Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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Published: Wednesday, April 02, 2008
* Blogging daily Politics
In his weblog entitled “Politics of No” Faramarz criticizes the Koran, the prophet of Islam and all that today is being taught in Iran under the name of Islamic history, arguing that religious teachings even in the time of the prophet could not respond to human needs, let alone today. He continues:
“[…] Outside of any illogical prejudice one must also accept that without interpretations and explications done by religious authorities, the Koran itself, even in the period following the prophet’s, and even in tribal societies of Arabia, has not been adequate for answering societal, civic and political needs of man, and exactly for this reason the religious authorities of the early Islamic era, or better put, those who happened to be around and accepted the faith, in order to carry out the affairs of the society had to confer with the progeny of the prophet […] It is clear that the guardians of Shari’a, viewed thinking as some sort of interference in religious matters and continuously stood up to any criticism or investigation into such matters, because this would go against their advantage and could possibly cut into the profits of their religious enterprise.[…]”
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
http://tohfeyegarmsar.blogfa.com/post-287.aspx
The rather Byzantine, wordy and long-winded author of the blog “Muslim Ambassador” while criticizing the opponents of the government and the regime, and specifically attacking the reformists, considers the student movement of recent years as deviant and a “protégé” of the opposition to the Islamic Republic and attributes the fact that some members of the student movement have sought refuge outside of the country to their “rue and despondency following the puncture of the student movement’s tires” which has led them to “claw their heads and faces.” He continues:
“[…] If one day in this country extremist strategists would put words in the mouths of some student activists who pretended to be reformists, so that by exiting out of the system the call for a referendum against the Islamic Republic or for the change of constitution would take effect, today these same radicals are collaborating with European and American strategists who, plunged as they are in self-deluded conjecture, are after enflaming the oven of velvet blindness within the sacred institution of the university […]
“Did the principles followed by a few radical pretenders to the reformist side of the student movement in the past few years have any honey-moon other than disillusionment, despondency and a crisis of identity that is now widespread within a cross-section of their political activists? The affirmation and safe-guarding of freedom and free-thinking, should it not be concurrent with commitment to faith, Islamic and revolutionary identity, will prevent the carters of these student movements as it does other politicians so inclined, from the correct comprehension of the differences between this regime and liberal-democratic models, and would entangle them in empty and insubstantial alternatives such as the democratic or the human rights fronts. […]”
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
http://safirr.blogfa.com/post-86.aspx
* Blogging social Problems
In his blog which he calls “One was, one was not” [Persian for “Once upon a time”] Mas’ud Parsa writes about a texting trap set by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s official TV, which in “an unprecedented measure” decided to publish a joke circulating via text in Iran. Here is the joke:
“[…] Two cats find some food. Just as they are about to eat it, a death-thin cat comes along and tells them: Either you give me your food or else… The other cats laugh and say: Let it go daddyo, if we huff and puff you’ll stick to the wall. [Upon hearing this] the thin cat jumps and eats the other cats together with their food. Another cat that was witness to this event, terrified, asks the thin cat [meekly]: How did you do this? The thin can responds: May Ahmadinejad’s father burn; after all we were once leopards…” [translator: I don’t get it either]
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
http://parsa08.blogfa.com/post-104.aspx
* Blogging personal issues
“Ani Dalton” in her weblog entitled “Notes of a Rank Girl” has a humorous posting about women who stay single or colloquially put are “soured”. She writes:
“[…] It is evident that becoming soured does not have a particular age-limit; after all, it is not a legal age, is it? It also is not differentiated between men and women; after all, age is not a condition, is it? However by noticing some signs in yourself you can feel threatened by the approaching of sourness. The daughter of one of our relatives who is now 42 years old was sour since the age of 31, because in Isphahan’s Naqshe-Jahan Square I witnessed her once saying to a salesman: ‘No sir, if I buy this my husband will divorce me!’ She was embarrassed about her being single even then and would pretend to have a husband. This is much more dangerous than thinking that your age of marriage has passed. Remember that for marriage it is never ‘very’ late! [...] If apart from the dangerous matter of marriage, you were not successful on other levels of your life and never had a cheer be it because of a good family or an appropriate job, or in your quest for art or education or other things… no, who’s said that you are sour? It is either because of your week will or depression or bad luck. Don’t worry and by putting your trust in the almighty, start anew. Fish is dead no matter when you take it out of the water. [translator: this is a riff on the old proverb: “fish is fresh no matter when you take it out of the water”]”
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
http://anidalton.blogfa.com/post-247.aspx
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