What Captain Ayhab's Bahavior Showed Us About Ourselves

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Onlyiran
by Onlyiran
20-May-2010
 

I was thinking about this whole Capt-Ayhab fiasco.  The way he was blocked, was allowed to return and the things that he did to get himself blocked again.  I thought about how he always claimed to be a prolific commentator on Huffingtonpost of Ha’aretz and other online publications.  He even once posted a link to a Huffintonpost thread where he said he had commented on.  I actually went on that thread and checked out his contributions.  As far as I could tell, his contributions (despite the fact that they were very pro-IRI and Ahmadinejad-something that he denied of doing, or being for that matter) were civil and polite.  Then I thought about his posts on this site.  His blogs were, for the most parts, vindictive, hate filled and some even targeted other users of the site.  His comments were no better either.  They were mostly attacks and / or instigations for attack and showed a general lack of civility to others.  I think the straw that broke the camel’s back was when he threatened to file a complaint against another member with the FBI, and that is when he was blocked again.

Then I thought about the time that I attended a Googoosh concert a few years ago in the U.S.  During the break, people poured out into the lobby of the place where the concert was taking place.  One of the only places where one could buy food was a small hot dog vending cart, like the ones that you see on the street.  The guy was selling sandwiches out of the cart.  All of sudden, our fellow Iranian concert attendees “rushed” the cart.  No line, no civility, nothing.  They were on top of each other, so much so that they kept pushing the wheeled cart back toward the wall, to the extent that the poor vendor almost got pinned between the cart and the wall and had to yell at people to get back.  As I watching this embarrassing spectacle, I asked myself: would they do this if they were at a McDonalds, or even at a hot dog stand on the street?  Would they do this with Americans?  Or would they get in line, be all polite and patient?

See the similarities between the Captain and the crowd at the concert?  Am I wrong, or do we have a set of rules for dealing with foreigeners and one for dealing with ourselves?  Do we take each other for granted?  Do we think that we have a license to abuse each other?  Is it our culture that breeds this kind of behavior?  Is this the reason why that we have never had democracy in our country?  Because we think that we can get ahead and get to the top, or be the dominant person in a given situation by abusing, silencing and threatening others?  Was Cap_Ayhab just a symbol of what is wrong with our community?   Is it time to take a look in the mirror? 

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Anonymous Observer

Brother bill

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he was a space cadet.


Onlyiran

good one benross

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I love your jabs.  You're short and to the point.

The only way that we will get rid of these parasites of the Iranian nation is for the IRI to go away.  Otherwise, they will continue to leach on our nation and milk it for their decrepit ideology.  Once the IRI is gone, they will simply move on and become a parasite on some other nation.  My guess is that it will be North Korea, since they are already where the IRI wants to be: a nutty dictatorship with a bunch of nukes to scare its own people.  So, they'll be around for a while  for "Niloufar Parsi" to change her "name" to Kim Sun Yo, take on a Korean persona and become their chief propagandist in the decadent and "irrational" "west".  

 


pastor bill rennick

Who is this brother Captain Ayhab?

by pastor bill rennick on

Is he a Navy captain or an Air Force captain?


benross

i have little time for such

by benross on

i have little time for such exchanges

Please make it even more little and get off our faces... just as a 'deterrent'


Niloufar Parsi

OI

by Niloufar Parsi on

you must be a teenager. every time i throw your own language back in your face, you come back whining like an angry boy all full of yourself. i have little time for such exchanges. nice blog!


Rea

CA was an interesting virtual character

by Rea on

Hope he'll be back.

However, when you start writing blogs with the sole intention of attacking other people, then it's time to take a break. Even if it means getting blocked.  As they say, sometimes you ought to be cruel to be kind.

On a more general note, we are all more patient with foreigners than we are with our own people, nothing intrisically Iranian about it.

