Letters
Jan 16-19, 2001 / Dey 26-30, 1379
Today
* Discrimination:
- Fallen into ill-repute
* Women:
- Feminism for dummies
* Politics:
- Wings of the same chicken
* Sadaf Kiani:
- Harf-e del-e man
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* Identity:
- I hear you
* Copyright:
- Khomeini & Kennedy
* Homosexuality:
- Not shying away
* The Iranian:
- Hmmm!
- Time is precious
- Way too nice
* Discrimination:
- They never made it back home
- Overdramatization
- Higher expectation
- Shocked & saddened
- Missing the point
- Complain to the Iranian government
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Friday,
January 19, 2001
* Fallen into ill-repute
I harbor no kind sentiments for Mr. Mirfendereski, both because he has
called me names before and also for the fact that he thinks those who wear
#2 buzz cut are thugs (I am now a thug because of my haircut!).
But in my opinion, he is completely right in what he has put forward
regarding the fingerprinting issue at U.S. airports ["Face
in the mirror"]. The treatment at the U.S. airports, however hurtful,
is a prerogative of the American government >>>
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Ramin Tabib
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* Feminism for dummies
Like many readers of The Iranian I have been a witness to the
controversy that started from a simple picture posted in this webzine and
rose to unexpected (or maybe quite expected) heights. I haven't got a chance
to read every single one of the letters exchanged... but all the ones I
saw were written passionately, and especially after reading one of the
rather passionate ones, an idea hit me which I thought I would share with
other readers of The Iranian. The idea is roughly as follows: writing
a book about feminism for Iranian men >>>
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Ataollah Togha
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* Wings of the same chicken
Khatami after three years in office is a living proof of an argument
which supports the notion that Islamist reformer and conservative Islamist
hard liner fundamentally, politically, culturally, and in most case socially
are the two right wings of the same chicken ["What
rule of law?"] >>>
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Abbas Poursadigh
Denver, Colorado
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* Harf-e del-e man
har baar tu in website miyaam aval miram bebinam ke shomaa maqaaleh
daadin yaa na [Sadaf Kiani's
features]? maqaaleh-haaye shomaa keili ru man asar mizaare, va az inke
in gadar saade va dar eine haal baa tajrobe va darke amig in naame haa
ro minevisin , engaar ke harfe dele mane.
shaayad emshab in tanhaayi va dur az iraan va fote maman bozorgam hame
dast be daste ham daad ke baraatun email bedam.
aarezuye ruzaaye khub baraatun daaram man dar Montreal zendegi mikonam
be omide inke age ruzi umadin Montreal beshinim raajebe golaaye narges
tu iraan va zemestun haaye sarde Montreal gap bezanim.
Maryam Jaliny
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Thursday
January 18, 2001
* They never made it back home
I liked the self-critical tone of the letter "Time
to take responsibility" by Mr. Ali Noshirvani. As much as I like
to be fair in my judgements about others, I would like to be fair when
we judge even our biggest mistakes.
While I hate to bring up old disputes in a new century when all the
world is looking forward to peace and a humane co-existence but when I
see that Mr. Noshirvani goes back 20 years to find us guilty of the hostage
crisis and sponsoring terrorism I can hardly stop myself from mentioning
that those hostages walked back home in good health but the 300 passengers
of that Airbus never made it back home >>>
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Ardalan Vahid
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* I hear you
I live in Sydney, Australia. I have never felt like an Australian in
all the years I have lived in this country ["Hell
no"]. Every year that passes I lose more and more patience. I
would give every thing I have to be able to go back to Iran. I want to
walk in the streets, as long as it is in IRAN. I want to be in IRAN and
see the sun rise and set. I want to walk in the forests in IRAN. I want
to wake up and hear Farsi. I want to feel the SUN burning my face in IRAN.
No other place is good enough. AND I KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU SHARE MY DREAM.
I CAN FEEL YOUR PAIN.
Dianna Dalir
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* Hmmm!
This is in reaction to your publication of various emails you have received
regarding un-solicited dispatch of your newsletter["Please
stop"].
