Friday, April 4, 2008
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Published: Friday, April 04, 2008
* Blogging politics
Ali-Mohammad Esma’il-Dehqi the author of the weblog “Stone Inscription” considers the candidacy of Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States, a conspiracy on part of the Americans who want him to become president so that…
“Since Barack Obama has been mooted as a candidate for the presidency of America, it has occurred to me that there is a bowl beneath the half bowl [something else happening behind the scenes]. Until now I still think that Americans want to assassinate him and blame his assassination on Iran or Syria or any number of Islamist currents, so that they would have a ground for an all out attack.”
Friday, April 4, 2008
http://sangneveshteh.blogfa.com/post-128.aspx
In his blog “Olive Branch” Qodrat Mazaheri, in the context of the Islamic Parliamentary elections, engages in a metaphorical conversation with his birth certificate and identity papers and compares the loss of these documents on the eve of the elections to children hide from vaccines at the doctor:
“[…] I don’t know if it is because of my bad luck or the misfortune of the candidates that my national ID card and birth certificate have conspired together and… have gone missing.
“Of course I think that the hand of global imperialism is at play. Or perhaps, just as we would hide somewhere out of fear of being vaccinated as children, my birth certificate and national ID card have feared being stamped by the seal of the elections, and have gone and hidden themselves somewhere. O dear birth certificate! God knows being stamped is not painful. Plus, if you want, I’ll have the stamper to stamp you more kindly! For God’s sake be found. To hell with the destiny of my country, if you don’t turn up, tomorrow when I want to go somewhere to find a job… idiots! Do you want to cut off my livelihood from with these shenanigans?”
Friday, April 4, 2008
http://zaytoon3000.blogfa.com/post-157.aspx
The author of the weblog “Please Don’t Doze Here” criticizes the weak reaction to the short film “Fitna” by Geert Wilders, and expects a firmer and timelier response to the screening of this film and reminds his readers of Salman Rushdie while explaining his position.
“[…] When years ago Imam Khomeini issued the death warrant for Salman Rushdie for writing the Satanic Verses, perhaps few truly realized the importance of this judgment and maybe that is why some within the country were skeptical about this sentence of the Imam.
“Yet this sentence has not been carried out to this day, and provincial men, like Abu Mazeh, who decided to attempt to carry it out and achieve martyrdom, fell short…
“The only thing that prevents the plundering west from insulting what a billion and a half Muslims hold sacrosanct, is the appropriate reaction to these undertakings, which according to the sacred Shari’a is to impose the only proper punishment on those responsible for cutting down the announcer [the prophet] and the Koran: “murder.”
“LAST WORD: surely if the sentence passed by Imam Khomeini […] in relation to Salman Rushdie was not dropped on the ground by the one and a half billion Muslims, we would not be witnessing the appearance of [Kurt] Westergaard-s and [Geert] Wilders-s, and the well of this rancid insult to the Islamic religion would be dried.
“LAST POINT: “Rushdie, Westergaard, Wilders”; there will be a next one if the sentence of Rushdie is not carried out. […]”
Friday, April 4, 2008
http://kian-abdollahi.blogfa.com/post-28.aspx
* Blogging social issues
The author of the weblog called “Men for Equality,” while supporting the campaign for one million signatures for the abolition of laws that discriminate between men and women, abhors the recently aired TV shows and screened movies which promote polygamy and thinks that “anti-women policies” are being officially supported by Iran’s media.
“[…] That the policy makers of Iran’s audio-visual media or Islamic Guidance Ministry would promote an anti-woman policy is not all that strange or far from the imagination. Even that there would be actors and artists who would promote in this project in order to
make a living is also expected. But that an established actor with a long career in Iran’s cinema would be willing to continuously appear in these roles, calls for pause…
“The revocation of laws that support polygamy is one of the ten demands of the one-million-signatures campaign. The repealing of these laws could only be possible via the promotion of this campaign in various social venues. Certainly cinema and television are considered very effective arenas in society. Hence protesting such movies and an effort to use media to demand gender equality could lead to engendering of the discourse of equality and subsequently it could help repeal discriminatory laws. […]”
Friday, April 4, 2008
http://menforequality.wordpress.com
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