Ya Emam Reza!

Shiah woman (from Pakistan?) singing for Emam Reza in Urdu

I found a strange movie on youtube where you danced a funny dance when I was searching for my hometown, Mashad. I also found this music video

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Iranian Muslim

Fascinating,

by Iranian Muslim on Fri Sep 26, 2008 09:26 AM PDT

The people who vent their disdain for this rather pleasing video represent a fascinating (and troubling) trend. They can't humanize a person by letting her take charge of her tradition. No, they treat this woman as "brainwashed by the IRI", "clueless" and unaware of what her "real" culture is all about. 

The difference between the critic and the bigot is that the critic hates practices that she finds immoral, but the bigot hates traditions she thinks "must" contain those practices.  In other words, the critic hates a practice because it is evil, the bigot hates a benign practice for no other reason than for it's Islamic character. 

The Revolution has truly done strange things to the Iranian mind, especially in the diaspora.

Try challenging your own perceptions for a change:

Gangster: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpl9o_0Dtb4

Shohre; Emam Reza: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JZzktIfgSo


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Choosing to believe in your

by whoever (not verified) on Fri Sep 26, 2008 09:14 AM PDT

Choosing to believe in your faith is the prerogative of every human being.

This has nothing to do with which ruling party is ruling a nation at the time.
Those who are ridiculing this woman are in fact behaving exactly the same way as those you are
actually ridiculing and criticizing.

Do you not recognize this fact???

I do not know this woman, nor am I sure she is singing this song because she has faith in what she is singing... but for a moment let us say that this is in fact true.
She should be able to sing for her heart freely, she is not being harmful to anyone nor is she forcing any other person to follow her way.

"YOU" who talk about Democracy and FREEDOM and RIGHTS, should be able to recognize your own
UN-DEMOCRATIC comments here!!


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choghok

Why not the other way around?

by choghok on Fri Sep 26, 2008 07:09 AM PDT

Why can't those chadori women and conservative men in Iran see this and learn that their interpretation of a religion isn't necessary the right one or the only one. 

/Bidar bash ke ma bekhabim


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Majid

ایراندخت

Majid
Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:34 PM PDT

یک ضرب المثل ترکی‌ هست که میگه

زیمیستان چکمین بلبل بهارین گدرینی بیلمز

"بلبل زمستان ندیده قدر بهار را نمیداند"

 

امیدوارم به زیارت نایل بشه تا از شکر خوردن پشیمون بشه

وقتی‌ در جوار ضریح مطهر صیغه‌اش رو کردند اونوقت ببینیم چی‌ میخونه!

 


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My Khorasani grandmother

by skatermom (not verified) on Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:01 PM PDT

My Khorasani grandmother (khoda beyamorzatesh) is turning in her grave right now.
Imam Reza has gone Bollywood? I was expecting some dancers in saris to run up behind her and shower her with marigolds.


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Beautiful Music

by Sialashgar on Thu Sep 25, 2008 09:03 PM PDT

There are 200,000,000 moslams in India.Very united and very powerful most of them have the last name Khan.Peace Shah Hossein


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IRANdokht

I hope...

by IRANdokht on Thu Sep 25, 2008 02:08 PM PDT

I hope she is granted the chance of a lifetime to go ziyarateh Emam Reza.

Once they arrest her for bi hejabi, beat her, throw a cloth over her head and tell her to shut up, she'll have a better understanding of the spirituality of it all.

IRANdokht


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Mehdi

Amir Kabir: LOL

by Mehdi on Thu Sep 25, 2008 01:50 PM PDT

Laughing my head off! Could be true, you know?


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Mehdi

Where is SCE to save her?

by Mehdi on Thu Sep 25, 2008 01:48 PM PDT

Clearly, she has been brainwashed by IRI. How else can this funny video be explined?


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Ali Mola, Ali Mola, Ali Dam Dam

by A Muslim (not verified) on Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:52 PM PDT

From Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Qawwali Music):


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نه بابا

امیر کبیر در راه مبارزه با کشت خشخاش، دفع شیعه و مالاریا (not verified)
Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:42 AM PDT

شما هم ما را فیلم کرده اید.

این زن زجر کشیده آهنگ درد را به اردو میخواند. قضیه از این قرار است که شوهرش را به دزدی و رشوه گیری محکوم کرده اند و این زن دارد پیامی به رئیس دبوان کیفر میفرستد. دز هندوستان و پاکستان رسم است که محکوم ادعای بیگناهی خو را بصورت آهنگ به دادگاه ارائه دهد. و اگر نتیجه ندهد آنوقت بمبگذاری میکنند و قربانی میگیرند.

باری این زن میگوید "والله، به حضرت امام رضا، به حضرت عباس و مولایم علی، شوهرم دزدی نکرده و پولی که از زیر میز گرفته پورسانتاژی بوده که آنهم تماما خرج خانه و گذران زندگی شده.

مرحله بعد پرونده میرود به دادگاه جزا و آهنگهای آن دادگاه معرکه است


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Jahanshah Javid

Haah!

by Jahanshah Javid on Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:10 AM PDT

Very interesting and funny.

How is it that women in Iran cannot sing in public because of "Islamic" restrictions and then in a neighboring country, a female follower of Shia Islam not only sings happily in front of the camera, for Emam Reza no less, but WITHOUT A HEJAB?!

This shows you:

-- There is no one version of religion
-- This woman would have been singing in a rock band if she was born in Seattle
-- People are fascinating!


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