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I want to be burn again as an Akhoond.

Because I don’thave to work for one day in my life, all I have to do release some hot air and say things like, be good in Arabic ( which they don’t understand ) and those poor lost souls always welling to follow me and pay me for my way of life.

What a job. 

MM

So many thanks for your post and the links ..... 

wow, wow, wow.

quite a big deal considering the life threateing repression they face.

Maybe there is hope, this is a sure sign of it, good stuff. 10 more like this and I'll have to change some of my views on them, they could be such a proactive force if they just used their conscience.

I admit, I liked this alot. 

Welcome

This is a welcome sign from Qom.  There are many in the clerical establishment that want the clergy to be divorced from politics but they are not in power.  As MM mentioned below Ayatollah Kazemeini Borojerdi is the champion in that front.  The man, who is directly linked to the 4th Shia Imam, is dying in the prison sanctioned by his fellow clergy!  I whole heartedly believe that once the regime falls (inevitable) there will be a reformation in Shia Islam.  You will see the progressives like Mohaqeq Damad proliferate.  A consolation in the 30+ years of retreat that we saw in Iran may be that religion will finally exit from our everyday lives.  I have no doubt that this will happen. 

Thanks RG

The respect towards the universal charter of human rights is not exclusive to a particular faction.  And, the more these Ayatollahs speak out on IRI's injustices, the more that make them human.

Thank you MM for comment and links on Ayatollah Boroojerdi.

In the midst of our justified anger against clergy, we should not forget likes of Boroojerdi and other patritic clerics (Taleghani, Montazari to name two), nor should we forget that the criminal fascism is by no means limited to clergy alone (Ahmadinezhad and his gang...) 

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

Boroujerdi is another false Messiah with suspect motives.

Ayatollah Boroujerdi is a questionable character who, like Khomeini, came from nowhere to sudden publicity (mainly from Western media promotion), and, again, like Khomeini, uses religion as a front for implementing of an unspecified political agenda on behalf of unknown parties.  

In other words, the Boroujerdi project is an attempt to use the Khomeini playbook for the next generation of disaffected Iranian youth.  The game is this: get a "Man of God" to speak about the injustices of the present system, have him act the part of a Gandhi figure not interested in political power, promote him as a pro-democracy Gandhi figure in the mainstream Western media, build his name and following through Western media marketing and intelligence information warfare, and use him and his unsuspecting followers to undermine the prevailing government for the interests of foreign powers seeking to set Iran back for another generation.

Ayatollah Boroujerdi, last Ayatollah who spoke 4 implementing...

Ayatollah Boroujerdi, the last Ayatollah who spoke for implementing secularism, HR and woman’s rights and also the one who argued against the IRI injustices, and (rasaaleh - nazar-e feghhi) against the concept of VF, was put in jail and still being tortured.

Nonetheless, there needs to be more and more of these Ayatollahs to speak out forcefully, otherwise, Islam is what it shows it is: A violent non-tolerant religion practiced by the likes of "religious" states/factions such as Al Qaeda, Taliban, IRI, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and list goes on.

تمامیت جنایت و بی عدالتی ، طی سه دهه حكومت ولایت فقیه

سی سال به بدبختی ملت سپری شد
درد آمد و آهش بنگر حاصل آن شد
سی سال خشونت عَلم راه جفا شد
عسرت به بشر داد و خیانت به خدا شد
سی سال قفس كرده خلایق كه عزا شد
از كثرت كشتار، شفق سرخ بلا شد
سی سال به زنجیر ستم مذهب ما شد
غرقاب فتن كرده خزان، اشك به خون شد
سی سال به تبلیغ و صداقت به كفن شد
محصول به هر وعده نگر، سفره غم شد
سی سال شرف مُرد و هدر اصل بقا شد
آزادی و انصاف به بازار فنا شد
سی سال به جادوی عبا ننگ بپا شد
عمامه كلاه مغولی بهر خطا شد
سی سال ز نعلین، جنایت به جهان شد
در معبر تقویم كمرها چو كمان شد
سی سال ز نكبت تن ما جامه سیه شد
از رنج و مصیبت، وطنم محو جنون شد
سی سال به مسجد زده تزویر و ریا شد
از منبر و محراب سیاست به سما شد
سی سال شرایع به جزا، لوث جنان شد
از گفته ملا همه ایران به شرر شد
سی سال زیارت همه ترویج قبا شد
موقوفه به تاراج و قداست همه پر شد
سی سال دروغ از پی هر روز نوا شد
دین ملعبه و حوزه و تفسیر به شك شد
سی سال نقابی ز دیانت به سرا شد
اموات به گور از عجبش خنده كنان شد
سی سال یزیدی به حسین مرثیه خوان شد
خود كشته و بر فاجعه اش روضه بخوان شد
سی سال كه هم میهن ما خانه نشین شد
بیكاری و بی پولی یاران سَم ما شد
سی سال كتك خوردم و خاموش خبر شد
این مرغك خوابیده روان سوی اوین شد
سی سال قضاوت به قساوت ره ما شد
قاضی ز عدالت تهی و شمر زمان شد
سی سال به دستان و به پایم همه غل شد
با خنجر نامرد، زبان، بند دهان شد
سی سال به اعضاء بدن، تیر فشان شد
پیری به برم آمد و حاكم به فرح شد

