We have got to be the only nation in the world that is “blessed” with so many stateless, pseudo-hippie appearing (yet quite vicious and uncompromising in mentality) “citizens of the world” in our midst. Iranian.com has become a favorite destination for these fake peaceniks. We read their pleas, and their manufactured outrages everyday…”war in not the answer”….”give peace a chance”….”U.S. out of Iraq”…”NATO is killing women and children”…blah, blah, blah. But one only has to scratch the surface to see the real “peace lovers” who are hiding behind those rainbow colored avatars of a peace sign. That’s when the real [this time brutality loving] “citizens of the world” appear.
Now, as a service to my fellow readers, and for ease of identification, I will list below a few characteristics of the Iranian versions of the “citizen of the world.” You can tell if the person is a citizen of the world if s/he (I’ll use ‘he’ from now on, but the term applies to both sexes) has two or more of the followings qualifying elements:
-He believes that all Iranian nationalists are racists against Arabs;
-He believes that all talk about Iran’s ancient history is racist talk;
-He likes Hamid Dabashi;
-He believes that the Israeli / Palestinian conflict should be settled first and than, and only then, we can begin to discuss ways to achieve democracy in Iran;
-He believes that insistence on maintaining the historical name of Persian Gulf is racist while Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s racist declaration fifty years ago about changing the name to Arabic Gulf was not;
-He believes that Iranians should suffer all kinds of brutality and submit to the Islamic Republic, under any condition, and indefinitely, so that the illusive “neocon agenda” in the Middle East can be thwarted. I guess the best comment that I have read on that subject was a from review of Dabish’s book on Amazon.com, where under the heading of “skip this one,” the reviewer writes: “Mr. Dabashi has set out to write a new history of Iran, explaining the country, its history, and its politics in a whole new way. But by the end the book is a rehash of all too familiar anti-American rhetoric. So dominant is this anti-Americanism that Mr. Dabashi even attacks Iran‘s pro-democracy voices, accusing them of serving the neo-con agenda. In other words, Iranians should bag democracy to avoid advertising Bush’s agenda….” Very well put. That’s the type of mentality that I am talking about. -His level of care for Iran and Iranians is at the same level as that for Papua New Guinea and its residents, without any distinction whatsoever;
-He cries and blogs about deaths and injustices everywhere in the world, but demands ironclad proof in the form of court admissible documents when one talks about atrocities committed by the IR against Iranian citizens. He is simply not convinced. Unless he sees a videotape of a mullah standing over the dead body of a protester with a bloody knife, he will shrug it all off to a “Zionist conspiracy.” Wait, I think I’m wrong. In the case of these creatures, even if you show them the videotape, they will still shrug it off and call it a photoshopped “Zionist conspiracy.”
– He loves to point out every single death at the hands of Western forces in Iraq and Afghanistan while ignoring unspeakable atrocities committed against civilians by Islamist terrorists / IR sponsored groups in those countries, which, in numbers, add to perhaps a thousand times more than the number of casualties caused by U.S. or NATO forces;
-These days, he is ardent supporters of Middle East dictators such as Gadhafi and Bashar Al-Asad, and claims that the popular uprisings against those goons are…you guessed it…a Western / Zionist conspiracy.
And last, but not the least:
-If you ever get a chance to know one of these creatures in person, you will find that there is some kind of an umbilical attachment to the great Islamic Republic. They are either striking those keyboards right from the comfort of IR’s spy holes—sorry, “embassies”—or are “students” on IR’s payroll, or are “businessmen” with IR connections, or are IR “academics” doing “research” in the West, etc. Trust me folks, no one believes your peace signs, just like no one believed Tokyo Rose. But considering your treachery and your betrayal of your own people, your fate will be much worse than that hapless soul, and THAT is one thing that you can bet your fake peace sign on any day.
