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Beyond the economy, the election also has been about race, gender, and the Middle East. In the post September 11 world, what happens with a new president will affect us all, personally, and so we all have a duty to discuss these problems with each other. Read More
On being a Muslim
While I find the entire post congenial, I'd like to express my wholehearted appreciation for no. 1 in particular. For more on this please see the discussion we had at the Faculty Lounge Blog: http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2008/10/so-what-if-obam.html#comments
Of course it's not a little disturbing to consider the fact that many Americans probably do not realize that most Muslims are not Arabs...or that most Muslims reside outside the Middle East, etc., etc.
Dear Dr. Ghaemi, As I read
Dear Dr. Ghaemi,
As I read your words on the first issues, and agree totally on what you say (thinking that finally someone said what had to be said, Like Powell did), in the same way I feel compelled to disagree with what you expose later.
No doubt Iran has some sort of democratic system (the same way China has another sort of democracy). And, please, let me be clear that I am not defending any positions on US-Iran relations.
But truth being spoken is that Iranian democracy is only a democracy during voting moments. There is no true liberty in a country where, no matter what president, the system arrests free-thinkers, persecutes sufies, tortures minors, and passes laws considering bahá'ís and zoroastrians apostates who deserve death.
We might say that the majles of the Khatami or Rafsanjani era wouldn't pass such laws. But the arrests happened under their leadership.
Ahmadinejad was ellected because people thought anything but one thing: the iranian pseudo-democratic system is not serious. Ahmadinejad didn't win for no other reason but the fact that there was a high level of abstention during last presidential election.
Voting for the High Council of the Revolution, Rafsanjani's people won. So, the people of Iran, within current system, is not pro-Ahmadinejad or thinking Iran is not ready for any kind or reconciliation. What iranians want is to reconcialte with the rest of the world, like the true persians they once were, no matter what their religion. And this is what Obama is teaching in these elections: no matter where we come from, we can only go forth together.
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