HILLARY

The enemy within

Will the U.S. have a woman president?

by Ali A Parsa
05-Jan-2008 (5 comments)
One would expect that if there is one country in the world in which women have become equal to men, that country is America. In fact, the number one question of twenty first century is, why does America remain the only industrial nation in which a woman has not been allowed to become president, or even vice president when even in many developing countries that has happened many times. Therefore, the anti-women factions mentioned above, with some of the big media at their service have managed to neutralize the women's struggle for more equality or place it on the back burner>>>

CHILD ABUSE

شبحی در خانه

تجاوزهای خانگی در مورد دختران در ابتدا متوجه پدران و برادران است

by Sahar Tahvili
05-Jan-2008 (38 comments)
کودک آزاری معقوله ای است که بحث در خصوص آن ، شنونده را منزجر می کند. کسانی که خود در طیف آزاردهندگان کودکان نیستند ، می اندیشند که چگونه ممکن است کسی بتواند نیاز جنسی خود را با کودک بر طرف سازد و از طرفی وحشت از همه گیر شدن و بر ملا شدن این موضوع باعث شده تا این مقوله در کشورهای نامترقی به تابو تبدیل شود. آنچه در این میان بسیار نفرت برانگیزتر است رشد و گسترش تجاوزهای خانگی است که بسیار کمتر از کمتر ، در مورد آن بحث و تحقیق می شود>>>

SCREAM

Who cares?

I am angry! At me, the girl who stares back at me in the mirror

by Cklara Moradian
03-Jan-2008 (6 comments)
“I AM ANGRY?” Is it even important how I feel? What I want? What I write about? Does my anger even matter when Britney Spears’ 16-year-old sister is pregnant? Could I possibly have something provoking to say when Paris Hilton just lost all of her inheritance to charity? Can I possibly have something more enraging to be angry about when so and so just got engaged and the other couple from last year's wedding filed for a divorce? I mean who cares what I have to say? Everyone has so much to worry about already. JC Penny's “16-hour post holiday sale” is ticking down and Macy's has that “two days only end of the year, new year special” going on right now so why would anyone in their right mind be reading this instead?>>>

BENAZIR

Pahlavan Syndrome

Lessons from the Bhutto assassination

by bahmani
02-Jan-2008 (10 comments)
Recent events in Pakestan have raised awareness of the all too commonly obvious pitfalls of putting too much hope in one person, rather than allowing a simple self regulating system to run a social order of a people. The cowardly assassination of Benazir Bhutto is the vilest example of man's continuing inhumanity to man. Regardless of now re-surfacing claims of the corruption of the Bhutto family and their political infamy, the bottom line is that, in 2007 with the existence of writ of habeas corpus, the right to accuse someone and their right to defend themselves against that accusation, no one deserves to die like this. It is simply uncivilized>>>

POLITICS

Constitutional clash

The constitution has placed a ban on all reforms deemed to be “un-Islamic”

by Jahanshah Rashidian
02-Jan-2008 (60 comments)
The trigger of violence was officially pulled in Iran when it became clear that the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini’s vision of an Islamic society was to take precedence over all other visions and interpretations after the revolution of 1979. There was disagreement from the start among the various political forces over the definition of the revolution itself. The left and secularists wanted the term „Democratic Republic”, while a spectrum of Muslims preferred “Islamic Democratic”, but Khomeini opted for “Islamic Republic”.>>>

BENAZIR

One assassination, two killings

Why it's difficult to feel sorry for Benazir Bhutto

by Jeesh Daram
02-Jan-2008 (25 comments)
I am deeply saddened and still trying to recover from the horrible news of the killings and frankly, more shocked about the “killings”, than the “assassination”. When I look at her eyes, those innocent eyes, it churns my heart as why should a beautiful creature like her be killed in cold blood. What has she done wrong? What did she say to deserve being killed? What was the justification for her death? Poor dear Tatiana. How come no leader of the world blamed Islamic terrorists to be responsible for your death?>>>

SECULARISM

سکولار بودن دانش

چرا دانشگاه يک نهاد سکولار است؟

by Esmail Nooriala
02-Jan-2008 (20 comments)
گيرم که استادان سکولار علوم اجتماعی را از دانشگاه اخراج کردند، گيرم که به استادان دانشکده های علوم تجربی و فيزيکی دستور دادند که کار تدريس را با گرفتن وضو و تلاوت آيات قرآن و انجام نماز آغاز کنند؛ اما، درست در آن لحظه که تدريس دانش فيزيک و شيمی و زيست شناسی آغاز می شود، همهء باورهای مشيتی و تقديری نسبت به نيروهای ماوراء الطبيعه به بيرون کلاس تبعيد می گردند و کلاس درس از حال و هوای وهم زدهء «حوزوی» خالی می شود. >>>

IDEAS

Time to move on

Iranians must understand that times have changed

by Ben Madadi
02-Jan-2008 (6 comments)
Iran was indeed a world power to reckon with during the time of the Safavid, especially during the reign of Shah Abbas. But Iran has been an insignificant world player, and an almost absent one, for more than 150 years, even with the advantage of oil money. Still Iranians still have imperial dreams, dreams of belonging to the preferred nation within a glorious vast empire in which they have one or more idols, kings or prophets, who are also powerful worldly figures, if not the most powerful, who walk with arrogance amongst non-Iranians, who are adorned, respected and feared>>>

