rss‘Iranians Are Screaming for the World to Hear Them’
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 9:21 am
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Via Nico Pitney, a video made by a group called Iranian Artists in Exile, distributed via Facebook, about the opposition. Set against pictures of enormous demonstrations and resultant police and militia brutality, the group seeks to address the question of what the outside world should do for Iran.
… Iranians are screaming for the world to hear them. We denounce Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The people of Iran now ask for your support. We do not expect you to fight our struggle, but to help us fight it. We expect people worldwide to put pressure on their governments and their politicians not to expect the legitimacy of Iranian elections and the fradulent presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Democratic societies worldwide must not leave the Iranian people alone now that they have risen to the challenge. Instead, they need to align their policies with the will of the Iranian people. Friends, we ask that you not let 70 million people in Iran be taken hostage. Any government that accepts Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the new president of Iran has betrayed the Iranian people, endangered world peace, and has no sympathy for human pain.
Notice all the things this message doesn’t say. It doesn’t say that foreign governments should loudly proclaim their allegiance to the Iranian opposition, as Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Ind.) resolution yesterday called for. It doesn’t say that the outside world ought to sanction Iran, as this group Ben Smith wrote about yesterday called for. And it doesn’t say that the outside world should cut off diplomacy with Iran, much as it does say that it shouldn’t recognize the legitimacy of Ahmadinejad’s government. There’s a lot we don’t know about the wishes of the Iranian opposition and what it wants from the outside world, and so we should approach this question with caution. But the baseline points are becoming clearer.
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Comment posted June 17, 2009 @ 8:45 am
To the beautiful people of Iran, Your courage does not go unnoticed. Be brave and do not stop till your voices are heard. We commend you. Love will see you through, take care of each other and don't back down. Your love for freedom of speech, and of personal liberty is stronger than ignorance . Your love of truth will lead again to the beauty that your culture has shared for a thousand or more years with the world. God Bless, and God Speed in your quest for democracy.
Comment posted June 17, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
To the beautiful people of Iran, Your courage does not go unnoticed. Be brave and do not stop till your voices are heard. We commend you. Love will see you through, take care of each other and don't back down. Your love for freedom of speech, and of personal liberty is stronger than ignorance . Your love of truth will lead again to the beauty that your culture has shared for a thousand or more years with the world. God Bless, and God Speed in your quest for democracy.
Comment posted June 19, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
This man, this video, the Iranian people – the Muslims – want the world to not accept – or get involved in supporting them – to oust Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? They want support from the worlds non-Muslims (the powerful of the world) – especially the US – for a candidate who has the same genocidal views and ideology as Ahmadinejad?
As for the above video – plenty of Americans liked Bush. His supporters were more angry with him for not doing more to the terrorist nations (Islamic nations) that attacked America on 9-11. He should have been tougher on terrorists, on Iran and the rest of the terror nations. His opposition – they were louder and were cowards that did not want to fight or protect the freedoms in the US.
But back to your video and your pleas for help. Why in the world should any non Muslim nation get involved with helping support ANY Muslim nation? Our nation – the Americans – died and continue to die to save you from Saddam Hussein – yet you complain, support the terrorists, and help kill American soldiers. Ungrateful! If the west fight and die for you (which the US has done in too many pro-Muslims wars lately to count) you complain and call us “occupiers” and continue to try to attack and kill us. If we do nothing – we get the same thing. In either case – there isn't an Islamic country on the planet that deserves help from any of us. Not one! You owe US!!!
My thoughts and a large population will say this to you. Fight your own damn battles and leave us the hell alone. Wherever there is a problem, no matter what we do for you including Dying and being maimed for life – you shout “Death to America” and plan more attacks on us. How do you even have the damn NERVE to ask ANYTHING OF US?
Your candidate is a founding member of Hezbollah! He's a terrorist! If you support such a criminal whose intent is also genocide of another country – that makes all of you terrorist supporters – does it not? What is so different with this candidate? NOTHING. In fact, how many of you are innocent, non-violent towards other religions? How many of you believe that people should be created equal – people of all religions? Are there any? Are any of you innocent – or are you just supporters of Hezbollah too?
Your people think we're stupid. We are naive. We are good. However, the perception on this side of the world? You – the supporters and your candidate are no different than any other Islamic supremist and because the western people believe in tolerance and acceptance – we are naive and always fall for your “poor me – save us” traps! We should learn that if we gave you what you wanted – you would in turn blame us (yep, you'd find something) and then kill us too – because we are “infidels”.
Shame on you. If I am wrong – find a real leader that believes in tolerance, non-hatred, and a leader that does not support genocide of Jews, Christians and all others!
There are people in this world, millions – that have learned NOT to trust any of you! Not one of you!
Comment posted July 2, 2009 @ 9:20 am
Seems a little odd to me that we can be so self-righteous to see the sliver in Iran's eye but not the beam in our own. How long since we have had a presidential-election that was not rife with voter fraud? Jim Crow, Mayor Daly's Machine, Florida recount, Michigan, Watergate, Carter burglarizing Wallace HQ, and not counting thousands of military absentee-ballots are just a few of the voting irregularities. Ever stop and think about how recounts produce such different figures? What if some other countries pronounced our own tyrant must resign because of ACORN's illegal activities or Obama's total lack of citizenship?
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