Archive - 2008

More than a cause

I was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder and my doctors told me that my only chance of survival is if I have a bone marrow transplant. The doctors were telling me that the only way that I could live is if somebody else would give me some of their bone marrow!... I made a promise to myself that when I am better and able to live a normal life, I will dedicate my life to educating people of the significance of donating marrow and how truly important such a gift is to patients in need. The only reason that I am alive today is because my brother was able to overcome his intense fear of hospitals and needles and donate the marrow that now keeps me living.>>>

Hunting humans

In contrast to reforms under Mohammed Khatami, the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has intensified hate propaganda against Baha'is in government-controlled media, where they are variously demonized as agents of Russian, British, and U.S. imperialism, not to mention Zionism and even Wahhabism. A 2007 UN report revealed that the Ministry of Intelligence has been collecting detailed information about Baha'is across Iran. Death threats and attacks, desecration of cemeteries and places of worship, denial of pensions and university education, the harassment of Baha'i children in schools? all signs of a concerted campaign to strangle this community in the land of its birth.>>>

Meet Keiko

Twenty Years ago, when we first moved to St. Louis
I met this lively graduate student named Keiko
After twenty odd years, it is hard to recall details beyond her round face framed by short shiny black hair
But I remember the way she moved through the building with a combination
of agility and grace, in bursts of short successive moves -
much the way robins would explore a tree (without making noise or knocking anything down) >>>

سه بهايی در ويلاشهر اصفهان بازداشت شدند

فرهاد ثابتان، سخنگوی جامعه بين المللی بهائيان، در گفت وگو با راديو فردا ضمن تائيد خبر دستگيری اين افراد گفت: علت دستگيری، اقدام آنان برای به خاکسپاری اموات شان در ويلاشهر بوده است.>>>

Set of Questions for all Iranians

To clarify what we might want >>>

"The Lies of Amir Taheri"

The excellent website ( www.irancoverage.com) has few articles regarding Amir Taheri's work experience and point of view regarding a possible US invasion of Iran:

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Amnesty International IRAN annual report

Journalists, writers, scholars, women’s rights and community activists were subject to arbitrary arrest, travel bans, closure of their NGOs and harassment >>>

Chris de Burgh says concerts in Iran not political

Singer Chris de Burgh said in Iran on Wednesday that his plans to hold concerts in the Islamic Republic sprang purely from a desire to sing for ordinary people. >>>

Slavery in Islam

Slavery, making one human the property of another, was widely practiced in the past by many societies. Regrettably, even in the 21st Century, the horrid practice continues in certain areas, most notably among Muslims. >>>

Memorial

I don't know if it gets any sadder than this. >>>