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سید حسین كاظمینی بروجردی / زندان مركزی شهر یزد
فروردین 1388، مارچ 2009

"Akhoond jamat" never to be trusted again

How pathetic this can be? Since when Akhoon needs script to read from and shouldn't he have read it once before so not to stumble so much.

What is it to be done with a 2 Dinar worth of mambo jumbo, why not declare a religious duty to disobedience of this regime.

Mehrdad

Knock Knock, who’s there.

Singing blues start when they are knocking at your door. This is how a good Akhoond operates; it’s time to save my ass. If it takes 32 years, thousands of death and millions in exile to show the evil face of these Animals then let it be, Iran will be a better place without them. 

Where's this guy been for 32 years?

Just when Iran is finally shifting away from clerical control (clerics which are beholden to foreign powers for establishing and maintaining power), and just when internal forces are liberalizing social conditions in the country, our noble cleric chooses to speak out against the "injustice" of the system.  

Obviously this upstanding, honest, righteous man of God is old enough to remember the unspeakable injustices of the IRI during the 1980's and 1990's. Why was he a supporter of the IRI when it was murdering people for owning guitars in the 80's, and only now so distraught to speak out in 2011, in what is probably the most free era of Iran under the Islamic Republic??  

Falling for hypocritical paid-for charlatans like this esteemed Man of God is what got Iranians in this mess in the first place.  Iranians beware of false messiahs!

کار خر از دست الله شد بدر

الله الله کم کن ‌ای جان پدر ...

کار خر از دست الله شد بدر!

...

Ayatollah Amjad: 'Lies Rule Supreme'; Mourning Held for 'Martyr' Saber

Finally, after 32 years,...

..., one akhoond. Okay, perhaps he's the third or fourth, but you know what i mean, considering the population of Qom alone...

Shiela K, well Said

The end of IRR//IRI is near.

ریش کروبی بعلاوه

Cleric establishment in a state of PANIC!

I am sure many of the mullahs are aware of the growing hatred against them in Iran and they fear for themselves. Others in power continue killing to preserve power, but that will eventually backfire in a big way. So this is just a singlar effort to save his own ass and separate himself from the others.

Sir:how about a Fatwa against torture/murder in jails & streets?

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Cyber dude

I had never seen an Ayatollah reciting from a script, he is also on Fb.

( I'm starting to sound like dear Yolanda:) )

بر پدر مرده این پدر سوخته دروغ گو لعنت؛

این هم یک مفت خور دیگری هست، که مطمئن باشید چون کار و پولی نتوانست از میز دزدی این جمهوری نکبت بار اسلامی بدست بیاورد، اکنون یادش افتاده که این اسلام کسیفش، و این نظام عزیزش در خطر است. توفو بر تو ای آخوند، و توفو بر دینت، بر قرانت، و بر محمد عربت.

Don't know what to think

On one hand I support him on his call for the rule of law. On the other hand he says if the passport was given back to the woman he would not make a statement. That shows that he may not be pleased with their action but still he could forget about the rape of prisoners if this woman passport was given back. I heard in VOA that Dastgheib had made another protest and that one has more value as it seems to address the general problems. 

حاج آقا درست گفتی‌ در باره "ظلم و جنایت در جامعه"!

ولی‌ حیف که کاملا ... به اون یک ذره حرف درستت، وقتی‌ شروع کردی به چرت و پرت‌های معموله در باره "دفاع از نظام"...

مگه تو کری؟ مگه تو  نشنیدی شعار میلیونی خلق مسلمان را:

"استقلال، آزادی، جمهوری ایرانی‌"

"مرگ بر دیکتاتور"

Stay tuned

Watching a cleric criticize the Islamic Republic in this fashion, so publicly, is rare. Very rare. The clerical establishment is still consolidating but the parts are made of human beings be it in clerical garb. Sooner or later it will crack. This guy is just one sign. More to come. Stay tuned.