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دروغ هایی به بزرگی خدا (2)

ایده ی "اتحاد ملل اسلامی" بیشتر بر مبنای عقده نسبت به برتری اروپاییان استوار بود

by Ali Ohadi
25-Nov-2010 (3 comments)
در واقع "صدر اسلام" دوره ای از تاریخ اسلام بود که به دلیل ابهامی که داشت، می شد همه جور النگ و دولنگی به آن بست و از مخالف خوانی "معاندین" و "اصحاب فتنه" هم نهراسید. چرا که نسل همدوره ی پیامبر و نسل بعد از او، هنوز زنده بود و می شد از قول هر کدامشان هزاران حدیث و خبر ساخت که؛ "من خود شنیدم که رسول خدا چنین گفت،... یا بخدا قسم دیدم که محمدبن عبدالله چنین کرد و ... به پرسش یک مسلمان، یا انکار یک کافر، یا مرتد، یا دشمن ... چگونه پاسخ داد >>>

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دروغ هایی به بزرگی خدا (1)

دروغ هایی که به زور تکرار، به واقعیت تبدیل شده اند

by Ali Ohadi
23-Nov-2010 (2 comments)
دروغ هایی که بصورت یک واقعیت در اذهان بشر جا افتاده اند، آنقدر بسیار اند که تشخیص سره از ناسره ناممکن و گاه محال بنظر می رسد. اگرچه برای گستردگی "دروغ"، دلایل بسیاری می توان یافت، در اینجا به دو دلیل عمده که سبب شده بسیاری از دروغ های بزرگ تاریخی، امروز بصورت واقعیت مطرح شوند، اشاره می کنم. اولین دلیل گسترش وسیع دروغ، "باور مردم" است. زندگی نه امروز، که همیشه ی تاریخ برای مردمان عادی سخت و طاقت فرسا بوده. اما زنده بودن با همه ی مصیبتی که دارد، شیرین تر از مرگ است>>>

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Emphasis on Human Rights

A Green squeeze on Iran

by Ray Takeyh
19-Nov-2010 (one comment)
In an all-too familiar ritual, the United States and Iran are once more contemplating their diplomatic dance. The question that has perennially bedeviled Washington and its allies is how to compel the theocratic regime in Tehran to alter its objectionable practices. As a rational and pragmatic democracy, the United States perceives that economic pressure will compel Iran's leaders to yield on strategic priorities in order to relieve financial distress>>>

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The Joke is on US

A look at the Arab-Israeli peace process

by Guive Mirfendereski
17-Nov-2010 (112 comments)
All this offer of the American incentive or exacting of blackmail by Israel, depending on one’s pov, is even happening before Uncle Abbas and Bibi would sit at the table again! Will there be a price if a party is taking too long to return to the table from the bathroom too? It is likely that at every step one player or another is going to bulk and then has to be enticed back to the table for talks. What I would like is for the U.S. to walk away from the table and then see what Bibi and Uncle Abbas are willing to pay in order to entice Sultan Hussein back to the table>>>

UN

For Women, Against Women?

Reconsidering IRI's denial of a seat at the UN women's committee

by Goudarz Eghtedari
12-Nov-2010 (14 comments)
This notion of seeing isolation as a tool for regime change is not anything new. We saw this when FIFA denied Iranian female young soccer players a place at the world youth Olympics in Singapore because of their outfit, some argued that their government sanctioned outfit is a degrading item, not counting the sad impact on those young players itself who had lived for that dream. A few years ago known activists constantly demonstrated against a Berlin women's soccer club, which was planning to go to Iran and play the Iranian national team>>>

POLICY

Back in the Bush

Time for Obama to call his opponents' bluff on Iran

by jamal.abdi
08-Nov-2010 (16 comments)
With Republicans now sharing the burden of governing in the next Congress, President Barack Obama has an opportunity to define the terms of the Iran debate instead of spending two more years capitulating to a Democratic Congress worried about appearing weak or out of sync with hardliners on the Iran issue. For a president who ran on the promise of fighting the "smallness" of Washington's political discourse that is unequipped for the immensity of the challenges America faces, few issues suffer more from that "smallness" than the Iran debate>>>

ELECTIONS

Fool America Twice? Shame on America!

