Pahlevan

Pahlevan, this is another tactic

you seem to believe that the intentions of that piece and its authors were pure and that it sincerely was trying to explore the roots of backwardness and biogtry in Iranian society.

Well, it wasn't.

Anyone - or any entity - who bothers to look into the issue deeply and without bias does not indict our revered master, Ferdowsi and does not brand him as bigot. Every single Iranian who DOES NOT speak arabic as his/her official language today has Ferdowsi to thank!

These are all the works of the current occupiers of Iran and instigators of the second Ghadesiyeh - pay no attention to these elements as they are the essence of the poison that our people drank 31 years ago which is killing our heritage and identity.

By the way, the root of backwardness and intolerance in Iranian scociety purely lies with islam and nothing else. Or, as Sam puts it, the Ommatie crowd! AND HE IS RIGHT.

Thanks,

CoP

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Thanks for the blog

People who support the most racist, sexist regime in the world history, have no place to criticize our national treasures and figures.

Hoshang jan, I partly agree with you

There are indeed sub-sections and sub-cultures of the society that have resisted IRI's hateful culture and remained untainted. But visiting Iran this summer, I couldn't help but notice that many wrong behaviors that used to be taboo, now have become somewhat normal and commonplace among the general population, including many good people I knew!

I think corruption and wrong ideas are much easier spread through a society from the top than from the bottom. When the best and brightest minds of a society either leave the country or are oppressed, the whole society declines.

Cheers,

correct observation, wrong conclusion

The historical fact that since 1979 Iran has been ruled by a theocracy, a theocracy which has been able to project its own ultra-backward culture as the dominant, "official"  hegemonic culture of Iran, shall not lead us to forgetting all other resisting sub-cultures. These are sub-cultures that have been  challenging the religious authority and status-quo since day one. ( as an instance of the above, Women's March 8th 1979 demonstrtation comes to mind) 

From the women's movement to students' movement to artists like Shamlo and Soltanpour, to....for the past 31 years we also have had a consistent, active anti-status quo, anti-hegemonic culture, arts and letters. We shouldn't so easily dismiss all these cultural resources, they all have high utilitarian values.

Roozbeh Jan

You are right. Everyday that this hateful regime remains in power our country gets more divided. What could be more hateful than calling a whole group of people ‘tayefeyeh zalleh’ (false tribes), ‘fergheh manfoor’ (despised cults) or ‘najes’ (unclean)! (all Khomeini's words)

A good blog Pahlavan.

And I agree with your stance on this matter. Currently the main source of intolerance and ethnic tension within our society is the fascistic ideology of the political Islam and Velayate Faghih. This ideology has basically divided our nation into "insiders" and "outsiders".Example:  Our Kurd and Balooch Compatriots, due to their religion alone (being Sunni) are all of the sudden "outsiders", treated with contempt, racial slurs and literally under military occupation of the shia Hojjati cult running Iran. This sad situation has nothing to do with our "culture", nor a laughing matter. This is a serious situation which could ultimately lead to disintegration of our beloved motherland, Iran. 

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

;:)), Bigotry & Racism in essence are literaly natural

As a  side note to this blog I state that bigotry & racism are relative forms of one,s focus.  

Racism in its purest form is simple belief that  mankind is separated by different races & ethnicities. nothing more , nothing less. at least for next little while.

It is only after GWW & radically post-WW2 that the elitist Jewish social engineers in centers of power & Media associated the term with "supremacy" & hence without a global vote tagged any entity against the new current as "Racist". The term "anti semite" is yet another invention of these social engineers to confront what they perceived as "Aryan threat" to their survival & identity. (btw, I still respect our Jewish friends as one of our lasting kiaani allies. just stating the facts).

In Iran, in the tradition of our " monkey do monkey say", our Omaru ommatie leftist elites took these quo,s literally to heart ignoring & dismissing Iran's native kiaani concept of Aryanism and hence treating it unfairly as racism . Ignorant indeed. Our own native stateless ommaties have been practicing the same sort of oppressive fascism against Iranian thirst for identity since Qadesiyeh days , tagging it as "jahl al Ajam" or "Fars al majoos".

As for bigotry, it is yet another misunderstood term since every one of us who put his & his groups interest  ahead of others is a bigot. duhhh!!!. Its all about the focus

& to our ommatie philssooof if wish to retort I say that even Quran praised racism as natural;

Yaa ayohal naas enna khalaghnakom men zakaran va.........

Oh folks, I created you from different breeds , different races & different tribes so in variety enjoy..that best among you is... 

Thanks for the blog Pahlevan & many cheers!!!

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