Columbia circus

Anti-Ahmadinejad, anti-war, pro-shah, pro-gay, pro-women... & students greet Ahmadinejad

by Roozbeh Shirazi
25-Sep-2007
 
It was a circus yesterday. These are some photos from the crowd's perspective during Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia University. (Photos may not be shared, reproduced, or distributed without consent of Roozbeh Shirazi.)
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Desperately seeking to talk in Columbia

by Anonymouszzz (not verified) on

Desperately seeking to talk in Columbia

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bebin juje Khashmgin...

by nizam AL-mulk (not verified) on

bebin juje Khashmgin...

avalan dorost sohbat kon keh kalAme shomA neshAneye shoure shomAst.
sAnian sifon ro beband (man shour nadAram) keh harki mitune az poshte computeresh gonde gonde harf bezane.
sAlesan juje fokoli. masalan age man esmam nizam AL-mulk bAshe bA emlA'eh Arabi yA man Arab bAsham che arabe irAni yA gheyre irAni (baleh...dar irAn mA arab dArim. hAlA to harchi az propogAndAyeh farsit yAd gerefti irAn keshvare faqat fArsi nist...in yek hekAyat nationalisme sad sAl ham nist ay bisavAd) che farqi mikone. cherA beh arabhA tohin mikoni?

yeh mosht iruni'an keh mamlekat rA dAran micharkhan na arab. un eslAmi ham keh migan dineshune eslAm nist. banAbarin beh eslAm yA arab yA harchi keh beh ham ertebAt midi tohin nakon. mA irAni hastim o har moshkeli ham dArim bAs beine khodemun hal beshe na inkeh khodemun rA befrushim beh columbia o ghule imperialism keh neshaste ruyeh marze mamlekatemun.

bale ahmadi rais jomhure ideAle man nist.

ahmadi ham siAsatmadAri'eh irAn rA nemigzarune darzem harchi tuyeh resAne'hA'yeh gharbi mikubanesh bi haqiqate. ahmadi yeh AlAme moshkel mA IRANIHA bAhAsh dArim amA beh gharb hich marbut nist!

cherA rAjebe ahmadi enghadr sohbat mikonan va na rAjebe omar al-bashir'e sudan yA qadafi yA mugabe'eh zimbAbwe?

chon keh un keshvar hA manAbeye tabi'i nadArand. vasalAm.

aghalan bA in ghule imperialism o bA hekAyate badnAke jomhuriyeh eslAmi ahmadi hanuz ham puze raise columbia rA mimAlune tu kafe zamin.


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Iran is for Iranians.

by Santa Ana (not verified) on


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Oil and Women! Two things America is going to take from Iran..

by Double-edged Dick (not verified) on

Akhmadinejad, the president of Iran stated that there are no homosexuals in Iran! He is right. The Iranian homosexuals are in Boston and San Fransisco, the two most liberal cities in America.

What America wants from Iran are two things: its Oil and its women. We will pump Iranian oil to drive our cars and pump Iranian women to drive our natural God's given desires

God Bless America


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No platform for Fascists!

by anti-idiots (not verified) on

The Islamic Republic is not a sovereign nation, period. It's a client state of China, Russia, and the EU moftkhors. It's a puppet of serveral nations instead of only one during the Shah's time.

It's governance doesn't represent and reinforce the true will of the people, who are the true source of all sovereignty, and the only legitimating base for any state.

In a country where the government cannot, yet, publicly account for the serial killings of the most prominent intellectuals and writers; in a country where thousands of political prisoners have vanished without any culpability (massacring dissidents); in a country where the government manifestly lacks any accountability for its methods and means when it comes to providing for its people (except when it comes to pursuing, terrorizing and killing dissidents); in a resourceful country that almost half of the population lives in poverty, in a country where the future generation of Iranians are going to be left destitude because of massive corruption and thievary of its ruling class, the government that has thus thoroughly proven its incompetence in governance has no right to demand respect. It has not earned it.


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by Scott Adams, the creator

by Scott Adams fan (not verified) on

by Scott Adams, the creator of the
Dilbert comic strip. He published this on his blog.

