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Petty role model
12-Oct-2007
One of America’s greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, recruited a group of advisers from the prestigious Columbia University – they were known as ‘Brain Trust’. In their first one hundred days in office, the Brains Trust helped Roosevelt enact fifteen major laws beneficial to the country. Regrettably, today, Columbia under the leadership of a petty role-model, Lee Bollinger, is losing its prestige and has become a place of hate and discrimination. A noose was found in a lecture room of a black female professor.
America’s intolerable past is re-awakened at this prestigious university because Bollinger demonstrated to the world that under his leadership, Columbia is not a place of learning, truth-seeking and exchange of ideas, but rather where the powerful are permitted to dominate not as a result of their intellectual capabilities, but due to the interest groups that give voice to their authority.
The United States is going through a critical juncture. It is the leadership in the White House that sets the mood for the tragic incident at ‘Jenna 6’ and the audacious people such as Bollinger to surface in the manner in which they did. Throughout America there is a reappearance of nooses because hate-filled ‘God-fearing’ leaders have publicly announced by way of example that attacking those we feel are weaker, disdainful, or inferior, is the acceptable solution. Mr. Bush’s genocide in Iraq, his neglect of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and Bollinger’s disgraceful treatment of Iran’s president, Mr. Ahmadinejad, the next nation that is the target of Mr. Bush’s genocidal attack are such examples.
So once again, the ugly monster of bigotry that had been dormant is stirred in this country. During the Cold War years, as America was competing with the Soviet Union to win over the ‘hearts and minds’ of the free world, it faced the same monster – The Jim Crow Laws and segregation. How could it brag of democracy, human rights and the American Dream when blacks had no rights? It set out to correct its tarnished image through diplomacy. One has to wonder what will be done in today’s world where the truth is not so easily buried.
While Mr. Bush wages war against ‘evil’ he is inspiring malice at home. Bollinger’s ‘petty’ performance has brought wickedness to Columbia. Thankfully, the students of Columbia are resisting the evil temptation. Surely one must wonder why it is that there is not the same unity to resist the hatred they are brewing towards Islam. Does a Moslem have to have his/her head in a noose before we take action - Is the red, white and blue not solid enough to cover religion?
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich has lived and studied in Iran, the UK,
France, and the US. She obtained her Bachelors Degree in International
Relations from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She
is currently pursuing her education in Middle East studies and Public
Diplomacy. Soraya has done extensive research on US foreign policy
towards Iran and Iran’s nuclear program. She can be reached at sorayau@earthlink.net
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Thanks Sarhang
by Colonel Hemayat (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 08:15 AM PDTAlready put him in his place!!
//iranian.com/main/singlepage/2007/doris-lessing
Soraya Rocks
by Nice (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 08:04 AM PDTAnother great article. Thanks Soraya.
Colonol, where have you
by Sarhang (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 07:52 AM PDTColonol, where have you been? this guy is talking shit about you. Should we go and rough him up?
//iranian.com/main/singlepage/2007/doris-...
I hate this woman
by Colonel Hemayat (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:46 PM PDTAs always Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich!!!! (Stupidity of handling maiden last name and the marriege last name) is full of shit. This woman is a true traiter to Iran and Iranians. She constantly attacks the white house and defends The mullahs, her ignorance was highly clear last time when she defended IRI's nuclear programm, a two year old would know that Iran, a country rich in oil aand natural gas, and a country with one of the lowest safety standards in the world, should not worry so much nuclear energy so much,but this woman disagrees!!! Instead worrying about the US goverment, worry about your own motherland, people of US will deal with their own goverment, they have democracy, they don't need some tinhorn immigrant bitch to advise them on democracy!! It is become trendy and a sign of intellect to bash G.W.Bush, and since no one else in the US gives a shit about Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich!!! and her articles, we are forced here to read her bullshit while our motherland is taken hostage and being destroyed by a bunch of mullahs!! Hey Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich!! I thank Bollinger, I would shake his hand, he was the voice of the people of Iran, so shut the fuck up and take your anti-Bush obcession and shove it up your German husband's ass
IRI's Killers
by Nasser (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 07:43 AM PDTTo Asghar Ghatel(killer)
This Soraya or whatever name she/he has is really from your substance, if is not the you!
