Shirkoohi

disparate

Fanoos jom. this act, posting naked pic in public, could also be a sign for of disperation. disperate to find a man (in case of women) or the other way!!!

It will definitely  not make any harm the IRI estabilishment and one must be nive to think so!

prior to this discussion, I wasnt even aware of this lady(I saw G Farahani though), but the whole debate made to call a lady firend of ours who practices islam and wear a hejab

 I had my wife(who doesnt wear hejab so she isnt qualified for a muslim believing woman) ask her what she thinks of this calender( u see even asking a question on this matter from a man to a woman would raise eyebrows!!)???

The answer was intersting and made me understand why I didnt even hear of the pic lady prior to this.

she said, "if she does this in a country that is culturally acceptingof this kind of behaviours then the rest is all her business"

But I , as a man, dont agree with my muslim lady, I agree with u in this case!! it is out there in the public, it is every iranian man duty to look at this pic and enjoy it!!

I wear an Omega watch

Folks this discussion reminds me of "Suzanne" Tessmehi!

This is getting too graphic for me.

Read ahossein's..........

........"Mr. Kazemzadeh" comment...........it might dress your brain up....with some logic....................

Mr Kazemzadeh

My response to your points

1.I do not hesitate to express resentment to those who want to bring changes to Iran by means of supporting imperialist war. don't call yourself a civil libertarian if you don't have a firm stance against war and destruction. There is no doubt in my mind that Namazi and her communist party would not get so much media attention if they were not playing into the hands of war mongers. I think your string of insulting words are just unreasonable and unnececary.   

2. Let me make one thing clear. I actually have some sympathy for desprate women or men who are forced into prostitution. As I have stated in my poem I have more respect for those people than those who claim to be communist and socialists who collaborate with imperialist war mongers. I urge you to see their website and recent publications to see if you can see a single word against the war. It is more than just a difference of opinion. Some of us are on the side of the war and some are against.

3. Neo-cons, Bush, Mossad, and Israel are about to start the war and these people are collaborating. See their website. See their journal and judge for yourself. Please do not mention  Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, all of whom opposed all religions. I don't think anyone uses sharper tounge than I do when it comes to attacking the role relegion in politics and you know that very well.

 4. In my view Namazi and her party's actions are very damaging. It is about time some stand up to her irresponsible acts. Do you ever ask yourself why she only attract far right and get kicked out of universtities when she appears in university camposes. She attacks Musslims in the way neo cons do. The name of her organisation(association of ex-muslims) is just revolting.  Carl Marx did not say Islam is the opium of the masses. He said religion is the opium of the masses. She is the worst example of Islamophobia.

5. Member of her organisation are famous for their disruptive role in Iranian meetings. So  she can not be a good example. see my moto at the buttom of my comment box. I strongly believe in members controlling leaders and not the other way. This is how we ensure the growth of pluralism and democracy.

6. I think her action was despicable. In my view she did that with the intention of damaging women's movement in particular and democratic movement in general. Do you remember the Berlin conference. This is even worse. Considering the culture of an average Iranian, this will scare people off secular and democratic movements. What is the demand of an average Iranian woman. They are against the stupid dress code, Islamic shareeah law. Those who do not think this is damaging must think tewice.

7. There is no contradiction. Alia was extremly brave in saying no to Muslim extremists and  in the middle Altahrir square. Namazi does it with the intention of damaging the movement. She has become the mouth piece of neo-cons and for that matter they have given her a good media coverage.

8. Please don't ask me to repent.

 Believe in a democracy that leaders and representatives are controlled by members at all times.

Once you voluntarily put your naked photo or sex tape or other..

personal information out there in the public you give up your right to their use by others no matter how distastefully they may use them. I mean ahosseini or ahassani or awhoever may use this image to sexually arouse themselves (I am jut saying) and no one including the owner of the image can protest that or object to that. Back in the late sixties when I attended college in Arizona, I used to leave my bathroom/shower window open (very hot weather in Arizona) and I would notice rows upon rows of students were watching me taking a shower. I didn't get upset. To me it was just business. This lady decided to print her naked photo on a calendar and make it available on her website. Guess what, she has no right to it as to what others may do to it.

