Fifth Column of the Postmodern Kind
Aljazeera / Hamid Dabashi
21-Nov-2011 (74 comments)

 This emerging band of Iranian Fifth Columnists took their crudest clue from two back-to-back interviews that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave to Voice of America and BBC Persian programmes in October 2011….Some of their most brazen and hypocritical have openly asked for the US to invade Iran (one of them claiming that the annual traffic and even cancer statistics in Iran would be less than the casualties of a potential war, while another uses creative accounting with the low number of civilian casualties in Libya), while others are using convoluted Orwellian Newspeak of the crudest kind hoping to camouflage their treachery. Another gimmick of these postmodern Fifth Columnists is to try to silence their opposition by accusing them of being agents of the Islamic Republic - not a very imaginative trick, you may think, but nevertheless seemingly effective in the infested pool of exile communities. If you were ever to dare as much as utter a word against these inanities they weave together, then you must be a paid agent of the Islamic Republic.  >>>
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vildemose

Secret wish of all Islamist,

by vildemose on Tue Nov 22, 2011 09:04 AM PST

Secret wish of all Islamist, stalinist, and Shariati followers: "خدا کنه به ایران حمله کنند. از آرزوهای بزرگ ما این است که آنها دست به این کار بزنند چون خیلی وقت است انرژی نهفته‌ای وجود دارد که علاقه‌مندیم آن را خرج کنیم و دشمنان اسلام و مسلمین را برای همیشه به زباله‌دان تاریخ بفرستیم". //www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=1390082500...

"It is the chain of communicat­ion, not the means of production­, that determines a social process."

-- Robert Anton Wilson


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Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Do not flag

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Tue Nov 22, 2011 09:01 AM PST

 

Please do not flag the post by Mammad please it must stay and not be deleted. This is a very important post. We need to get to the bottom of what it means and what it implies.


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Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Mammad

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Tue Nov 22, 2011 08:58 AM PST

 

I am also puzzled by your post. Beware of what? How do you define "turncoat". I define it as people who sided with Khomeini over Shah. But I do not threaten them. Just remind them that they need to live with their conscience if they got one.

As well known academic you are to set an example. As a practicing moderate Muslim show the "good" side of Islam. If this is your response then it is puzzling.

Would you please explain what you mean. Beware of what? Those of us who live in America have a right to free opinion. Anything that may be viewed as a threat is taken very seriously. Please make it clear so we get over this.


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AMIR1973

Is Iranian.com now allowing members to issue threats?

by AMIR1973 on Tue Nov 22, 2011 08:44 AM PST

"Beware"? I guess old habits die hard for some of our Islamist brethren....


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hamsade ghadimi

mammali, what's the

by hamsade ghadimi on Tue Nov 22, 2011 08:37 AM PST

mammali, what's the consequence of your threat?  or is it just cheap talk?

sixth column member, hamsade ;)


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Anahid Hojjati

Mama,

by Anahid Hojjati on Tue Nov 22, 2011 08:35 AM PST

you guys labeling people who are against IRI fifth column is disgusting. You are ruining the last chance that many of us ever would want to listen to your talks. You are the fifth column of IRI. Get it in your mind that time has passed that you mention US and its threat to keep people quiet against IRI. Oon Mama ra lulu bord.


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vildemose

Dabashi is an archaic loose

by vildemose on Tue Nov 22, 2011 08:27 AM PST

Dabashi is an archaic loose canon. He needs to be put in an insane asylum. I'm not kidding.

 

"It is the chain of communicat­ion, not the means of production­, that determines a social process."

-- Robert Anton Wilson


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Mammad

Fantastic. Turncoats, traitors, and fifth columnists beware.

by Mammad on Tue Nov 22, 2011 08:24 AM PST

Mammad


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AMIR1973

When did IRI Groupies & Stalinists become such uber-patriots?

by AMIR1973 on Tue Nov 22, 2011 08:01 AM PST

What happened to Eslam-e Nab-e Mohammadi?


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hamsade ghadimi

sixth column

by hamsade ghadimi on Tue Nov 22, 2011 07:21 AM PST

one can get a glimpse of iri's fifth column through this list from "hamayesh bozorg." (see link below) the list includes one of the main organizers, casmii's co-founder rostam pourzal.  ms. zandi is also very active with casmii and its sister agency niac.  and of course, dabashi is a board member of niac.  you can readily see how iri is organizing its fifth column in the name of "peace activism" to prolong their looting, terrorizing, raping, torturing and killing of iran and iranians.

i think those ordinary iranians who respond to iri's fifth column should rightfully be called the "sixth column."

//registration.iranianshouse.ir/registerCong/viewPlanDetail.aspx?id=13


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Mohammad Alireza

Thank you Hamid Dabashi

by Mohammad Alireza on Tue Nov 22, 2011 07:04 AM PST

He has raised an extremely important issue and if you care to meet some of these "Fifth Columnist" you will find them in the comment section of the article I posted a few days ago entitled: "You Can Stop Iran War".

//iranian.com/main/2011/nov/you-can-stop-...


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anglophile

in other words Mostafa

by anglophile on Tue Nov 22, 2011 01:03 AM PST

هر کسي آن درود عاقبت کار که کشت Hafez 

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Anahid Hojjati

Hamid Dabashi, fifth coliumn of IRI

by Anahid Hojjati on Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:58 AM PST

dabashi and friends are shameless but we know better these iri appeasers.


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Mostafa_Jengir

Intellectual Fifth Columns of the Islamic Republic

by Mostafa_Jengir on Mon Nov 21, 2011 11:57 PM PST

Mr. Dabashi is fond of throwing around snippets from classical literature and Orwellian quotations, wrapped in rear-guard action of covering his behind by verbal jabs at the Islamic Republic. But all those verbal acrobatics are desinged to obfiscate his true position vis-a-vis the the IRI's mindless neclear adventurism and dreams of regional hegemonism and it's suicide pact with the devil to involve Iran in a military adventure in order to resurrect the glorious days of the Islamic empire. Oh, but listen to what this indignant professor let out of his bag of panegyric tricks right in the middle of the the bombastic smoke screen he has created:

"But the current configuration of regional and global power has no moral
authority whatsoever to tell the Islamic Republic not to develop nuclear
arms. In one way or another the Islamic Republic will develop nuclear
weapons capabilities..."

There you have it. If the Islamic Republic is hell-bent on developoing neuclear weapons and challenges the US for regional hegemony and threatens ther egional and, indeed, the world stability, then according to Mr. Dabashi, it's too bad for the region and the world. Our naive professor, apparently, is unaware he is rooting for the murderous gang of IRI mafia and, is in fact acting as their intellectual fifth column, by advocating such mindless neuclear policy. Our erodite professor would do well to remember this Biblical epigram: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.


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