Is there any chance the MSM would cover this? Even 0.00001%

What is it about journalism school that attracts only the self-deluded?

Posted by: JSobieski at April 2, 2007 11:13 PM

The revolution was a means to an end. Rule with religion, was the goal. The Islamic establishment has nefarious control over people, politics, and laws. They practice the excesses of manipulation and degradation, and the glorification of power and domination. They are cold and impersonal. They block effective understanding. They utilize the mental shackle of divine intervention. Illusory forces suppress the imagination. They enforce paralysis, distortion, and misrepresentation. Islam is non-material, narrow, mystical, and supernatural, with powerful texts and ideas. Persians are expected to uncritically embrace and submit to these forces. Islam is an ancient belief system, an expression of a patriarchal society from a specific historical time, and a culture of domination, control, division, rivalry, bigotry, and slavery. Strongmen monopolize wealth and humanity, and practice barbaric customs and values. Women are held down by beliefs. Their life is of inequality, separation, exploitation, and repression.
The Persian people have a proud history. Iranians seek freedom. They are willing to struggle to find a new vision. They see a world with modern ethics, morality, values, and education. The material world is part of human character. They know the value of truth, and the natural world. They understand; the universe is matter in motion, and an expanse of time and space. They are motivated and moving in the direction to change themselves and their society. They consciously search for a positive ideological, philosophical, an institutional transformation. They want to fully analyze, and produce uncensored media. They also expect the emancipation of women.

Posted by: SFOD at April 2, 2007 11:55 PM

If many people in Iran are on their own Spiritual Search -- a Search prompted by a desire to make a run from the Mental Slave Labor Camp of Islam, that is away from the very thing, Islam, that psychically unstable or terminally naive Westerners embrace in their own Spiritual Search -- then they will have to jettison Islam.

Depict Islam as what, in truth, it has been for Persia, for Iran -- an Arab import, a poisoned chalice that was handed to Sassanian Persia, and the effects of which included attempts to arabize the superior culture of the Persians. Encourage Persian pride in a pre-Islamic past. EncouragePersian resentment of the inferior, primitive, desert Arabs. Refer to Hafiz, and Sa'adi, and Omar Khayyam, and Firdowsi's Shahnameh, and how wonderful it was that by force of art, Persian poets were able to help the country resist the linguistic and cultural imperialism of the Arabs.

All intelligent Iranians should be jettisoning Islam, not sticking with it and claiming that it is something other than what it is. Time to make a clean break. For anything at all - unbelief, Christianity, or even Zoroastrianism, its beliefs irrelevant, its role as the Persian national religion most relevant.

Do what it takes to de-islamize Iran. Islam just hasn't worked out. It is the most "powerful retrograde force" (Churchill, The River Wars) in the world today. Get out while you can.

Posted by: Hugh at April 3, 2007 12:13 AM

Hugh:

You have written at length about facilitating Sunni vs. Shia violence. What about the prospects of encouraging Persian vs. Arab violence?

Posted by: JSobieski at April 3, 2007 12:38 AM

Jettisoning islam? But that's exactly the problem: the 'no compulsion' religion kills apostates...

Posted by: Lili at April 3, 2007 1:03 AM

Is there any chance the MSM would cover this? Even 0.00001%

What is it about journalism school that attracts only the self-deluded?

Posted by: JSobieski

Sobieski - i'm loving your posts today! And I have the answer for you. Geraldo Rivera. Oprah.

Sorry I realize that's not the answer. Just what comes to mind immediately.

Maybe the answer is that anyone who has an open and independent mind never makes it through journo skool. You can imagine the lefty-nutness of the faculty!

Posted by: Allahfanculo at April 3, 2007 2:16 AM

Assalamau Laikum all,

Can you see what they are asking for here?

NO....well let me (as usual) enlighten you.

It is the mix of Sharia and democracy that I keep talking about. It is what peoples the world over are asking for...and is required for world peace.

Humanity is such that sacrifices are required when change is asked for...this maybe strange...but Allah T'allah knows best.

Posted by: Naseem at April 3, 2007 6:06 AM

"in what activists say are discriminatory laws against women in the Islamic Republic."

.....not one word from any womens rights organization (i.e. NOW) have I read....

....the truth is getting out...Islam holds little regard to womens rights...and Muslims hate the truth , especially when the infidels know it....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at April 3, 2007 6:10 AM

allah has made women inferior to men because allah was a sexist who inspired the first terrorist of the world-profit mohammed for indulging in pedophillia and child molestation.naseem is a servant of sex starved allah who is married to book of satan-koran.naseem must be aware of the equal rights granted to women by the sex starved allah and his terrorist profit in the islamic dictatorship of pakistan.so she should not lecture infidels on sharia and democracy which are two opposing ideologies just like communism and capitalism.

Posted by: anti islamocommunist at April 3, 2007 7:24 AM

"Iran denies discriminating against sexes and says its laws are based on Islamic sharia."

....IN Islam women are sub humans, generally treated as property or slaves of the Muslim male and therefore have no legal right to protest or demand equal treatment....the nerve of those women......

Islam...Bah....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at April 3, 2007 7:29 AM

Hugh:

You have written at length about facilitating Sunni vs. Shia violence. What about the prospects of encouraging Persian vs. Arab violence?

Posted by: JSobieski at April 3, 2007 12:38 AM

JSobieski:

You didn't ask me, but I'd say that very little has to be done to encourage Persian on Arab violence. The Saudis and various Sunni-ruled petro-emerates are extremely loathe to see a Persian-led Shia crescent emerge, and the Islamic Republic's ambitions in the region are becoming ever more transparent via Hezbollah, the presence of Iranian Repub Guardsmen and other officials in Iraq and also in Afghanistan. The Sunnis and Shias make common cause only when it suits their immediate purposes. Otherwise, they are the most bitter of rivals. If it ever looks too likely that the Iranians will gain control over Iraq or Lebananon, that will be quite enough to get a regional war going.

As for the enlightening power of your posts, Naseem, yeah, but not in the way you intend them to be.

Posted by: waterdragon52 at April 3, 2007 7:41 AM

Equal rights for women?

Where do these ladies think they are, a non-Muslim country?

Get out of Mohammedism's chains and headlock.

That's the only place where women are allowed to be free.

Islam is a cage.

Posted by: profitsbeard at April 3, 2007 11:22 AM

SFOD,

You sound as though you have first hand experience in dealing with islam and iran.

As to the article above....don't these women know: "foolish women, thoughts are for men."

Posted by: eve_anne_gelical at April 3, 2007 2:14 PM

From the article: the women are protesting against "discriminatory laws against women in the Islamic Republic" and "Iran denies discriminating against sexes and says its laws are based on Islamic sharia."

Well, duh!

It's the islam, stupid!

Posted by: eve_anne_gelical at April 3, 2007 2:16 PM