The author is entitled to

The author is entitled to his opinion. Fotunately, in a reality-based world opinions are just that, completely devoid of facts. 

It is unfortunate that you have had to resort to ridiculous accusations and lies to malign her character. Indeed, this reveals more about you than anything else; Your misgony and perversion are on full display.

Congratulations!

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Mr. ahosseini, Happy Noruz & stand your ground! Don't delete!

Let these Feminazi go pound sand!

Do Not Delete This Blog.

If there is a democracy it should be for all or none.  If this blog gets deleted then there goes half of the blogs on this site. There are always some people who find something offensive at any given time. 

Ahosseni, I may not agree with all you said but I'll fight for your rights to say it.  

No, keep it up and running

I dont think, the blogger and I would have any thing in common, no love lost. However, it is a poem and has literally a right structure for a persian poem.

I think, people who are criticizingt this are shocked by the blogger going agianst what he previously was preaching!!!!

contradiction, that is the trobule!!!!!

I wear an Omega watch

Dear Masoud, what an excellent comment

Thanks.

Please delete your blog

Mr. ahosseini,

1. As a civil libertarian, I defend your right to write any thing you want no matter how odious.  As a democrat and liberal feminist, I have to say that I find your poem terribly anti-democratic, patriarchal, vulgar, insulting, and terribly odious.

2. You have a different point of view with another person, and you call her whore. This is a terrible patriarchal insult to call a female a whore merely for political differences.

3. You call her neo-con and support of Bush, Mossad, Israel, etc merely because she criticizes Islam. Then, according to your (lack of) logic, then great philosophers who are atheist are also neo-cons, Bush supporters, and agents of Mossad. Such atheist luminaries include Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, all of whom opposed all religions.

4. Democracy requires respecting the right of others to express their different points of view. To make vulgar insults undermines pluralism and democracy. You could express your criticism of Ms. Namazi’s views and actions without engaging in character assassination.

5. I strongly disagree with Ms. Namazi’s political affiliation. Her group is terribly anti-democratic and extremistl. People change and grow. Vulgarities, insults, and character assassinations are not conducive for the growth of pluralism and democracy. We need to cultivate the requirement for an environment of tolerance and pluralism among various Iranian groups.

6. I also do not think that her action was wise and helpful. But that is my opinion. I might be right or wrong. Ms. Namazi and her comrades are entitled to have their own opinions, and policies and actions. Various people should express their support or criticism of Ms. Namazi’s actions.

7. I see a contradiction in your views. On the one hand, you support the action of Ms. Alia al-Mahdi, the Egyptian atheist feminist to use her nude photo to express her opposition to patriarchy but you call Ms. Namazi a whore, a neo-con, and agent of CIA and Mossad for posing nude. You may say that Namazi is not original, or making a calender and selling it is bad, or she is a poor imitation of Alia al-Mahdi. Why putting photos on Facebook is great but putting it on calender bad? There is a contradiction to say that if a female Egyptian poses nude is good but if an Iranian female poses nude it is bad and neo-con.

8. I would like to ask you to reconsider and to please delete your blog.

Best,

MK

Ladies, leave this poor guy alone !!!

Out of here. I am going to shoot myself if I see that awful picture one more time.

Very shameful "ahosseini"

This so called "poetry" is in truth defamation. When one looks for information on Ms. Namzi, this is what we get from Wikipedia:"

Maryam Namazie (b. 1963) is an Iranian-born activist, commentator and broadcaster.

Namazie was born in Tehran but left with her family during the 1979 Iranian revolution.[1][2] She has worked as the executive director of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees.[3] and is spokesperson for the One Law for All Campaign[4] against Sharia Law in Britain. The campaign is opposed to faith based laws and promotes citizenship rights and one secular law for all. She is Spokesperson of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain[5] which aims to break the taboo that comes with renouncing Islam and to oppose apostasy laws and political Islam.[1] She hosts and produces a weekly TV International programme broadcast in the Middle East via New Channel TV.

