Monday, August 4, 2008
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Published: Monday, August 04, 2008
* Blogging politics
The author of the weblog “Zendeyaad [Alive in memory]” in a posting entitled “Exportation of the revolution, be forgiven to us”, after providing a list of Iran’s primary exports and imports, has turned to cultural exports and quotes a passage from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, who used to say, “We will export our revolution to the whole world, we want to export this revolution, our cultural revolution, to all countries in the world,” comments:
“Has anything really remained of this revolution to be exported??? May they forgive us for setting out to export it..
“Forget about the third and fourth generation, has anything of the revolution remained in the creed and persuasion of the first and second generation of the revolution, to be related to today’s youth and youngsters and then try to export it?
“Let us not talk about imports here for it will need a 70 stone tome of paper to cover it.”
Monday, August 4, 2008
http://zendeyad.parsiblog.com/531771.htm
* Blogging Society
Mokhtabad, the author of “Sarbong” in a posting entitled “Cancellation of concerts, the new worries of music fans”, criticizes the cancellation of the concert of an American mystical music group, and tries to find the root of this subject and analyze it.
“[…] In such an atmosphere the cancellation of the concert of the group Debu, which, both in their performance and the essence of their poetry, has special kinship to the discourse that the authorities of music in the [Ministry of] Guidance have had, is questionable. At the same time the cancellation of concerts by maestro Dariush Safevat, Jean During or Lily Afshar, challenges minds […]”
“That Debu’s concert was not put on, damaged several other groups, and of course the spiritual damages of it outweigh the physical ones. That we should interfere with the calendar of more than three-thousand citizens and prevent them from seeing a concert is one thing, but it is clear that this does not bother the authorities one bit. But then there is the financial damage that the group and the producers of the shows suffer […]”
Monday, August 4, 2008
http://day1348.blogfa.com/post-143.aspx
Mostafa Jalali-Fakhr, the author of the weblog “Gray-board” in analyzing the sudden retirement of the world weight-lifting champion Hossein Rezazadeh from the sport, calls him a media champion and a hero, and maintains that people in the East need a hero. He states the reasons for criticism of Rezazadeh thus:
“[…] Nations need heroes and this is more evident in Eastern societies. Sometimes they find one for themselves, and sometimes others oblige them. […]
“My aim is not to accuse Rezazadeh of insincerity or any other negative charge. My point is that he is a champion or hero of the media. He is more famous than he will be remembered. I don’t think that time will help this decision for exaggeration or that it would keep his image as a champion […]”
Monday, August 4, 2008
http://jalalifakhr.blogfa.com/post-211.aspx
Mehdi Mohseni, the author of the blog “Republic” addresses the words of Ayatollah Ahmad Janati, Tehran’s Friday Prayer Leader, who has expressed worry and discomfort abouthooligans. He further analyses a plan known as “Increasing Public Security” and asks Janati directly about the age of the arrested and whether or not they are the products of this regime or not.
“[…] When I look at these faces, I see youngsters who have hardly entered the third decade of their lives. Kids of 20 and teenagers of 10 years ago, the children of the revolution!
“I don’t know if one could see 20 years ago in their possibly innocent faces that they would be hooligans now and could hang them then? […]
“In a time not long ago they were taking students, journalists, weblog writers and political activists in groups to the Evin Prison. How was the problem of these thugs addressed then? While they were imprisoning intellectuals and university folk, in all likelihood these hooligans and hoodlums were roaming the streets unbothered transgressing people’s rights freely.”
Monday, August 4, 2008
http://jomhour.org/2008/08/02/_20/
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