FEMINISM

Mashallah Ghassab

Sorry to bother you with this question. I am trying to do my research about Mashallah Ghassab. Do you know anything specific to what happened to him after the US Hostage Crisis?

Any information, no matter how insignificant is helpful..

Thank you 

The point!

Dear VPK, I suspect you haven't even read my post below! For not only you do not get my point, but on the contrary, you've drawn conclusions out of things I haven't even said! Where did I say that "those who opposed the revolution were to the right of Rastakhiz?!" I'm not even a supporter of the revolution, or revolutions in general! Nor have I suggested that you and/or your family are Shahollahis, for I don't know your family, and to be honest, it would be the leasts of my concerns whether you are or not!

However, my main objective here was to draw a parallel between the attitude of Shahollahis and that of Hezbollahis with regards to human rights, freedom of speech, democracy and social justice... as both groups see these concepts as relative rather than absolute and unconditional! As it is evident in the article above, Shahollahis' contempt and categorical dismissal of critics and opponents of the Shah is in parallel to those of the Hezbollahis' towards the opponents of velayat-e Faghih!

Dear Arj

I think you are being unfair. My family was generally pro Shah before the revolution. Do you think I am a Shahollahi? I did not participate in the anti-Shah demonstrations. I did not support the revolution. But I did not actively oppose it.

In retrospect I should have and my family should have spent all our money opposing it. But at the same time my father hated Rastakhiz as did I. Neither did we support the new Calendar; the 2500 years celebrations and so on.  You are seeing extremism where there is none. What is the difference of what you are doing and what you accuse us of doing. So anyone who opposed the revolution is to the right of Rastakhiz? Not me; I happened to my credit to see what was coming.

I knew shah is bad but figured it will get worse.  That is why I oppose USA bombing of Iran. Not because of any love for IRI but because I fear what comes next. 

Vengeance or redmption?!

Dear RG, for Shahollahis (whether faux feminist or downright chauvinists) mush like Hezbollahis, human rights and social justice are relative concepts. Meaning if you are a supporter of the system and the ultimate leader, you have the right to exist. But if god forbid, you are a dissident, you have another thing coming! For these crowds, Communists, Socialists, Social democrats and even liberal democrats (basically anyone to the left of the Rastakhiz or Hezb-e J. Eslami parties) are considered pests who deserved to be exterminated! As the above article clearly indicates, the onus is always on the opponents of Shah who are the perpetual culprits for everthing that's gone wrong whatsoever! That means, in their limited mind,  if you are not a member of their pack, you are with the other (either Shah or Khomeini)!

Moreover, the abject failure of IRI on nearly every stage, has granted these Shahollahis a false sense of vindication. It's as if an F student met a high school dop-out! Or better yet, imagine if the Arab spring ends up with Islamists ruining the economy and start enforcing Sharia law on the respective societies of Egypt, Lybia and Tunisia... does that mean people should've been content with Mobarak, Ghadhafi and Ben ali, and never challenged their corrupt rules and breach of human rights?!

" گر تو بهتر میزنی، بستان ، بزن..."

این را شاه به انقلابیون و روشنفکران گفت در سال 57.

گرفتند و 32 سال است که میزنند...

روزگار غریبیست...نازنین

مخالفت من "نه روشنفکر" با "شاه فقید" ربطی‌ به زن آزاری ندارد...

یکی‌ از علل عمده ،مخالفت و نفرت من از شاه فقید شما، همکاری این فقید با سازمان‌های تروریستی اسلامی مانند حجتیه بر علیه ازدیخاهن غیر اسلامی، و ساختمانی ده‌ها هزار مسجد، حجتیه، حسینیه در دوران این فقید هست. فراموش نکنید که این فقید از یک طرف مبارزان کمونیست و غیر مذهبی‌ رو مخفیانه در تپه‌های اوین میکشت و از طرف دیگه آدمکشان اسلامی رو در استخدام ساواک یا در حد زیاد تبعید به نجف میکرد. به طور خلاصه، این به اصطلاح "جمهوریه" اسلامی، هدیه شاه فقید شما به مردم زجر کشیده ایران هست.