Moreover, she is a National Secular Society Honorary Associate and the NSS' 2005 Secularist of the Year award winner;[2] spokesperson of Equal Rights Now - Organisation against Women's Discrimination in Iran; Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association;[6] Central Committee member of the Worker-communist Party of Iran and co-editor of WPI Briefing. She is involved in the Third Camp against US militarism and Islamic terrorism among other things. Her blog has been rated one of the top 100 atheist blogs and she was selected one of the top 45 women of the year 2007 by Elle magazine Quebec.[4]

She has spoken at numerous conferences and written many articles on women's rights issues, violence against women, political Islam, and secularism - some of which have been translated into various languages.

Previously, Namazie was the elected Executive Director of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees, a refugee run organisation with 60 branches in 15 countries worldwide and founded the Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Iranian Refugees (CHAIR).

After the Muhammad cartoons controversy, she, together with 11 other activists, published a declaration named MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism. MANIFESTO portrayed the rise of Islamism as a new totalitarianism.

On 15 September 2010, Namazie, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.[7]

Presently, she lives in the United Kingdom."

To me, it seems that she is a woman committed to causes of secularism and women's rights. What the so called poet has done here is not poetry but defamation. How can we know that "ahosseini" is not an agent of IRI trying to give a bad name to its enemies? This is very fishy and it is not good for IC that people who fight for human rights in Iran can be defamed like this by people who don't even use their real name. Even though"ahosseini" makes it look real but this is just a user Id that someone is hiding behind to defame others. Very shameful. 

"Azadeh Azad!"

 "You are a hypocrite. You lift the flag of Alia to better hit Ramezani with."

Who is Ramezani. Do you mean Namazi? Alia was a brave young lady who in the heart of Altahrir squareopposed the Islamic fanatics in a brave way. Namazi and her nude friends are caricatures of Alia. They don't care about women cause, they are doing this for fame and business reasons. Everything Namazi does is in line with the politics of New Cons in the USA and conservatives in Europe, canada and Australia. What she does is absolutely disgraceful. She does not want to know that the rise of Islamic fundamentalism is the outcome of so called George Bushe's war on terror and as George Bush put it crusade against Islamic world and that I am afraid includes you and me.  New cons in the US and their allies in Europe, Israel, Canada, Australia and Arabia collectively use religion to supress democratic movements and some so called communists like Namazi are working as their agents or at best playing into their hands. It is very convenient for you to side with the richest and most powerful.

"This whole propaganda against Ramezani, whom I even don't know personally, has to do with a *personal conflict* between Azar Majedi and her. So, her write-up against Ramezani and your reactionary poem have no political value. You guys are being simply ridiculous and revengeful."

This is nonsense. every statment I make I support it with a reason. You guys hardly give any reason to support statements you make. I do not know Namazi at all. What personal conflict?

"Now, I don't know why a man should define for us women what is liberation and what is not. This is what is being done right now by the IRI figures in Iran. Little men like you have defined for women the extent of their rights and actions for centuries."

There are many aspects to our social democratic movement. One of the major issues is women liberation. In my poems I always make reference to this important aspect of our movement.  You do not have to be a woman to defend women's right for the same reason you don't need to be black to defend racial equality. No one has given you the mandate to represent Iranian women in this manner.

"I am guessing that you are part of Azar Majedi's 'Proletarian" and "communist" gang, because no sane person would make such a big fuss out of this mundane act of posing nude for a calendar."Anyway, the good news is that the proletarian and moralistic dictatorship of Azar majedi will never materialize! "

It happens that I am not part of Azar Majedi's group. However, I think, on this particular issue her article was quite good. You are far too attached to the imperialist cause and from that point of view you are hostile to Azar and what she stands for. Well, what about Maryam Namazi. She is trying to achieve her dictatorship of proletariat through imperialist war.

On a number of occasions I have seen your comments about Mr Bagher Zadeh. You are politically naive and make ridiculous comments.

Believe in a democracy that leaders and representatives are controlled by members at all times.

 شعر جالبی است.

