It's our job
Leaders do not necessarily
represent the pride and honor of a nation
August 19, 2004
iranian.com
In response to Pesare Gol's "Proud
of what?",
For someone who is
completely unaware of where iran is and who iranians are, and who
may even
have been
getting
all
the wrong impressions about this country, your essay adds
fuel to the fire and creates a far worse image on their psyches.
The
decision to not fight israelis in global competitions has been
in effect all along and i don't understand why this latest
move [News], which might have nothing at all to do with politics
and simply the result of techniqual oversight by iranian officials,
according
to some reports the athlete was found to have been a few pound
overweight and consequently disqualified hasprovoked your deeply
buried sense of anger and outrage to take issue with iran's political
and religious history.
First of all, why are we blaming islam for
all this mess that the world and iranians have witnessed in the
past 25 years? would
it be wise to fault christianity or judaism and to hold them accoutable
for the horrifying crimes that the governments who follow them
would commit? or it may just be that you are an atheist, in which
case i would be wasting my breath carrying a discussion about "mazhab" with
you.
Second, what exacly is it supposed to mean, or what are you trying
to imply by saying that this revolution was brought about by "all
iranians"? was it really? have you conducted thorough research
on this, or your merely stating this to justify your sense of anger
and make it look more credible and logical? I am also very puzzled
as to where you came up with such an accurate 40% figure, in that
recent survey!
We are proud of our great poets and philospphers such hafez and
ferdosi or avicena and the rest, because they carried the huge
part of promoting our culture round the world while enriching
it by applying and adding to it their own sense ingenuity. while
this
may not be what your friend's kid would be able to easily explain
to him, or that his kid
may not want to share that with his buddies, you and your friend
need to bear that in mind and never forget that.
You could not possibly claim or argue that religion serves as
an impedence and prevents our society from achieving advanced technoligies,
or scientific breakthroughs pardon me but that is pure nonsense.
we can easily draw the line and keep these two separate. what you
are referring to is government's interference in obtaining such
progress, while using religion as an excuse, but that does not
make religion a culprit.
So even if we stop commemorating or respecting our prophets or
imams, whether it be from 200 years or 2,000,000 back, we'd
still be far from achieving scientific advancement simply because
our governmet created obstacles for us not our religious beliefs
and revered figures. Jusk look around in USA and all european countries
and observe the strong presence of church alongside the scientific
community.
You need to wake up and recognize that leaders do not necessarily
represent the pride and honor of a nation in the world, but it
is incumbant upon the citizens themselve to uphold and preserve
their nations values and therefore be respected by the rest of
the world. why don't you continue to dream up dreams of one day
fixing everything in iran while we continue to be proud of what
we are?
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