Archive - May 2, 2010

Tragic Joke

The Iranian regime must have a real sense of humor. In a year when their human rights abuses reached ever lower depths with an exponential rise in political prisoners, prison rapes, torture and executions, the regime tried to get a prime spot on the UN Human Rights Council. Their bid failed. But the jokers had another trick up their sleeves. Two weeks ago just as a senior Iranian cleric declared that women's un-Islamic garb - meaning a wisp of hair showing - is the root of men's immorality and the cause of earthquakes, the regime moved to secure a seat on the UN's Commission for the Status of Women (CSW)>>>

Gendar Apartheid

The United Nations has given a seat to the Islamic Republic on its women's council, despite a petition signed by Iranian women activists urging them not to allow this most perverse form of satire. The United Nations have now enshrined my right to be stoned, they have enshrined my judicious right to be half a person; my right not to divorce or child custody, my right to no freedom of mobility, my right not to higher education after marriage without permission of my husband. The country that guarantees my subjugated role in society is now sitting on the women's council of the United Nations>>>

That Gone

At the time of dawn
when the breeze
brings along
the sad smell of yours >>>

سکولارها بیرون

جنبش سبز مردم ایران به روایت مولدان و نمایندگان برخوردار از اقبال ملی اش مطالباتی حداقلی و استقامتی حداکثری دارد. این مطالبات در اجرای اصول برجامانده قانون اساسی و تفسیر حقوقی و دموکراتیک دیگر اصول آن خلاصه می شود. این جنبش (تا برگزاری رفراندم) نه قصد تغییر رژیم دارد و نه مطالبه ای فراتر از قانون اساسی جمهوری اسلامی دارد. دموکراسی حداکثری یا سکولاریسم خارج از مطالبات جنبش سبز است. تاب جنبش محدود و توانش مشخص است. تبیین مطالبات بر اساس ظرفیت جنبش شرط خردمندی است.>>>

Iran One

I encounter you
When I am half asleep
And you are just
Beginning to be
Half awake
Across this earth of nation-less hope >>>

امام علی، مخترع نورافکن

One of the bad effects of IRI has been the amount of unproven mumbo jumbo / fable especially when it comes to the emams and the hadith>>>