 Be fair
People like Ebadi have fought for freedom and
human rights in Iran for the
past 23 years. What have you done?
By Taraneh Izadi
November 26, 2003
The Iranian
When I first read Sheema Kalbasi's piece about Shirin Ebadi
[Ayatollah
Ebadi?] nothing happened to me. The unjustified
lines and the weak reasoning did not annoy me this time. Because
as an Iranian who
has witnessed
daily personality assassinations by the so-called opposition
through satellite broadcasts and the internet, I have long gotten
used
to remarks like that.
I understand the feeling of people like
Kalbasi I who hate Islam to the extreme. They have been victims
of the Islamic regime
like me and you and many others. The problem is that they
don't understand
the people living in Iran. They are so selfish and arrogant
that they call religious people names. From their point of view,
people who believe
in Islam
don't have the right to say or do anything.
I sometimes witness
this lame and crippled opposition of ours slander all politicians,
musicians, movie makers and other professionals who dare to
live and work inside the country. They are all spies
and agents of the regime,
they say. In fact they blame all of us who still live inside
the country for being alive and breathing under the reign of
the
Islamic
Republic. Look at the way they treated the Forouhars, Mohammadis,
and Amir-Entezams. And look
at the way they systematically attack artists like Googoosh for
not being in line with their agenda.
For your information, brave
people like Ebadi have fought for freedom and human
rights in Iran for the
past 23 years. The same years you spent in nightclubs
and concert halls abroad. Ebadi was sent to jail when she was
falsely accused in the "Navarsazan" case and she defended
the Forouhar family after the murder of Dariush and Parvaneh
-- a
case no other lawyer dared take. And Ebadi was the only lawyer
who took
the
case of
the victims
of the student uprising.
When you were having a wonderful time in the new
world, Ebadi courageously published articles on discrimination
against women in the
constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. She found 75 contradictions
in different chapters of the constitution and proudly raised
her voice against them. She fought for the law
on child custody
and in
the case of Arian, the 8-year-old girl who was murdered by her
stepmother.
What did you do all these years? Do you call your
trashy remarks a form of opposition against the regime? Come
on. For god's sake be fair and take off your pessimistic,
jealous glasses off your face for one second and be realistic.
Can
anybody in this country say a word against Islam? Can you? Will
you?
You and people
like you have been so far away from your country that you have
forgotten that even the most educated people
here in Iran are Muslims. And you can never deny the rights
of a nation in believing in their faith. People like Ebadi have
always respected this right which at the same time asked for
the separation
of the church and state INSIDE IRAN, not millions of
miles away like you.
When I see the small number of people who turn
out in front of the Federal building in Los Angeles (as shown
on
the
same trashy TV channels) to protest against the regime,
I appreciate the works of people
like Shirin Ebadi. Don't forget she has never asked to be
a symbol
of anything. It is your problem when you raise expectations
and later on start screaming when you don't see the results you
want.
I will never get upset over the revolting remarks
of our weak, jealous and greedy opposition anymore >>> Kalbasi's
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