A Feeling I'm Being Had
I was happy to hear that NYC didn't allow Iranian
President Ahmadinejad to place a wreath at the WTC site. And I
was happy that Columbia University is rescinding the offer to let
him speak. If you let a guy like that express his views, before
long the entire world will want freedom of speech. I hate
Ahmadinejad for all the same reasons you do. For one thing, he
said he wants to "wipe Israel off the map." Scholars tell us the
correct translation is more along the lines of wanting a change
in Israel's government toward something more democratic, with
less gerrymandering. What an ass-muncher! Ahmadinejad also
called the holocaust a "myth." Fuck him! A myth is something a
society uses to frame their understanding of their world, and act
accordingly. It's not as if the world created a whole new country
because of holocaust guilt and gives it a free pass no matter
what it does. That's Iranian crazy talk. Ahmadinejad can blow me.
Most insulting is the fact that "myth" implies the holocaust
didn't happen. Fuck him for saying that! He also says he won't
dispute the historical claims of European scientists. That is
obviously the opposite of saying the holocaust didn't happen,
which I assume is his way of confusing me. God-damned fucker.
Furthermore, why does an Iranian guy give a speech in his own
language except for using the English word "myth"? Aren't there
any Iranian words for saying a set of historical facts has
achieved an unhealthy level of influence on a specific set of
decisions in the present? He's just being an asshole.
Ahmadinejad believes his role is to pave the way for the coming
of the Twelfth Imam. That's a primitive apocalyptic belief! I
thank Jesus I do not live in a country led by a man who believes
in that sort of bullshit. Imagine how dangerous that would be,
especially if that man had the launch codes for nuclear weapons.
The worst of the worst is that Ahmadinejad's country is helping
the Iraqis kill American soldiers. If Iran ever invades Canada, I
think we'd agree the best course of action for the United States
is to be constructive and let things sort themselves out.
Otherwise we'd be just as evil as the Iranians. Those fuckers.
Those Iranians need to learn from the American example. In this
country, if the clear majority of the public opposes the
continuation of a war, our leaders will tell us we're
terrorist-humping idiots and do whatever they damn well please.
They might even increase our taxes to do it. That's called
leadership. If Ahmadinejad thinks he can be our friend by
honoring our heroes and opening a dialog, he underestimates our
ability to misinterpret him.
Fucking idiot. I hate him.
//dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/09/a-feeling\
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Playing Democrat At Columbia

by aaa (not verified) on

Ahmadinejad's agenda, though, differs from that of the traditional autocrat. His goal is not merely to hold power in Iran through sheer force, or even through a standard 20th-century personality cult:

His goal is to undermine the American and Western democracy rhetoric that poses an ideological threat to the Iranian regime.

Last winter, when he invited a host of dubious Holocaust-deniers to discuss the Holocaust in Tehran, he claimed that it was in order to provide shelter for the West's "dissidents" -- that is, for Western thinkers "who cannot express their views freely in Europe about the Holocaust."
This week, he declared that his visit to New York would help the American people, who have "suffered in diverse ways and have been deprived of access to accurate information." Thus the speech at Columbia: Here he is, the allegedly undemocratic Ahmadinejad, taking questions from students! At an American university! Look who's the real democrat now!

This sort of game is both irritating and dangerous, particularly when it is being played by a man whose regime locks up academics for the " crime" of organizing academic conferences and regularly arrests the Iranian equivalent of the students who listened to him speak yesterday. Iran is experiencing an unprecedented wave of political executions and death sentences -- more than 300 since January, according to the Boroumand Foundation -- and there is renewed pressure on the media.

In that atmosphere, it was deeply naive to imagine that the Iranian president would enter into a "vigorous debate" with students who were deploying their "powers of dialogue and reason," as Columbia University President Lee Bollinger stated before the event, or that he would answer the appropriately aggressive questions Bollinger put to him -- which of course he didn't. (To a question about persecution of gays, Ahmadinejad responded: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country.") All things being equal, Columbia would have done better to ignore him, instead of feeding the media circus that serves his purposes. It's not as if he is deprived of a platform in this country: Only last week, he ducked and dodged his way through a long interview on "60 Minutes," and his pronouncements regularly appear in media of all kinds.
Nevertheless, it would have been wrong, once he'd been invited, to ban Ahmadinejad from speaking: To do so would have granted him far more significance than he deserves and played right into his I'm-the-real-democrat-here rhetoric.

Instead, the university should have demanded genuine reciprocity. If the president and dean of Columbia truly believed in an open exchange of ideas, they should have presented a debate between Ahmadinejad and an Iranian dissident or human rights activist -- someone from his own culture who could argue with him in his own language -- instead of allowing him to be filmed on a podium with important-looking Americans. Perhaps Columbia could even have insisted on an appropriate exchange: Ahmadinejad speaks in New York; Columbia sends a leading Western atheist -- Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens or, better still, Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- to Qom, the Shiite holy city, to debate the mullahs on their own ground.