You are a journalist and it is probably easier for you to separate yourself
from the emotional side of events and instead focus on the bigger picture.
Collecting all these -mails and analyzing them as a whole, in my opinion,
is a perfect example of how we should react to daily events in our lives.
You take the black and the white, put them in a bag and look at them
as a whole. Instead of getting emotional about the white or the black which
will clearly distort your judgment , one puts all of them together, steps
back and says: Hmmm!
Great job of leading by example. The world has two sides.
Bardia Saeedi
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Wednesday
January 17, 2001
* Overdramatization
Mr. Kalantar ["Shocked
and saddened"] overdramatizes the plight of the Iranians at the
U.S. airports. For him to equate the routine inconveniences of international
travel with the travails of the exterminated Jews in Germany and the detention
of Amercian-Japanese in concentration camps is an insult to the memory
of those who suffered and perished.
This form of overstating the case is precisely the reason why the American
policymakers cannot take seriously the objections made by the Iranian-Americans
such as Mr. Kalantar and delivered in such a shrill manner.
Guive Mirfendereski
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* Higher expectation
Thank you so very much for your suggestive elaboration ["Missing the point"].
Many of us in the Iranian community take pride in having been associated
with Guive Mirfendereski ["Complain
to..."] and would let his long fine scholarly track records and
community service would speak for itself. Retrospectively, I suppose one
could say people's expectation is even higher from those among us who are
truly accomplished ["Shocked
and saddened"] >>>
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Davood N. Rahni
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* Khomeini & Kennedy
Thanks for reminding us about Khomeini not believing in copyright law
["Shahr-e
sholoogh"].
John F. Kennedy said in his inauguration in 1961: "My fellow Americans,
ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your
country." And in the early 80's Khomeini said: "Hey nagooyeed
enghelaab baraayeh maa cheh kard? Shomaa baraayeh enghelaab cheh kardid?"
As far as I know Khomeini never paid any copyright fees to the Kennedy
family.
Pedram Parsian
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* Time is precious
I find it amusing that you have taken a bunch of angry reactions and
turned them into an article! Seriously, no sarcasm intended ["Please
stop"].
Yes, time is a precious and rare commodity these days. Statistics say:
the average person spends 6-7 seconds on a web site unless it captivates
them. However, people tend to spend an incredible amount of time reading
through the exact same thing if it were on paper!
Perhaps, if people took your news email and printed it, they would find
the time to read The Iranian Times?!
Mariam Ispahani
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Tuesday
January 16, 2001
* Shocked & saddened
I am profoundly puzzled by your very recent letter in iranian.com ["Complain to..."]
in that you support the anti-Iranian regulations of fingerprinting and
luggage searching of Iranian passengers at U.S. airports. The more I read
your letter, the more frustrated and deeply saddened I feel by what you
wrote.
... When a member of the board of PWC, a U.S. based "Iranian
American Anti-Discrimination Council", defends so boldly the historical
discrimination and humiliation of his hamvatans, then I am just speechless
>>>
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Kamiar Kallaantar
Los Angles, CA
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* Missing the point
Being searched at the airports is very humiliating but I think most
of us are missing the point Mr. Mirfenderesky is making ["Complain to..."].
I do not think he is happy about being humiliated either. From what I understand
from his letter, he is just stating that these searches and fingerprinting
are not illegal. He certainly is not supporting them >>>
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Max Rofougar
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* Not shying away
Regarding your news
on Saviz Shafaii, I think it is wonderful that you don't feel you need
to shy away from homosexual issues. Yet another reason to be proud of your
publication!
VN
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* Way too nice
Dear Martikeh Aldang ["Please
stop"], I love you and love your emails. I love what you write
about. Can't help loving your emails and your tasteful comments and your
beautiful website.
I think what you're doing with Iranian.com is phenomenal and historic.
Only history will be able to judge your undertaking. 20, 30, 50 years from
now, when historians sit down to write the history of the Iranian diaspora,
they have no choice but to acknowledge Iranian.com and it's founder. Keep
up the good work and don't let the nay-sayers bring you down.
Massud Alemi
Monday
January 15, 2001
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