PS. mind you, they did call me stupid on this site once.  Thx Shah Esmail, if you're reading.  ;o)


Onlyiran

Q - & C-A

by Onlyiran on

We can agree to disagree on how I described the "CA" affair.  As far as the availability of other sites against the IRI, most of them are non-Iranian and are not really a social site such as this one. To be honest, This is the only site that I comment on.  What I also meant about IRI's propaganda was that the empire that it controls, through its official and "covert" operations (such as organizations in the U.S. that shall remain nameless) do not allow such exchange of ideas.  Really, can you leave an anti-IRI comment on Al-Manar's website?  So, the perception by the anti-IRI Iranians is this: you control a whole media and propaganda empire that does not allow any dissenting points of view.  Why do you have to come to this site, with a mostly Iranian crowd and "rain on our parade"?  

BTW, the good Captain is amongst us here on this thread under his new username.  He knows who he is.  Perhaps he can tell us what he thinks. :-)) 


Onlyiran

HG Jaan

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How true.  Please also try to put her un-Iranian prospective in that context as well.  "She" is a stateless ideologue.  "She" will be happy if every man, woman and child die in a nuclear apocalypse so long as...let's say...an American aircraft carrier is sunk in the Persian Gulf, or a missile fired at Israel.  That's what she wants.  I also doubt that "she" is an Iranian. No Iranian can possibly try to justify so many crimes against humanity against his ' her own nation as "she" does day in and day out on this site.  

Also, look at who "she" praises.  I've seen "her" praise tow posters on this site.  One is this "Manouchehr Avaznia" character who tries to prove that Ferdowsi was an Arab, or loved Arabic or something.  Here:

 //iranian.com/main/blog/manoucher-avaznia-263

And the other one is a Lebanese guy, Samer something.  whenever he comments on the site, "she" crawls out and immediately leaves a comment ohhhing and ahhhing about how wonderful he is.  That should tell you something. 

 


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Easy there cowboy

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NP - talking about being abusive, wow, did you read your drivel before you posted it?!!  Well, I guess hypocrisy is second nature to your  ilk.

Anyway, I felt for a moment that I was reading an old Soviet broadcast.  How funny..."servitude" to the imperialists, "belly of the USA"... hilarious.:-)))  You do realize that the Soviet Union collapsed almost 20 years ago?  Right?  You are an endangered (and hopefully one day extinct) species.  Although, I have to commend your survival skills...leaching on to the despicable and murderous Islamists, creating an unholly alliance, where you can become their pseudo-intellectual mouthpieces in the "west" that you hate so much, and they, in return will throw you ideological red meat by yelling (and that's all they can do, is yell-and blow things up here and there-- because they don't have the balls to confront them head on) at the U.S. once a while.   

Anti-Iranian?  Funny.  Is this how you deflect from your support of rape, torture and murder?  By the way, for all who are interested, you can read Mr. "Parsi'"s all out defense of IRI's crimes here:

 //iranian.com/main/blog/anonymous-observer/who-anti-iranpage1

Lastly, you should know that the reason why I do not support IRI's nuclear program is this:  anyone with an ounce of intelligence who is not a blind SIG like you (stateless ideological gypsy) would know that Iran and IRI are two totally different things.  In fact, the two have a huge conflict of interest.  Just like North Korea, the IRI wants nuclear capability for one reason and one reason only: to ensure its survival.  I wouldn't even put it past them to threaten the Iranian population with a nuclear device.  And as far as your "blog", it is there for all to see.  AN lied and you perpetuated that lies and tried to justify it.  There is no getting around that. It was yet another shameless piece of propaganda by you in support of a tyrannical regime that kills, rapes and tortures its own citizens.

PS? I like your defense of IRI's conduct by always blaming someone else.  As I commented on your blog, your defense of IRI's crimes and lack of compliance with the NPT is this (as you even mention in your comment here): They are countries that are worst. :-))  That's your defense!!!  It's kind of like someone who beats someone and breaks his arm, and then says: well, there are others who kill people.  So, I really haven't committed a crime. :-)))

Good job.  Keep it up! 

 

 


Niloufar Parsi

HG

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another typical piece of garbage from you. good for a laugh though!


hamsade ghadimi

the ex-sepahi akhoond zadeh

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the ex-sepahi akhoond zadeh complains that some call "her" an apologist for defedning iri.  here's the defenition of apologist: "a person who argues in defense or justification of something, such as a doctrine, policy, or institution."  i'm sure the resident rapists in evin hate to be called rapists.


