Kamangir (Archer)

Congratulations!

Kamangir | February 6, 2006 | Category Iran

Congratulations! There is now one more reason for the west to confront us as a barbaric tribe.

Being Affraid for Their Reputation

Kamangir | February 6, 2006 | Category Iran

Lebanon apologized to Denmark because of its embassy in Beirut being attacked (see). Will Iran do the same? Lebanese government thought the attack “harmed Lebanon’s reputation and its civilized image”. The question is, does Iran have any reputation for acting like a civilized nation, to be worried about? Recently, regretfully, not very much.

Saving a Few Bilion Dollars

Kamangir | February 6, 2006 | Category Iran

I am just wondering how much they had to pay to make this ugly picture of Islam.

The Third Revolution

Kamangir | February 6, 2006 | Category Iran

Iranian “students” have invaded Denmark embassy in Tehran. One of them describes how they set a diplomatic car inside the embassy on fire (see). Mehr agency which is run by a governmental organization does not try to hide its joy, “although an hour has passed the crowd are not satisfied and do not return” (see). The “students” are reportedly carrying placards with the slogan “Mohammad’s army are coming” (see). The chief police in the seen says “your revolutionary pride is respectful” and the agency talks about girls, or as it addresses sisters, attending the crowd (see). Is this the third revolution?

p.s. After the Islamic revolution in Iran succeded, when some students occupied US embassy, Khomeini called the action “the second revolution”.

When a Poet Goes to Hollywood

Kamangir | February 6, 2006 | Category Iran

Last night, I was watching “The Village”. It is a famous movie about a village of people living in the eighties-style environment surrounded by woods. In the first ten minutes of the movie, a mixture of elegant music and deliberately composed scenes tells us the story of them. These people believe that the woods are occupied by red-wearing cruel creatures which will not tolerate human-beings invading their territory. So, while avoiding to enter the woods, the villagers guard their village at night by standing on top of watchtowers wearing amber yellow suits.

The story continues with a blind girl falling in love with a silent brave boy which is always insisting to the elderlies of the village that the creatures will not harm him, because he has no bad intention for them. The harmony starts to fade down when we realize that a girl which runs in plains and chases others could not be that blind. Actually, I was thinking maybe she is not blind but is holding that stick because of having a problem in her legs. When the girl’s brother stabs the boy, the story experiences a peak. Regretfully, it starts to fall down after wise.
To save the boy, the only way is to bring some medicine from “the towns”. A name we hear of frequently during the story as being filled with mean people. The cliche continues when the girl asserts that she is going to pass the woods and her father reveals the secret that these stories were all made by him and the elderlies. So, the time zone changes. We are in the middle nineties and these people have left the town because of experiencing problems there; one has lost a wife, the other one got shot. They met each in a common consultant’s office and made this decision. And lets forget that they do not seem that old for raising children in the newly-made village and to spread the rumor.
The girl goes to woods. There she survives deadly accidents and with all surprise meets with the red creature. The story informs us that he is the bad brother trying to stop his sister. The girl meets a handsome reserve keeper which sneaks the drugs in front of his furious boss. At the end of the movie it seems that the elderlies decide to continue the story.

Speaking Their Own Language

Kamangir | February 6, 2006 | Category Iran

She is not living in a filthy street in Karachi. Neither is she the third wife of an opium-addicted old man living in a small village close to Mashhad. I doubt those fat guys who own oil wells have more realistic ambitions than her. And she is not pursuing the idea of another crusade. She is feeling very disturbed about the cartoons, even though being a Canadian resident doing a Ph.D. on electrical engineering.
There have always been fights between them here and there in the last few decades. Muslims are always blamed for their nasty attitude towards women. Also, special matters about their treatment of freedom of individuals have always been debated. On the other hand, while many western people think that Islam is seriously outdated, Muslims believe they have the last words of God, at least many of them think so. For people assuming to have the last version of faith, I think, these days’ problems would be the best thing to look for.
To my understanding, it is very much like proclaiming their rights. So, Dane journalists demonstrate their “right” to draw a picture of anything, even Muslim’s prophet. On the other side, Muslim’s in Denmark and all over the world show how they will treat infidels who insult their precious religion. However, I have not seen the journalists asserting that from now on they will start drawing cartoons of God and the angels on the cover of their magazines; they are just saying “Hey! That’s our right” and obviously Muslims are sure that they have to stop them even at the cost of committing what many may assume to be criminal. So, it is all about defining the circle of rights.
“They drew Muslim’s prophet as a terrorist leader and they shouted yeah, so what?” Mike said. When I asked him about how he thinks about the affairs, he told me that he thinks it is ridiculous to hurt people intentionally, something I may not be completely agreed on. But we were both thinking “Muslims really overreacted”. Azadeh thinks almost similarly. Though, she is in the Muslim side and can not stand making fun of divine creatures. She got really mad becoming aware of the idea to post one of those cartoons here, even if censored. It seems that in the small circuit of my family and friends, everybody thinks that how Islamic world faced the cartoons was not proper at all. But, people are distracted on whether publishing the cartoons was bad or a right you may really not want to practice; like having sun bath in your backyard when you are totally naked.
The nature of cartoons is still controversial and the problem is escalating around the globe. But at least, there is one fact upon which everybody seems to agree; people are rigorously defending their rights. The disastrous part, though, is that everybody defines their own rights. To make the situation even worse, both sides are proving that they only know how to speak with their own language. As if we are living in a fantastic world, people assume that the final solution would be a civilized one. I think a more anticipated resolution would be as one side defeating the other one. Regretfully, we all know the consequences of these hostile takeovers.