What's gone wrong?

When a lesbian says: "We are all Hezb’ Allah now"


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What's gone wrong?
by Azar Majedi
27-Aug-2007
 

When my daughter’s friend told me a couple of weeks a go, that her socialist lesbian friend has a poster on her wall saying: “We are all Hezb’ Allah Now!” I said: “my God! (And I am an atheist) something has gone fundamentally wrong.”

I asked myself, what are they trying to do, mocking socialists? Or, are they simply brainwashed? What is this world coming to?

This young woman has all the necessary ingredients for fighting against political Islam and Hezb’ Allah. First of all she is a woman. Just the fact of being a female, is enough to make you a staunch enemy of a radically misogynist movement, unless you are brainwashed to do the opposite.

To add to the irony, she is a lesbian. Homosexuality is a crime punishable by death according to Islam and in countries under its rule. To be homosexual makes you want to flee from any place that the Islamists have any power. Dozens of homosexuals have been hanged in recent months by the Islamic Republic of Iran. She, a lesbian, born in Iran, or in a region under Hezb’ Allah, would have to seek refuge in Britain. But she is lucky enough to be born here and does not have to live in the fear of her life, like poor Pegah who fled Iran to seek refuge in Britain, and who now British government wants to deport back to Iran*.

Is this socialist-lesbian supporter of Hezb’ Allah aware that her support of political Islam makes Pegah’s case even more difficult? Home Office does seek legitimization for such deports by these quasi left Islamist propaganda. And finally she claims to be a socialist. Wherever one stands in political spectrum, it is a well-known and accepted fact that socialism is about equality, fairness and aspirations for a more egalitarian and fairer society. If one chooses socialism, that should mean, one cares for fellow human beings, aspires equality and freedom, all those values that are despised by the Islamic movement. Many thousands socialists have been imprisoned, tortured and executed by the Islamic Republic alone.

Then, what has gone wrong? Why is she so passionate about the Hezb’ Allah? An ideological falsification is responsible for this turn of events. Pragmatism has helped the course of events, as well. Let’s start with the latter. This most probably good-hearted young woman is rightfully sick and tired of American and British aggression and crimes committed in Iraq and the Middle East. She is sick and tired of the injustices imposed on the Palestinian people. She rightfully condemns American and British states for all these crimes and atrocities and for their full fledged support for the state of Israel and last year’s war on Lebanon. She is just to do so. However, on the other side, since George Bush has defined the enemy as Islamists, she automatically turns into full support for the Islamists.

The American and British aggression and military actions against the people in the Middle East has helped to draw a wrong image of the Islamic movement. Islamic movement and ideology have been falsified as the liberators of the people in the Middle East or the Palestinians. This is false. Islamists are one the most brutal movements in the history of mankind. They are no liberators. They are a force of reaction and darkness. This message must be spread.

Islamists are not the spokesperson for the Palestinians or Iraqi people. They do not represent the pain and grief these people suffer by these wars. They are not people’s representatives; they are as brutal and as ruthless. What we need to make clear is: in the war between US and Islamists, between the two poles of terrorism, we do not need to support either. We must condemn both. We should form a third pole, a third voice to oppose both.

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* Petition in defence of Pegah Emam Bakhsh, an Iranian Lesbian who is to be deported to Iran is attached. Please do support her.


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Rostam

Ya hussein...

by Rostam on

and hussein was at the receiving end....

Rostam


Rostam

Dariush EXPOSED

by Rostam on

Dariush you ask why he draws nudity? For you agha zadeh. So you can sercetly masturbate, then go to a masjed, make a donnation and make it up to god for your sin.


dariushabadi

then why do you draw those

by dariushabadi on

then why do you draw those cartoons with all that nudity?


default

I do not belive such this freedom any more

by hajiagha on

after I left Iran as journalist and cartoonist GholGhol Agha in Canada and saw lesbian and gay are having sex in public place front of the people and children, drugs and drug dealers are free and government of Canada spend more money and more support the crime as to spend money on family and education or art and artist ...sleeping in shelter between the homeless ...which many of them are having mentally problems by drugs or they give up to pat so much TAX and living in expensive place like Canada...I saw so much bad things in Canada mostly from women , and Canadian women which are living lonely , smoking and drinking so much, or like lesbian having sex with each others not with man or they not willing to get married ..how ever this place and this kind society is sick I am happy to live in Iran under Islamic regime of Iran to stay in Canada , if government of Iran willing to give me passport an a job in Iran I never like to stay in this sick society a second


Ghool

Hey Dariush Koskeshabadi...!

by Ghool on

 

Yazzed used have anal sex with Imam Hossain...!?

How do you like that!?

 


dariushabadi

i am against lude acts in

by dariushabadi on

i am against lude acts in public. what people do in their private homes is between them and God, none of anyone's business. Islam seperates the public and the private spheres. If you read ALL my posts from that section, i made it clear what people do in their private homes is between them and God. But if you commit lude acts in public then they should be punished, as they are in different forms even in western countries.


Rostam

Dariush EXPOSED

by Rostam on

Dariush says: "You can stand with Hezbollah of Lebanon and its struggle against Zionist aggression, and be a Lesbian at the same time." In another comment, Dariushe aghaa zadeh states that stoning a woman who cheated her husband is good and necessary. Now suddenly it is all right to be a lesbian, but oh as long as you are against zionism?

 

YOU ARE EXPOSED Dariush. You are a hypocrite.


dariushabadi

very well put

by dariushabadi on

Very well put privottheuniverse. These people don't understand that the world is not only shades of gray, it has shades of color too. They think its all black and white to them. You either support everything so-called Islamists (or who they consider Islamists) say, or you stand against them.

 

The world is definately complex. You can stand with Hezbollah of Lebanon and its struggle against Zionist aggression, and be a Lesbian at the same time.


pivotoftheuniverse

What Hezbullah?

by pivotoftheuniverse on

 

While I generally sympathize with the questions raised here, I find it puzzling that the author seems to think that Iran "a region under Hezb Allah" (btw: what is the ' you put after Hezb for?) is not to be distinguished from Lebanon, where an different, independent, Hezbullah has been a major factor for giving voice to the dispossessed of that country and for fighting against Israeli aggression and occupation. The slogan "we are all Hezbullah" is something that comes from the war in Lebanon last year where Israel claimed to be fighting Hezbullah while bombing all of Lebanon. Thus the slogan, and many non-Islamists in Lebanon were not ashamed to adopt it.

I'm not a huge fan of Lebanese Hezbullah, but I don't find it abhorrant or undeserving of support, even (heaven forbid) from gays and lesbians. Hezbullah of Lebanon does not call for an Islamic regime in Lebanon, has acted very responsibly as a democratic party in Lebanon's political system, and is in alliance with a Christian secular leader, Michel 'Awn. It represents the underclass in Lebanon and generally has done much good for the Shi'a and the Palestinians in that country. In fact, the idea that Hezbullah in Lebanon is the same as that of Iran is something promoted by the Bush administration -- the simplistic idea that all "Islamists" are evil and the same. It's my opinion that the conservative stance of groups like Hezbullah on the issue of sexuality should not be the only measure for determining what groups we support.

Wake up. The world is much more complex. In a sense we *are* all Hezbullah; we all (as Iranians) could be targets of the US/Israeli war agenda very soon.