Niloufar Parsi

onlyiran

by Niloufar Parsi on

your unabashed anti-iranianism is the real subject here.

all the comments that you refer to from me is a reflection of my tendency to look at the bigger picture rather than my own little world. it is more than i can say for the likes of you with your tireless propaganda about how you would like to see the world fit into your little wish list rather than how it is and how it operates. people die in revolutions and riots, have you never heard? this is why i am in favour of evolution rather than  revolution. iran's nuclear programme IS far more transparent than that of other countries, but your ideological outllook prevents you from recognizing that fact. ahmadinejad did precisely what i said in that blog, namely, he spelled out what he stood for. iran's hidden programme was exactly the only way iran could have a programme when under an international siege led by usa, but your ego-centric way of looking at things sitting in the belly of uncle sam blinds you to american bullying, and you even go one step further and Demand greater 'transparency (i.e. servitude) from iran to serve us interests. you and those like you represent us interests, not iran's. and you do this by claiming that you are aligned with 'ordinary iranians' but you are happy to maintain your servile jingoism and will call those like me who want to protect iranian interests as 'propagandists', 'apologists' and all other kinds of silly names in order to hide your true agenda: uncle sam and nothing else. funny part is, you do this without even knowing what you stand for. i don't care if you spend all your time on this site just attacking people. but i will once in a while remind you of what you actually stand for.  

Peace


boom shakalaka

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Anonymous Observer

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He was acting really obnoxious when he came back the second time around.  I generally got along with him before the first time that he got blocked.  But when he came back, he started to pick on me.  Read his comments on this blog of mine and yo can see for yourself.  He was way off the subject of the blog, kept repeating the same attack line and was clearly trying to pick a fight with me and later in the blog, with others:

//iranian.com/main/blog/anonymous-observer/name-one-good-thing-iri-has-done-iranian-people-past-31-years

I don't know what happened that caused him to be blocked again, but knowing him, I'm sure it was a doozy.

I have to agree with the blogger on the way we treat each other.  It is reflective of our society in general.  We always want to be the one who screams the louder.  That's how we believe we can get to the top.  And it has worked throughout our history.  The ones with the biggest guns, knives or swords have always gotten to the top.  At the same time, we know that conduct like that doesn't work with other cultures.  So, we tend to treat them differently.   


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Yes way?

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The differential formation will happen so naturally, and so healthily as you said in our free Iran. Seizing the historical opportunity of the present time doesn't have to be interpreted as a loss-loss compromise. It's a win-win situation from a selfless point of view.

And about the avatar: Watch it, lest you trip!!


benross

No way

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The well defined differences are yet to be formed in free Iran. All we have now is not differences. It's filth... and occasional avatar posturing. 


comrade

I can't agree more, then

by comrade on

Revise your self-called road map, accept the differencess, focus on common grounds, and put foreward a pragmatic political agenda void of idealism; for a fresh start.

 


Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Q

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For once I agree with you regarding Ayhab. However I don't think he is on the same page as Sargord or IMF. He is on his own page. Honestly I miss his presence. But I have a feeling our agreement is a very isolated instance! I do hope to see him back one day.

 


benross

I hear you!

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But the point is there is no more 'camps'. Those who are trying to go back to their nostalgia are utterly reactionary.


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"The nostalgia abounds"

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No camp exempted.


benross

There used to be a lot of

by benross on

There used to be a lot of filth loving crowd here in IC. The nostalgia abounds.


Marjaneh

Capt_Ayhab got banned??? Message for Capt_Ayhab

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(assuming that Capt_Ayhab is reading this)

Dear Capt_Ayhab

That seems terribly unfair to me. They must have ganged up on you again. I was laughing my head off reading some of your blogs. I'll miss the humour and your gentlemanly disposition.

However, in a way that's great news. You were wasting your time trying to bang a tiny molecule of sense into demented,fossilized plaque skulls, beyond carbon-dating!

I had a feeling that you were too bright for this site. Really shouldn't be wasting your time.

Onto  greener pastures!