لطفآ به اسلام فحش ندهید

راستشو بخواهید، من به اسلام که دین ما هم نیست کم فحش میدم، اصلآ on line فحش نمیدم (بیشتر در خفا فحش میدم که به کسی بر نخوره، آخه ما ایرونی ها کاسی داغ تر از اش هستیم، میدونم) خودم را هم روشنفکر نمیدونم............

ولی همینطور که امروز در یکی دو بلاگ دیگر هم گفتم، اصل و نصب بدبختی ما ایرونی ها همین اسلام گرامی میباشد. تا ما سنگ اسلام را به سینه میزنیم، شاه میره، آخوند میاد ........ ولی مسله اینکه آخوند به راحتی نمیره .......به عبارت دیگر، تا ما میریم خیابون به خاطر یک مشت غیر ایرانی (لطفآ توجه کنید من نگفتم عرب) به خودمون قمه و زنجر میزنیم، همون اش و همون کاسه وجود دارد!

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IRAN FIRST

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زهرا رهنورد

زهرا رهنورد کومنیست ، توده ای، مارکسیست واسلامیست هست،  حسابی قاطی پاطی با با .

گل گفتی آی گل گفتی

مضحکه این که چندی است هر ننه‌قمر و باباشملی که از ننه‌جانش قهر می‌کند، شروع می‌کند به توهین و فحاشی به «اسلام» و خیال می‌کند با این‌گونه «بی‌ادبی‌ها» روشنفکر تلقی می‌شود. عده‌ای هم که نه مسئولیتی می‌پذیرند و نه سواد و مطالعه‌ای دارند، دنبال این‌ها راه می‌افتند، به «به به و چه چه» گفتن و آقایون را به اشتباه می‌اندازند که انگاری چیزی بارشان است.

راستش اگر روشنگری و روشنفکری به فحش و بد و بیراه گفتن باشد، لات‌های خیابان جمشید «باید» از همه‌ی‌ این «فحاشان» روشنفکرتر و روشنگرتر باشند.

Your Achilles’ heel

Dear Nadereh,

This is rather a good article, I would say; except for the defense of the Pahlavi regimes as non-misogynist and egalitarian States. There is no doubt that, for instance, the late Shah's White Revolution greatly benefited Iranian women and THIS FACT was the core of the Muslim clergy and most men's (from lower classes, and some layers of the middle class) resentment towards the Shah. But the Shah was also a dictator (of autocratic type) and his SAVAK police imprisoned, tortured and raped dissidents of all types. Women had the right to vote, but there was no democracy, no political parties and no electoral system. The Shah was an arrogant misogynist, which can be seen in the interview with Barbara Walters below.

The Islamic Dictatorship in Iran is so brutal and barbaric that the Pahlavi era is remembered by many as paradise in retrospective. However, it was another kind of hell, a less brutal for sure.

Also, Navab Safavi did not invent the "fingering of women." This is a heinous tradition among the Iranian men of yesterday and today. They continue this criminal act in Iran and in diaspora, directly with their fingers or using their fingers to joyfully write stories that imply the male prerogative of fingering females. Just watch the posted videos that are degrading to women and read the pornographic write-ups by the resident male chauvinists of Iranian.com.

Every feminist needs to focus on the interests of women as a social group. Our interests cannot be defended within the frameworks of male ideologies, be it Monarchism, Marxism, Aryan-Kiani Nationalism or watered-down Islamic reformism. Doing so, would be our Achilles’ heel.

A feminist is a free-thinker who looks FORWARD for creative and new ways to confront and dismantle the Iranian religious AND secular patriarchal system in order to establish gender equality. Let’s leave the worship of the Dead Men to the Islamists.  

Cheers,

 Azadeh

Modern monarch?!

Here is the reaction of HIM (aka Haj Mammad Agha the monarch), like a deer caught in the headlights, to a question on women's intelligence:  //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ7MlaY0Uc&feature=related

P.S. Mashallah Ghassab along with Ramezoon Yakhi were sidekicks of your beloved Sha'ban Bimokh (aka Tajbakhsh or The Protector Of HIM's Crown)!