Iranian of the Day

Is this the Muslim middle class Prof. Nasr is talking about?

Why can't the Muslim scholars admit that Islam is too barbaric to be reformed? The entire Perisan Gulf states have tons and tons of middle class (economically speaking) but are the most barbaric nations on Earth when it comes to the basic human rights, etc. Dear Prof. Dr. Nasr let's throw the proverbial Islamic towel in! 

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVAPcuoKiNc 

Dressed by Armani Alayhe salaam!

The tacky tie, and the clean shaven face is a sinister reminiscent of the crowd we saw more than three decades ago under the apple tree in France.

If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die.

Benross

Please meet the daddy:

Professor Hossein Nasr, with a very impressive (more than his son's) academic background, formerly chancellor of the Aryamehr Technical University, later private secretary to Shahbanu Farah, founder of the Islamic society in Aryamehr Univeristy and author of many books of Islam and Science. He is very well respected by the Islamic republic regime, Kahtami supporters in particular,  despite his associations with the Pahlavi regime and they even held an achievement awarding ceremony in his honor a few years ago. He is a descendant of Shiekh Fazlollah Nouri (one of the founding fathers of Velayate Faghih).

More here:

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Nasr

FR

He has some vaguely valid

He has some vaguely valid points about state generated modern middle class as opposed to self reliant modern middle class. But it is not at all defined by 'Islamic laws'. It is important to note that this argument can only be understood in post cold war era, and even so, and particularly so, it is not to undermine fundamental values of modernity such as freedom of expression.

The idea that modernity can be produced by 'natural evolution' is absurdity. The modernity is present in those societies because there is already modern societies by which they were impacted. It is not a native phenomenon. It's reactive. As such, it can never be 'evolutionary'. It is revolutionary by nature.

Who is the daddy btw? Sorry that I don't know many 'intellectuals'. I just look at their 'work of art'! That's good enough.

the U.S., nearly nine years

the U.S., nearly nine years after 9/11, has yet to free itself of the illusion that Islam can be used as a sword or bulwark against both China and Russia without further, horrific blowback. Unfortunately,  Zbigniew Brzezinski is still very much involved in shaping Obama's foreign policies.

//www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/national_security_strategy.pdf

I agree, first father and now son trying to destroy

well functioning societies by spewing their Islamic garbage onto the rest of us.  This idea, we call Islam, is dying in Iran and certianly the West is not gonna buy this kind of Mumbo Jumbo.  So lets focus on the future and science instead of dwelling in the past and Islam.

Why Nasr is not taken seriously

He is the proof that uttering mumbo-jumbo can be geneticly passed down from father to son. All he does is recycling the same stuff (induced by daddy of course) and having it republished in a new book. I suppose this is how university posts are sustained these days. The days of orginal ideas are long gone. 

FR