Quintessential Questions

Hooshie,

You are frequently ignoring the code of conducts on Iranian.com by attacking the writers. I can accept the word hypocrisy because it defines an action but using hypocrite attribute is used by you to attack a person.

Midwesty Nope This Blog was about Q's definition of a "Patriot"

And an Iranian Patriot to be precise ...

And he Got the Response He Deserved to Get ! ... And Should I say which he demanded in the first place. 

Farrokhzad - Iroony Boodan:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4b8VF_uKXo

The Only Person who is Highjacking OUR Priorities as Iranians is the Author of this Blog and his likeminds.

Next Time he should Merely Stick to the Subject than use it as a pretext to attack other fellow compatriots with a different set of priorities and interests.

Best,

DK

Sorry Midwesty but you are avoiding the question

True that this blog is written by a hypocrite but it doesn't mean that his hypocrisy should be celebrated by those who support his position.

Mammad,

Please refrain from answering these guys. They obviously have a different agenda!

Hooshie,

The topic of this blog is about recent Gaza incident. You can blog about human right violations in Iran but that in any form can't discredit the topic of this blog.

user ID "mammad" says

"don't open your mouth, or use your pen, before having all the facts"

This is classic, specially coming from a "practicing muslim", a self proclaimed "academic"! 

This quote sounds like the opening statement of the "interrogation process" at Evin, for any free thinking Iranain who dared to either "open his mouth" or "use a pen". As for the "facts", they'd be beaten into the poor man or woman so thoroughly that he/she'd turn up on mullahs TV repeating these "facts" like a parrot!

Back tracking already Mr Midwesty?

Here is what you wrote a few comments earlier;

Sa'adi's verses on the UN entrance has already tied our patriotism with humanity.

This Blog is about human rights be it in Gaza or in Iran. Human body is one, that is what you quoted from Sa'di, didn't you? Now why do you want to split it in to two again? Who is highjacking the blog: those who insist that human rights is divisible or those who think it is indivisible?

Mammad

I was not being personal, but I was not born yesterday either. I know there are good individuals around, but what I am talking about observations and experience. The mess Bahais are in and have been in is because of silence of the majority towards their plight in the past. It is a valid question. And I will open my mouth whenever I want, you do not give me permission to speak in an open forum. 

HUMAN RIGHTS BEGIN AT HOME, IRAN. This is the problem with our society.

Nonsense F!

Your nonsense is unlimited, even though the universe, as vast as it is, is finite!

There are protests all over the world about the latest Israel crimes. Many decent Jewish people are protesting it. Read Haaretz article about the crimes. They are all supporters of VF? It is only human decency to protest war crimes.

Once again:

HUMAN RIGHTS AND RESPECTING THEM ARE UNIVERSAL VALUES THAT TRANSCEND NATIONAL BOUNDARIES.

Mammad

I did sign the letter

As a practicing Muslim I signed the letter to my Bahai compatriots in which we apologized to them for all the injustice that has been done to them. Check it for yourself.

As an academic, I constantly help Iranian Bahais who get secret education in Iran and need someone like me to confirm the credibility of their education.

As a supporter of secular democratic republic in Iran, which would be good for al Iranians including the Bahais, I post at least two articles/week on major websites.

So, don't open your mouth, or use your pen, before having all the facts.

The root cause of Israel's new crimes is not Hamas or the IR. It is occupation of Paleastinian lands, and the four-year siege on Gaza that has transformed it to the largest open-air jail in the history of mankind. I am sick and tired of violations of human rights everywhere, not just Iran or Palestine.

Mammad

Hooshie jan, I have always wanted to ask this question myself

"Someone going through the legal process and getting convicted of something (rightly or wrongfully) has nothing to do with the act of killing an innocent indiscriminately. "

What a cop out. That is not the issue or question - why are Iranians more sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians than persecuted Iranians like bahais? In my opinion it is because they put the Human Rights of Muslims in other countries before that of non-muslim in Iran. Period. And it is only when they lost their OWN freedom and vote that they shout from rooftops, otherwise people like Bahais are irrelevant (as IRANVATANEMAN said in his blog). It is sickening.

user ID "midwesty"

I just hope that the "legal process" of the velayate vaghih of IRI that you are so fond of would never get implemented in the "midwest" of USA (or wherever you are based at). Because if it did, next time you pop out dressed in your best immitation goochie watch and shoe to your local star bucks to check out the local chicks out for a drink, you'd be arrested and whipped 70 times in public!

But yea, I dig you, buddy. And I hope you turned up for one of those "thousand strong" marches across USA , yesterday on memorial day , in support of your "palestinian brothers", or maybe you didnt, as you are still here "talking" :) 

Hooshi jan, DK,

This blog is about the recent incident in Gaza...

When you ask a question like that, you open the door for me to ask, "if Bahais are against Gazans that anytime we start talking about Gazans it strikes a cord with Bahais?

Dk,

I hope this wasn't your thoughtful comment to hijack this blog by bringing up something totally unrelated that would make people emotional and then sidetrack the subject matter.

Midwesty: is being Bahai an illegal status in your

book of human rights? Now which part of that don't you get?

If you are on "human rights side"

Shift your focus where the human rights are violated most severely. Look at the source of the problem. Look at which entity has been arming hamas and hizbullah who have been murdering more palestinians than Israel has ever, even by your own exagerated estimates. If you were in Tehran last year you'd see who was killing brave Iranian people on the streets. It was not an Israeli, no, it was a hizbullah. In fact lots of those killers were Palestinians.

That is why Iranains shouted "na ghaze, na lobnan, janam fadaye Iran". But I guess you did not hear their voices , as you live in USA.

