Opinion
Reason and revelation
Reason defines truth, justice, public interest, and humanity
By Abdolkarim Soroush
February 27, 2001
The Iranian
No one should be compelled to tolerate inhumanity, mendacity, and injustice
in the name of God, history, patriotism, or any other shibboleth. Mining
the humanitarian resources of a religion is more important than ascertaining
its privileged divinity. In fact, it is humanity's right to reject inhumane
religions and even to contest their claim to true religiosity >>>
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Iran
At a glance
Photos of Tehran
Photos by Ben Bagheri
February 27, 2001
The Iranian
Photos from a trip to Iran last month >>>
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Opinion
Not going back
American traveler sees religion, religion & more religion
February 27, 2001
The Iranian
Letter by an American woman who recently traveled to Iran.
Afshin joun, I knew that things had changed after the revolution; I
knew that this was not the Iran that I had known. But I just wasn't prepared
for the devastation, the desperate poverty, the overcrowdedness and the
pollution that I saw. It is SOOOOOO sad to see what has happened to a once
beautiful and thriving society >>>
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Outlook
Listen:
Feb 26, 2001, (Gooya.Com, ): Majlis
deputy Fatemeh Haghighatjoo's speech critical of Ayatollah Khamenei and
human rights abuses
Thanks to Sourena Mohammadi
U.S. State Department's human rights report on Iran
The Government's human rights record remained poor; although efforts
within society to make the Government accountable for its human rights
policies continued, serious problems remain. The Government restricts citizens'
right to change their government. Systematic abuses include extrajudicial
killings and summary executions; disappearances; widespread use of torture
and other degrading treatment, reportedly including rape; harsh prison
conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention; and prolonged and incommunicado
detention >>>
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Amr-e digehee neest?
Saeed Babaei writes from Iran:
Salaam bar shomaa, naam-e man saeed ast va az site shomaa ziaad estefaadeh
mikonam. doost daaram agar momken baashad yek CD az aaghaaye Moein baraaye
man ersaal konid. baa tashakor az zahaamt-e hameye azizaan va beh omid
didaar shomaa dar iraan.
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* No ordinary congressman
Setareh Sabety writes:
Mr. Mirfendereski did the right thing contacting Barney Frank ["Petition
by one"]. But Barney Frank is no ordinary congressman. If he
was my congressman (which he used to be) I too would certainly write to
him. He is not just a Democrat >>>
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* DON'T bring back Persia
Sassan Behzadi writes:
I'm not sure how many times I've come across this 'name' argument but
it never seems to go away ["Bring
back Persia"]. Every time there is negative news from Iran, you
get someone making an argument to change the name back to Persia >>>
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* Persia small part of Iran
SB writes: This is
an opinion and every opinion is valid ["Bring
back Persia"]. But Persia is derived from the word Pars, or Persis,
as it was known to the ancient Greeks, and has a narrow and specific connotation
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* Farsi creeping into English
Arash Alavi writes:
There appears to be a concerted effort by some Iranian-Americans to
arbitrarily replace Persian with "Farsi", as the English name
of the language spoken by the majority of Iranians. As such, the word "Farsi"
is slowly creeping into American English as a de facto replacement for
Persian >>>
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* Very good at shouting
Sepehr Sohrab
writes: I am so sick of people trying to deceive themselves on this
forum that Iran has been anything different but a one-man show for the
past 22 years. He is not called the Shah but the Supreme Leader >>>
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* Destroying Shamlu
AA writes: Mr
Nooriala it is obvious that you have no talent in poetry and frankly your
poem sucked ["Baar-e
digar, Bahman"]! Although I have to admit it is not any of my
business to ask you to quit poetry at once but I strongly forbid you from
DESTROYING (I couldn't find a stronger polite word) SHAMLU's poem >>>
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Poem
Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
Though distance has broken hope's own back,
Though cruelty has tied desire's hands,
The drunken lover's heart will not give up.
The goal's in reach if you try hard enough.
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The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi
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