Archive - 2008

مسيحيان همجنس باز و مسلمانان بچه باز

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A Couple of Days in San Diego

Maybe statistics would prove me wrong, but the economy feels like a military economy. The major things you see being manufactured and built are border walls and military facilities. You see battleships and carriers in the bay, bases and naval air stations along the freeways, soldiers in camouflage sitting in the backs of trucks or on gates in fences at freeway exits in the countryside with nothing around, tattoo parlors and strip joints on the main streets of National City, Imperial Beach, Chula Vista, the immense retired officers community of Coronado, jeeps and Humvees and SUVs on the highways, black with tinted windows, driven by young men with buzz cuts>>>

Hopes & concerns

The founding of PAAIA, the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian-Americans, is in many ways a milestone for the Iranian-American community. Seldom have Iranian-Americans of such diverse backgrounds come together and invested in an organization. For that alone, the organization should be applauded. Yet, in many ways, PAAIA has also been a major disappointment. Its less than open nature, its unwillingness to clarify its positions and reluctance to shed light on its decision making processes have left many potential Iranian-American supporters like myself skeptical. >>>

هردو وابسته یکی متکی به مردم دیگری به سیاستمداران غربی - تفاوتهای دو اپوزیسیون ایران و لبنان

براستی ایا حزب الله و حسن نصرالله که قدمت تشکیلات شان به مجاهدین نمی رسد و حریفشان( اسرائیل ) هم که ا زنظر نظامی –امنیتی و سیاسی بسیار قدرتمند از شاه و خمینی هست درسی برای رجوی و شورای وابسته نمی باشد؟ >>>

Soul to Soul

Surrounded by two pillars of ivory
The gate is opening up
The path to her being is becoming visible
Her soul is calling
A crescent as bent as the moon
Occupies my vision form above
A crescent as white as the ivory pillars gently hugging my ears >>>

Advice: Escaping a Workaholic!

“Anonymous” writes: I want to know what you say as an Irani man before I make a decision. I have been married 12 years and have two beautiful kids. My husband is a workaholic and his job is priority>>>

Why Radical Islam speak loudest.

why the voice of moderate muslims is irelevant >>>

گفت و گورادیو زمانه با نازنین افشین جم

گفت و گورادیو زمانه با نازنین افشین جم

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Forgetting monsters

I forget my own exile that isn’t an exile, because I can return if I want to, and yet, I know I will never want to go back? Perhaps I am entitled to the pity I sometimes feel for myself, to the self-righteousness, to the sweet joy I taste in the bitterness of the news, to this feeling of being at the top, a place my father and grandfather never reached. But is it really true? How would I know whether they felt this enjoyment or not? Who am I to declare so baldly that they never stood at this same place where I am standing?>>>

Film: The Power of Nightmares (A must-see-movie)

The films compare the rise of the American Neo-Conservative movement and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and noting strong similarities between the two. >>>

Can't use these Latrines: Stories from a Persian Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa

Here is a vignette of my Peace Corps Volunteer time in Liberia West Africa. I arrived there to save a world from famine and disease>>>

Converting to Islam

That'S it, I can not stand the temptation and wonderful privileges, with little accountability to which Islam provide me as a men>>>

Why Not the Shah ?:Russians remember murdered tsar

Thousands of Russians have been taking part in events to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.

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