involved that one of those parties has been usually the root of many other problems for us also. That's why I like his cartoons because he reminds me of our own problems before and now. I am one of Mr. Esfahani's fans and I think he usually tries to introduce the problem not the solution and this is the way cartoon works. Now that there is a big chunk of subject laying around our country, Iran, it is very natural that cartoonist around the world specially Iranians do the same thing that Mr. Esfanani is doing. There are many cartoonists right at this time from around the globe sketching something related to the problems in Iraq. But that doesn't mean they are forgetting their own country and they are taking the Arabs' side what so ever. Therefore it would be worthwhile you put your black and white glasses down and instead of using the old trick of "stick a tag on somebody's forehead and then judge him/her for it", try to recognize the main problem he is pointing at and not to erase the problem's prompt. |
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