One day you, along with othe IRI's killers, your master-minds, your sold intellectuals should pay for your treachery acts.
What do the oppreesed people
by ananymous (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 07:24 AM PDTWhat do the oppreesed people and Iran mean for a (half) individual who sells herself to the most vilest Islamists?
Can she or one of you the IRI's followers pronounce the word "Iran" properly?
to: Nasser
by asghar_bahai (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 07:24 AM PDTNasser,
Is your membership in the "$75M club" disturbed? Show your masters these uglay words you wrote about others on Iranian.com, and may be you will get a raise!
Asghar
Manbar
by Einollah (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 07:10 AM PDTI agree that America has lost a lot of it's rights under the Bush administration but I approve what Bollinger did. Ever heard of when Clergy (Akhoond) in Iran go on Manbar? (read bride and groom's high chair in a wedding) They go on and on and on and on, and on, and on. All Iranians know about this and those who live in Iran know it even better. It's been like this forever, even during Shah. Remember Rashed? What do you think would have happened if Bollinger would have just introduced him and let him go on Manbar? Same thing that had happened before in the dozens and dozens of interviews and "exclusives" that all news organizations (except Fox new of course, their bosses didn't let them have their own exclusive) had tried. So I believe Bollinger did the right thing and made something new and fresh, a real "Exclusive". Of course I don't think he knew about our Manbar, he just did it unknowingly. I give my kudos to him. Hopefully in future exclusives with Ahmadinejad we see more of this approach.
Shame on Mozdoors!
by Nasser (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 07:02 AM PDTSuch a post shows the depth of treachery and bigotry of this site (Iranian.com). The author, who is infamous for her pro-IRI posts, can never find other sites, exept the officials Islamist ones, to defend so publicly and rudly the IRI. Shame on all Mozdoors!
Thank you -- Great points
by almo5000 on Fri Oct 12, 2007 05:16 AM PDTwonderful points in your writing. Thank you.
Al M.
re: Islamic Psyche
by asghar_bahai (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 05:11 AM PDTFred,
A point from YOU should be missed (by the way, do you use a calculator to answer end of the comment math question?)
Islamist psyche
by Fred (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 05:06 AM PDTLike a true Islamist you missed the point and only saw what is burdening your type’s psyche.
to Fred who likes miniskirts ....
by asghar_bahai (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 04:49 AM PDTFred,
The Iran you used to know in which women were judged by the size of their mini (and micro) skirts is no more. Iranian women nowadays are judged by the power of their words, and spectrum of thier views and vision. Sitting here in the US of A and rehashing the propaganda spooned fed to you by zionists and their bretheren (e.g., FOX NEWS) is not going to give you the true picture of Iran.
I suggest you have your mom wear her old mini-/micro-skirts she used to wear in Teheran, and you enjoy looking at them! Enjoy them for me too while you are at it!
Fig leaf of a miniskirt
by Fred (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 04:11 AM PDTYou could and have every right and many reasons to bash Bush, but when you do it by becoming an apologist for the Islamist Republic, your fig leaf of a miniskirt is blown away. Nothing is sadder than seeing a supposed Iranian woman, albeit a amateur CASMII propagandist, trying to bash her ideological nemesis by wholesaling the feminist cause to the vilest of the vile.
THNAK YOU FOR YOUR WONDEFUL WRITING ....
by ahsan (not verified) on Fri Oct 12, 2007 03:59 AM PDTThanks you Soraya. You make every Iranian feel proud of having a woman thinker and writer such as you. Keep up your great work. Lll I can say to you is that with women such as you from our nation, we can only be proud.
Regards.