 شعر جالبی است. از نظر ادبی هم چون همانند بعضی اشعار دارای لغات رکیک نیست قابلیت خواندن دارد. فکر می کنم این تناقضی که همشیه در اشعار شما هست خواندن را جالبتر می کند!! مثلأ همین جا : نصفه اول شعرگویا علی مطهری و گشت ارشاد می سرایند می نوازند!!در نیمه دوم اپوزیسیون دست بالا را می گیرد ولی در آخر به همنوای با عزیزلن ارشادی رضایت می دهد!!!

I wear an Omega watch

ahosseini

You are a hypocrite. You lift the flag of Alia to better hit Ramezani with.

This whole propaganda against Ramezani, whom I even don't know personally, has to do with a *personal conflict* between Azar Majedi and her. So, her write-up against Ramezani and your reactionary poem have no political value. You guys are being simply ridiculous and revengeful.

Now, I don't know why a man should define for us women what is liberation and what is not. This is what is being done right now by the IRI figures in Iran. Little men like you have defined for women the extent of their rights and actions for centuries.

I am guessing that you are part of Azar Majedi's 'Proletarian" and "communist" gang, because no sane person would make such a big fuss out of this mundane act of posing nude for a calendar.

Anyway, the good news is that the proletarian and moralistic dictatorship of Azar majedi will never materialize!

I agree with Azadeh

Good point by her, where she wrote in her comment:"

As a woman and as a feminist, I condemn this despicable so-called poem where the author orders a woman what to do and what not to do, and then calls her a whore for having posed nude for a calendar! " 

Azaheh - you don't talk reason you just shout

As you can see I have made it very clear that I admire Alia who in a very brave way posted her nude picture on her Facebook.You cannot simply attack me and call yourself a liberated feminist woman because you are of female gender. Margaret Thatcher, the very first British women prime minister caused the biggest damage to women's cause in the history of women movement in the UK and all in the name of a woman. In my view so does Maryam Namazi and those who approve her political stance. In the name of a woman and a communist, she has sold herself out to newcons and other ultra rights. In her so called anti-shareeah campaign, she does nothing but to promote George Bush's war on terror and crusade war against Muslim communities in the world. Everywhere she goes she only attracts the far right and fascists. A communist who gets media attention by the far right in the west, but gets kicked out when she goes to places like LSE, ULU or SOAZ, the finest centres of social science in London and perhaps in the world. At the moment she is enjoying the life of luxury for all these stupid acts. As a member of a so called communist and socialist party who wasted the lives of thousands in Kurdistan, she has now turned lackeies of Imperialists, Israelies and Arab shekhs, beating the drums of war and try to achieve "equality and justice and women liberation!" in this way. They have adopted the same method as Mojahedin who wasted thousands of lives and now they turn to the likes of Bolton and Donald Rumsfeld and Sarah Palin. Don't forget Maryam Rajavi also came up with a similar stupid story (Ideeologic revolution) as Maryam Namazi. You can call yourself a feminist, liberated woman, and throw as much insult as you like. While I worship women like Taranah who was tourtured and raped in the hands of Islamic thugss, I condemn you, Namazi and Rajavi for falsifying feminism and women's right. This is a despicable act.You can shout, you can behave in this way if you like, but you will not get the approval of those brave men and women who are fighting the Islamic regime in a honourable way.

Believe in a democracy that leaders and representatives are controlled by members at all times.

  Believe in a democracy

Believe in a democracy that leaders and representatives are controlled by members at all times.

ahosseini, the Iranian Taliban

As a woman and as a feminist, I condemn this despicable so-called poem where the author orders a woman what to do and what not to do, and then calls her a whore for having posed nude for a calendar! Well, if there is any whore around here, it's him, this "ahosseini". 

He is selling himself to the Akhoond's morality. He is repeating the same Araajif Mullahs have fed our nation for centuries.

What the hell does this guy know about the Women's Liberation? Nothing! He must go and liberate himself, pathetic man! 

Finally, responding to his last stupid stanza, I'd say: 

Get the hell out of here, little man!

You're nothing but an "Akhoonds of Qom" fan!

Truly disgusted by ahosseini's Taliban mentality! Enough is enough!

Azadeh