I realize that isn't likely. But neither is it likely that this past week's free-speech-vs.-nasty-dictator debate, complete with sputtering New York politicians and puffed-up university professors, achieved much either. On the contrary, it focused attention in the wrong place.
Instead of debating freedom of speech in Iran, here we are once again talking about freedom of speech in America, a subject we know a lot more about. Which is exactly what Ahmadinejad wanted.

//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...


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AZADI

by Ramtin (not verified) on

Iraniane AZIZ, drud bar shoma... Omidwaram ke be zudi Iran azad beschawad, va hame ma iranian ba ham digar djajschn begirim. Dast be dast iran ra azad konim.

sepas gosaram


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Where are you From ?

by Ahmadinejad (not verified) on

I am Iranian.

Are they civilized where you come from.
I never lived in Iran.
I was born out side Iran.

so you are eyranian.

Yes. Are you ever going back ?
Will you go back ?

I woke up ! it was an agent trying to Interrogate me!

Yes, Yes, I LOVE my Country. I love Iran.


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I came to NY when I was

by Khatami (not verified) on

I came to NY when I was president but didn't get this much attention. What happened? I guess they need somebody to vent their frustration at. How funny. Everyone in these pictures is laughing, is this supposed to be funny or serious?!


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Re: nizam al mulk

by khashmgin (not verified) on

nizam al mulk, khak too on saret ke nezamolmolk ro eyne araba neveshti. khak too on sareh pookeh arba zadeye badbakhtet konam.
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kaleh pook, be ma migi gheyrat nadarim? IRI dareh khaharo baradaraye toro goro gor mikosheh ey ahmagh, onvaght to be migi gheyrat nadarim?
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yak dahani azatoon saaf bokonim...
Khashmgin1


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jamesh kon benim baba

by nizam al-mulk (not verified) on

jamesh kon benim baba.

ahmadi abru hasiate irooni ha ra hefs kard.

damesh garm keh puze lee bolinger malund dame dare columbia'e khodesh.

yeh nokeh angosht ham gheyrat nadarin.

age ba mamlekat moshgel darin bayne khodemun bemune.

mirin sholughesh mikonin hameja.

asan man mikham bedunam chera mirin ehteraz mikonin joloye columbia? keh chi masalan? ...ahmadi bedune khoshetun nemiyad azash? mige khob kune laghetun. baraye un farqi nemikone.

faqat darin beh estela 'adding fuel to the fire' keh emrika bishtar propoganda ra bendaze o bege iruniha az dolateshun khosheshun nemiyad o ma bayad berim nejateeshun bedim o hala keh unja ham mirim yeh labi beh nafteshun ham bezanim keh benazar unam nejat dadan lazem dare.


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Persian werewolf

by Werewolf (not verified) on

Werewolf of Tehran

if you hear him howling around
“You've got to change your evil ways”

Better heed his advice
Or He'll cut off his oil supply, Jim
But if you play nice
He is as cuddly as Persian kitten


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in a shah times they was stolen are talent to west or kill them

by hajiagha on

jahan palevan takhti

 

Iranian artist this video looks to me Iranian government helping educated and talents Iranian which so great not like in Canada we have taxi driver with PHD go to www.notcanada.com


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Watch this video and weep or

by Anonymousee (not verified) on

Watch this video and weep or laugh:

//youtube.com/watch?v=9cIrymEv8xI


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it was like old days

by alborzi (not verified) on

it reminded me of Shah's visits.


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US civil liberaties were hard fought battles

by Gain it (not verified) on

"In the United States, almost all of our civil liberaties were hard fought battles. Abolitionist movement, child labor, labor, womens suffrage/rights, civil rights, etc were not benevolently granted by the government or sponsored by big business; rather the opposite: the fundamental rights that we enjoy were struggled for - sometimes militantly - by peoples movements (that alot of times consisted of socialists, radicals, anarchists and communists) who constantly met resistance by the government and business sector. It took decades of organizing and struggling to force what is now basic rights to be achieved. The constitution didn't protect the rights of workers, poor people, Native Americans, people of color or women, it was movements built and led by communist or socialist who helped get equal rights, who fought for the rights of collective bargaining so workers can have a say and not be constantly jerked by greedy companies and bosses.

All of these rights were won in the context of a democratic system of governance and the American constitution provided the basic foundation for this maneuverability within the system.

Sadly, in a religious theocracy wherein the legislator is God through his prophet, any other rights but religious rights are automatically void and null."

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