Friday, August 1, 2008
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Published: Friday, August 01, 2008
* Blogging politics
The writer of the blog “armature” addresses the [approaching] 102nd anniversary of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran on 6 August, 1906. He believes the 102-year old Constitutional Revolution lives on as the issue of the day. He continues:
“…how strange is our saga, that after 102 years we are still on the same path…”
“One-hundred and two year is a long life-time, which we have put behind us, but every now and then we recount this story and tie the failure of all the movements that followed the Constitutional Revolution to the beleaguered Majlis, which was not allowed to form [at the time] when we [ the country] were not able to compromise. The bitter reality is that if the Constitutional Revolution did not bear fruit, it was less the victim of imperialist powers than it was the victim of internal dissension.”
“This is the essence of the character of us Iranians. Although we want freedom and seek civil society, we do not know how to cooperate towards a common goal. It seems our cooperative and cohesive spirit is weaker than the necessary amount to get us to our goal. Even though, back then everyone knew what they did not want, they did not understand what they wanted…”
Friday, August 1, 2008
http://amatour.blogfa.com/post-214.aspx
* Blogging social issues
The writer of the weblog “heavenly Sistan” [a reference to the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Va-Baluchistan] admits he disagrees with fundamental changes [societal] and considers any claims that something will be fundamentally altered to be suspicious. He continues by criticizing those who support separating religion and state:
“…I am suspicious of all those doctors, secular and religious, who claim they will cure [our society] through fundamental change. Our culture has never, under any circumstances, been supportive of fundamental change and basically is not in need of such a change. Throwing out the baby with the bath water in the hope that we are making fundamental changes is absolute foolishness…”
Friday, August 1, 2008
http://sibestaan.malakut.org/archives/2008/07/post_644.shtml
In a posting called “the sick makeup and incurability of Iranian culture” Dehqan, the writer of the weblog “neo-Hezbollah” criticizes both the religious and secular-enlightened crowds of Iran, and subjects them to psychoanalysis. He writes:
“Iranian culture is built on destruction. Destruction of thought, assassination of self-confidence and annihilation of people in the form of denying respect for God’s creatures. Respectful thought is of no significance to an Iranian . This is an widespread affliction. Our most secular people and our most religious suffer from it alike.
Our secular people are merciless charlatans. They deal in unbounded disrespect with people’s religious belief. Our religious people are narcissistic dodgy characters, busy swindling each other to make sure the other guy does not reach the pinochle of this world or heaven in the next....”
Friday, August 1, 2008
http://hezbolahe-nasle-no.blogfa.com/post-121.aspx
In his personal weblog, Mohammad Mostafai has posted a piece entitled “objection to public flogging,” describing an incident where several youths were flogged publicly in the [southern] province of Kerman and the public outcry that followed. He writes:
“….I heard a court in the village of Anar, in the vicinity of Rafsanjan, determined to carry out the [flogging] sentence of two individuals convicted of stealing three tons of pistachios in public, and on Friday [1 August] the court brought the two convicts to the place where the crime was committed. The first of the two was flogged but the impact of the whip was so harsh that witnesses obejected strongly enough to bar the sentence of the second person to be carried out….”
Friday, August 1 , 2008
http://mostafaei.blogfa.com/post-34.aspx
In his weblog “Lord, save me from your fans,” Colonel says:
“We the clergy always act like tear gas: we only know how to bring people to tears.”
Friday, August 1, 2008
http://ghorbatzadeh.blogfa.com/post-127.aspx
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