American voters bought every lie

by bahmani
05-Nov-2010 (11 comments)
Suffice it to say Tuesday's elections had me steaming. Never before had we seen such audacious "sore losers getting even" politics as this before. There was more outright Glee on Fox, than Glee on Fox. So sexed was "America of the 50's", I fully expected Boehner the next speaker of the House, to announce that he was officially canceling his Cialis prescription and changing the pronunciation of his name to Boner. He is certainly sporting more wood than the San Francisco Giants!>>>

VOTE

America and the World

Post November 2nd eletions

by Michael Brenner
01-Nov-2010 (2 comments)
A novice observer of American politics might see no discernible meaning for foreign policy in the election since international relations have been shunned by nearly all candidates. The mood was encapsulated by the remark of one oddball politician, solon to be Rand Paul, that "I don't do Afghanistan." That is just the most extreme and blunt declaration in a campaign marked by cultivated ignorance and displays of raw emotion disconnected from reality. It's a narcissistic playground. Ideas and real issues are as unwelcome as is adult supervision>>>

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Soviet Republic of Iran

Machinations and gradual decay of Tehran's paranoid, opaque regime

by Karim Sadjadpour
29-Oct-2010 (39 comments)
For three decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has bedeviled the United States, resisting both incentives and disincentives and working all the while to foil American designs in the Middle East. If 20th-century Russia was to Winston Churchill a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, for observers of contemporary Iran, the Islamic Republic often resembles a villain inside a victim behind a veil>>>

USA

United States of Christians. Not.

Separation of Mosque and State

by Pierre Omidyar
29-Oct-2010 (10 comments)
There is a growing tide of opinion in the United States that religion and government should be intertwined. This view tends to be most widely held by evangelical Christians, who believe that society would benefit if Christianity played an official role in government. A recent Honolulu Civil Beat poll found that 11 percent of likely voters in Hawaii believed Christianity should play an official role in government. Among evangelical Christian voters, the number was 32 percent>>>

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Arabian Gulf?

Fueling ethnic tensions in the Persian Gulf is not a strategy for Middle East stability

by jamal.abdi
27-Oct-2010 (7 comments)
Instead of using the historically accepted term - and observing State Department protocol - "Persian Gulf", Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro referred to the "Arabian Gulf", a politically charged phrase with a relatively recent but insidious history. While it may sound like a mere matter of semantics to some, in a region marred by ethnic tensions, usage of "Arabian Gulf" is a serious signal that could portend a dangerous, counterproductive path for the US ahead>>>

IDEAS

ابتذال تخيلات

نامه حميد دباشی، احمد صدری و محمود صدری به يورگن هابرماس

by Ahamd Sadri, Mahmoud Sadri, Hamid Dabashi
27-Oct-2010 (15 comments)
اخيراً آقای آرامش دوستدار طی نامه مفصلی برخی از مواضع اخير شما در باره دگرگونی های فکری در ايران، حقوق مسلمانان در غرب، و شرايط همزيستی دين و مدرنيته در جهان معاصر را مورد انتقاد شديد قرارداده اند. ديدن انسانی چنين تهی از اميد و خوشبينی، نه تنها نسبت به ايران و ايرانيان بلکه نسبت به همه انسانيت، جداً تاسف آور است. اميدواريم که نامه ايشان را بعنوان نشانه و نمونه ای از شرايط اخلاقی و فکری سرزمين ما تلقی نفرمائي>>>

RELIGION

I believe in Dog

Let's hear it for the atheists

by Saul Friedman
22-Oct-2010 (45 comments)
Most of us have been taught to stay away from discussing politics and religion, so as not to disturb the dinner guests. Well, as most of you know, I've been covering politics for so long I can barely discuss anything else. And the freedom Time Goes By gives me in writing these little essays compels me to confess that I do not recall when it was that I came out of the closet. That's when I acknowledged that I'm an atheist, that I do not believe there is a God. In fact I don't know why I capitalized the "G." Although it may be blasphemous, I have had a bumper sticker that says, "I believe in Dog...">>>

IDEAS

The Red Persians

Islam, Marxism and Revolution in Iran

by Ali Vaez
17-Oct-2010 (5 comments)
Neither Ayatollah Khomeini, nor his disciples Islamized Marxism. Instead, they derived exceptional benefits from it. During the 1960s as a result of the Shah’s systematic suppression of all political opposition, Marxism was pushed into two distinct directions: guerilla fighting and the intellectual sphere. It was in the hands of leftist Islamic intelligentsia, like Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Ali Shariati that Marxism blended with Shiʿism. The amalgam created a formidable revolutionary force in Iran. Shortly after, the militant-Marxists and the Marxist-Islamists in coalition with Khomeini overthrew the monarchy>>>

DEMOCRACY

Marxists for Freedom?

In response to Azar Majedi

by Azada
17-Oct-2010 (16 comments)
Since when communists are turning to supporters of unconditional freedom of speech and democracy? Is not this notion a betrayal to and or dismay to the principals of CPs – of lost cause of 19th century mentality of dictatorship of one form or another, of “proletariat”? What communists had in practice brought to humanity? Among many atrocities by communist, the Stalinism, Khmer Rouge, to half a century of still Castro and North Korean Kim,… what record they have to be brag ever? In our country, little dictators like Bijan Jazani to Hezbe Toda to Islamic Marxists all are nourished from this communistic idea>>>
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