Friday, March 14, 2008
By: IranVNC
Published: Friday, March 14, 2008
• Blogging current affairs
In the weblog “blue sky”, Bokhara criticizes the economic and social situation of the country and slams the performance of the government and official Iranian media for supporting Islamic movements and people such as Imad Mughniyah. The blogger writes:
“Oh God, what has befallen us?
“The Voice and Vision [state-owned radio and television] provides hours of coverage of the ceremonies held for Imam Mughniyah in Iran with the oil money which was supposed to reach our dinner tables. At the same time, the news of a child freezing to death in the northern regions of the country does not seem to reach this media.
“The Voice and Vision broadcasts a live programme praising a Qatari singer and the official Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA covers news of the march of Iraqi Arabs towards Karbala, the cries of the Palestinian people and (Israeli) attacks, while there was apparently no opportunity to despatch a correspondent to the Ariashahr quarter of Tehran [which was the scene of clashes and riots in protest against the treatment of a girl by the police, who said she didn’t wear her Hejab properly], to cover that incident…”
Friday, March 14, 2008
http://aseman-e-aabi.blogfa.com/post-11.aspx
Parnian Omid has posted an item entitled: The cage is very small and the door is closed, on the weblog “we get used to it”, in which he says that the elections which are about to be held are not, in his opinion, true “elections” because the competence of Majles deputies are being approved or rejected by means of special filters. He writes:
“…These days, I sense despotism with all my being. I have lost my hopes to remain and continue in this wretched homeland. From morning until night, I burn bit by bit and I am melting by seeing all the justice, love and affection around me. I have now got used to …reading that the buried body of another human being has been delivered to his or her parents! I have got tired of reading that a woman is waiting to be stoned to death and that she is dreaming day and night about the stones which will be offered to her as a gift by the government of divine justice! And how painful it is that in another case, a father has performed the terrible duty of giving his 14 year-old girl her just reward [reference to a father killing his daughter for reportedly meeting a young man] – and this is how security is governing our joyous society!...I have doubts about my humanity.”
Friday, March 14, 2008
http://adatmikonim.blogfa.com/post-6.aspx
• Blogging history and culture
On the weblog “be an Iranian and die as an Iranian”, Kia criticizes the current government and believes that “those in power” are distorting the nation’s history. He explains that if we are unaware of our historical identity, society remains “backwards” and even goes “mad”. The blogger thinks that this is the real state of affairs in Iran today because the country and its people “have no knowledge of their past or history, or have inadequate and defective knowledge of them”. He adds that Alexander the Great was a knowledge-loving person and that it was not him who burnt books [Alexandra is said to have burnt Persepolis including its vast library] but the Arabs, years after Alexandra and blamed him for it. The blogger writes:
“Woe to a country and nation that do not know their own history…Islam denounces whatever it has not borrowed from Zoroastrianism or the religious and social culture of Iran as unclean [Persian; najes]. Iranians do not know that many things which Islam considers as forbidden [Persian: haram] or unclean, were good and even sacred to people in the past – for example, dogs were animals which were protected and taken good care of and in the [texts of the] Avesta, dozens of pages have been devoted to this issue. Dogs were animals with many notable characteristics and they played a very positive role in people’s lives such that people were highly dependent on them. But after Islam, dogs became unclean animals.
“These are among the harmful consequences of Islamic rule because wherever knowledge, history, culture and…stand in opposition to religion and the wishes of ruling clerics, they are changed by them and whatever has to change becomes reality because this is the way the clerics earn their daily bread…”
Friday, March 14, 2008
http://iraneviran.blogfa.com/post-72.aspx
• Personal issues
On the weblog “image and word”, Kamran Sharifi believes that those born in the second half of the month of Esfand [20 February – 19 March] are unlucky because their birthdays are lost and forgotten in the midst of the commotion characterizing the new year period. He writes:
“I always feel very sorry for people born between 15 Esfand [5 March] and 1 Farvardin [20 March]. Nobody thinks about them. Everybody is busy thinking about something else and no-one has the time to go to their birthday celebrations. Many even forget to congratulate them…”
Friday, March 14, 2008
http://kamransharifi.blogfa.com/post-13.aspx
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