Kamangir (Archer)

Yesterday, Azadeh and I were talking with Mark about the recent events and the cartoons of the prophet. We talked about the valences in Iran and how shameful we think people acted there. Then, I went, “they are doing a good move, which is obviously very late and overshadowed by the violence”. “An Iranian newspaper has announced a competition about drawing cartoons of holocaust.” Mark is a real Christian, though, I saw his face turned red. He started very slowly, and we could easily see that he is trying to not to speak very harsh. “Do you think insulting a man, how important he is, is equivalent to making jokes about the murdering of six million people?” We apologized him. After that, Azadeh and I were talking about it. I have read articles that try to prove that it was not six million but one million or a hundred thousand. Still, is it equivalent to one man, even the prophet?

After a few days that I spent in Canada, I realized that, we, Iranians, are seriously racist. And I mean very mean racists. Just imagine, if you are Iranian, would we accept an afghan to be our teacher? Won’t we mock his accent? Azadeh and I are both teacher assistants (TA) and none of us have seen any thing but respect from the students. We have this racist attitude towards Jewish people, too.

For Jewish people, Holocaust is a source of terror. Many of them have their parents or grand parents tortured in the Holocaust (see). Maybe we know more about denying Holocaust (see). Shouldn’t Ahmadinejad ask an expert about the importance of this event and then talk like that?
Don’t we know understand how it feels when your values are offended? Look at these boys’ faces. This picture is takes in Tehran in the celeberations of the victory of the revolution. These boys do not know what they are doing. I remember myself saying “Down to USA” when I was a child. That’s because the Islamic Republic regime is very efficient in influencing Iranians minds and to make them cruel. If I was a Dane, I would see the above image, my flag under people’sfeet, as a Muslim would perceive Quran being flushed out of the toilet. Do Musims tolerate this?