Consider above if you are simply on "human rights side" as you claim. If you are Iranian, with a shred of love for your homeland and it's people, just cut this nonesense and stop playing into the velayate vaghih's propaganda machinery, believe me there is no future in this velayate vaghih , go ask musavi and rafsanjani and they'll tell you:)

hooshie,

Someone going through the legal process and getting convicted of something (rightly or wrongfully) has nothing to do with the act of killing an innocent indiscriminately. What part of that don't you get? 

Same question for Mammad.

When was the last time you signed a petition to protest arrest and execution of Bahsi's in Iran? Evidence would be appreciated.

FYI/سروده جدید سیمین بهبهانی، بانوی شعر معاصر درسوگ اِعدام ۵ کُر

Simin Behbahani on the recent execution of 5 Kurds by the IRI ...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MgYqya1zDc&feature=player_embedded

Don't Mention it to ERDOGAN ! ...

Since you asked me,

1. You've been here under this user name for a few weeks, so you're a newcomer and supposedly don't know others on this website.

2. I'm on human rights side, be it Iranians or Palestinians.

3. My question to you is why can't you see other people's sufferings and why can't you see the connections between Freedom for Iranians and Freedom for Palestinians.

Midwesty: Sadi's poem is not about oranges and apples

Didn't you support and quote Sadi's poem at the UN building? Bani- Adam means ALL HUMAN BEINGS. Saadi doesn't differentiate between Gazan and Bahai. Pleas put your word where your mouth is.

the velayate vaghih fan club are out in force!

Mola: Any Iranian, no matter where they live and what their politics , if they have a shred of humanity in their mind, would be concerned with thousands of bright young Iranians who are imprisoned , tortured and under threat of death of this desparatre Velayate vaghih IRI. Anybody who tries to shift focus from this grave matter affecting Iran by screaming about "innocent palestinians" and their "human rights activist!!!!!!" buddies is purposly or not trying to do IRI's desparate shift of frocus trick!

Now which side are you on? Iran and Iraniands or "innocent palestinians!!!!!!"???

Indeed I wouldn't Demonstrate were it in Paris, London or SF ...

Or elsewhere Particularly when organized by their likes ...

SATIRE: Hamid Dabashi & George Galloway "Get me Out of Here, I'm a Celebrity"

When thousands of people in Paris were demonstrating

you were hiding in your home saying: "I'm going to stay away from this crowd". They were demonstrating against the massacre of innocent school children at UN compound in Gaza, do you remember that? Well I do because camels have a long term memory while superficial individual such as you are forgetful. 

Thanks Mammad, well said

Mehrdad

CAMEL SPOTTING: Mola Nasredeen

Not only I know what I said at the time ( which Clearly YOU Don't, which is not surprising from a Camel with Alzheimers ) But I would repeat EVERY Word I made at the time regarding that conflict particularly towards YOUR Likes !

CAMEL SPOTTING: A Good Camel is an Obedient Camel (pictory)

As well as Towards YOUR Master :

SATIRE: The Olagh has Landed ;0)

LOL

I don't Belong to the HEZBEH BAAD like the author of this blog and his likeminds !

Apple and oranges...

Apple with apples not oranges. The list of seven to be executed, rightly or wrongfully, has nothing to do with indiscriminate killing of innocents.

It is a human rights issue not patriotic one

I support the Palestinians to liberate their lands from Israel occupation and war crimes. The present Israel government is a collection of war criminals who should be put on trial by the International Criminal Court.

Israel's crimes are becoming too obvious to ignore. Mossad Chief recently said that Israel is becoming a burden for the US (read today's Haarezt, not only for this statement, but also for its reporting on the latest crime). General David Petreaus recently said that Israel is endangering the lives of US soldiers in the Middle East. Europeans are becoming sick and tired of Israel's crimes. Even in the US the public is finally waking up to the bogus notion that Israel's interests are the US' interests.

But, protesting the rights of Palestinians is not a patriotic duty for Iranians, or for all Muslims and non-Muslims for that matter. Patriotism has nothing to do with it. Protesting these crimes has to do with the universality of respect for human rights. Human rights and respect for them are universal values that transcend national boundaries.

It is from this perspective that Israel's crimes must be protested. Now, those who present themselves as fake "human rights supporter," or "human rights advocate" for Iranian, but try to stay away from the latest crimes, only prove the fakeness of their hollow slogans. There is no other way of interpreting this.

True, Iranians must focus on Iran. But, protesting a crime of this scale by voicing our concerns, signing petitions and letters, and acts of this type does not takle any time, but indicate the sincerity of the claim that we support human rights.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND RESPECTING THEM ARE UNIVERSAL VALUES.

Mammad

And I do remember your shameless comments when they were

killing children and women in Gaza by your wonderful friends the Israelis who are supporting your nim Pahlavi, aka, "where's our billions your mommy and daddy stole from us" boy. Yes you DK.

In the meantime 7 Iranians on Execution List ...

Mr. Ahmad Daneshpour Moghaddam
Mr. Mohsen Daneshpour Moghaddam
Mr. Abdulreza Ghanbari
Mr. Hadi Ghaemi
Mr. Mohammad Ali Saremi
Mr. Jaafar Kazemi
Mr. Mohammad Ali Hadj Agha-ee

Oh But I guess it is UNPATRIOTIC and RIGHT WING to Even Consider their URGENT Predicament as an Iranian Priority ...

Letter to His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of The United Nations by Reza Pahlavi (rezapahlavi.org)

Put your words where your mouth is

Evidence Q, evidence?

Now the reformist mob is taking us for a ride on a SHOTOR (LMAO)