BENAZIR

محترمه بوتو

در سوگ نمادی بی نظیر برای دموکراسی

by Hamid Akbari
30-Dec-2007 (9 comments)
خانم بوتو، این زن مسلمان تحصیلکرده سازگار با جهان مدرن و مخالف تداخل دین در حکومت، در مواجهه با این دشمنان اسلام پیشه، از همه چیز خود گذشته بود. می گفت که علیرغم آگاهی به خطرات آنرا به جان می خرد. می گفت که علیرغم مادر بودن و احساس قوی برای فرزندانش، او خود را مادر همه فرزندان پاکستان می داند. می گفت که من ماموریت خود را در نجات پاکستان از تسخیرش بوسیله افراطیان اسلامی می دانم. او پادزهر روییدن و پخش شدن علف های هرزه و زهرآگین دین فروشان را استمرار در پرورش نهال های دموکراسی و آزادی در سرزمین های ملل مسلمان می دانست و سرانجام آنها را با خون خود آبیاری کرد.>>>

IDEAS

Happiness in slavery

Greed and faith

by 24601
30-Dec-2007 (8 comments)
We live in (here in America) what has been referred to as a fast food culture. If president Bush ordered all eateries closed tomorrow the American people would have him impeached in an hour. We don’t seem to care about our own lives, not to mention the lives of Muslims. The American people are being oppressed in the worst possible way, pacification. The same can be said about the Islamists as they are also being pacified, in their case the pacifier is Islam. In our case its comfort. What is my point? My point is this... Greed>>>

FORUM

Culture shock

I only wish I had access to such a forum when I was a teenager

by Curious Joe
30-Dec-2007 (36 comments)
For those readers who are not in their 20s, back in the 1970s, the Iranian parents wanted their children to become either medical doctors or engineers (ya doctor besho, ya mohandes!!), I was sent to a university in Europe where they fully concentrated only in one subject during the 4 years of undergraduate studies. My father refused to send me to the US because he thought the freedom of choosing courses in a variety of subjects was too much of a “wishy-washy” upbringing to focus on becoming a professional Engineer or a Medical Doctor. >>>

TANZ

شهید بوتو

آخه یکی نیست به این پهلوی ها بگه، بابا حالا جرأت نمیکنین ایران برین اقلاأ یک سر تا ترکیه برین دلتون بازشه

by Jeesh Daram
29-Dec-2007 (46 comments)
یکی نبود به بینظیر بوتو بگه تو هم از این فرح خانوم خودمون یاد بگیر. الان سی ساله آزگار توی آمریکا و اروپا پرسه میزنه، کیفشو میکنه، کنسرت میره، به این موزه پول میده، از اون یکی خرید میکنه، عشق میکنه، روسری هم سرش نمیکنه! هرچند سال یکبار هم یکدونه ازون نطقهای چیزم به طاقی غم انگیز میکنه، که آدم دلش کباب میشه که چطور زنی با داشتن میلیارد، میلیارد دلار پول نقد، باز میتونه صداشو اونجور گه مرغی کنه>>>

GUTS

The patriot

I am in awe thinking what Benazir Bhutto stood for

by hamidbak
29-Dec-2007 (11 comments)
I didn't know what it meant for a long time and even when I did find the true meaning of it, I was away from my country for so long and left at such early age that I didn't really feel "patriotism. Benazir Bhutto was a patriot, to its truest meaning. She, knowing that her life was in danger, went back to her home country and died where she was born. When she was asked why, she said that it was her calling. Quite incredible, I think.>>>

BENAZIR

آنجا که زنان برای آزادی دو بار می ميرند

همين که بی نظير بوتو از آزادی، و نان و حقوق شان حرف می زد کافی بود که دوستش بدارند.

by shokooh.pasargad
29-Dec-2007 (9 comments)
درست همزمان با وقتی که خانم هيلری کلينتون، زيبا و درخشان، از پله های محل سخنرانی سالن نورانی يکی از کمپين های انتخاباتی خود بالا می رفت تا در مقابل ده ها دوربين فيلمبرداری و صدها طرفدار خوش لباس و سر حال خويش از فردايي بهتر بگويد، زن ديگری، به همان زيبايي و درخشش، در ميدان بويناک محله ای در راولپندی در مقابل هزاران زن و مردی که برخی شان روی صندلی های تاشو نشسته بودند و برخی ديگر پا برهنه از سر و کول هم بالا می رفتند، ايستاده بود تا او نيز سخن از فردايي بگويد که سال هاست بسيارانی از آن مردم در انتظارش نشسته اند.>>>

MURDER

God and religion business

On Benazir Bhutto, Islam and freedom of speech…

by Curious Joe
29-Dec-2007 (78 comments)
Benazir Bhutto's assassination reminds me of the number of rednecks and misogynists in the US who are ready to bet that if either Hillary or Obama are elected next year, they'll be assassinated by January 2010. It also makes me wonder when will the Iranians wake up and separate Disneyland/God/Religion from the State? Proud of their 2500 years history, will the Iranians ever wake up to realize that the whole concept of “God” is nothing but a mere figment of human imagination – no matter whether it is marketed by the Bible, Torah, Qoran, or any other fairy tale -- and no matter how many billions in South America or Africa believe in such BS>>>
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