I have been waiting to see who Ahmadinejad is running against but thanks to the mumble jumble of the Reformist I don’t know who that would be. Reformists are trying to convince Khatami to challenge Ahmadinejad but he is not interested but he does not say so. By playing with words and wasting time one would think that Khatami is supporting Ahmadinejad in his re election bet.
The other question is why in a country with 70 million populations Reformist can’t find someone else worthy of carrying their flag? We know that they have to find about a 1000 candidates and hope that the Council of Unelected Mullahs allow one of them to run. That would make it really hard because one out of eight people in Iran have some kind of criminal case against them. That itself is an amazing realty. How could an Islamic country have so many criminals?
As I said at beginning, I was waiting for an opponent but I won’t wait anymore thus here is my argument for supporting Ahmadinejad reelection.
My first argument goes back to the US election in 2004 when Bush was running for re election. Just like many other moderate and Liberal Americans I was really upset when Bush beat Kerry. As time went by I realized that was the best thing ever happened to America. In 2006 Neocons not just lost many of their representatives in the Congress but also lost all the support they had gained after 9/11. Conservatism was on the way out and Americans made sure that on the way out these Conservatives take their radical ideas with them.
Would this happen in Iran? Yes, by letting these Unelected Mullahs tearing apart Iran and suppressing Iranians of all genders and faiths, Iranians just like Americans will reject Radicalism as we have never seen before. There is no way Iranians put up with another four years of Ahmadinejad/ Khamene Dictatorship.
On the other hand right now price of oil is low and hopefully will stay low and that would take money thus power out of Mullahs hands. Very soon you will see this Dictatorship tanker sinking and rats would run for their lives.
Ahmadinejad is insane no argue here and he is relying on poor and uneducated votes for his victory. He is promising them the coming back of 12th Imam and the sad thing is that they believe him. I wonder what or who these Unelected Mullahs going to present to their followers once their puppet gets elected? For that reason alone we should let Ahmadinejad win this election. As an Atheist I would love to be proven wrong on the idea of there is no god thus there is no 2nd coming of Christ or reappearing of 12th Imam.
If a weak reformist candidate such as Khatami wins next election, he will be burned by what is happening globally and nationwide thus he will be blamed by Iranian Radical Conservatives for all the problems. Khamene will make sure Khatami’s presidency stay weak by undercutting anything Khatami wants to do.
Does anyone even dare to think that Khamene would allow Khatami administration to give women their Rights back?
Would Khamene allow divorce laws changed to benefit women?
Would Khamene stop executing children?
Just like America in 2004 Iran needs another four years of Dictatorship in order for general population to say “Enough” to Mullahs and send them back to where they belong “Mosques”
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hi!
this is not a response to this post, but a response to one of your comments on Persian Paradox:
http://ebtekarm.blogspot.com/2008/11/interfaith-dialogue-rhetoric-or.html?showComment=1226854200000#c5212078187260817267
I wrote this for you there under your comment on Persian Paradox, but Dr. Ebtekar never posted it, so I'm writing it directly here. please don't be offended, and read my answer in the most sincere way that I intended it to sound:
dear dear friend,
please read more about the history of Christianity, the history of American revolution, and the history of Islam and Iran before you make these statements!
when they say "old book" and "new book", it refers to The Torah and The New Testament, respectively, because Jesus Christ was a Jewish rabbi before anything else, hence the term "Judeo-Christian traditions". ... and believe me, IF you read both of those books, you will see absolutely no less archaic, no less irrelevant, no less sexist positions being advocated by Moses (5000 years ago) or by Jesus (2000 years ago) than was by Mohammad (1400 years ago)!!!!!
what you see as "Separation of Church and State" in America is the DIRECT result of the fact that after the American revolution, America was LUCKY ENOUGH to have such enlightened thinkers as Thomas Jefferson as its founding fathers drafting its Constitution (for the people, by the people, of the people)!!!!!!
Freedom of Religion, and all the other rights and freedoms that Americans enjoy today without even appreciating their importance, would NOT have existed if the founding fathers of the American revolution were Fundamentalists (this is actually the name of an American political party, i.e., "The Fundamentalist Party" that was in fierce opposition to the enlightened aristocrats such as Thomas Jefferson back then, and they were very similar to Iranian fundamentalists when you read about their mentality)!!!!! ...
you can google Harvey Cox, read his books and take his online courses offered by Harvard's continuing education department, and then you'll not only know all about American Fundamentalists, but also about Christian fundamentalists (Evangelicals), Jewish fundamentalists (Likud) and Muslim fundamentalists (Wahabis and Salafis on the Sunni side and some others on the Shiite side). ...
please read more about Iranian history and its contribution to the Islamic Golden Age as well, and try to understand WHY (historically) there was never a need for a "Renaissance" in the Muslim world in the 14th, 15th, 16th century AD, and why TODAY there is!!!!!
Iran can one day evolve to a secular state (we all hope), but you need to look at every society through the prism of its HISTORY!!!!
I hope I didn't offend you, I didn't mean to sound condescending or lecturing at all, I just couldn't say nothing to your comments and I wanted you to think more deeply before you make these kinds of statements.
you and are BOTH are against Fundamentalism, we deplore a FORCED policy of "hejab" in Iran (which is probably why you call yourself "Black Chador"), and we both want Iran to regain the position it once held and should always hold in the world, but we need to understand, I mean truly study and understand and appreciate our history, all 2500 years of it, not just the first 1100 years, but also that 1400 years when it was part of the Muslim word, in fact it was the leading producer of THOUGHT in the Muslim world, if we want to be able to reclaim its glory!
Even Italians don't disown the part of their history that was plagued by the Dark Age mentality of the Catholic Church before the Renaissance! ... they own it all, good and bad! we should too!
thanks for reading this rather long response!
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