'Hope you're having fun elsewhere

 

Marjaneh

 

Every fascism is an index of a failed revolution - Walter Benjamin


Iraniandudee3

Anyone who supports the islamists in power

by Iraniandudee3 on

Is a fool who deserves no humane response to their garbage ranting, cause do they treat us humanely in Iran when they're asked by the non-islamist groups about their corruption, killing, and islamist fascism? of-cource not, so please cut the bullshit about peace talks and what not just cause you're in the diaspora.. Moosh nasho be pedar madar.

When I see one of my "fellow countrymen" supporting these criminals it makes me boil up inside cause whoever that supports this bloody regime must have foreign religious agenda's in mind than an Iranian one, hence why you see a much stronger response against these people from fellow Iranian nationalists than you would see agianst non-Iranians, it's pretty simple wouldn't you say?

 


maziar 58

the person behind user name

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the person behind user name can read the blogs &etc...

But is not allowed to post any comment unless create a new E-mail account & new identity ...

Maziar

P.S  hope Mc coy is not the .... as some one suggested.

NOW  1 DOWN & 1o more to go

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Q

OnlyIran,

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Your description of Ayhab's behavior is unfair and one sided, there is no denying this. You did not even attempt to present his point of view, what the situation was or why he may have reacted this way. What you say about how he allegedly treated "non Iranians" in the "same situations" may be true, I haven't seen the evidence, but I would be highly suspicious of your judgement based on what I've seen already.

Lastly, the evidence simply doesn't support this at all:

Sites like this are the last refuge for anti-IRI Iranians to discuss issues and exchange opinions.

It's absolutely not true. The point of view you are talking about is the very well represented in cyberspace. I do not know more than one discussion site like this that are consistently pro-IRI. Do you? There are however hundreds of sites to the contrary. I can literally show you tens of sites, blogs, forums that are dedicated to nothing but "regime change" in Iran.

You regularly see more fair assessment of Iran and more defense of Iranian national rights on mainstream American sites like Huffington Post or Dailykos, than any "Iranian" site.

This is one of the only sites where the other side of the issue is actually represented, and even here by very very few commentators like Sargord Pirooz and IranMilitaryForum. As such it is sightly closer to the discussion that is going on with real Iranians on the ground compared to most other Internet sites.


Darveesh

Family matters?

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ok cool.

I forgot to ask if this was a private gathering. sorry to have barged in uninvited.

Carry on, and don't forget your white robes and pointy hats. cross is optional and welcomed.


benross

Darveesh

by benross on

I guess onlyiran addressed her blog to those IC readers who are familiar with the subject matter, which basically includes all IC regular readers except new comers. All I can say is that you didn't miss anything of value. And if you keep reading IC you will encounter a lot of comments and ideas similar to the subject matter. No big loss.


Darveesh

I asked a question baba? can some one answer me please?

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I see no answer to the question I asked last nite.

Who is this person and what has he or she done? can someone show me any of his writings? All I get is ERROR when I type that name.

 

 

 


yolanda

.....

by yolanda on

You are definitely not abusive! You just hate IRI big time.......you are not the only one here! After watching the hanging videos, hearing the execution news, reading the prison rape stories, seeing the convicted IRI hit man walk free, and last, but not least, watching Neda bleed to death on the street, who still support IRI?

please take care!

 

 


Onlyiran

Niloufar Parsi

by Onlyiran on

Abrasive, yes, abusive, no.  I really do not see any abuse in pointing out the absurdity of a logic that tries to justify a despotic regime by making ludicrous arguments.  Look at your blog here:

//iranian.com/main/blog/niloufar-parsi/spelling-it-out

In that exercise in absurdity, you post a video of Ahmadinjead where he claims to have been transparent about IRI's nuclear program and not being afraid.  You applaud that claim and hail it as a bold statement, even calling your blog "spelling it out".  I pointed out the facts to you that not only the IRI has admitted that it was actually afraid to disclose the program because it was afraid that it would be attacked, but also that it hid its program from the IAEA for more than 12 years in violation of the NPT.  Therefore, both AN's statement and your unabashed propagandizing of that lie are ridiculous.  What's your response? I'm being abusive.

You have defended IRI's killing of protesters as "people die in riots".  Executions as "people die in revolutions".  Rapes as "acts by individuals".   Is it abusive to call you an unabashed IRI supporter?  I let the readers be the judge.