Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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Published: Tuesday, June 10, 2008
• Blogging politics
“Haji Kensington” a blog authored by an Iranian resident of Britain, offers a comparison between political and economic corruption in Iran and Britain concluding that in western societies the system of checks and balances functions by, as thePersian expression goes, pulling the hair out of the yogurt [searching for a needle in a haystack]. On the other hand, in societies like Iran, the situation is quite different. As an example, Haji engages the recent revelations about the corruption of the political and religious leaders of Iran by one of the ultra-conservative, so-called “principlists”.
“They say power could corrupt a person. And there is no differentiation between Iranian and English, Muslim and Jew, Shah and servant in this respect.
“For instance today there was a report about a male member of European Parliament from the Labor Party who paid 8000 Pounds a month as a stipend to his boyfriend […]
“But corruption here is different from Iran. Firstly, there are independent oversight institutions, which pull the hair out of the yogurt. Secondly, instead of shady people like Abbas Palizdar, it is independent and responsible media that do the revealing (without discrimination between Ehud Olmert and Va’ez Tabbasi.) Thirdly, those who have been scandalized would either go to court and demand redress, or resign [as opposed to Iran, for instance] the victims of Palizdar have not even flinched. Fourthly, the economically corrupt here do not have any pretence to religiosity and have never led the Friday Prayers. But most importantly, the leader of the country does not promote the guilty.”
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
http://www.mibibi.com/1387/03/21/post-566/
• Blogging Social Problems
Mitra Khalatbari in her weblog called “Scream of Silence” writes about all the hardships she has had to face in her attempts to champion the cause of a few Iranian youngsters sentenced to death for crimes committed while they were underage. She writes about the atmosphere of her society.
“[…] We people of Iran are among those who are cursed. I have had a stressful 24 hours. Stress because of many things that not only were not my personal troubles, in the opinion of many of my friends, they didn’t have any connection to me at all, and [they said] I was torturing myself with all these headaches and needless thoughts for no reason. Behnood Shoja’i and Mohammad Fada’, who were scheduled to be executed tomorrow morning, now can breath for another month because of a little glance from the president of the judiciary branch. But what use is that, when in their short years they experienced tonight their lives passing before their eyes for the second time and their heads up on the gallows and there still is not much hope […]
“[…] The gates and towers of this accursed city turn my stomach. A city in which even the light of its streetlamps have been proscribed for us. On the dirty and ugly streets of our town, now while crossing the street there is yet another reason to be afraid, as our law-abiding drivers will give you a few choice curse words if they don’t hit you […]
“[…] Complaints about high prices, the system of government, [government itself], irresponsibile authorities, ineptitude, injustices, … these things do not belong to a particular group or certain place any longer. The lack of equanimity has grabbed everyone’s collar. I can’t take it any more […]”
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
http://hamegi.blogfa.com/post-305.aspx
In his weblog called “The Art of Teaching” Hossein criticizes the economic conditions developed during the tenure of President Ahmadinejad, who calls his administration, the justice-pivoted government. Hossein writes about his students, their unhealthy diets, their poverty and their endangered health.
“[…] Hassan: third grader, father’s occupation: laborer
thin, weak, small stature, eyes sunken in, pale, main
food: bread, potato and rice.
“Reza: father’s occupation: low-level office job
quiet, unexcitable, lack of participation in class discussions, anemia, lack of appetite, receives no fruits in twenty-four hours, …
“Such cases are on the rise in every class while we are governed by the self-proclaimed government based on the axiom of social justice; a government that has as its main platform the interest of lower income groups.
“The actuality of our society is such that a small, well-off group pay more attention to the quality and type of food they provide for their children, while a much larger group of society are merely thinking about filling theirs and their family’s stomachs in less time to consider the quality and type of food for their children […]”
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
http://www.honaremoalemi.blogfa.com/post-109.aspx
Kasra writes a blog he calls Tarrah (“Designer”). In a recent post he notes that bad ideas and resentments left behind in our hearts destroy human beings .
“Your real killer is not cancer, or society, law or authority; it is not poverty or wealth either. Your real killer is ideas that you raise in your head, those you hate in your heart; you don’t believe me? Look at history and not individuals, but rather nations and societies that have been victims of their persistence on ignorant ideas; they have gone but their skulls from underneath the earth grimace at us[…]”
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
http://kasra-yousefi.com/wpengine/?p=437
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