Archive - 2008

Missing the point

Perhaps Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury thought his statement about Sharia Law will be received enthusiastically as well-intended and an effort to reduce racial tensions in the society. However, his proposal got him into trouble. He was attacked from right and left. Those who saw their “white Christian culture” under threat asked for his resignation. Women rights activists, secularists and such like attacked him for the negative effects of Sharia Law on human rights, particularly the disastrous effects of such a practice on women in so-called Muslim communities. In response to harsh criticism he tried to qualify his proposal by stating that he did not mean the whole Sharia Law, but in family matters. He has just missed the point>>>

inhuman

Iran: Father 'stones 14-year-old daughter to death' >>>

Voice of Iran

Mohammad Reza Shajarian's voice streams out with such power and purity, embodying centuries of technique yet with such emotional texture as to leave the listener in absolute awe. It’s a voice hard yet clear like crystal, a crystal through which one can see three millennia of Iran’s history and culture, from Zarathustra at the dawn of spiritual man through to Baarbad in the Sassanid court, to Alexander’s sacking of Perspolise, to the invasion of the Arabs, to Rudaki and Avecina, to the Mongol plunder and Hafez’s great existential shrug, to Hasan Sabbah’s stubborn resistance at Alamut, the horse rides in the caucuses and the Shalimar gardens in Kashmir. It’s the voice of endurance in the face of pious repression and invaders’ brutality and regeneration through culture>>>

Impossible not be very concerned

Some could claim that the building of Sivand dam in the Iranian province of Fars is necessary and has nothing to do with destroying Iran's history and pre-Islamic monuments. Many others, however, including 47 organizations in Iran itself, the UNESCO and many scholars and Iranians citizens claim otherwise. The building of this dam in the Pasargad plains can cause irreversible damage to the most valuable treasures and historical monuments in Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran has embarked on the final stages of a dam construction in the south of Iran>>>

اعتراض سراسری

نه، امروز ۲۷ بهمن ۱۳۸۶ است . امروز، روز اعتراض سراسری برای آزادی همه دانشجويان زندانی است. دانشجويان آزاديخواه و برابری طلب دانشگاه های سراسر کشور، که بسياری از آنان به جرم تلاش برای برگزاری مراسم بزرگداشت ۱۶ آذر روز دانشجو در زندان به سر می برند، از بيش از يک ماه و نيم پيش، امروز را روز اعتراض سراسری اعلام کرده اند و از همه آزاديخواهان جهان خواسته اند به هر طريقی که مناسب می دانند، خواهان آزادی فوری همه دستگيرشدگان و توقف سرکوب آزاديخواهان و برابری طلبان شوند.>>>

تبریک سال نو دیک چینی به رسانه های ایرانی

و امیدواریم در آینده ی نزدیکی پس از پاکسازی اتمی ایران و گوشمالی زنان ، مردان و کودکان فرومایه ی ایرانی ، ایشان را به سمت رئیس سازمان مبارزه با مواد مخدر و وزارت خودفروشان منصوب نمائیم . >>>

The threat is still there

How likely do you think war is with Iran? KINZER: I fear that this prospect is still very real. The recent National Intelligence Estimate makes it impossible for the US to hope for broad support for new sanctions on Iran. This could mean that some people consider a military strike the only remaining alternative. People in the White House might decide that Iran is a looming threat that must be contained before it can rise. Manufacturing an incident, either in Iran, Iraq or the Gulf, would be easy, and it could become a pretext for war.>>>

To be or not to be, religious.

This is the 2nd time that JJ has not published what I’ve submitted. The first one was a cartoon I drew of Hajiagha and he said he received it but never published it and then this article>>>

Loghat-Nameh Dehkhoda

Dehkhoda's Loghat-Nameh online

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Mehrjuii's new film pirated in Iran

Bootleg CDs of Dariush Mehrjui's controversial film "The Santur Player" seen on sale in Tehran's black market >>>

Alireza Assar's song

Alireza Assar's song >>>

More advice: Tehran & places to visist.

Dear Persians, I finally bought my ticket and I am going to Iran in a month or so -- woohoo! Any advice? >>>

URGENT: Iranian boy being executed

Farzad Alizadeh was called by the division of enforcements and he is likely to be executed in the coming days. >>>