Kamangir (Archer)

Attacking UK for Danish Cartoons

Kamangir | February 14, 2006 | Category Iran

To oppose the cartoons published by some European countries, the UK embassy in Tehran was attacked today.

Happy Valentine!

Kamangir | February 14, 2006 | Category Iran

The picture if from here (see).

Card Assist

Kamangir | February 14, 2006 | Category Iran

Card Assist (see) is a company which gives services to credit card holders. If you try the webpage you will see how slow it works. They called me on phone a few weeks ago and invited me to use their service. They charge you 60$ for one year and then you won’t be worried about any fraud with your credit card. They also give other services for the case when you loose your wallet. A lady called to me over the phone and told me that I can use the service with no charge for two months. Also, she told me that I can cancel the service at any time and nobody will ask for a reason. Though, she told me that if I do not cancel it, the service will continue for one year and the money will be paid from my credit card. That’s how they work.

Then, today, I called the company and almost fighted with the operator to cancel my subscription. Ugly guys!

Bad Muslim/ Good Muslim

Kamangir | February 14, 2006 | Category Iran

After the attacks to the Denmark embassy and according to the hostile situation between the Islamic Republic and the Israel, one might think that the Iranian head of the state is made up of serious Muslims that can not tolerate followers of other religions or infidels. Unfortunately, the story is a bit different.

Mullas in Iran follow an inclusive model of the world in which everything is evil unless they approve of it. Obviously, they approve of everything which helps them to remain in power. Hence, nobody says that all Jewish people are bad, because there are Jewish people who condemn Israel and admire the Islamic Republic (IR) regime. The IR regime has the same attitude towards Muslims, too.

You see “good” Muslims around the world who demonstrate when somebody “insults” Islam. Also, there are many shows in the IRIB (Iranian official television network) showing Muslims who love Iran and Christians and Jewish people who become Muslims. On the other hand, the Islamic Republic has certain problems with Muslims inside Iran, those who are “bad” Muslims.

You may know that Islam separates into two categories, Sunnis (see) and Shias (see). Shias are the minority and mostly live in Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, and a few more countries. Basically, the IR regime is not very friends with Sunnis. But, at the same time, it is not very friends with all Shia groups, too.
There is a category of Muslim people called Suffi (see), sometimes also called Darvish (see). This is how wikipedia defines this category: “Sufism … is a mystic tradition of Islam based on the pursuit of spiritual truth as it is gradually revealed to the heart and mind of the Sufi (one who practices Sufism). It might also be referred to as Islamic mysticism. While other branches of Islam generally focus on exoteric aspects of religion, Sufism is mainly focused on the direct perception of Truth or God through mystic practices based on divine love. Sufism embodies a number of cultures, philosophies, central teachings and bodies of esoteric knowledge. Sufis are active in a diverse range of brotherhoods and sisterhoods, with a wide diversity of thought. Sufi orders (”tariqas”) can be Shi’a Islam, Sunni Islam, both or neither.”
How does the IR regime treat Suffis? Not much better than how they treated Danish people. There was a building in Qom, the holy city of Shias in Iran and a center of power in the IR regime, where Suffis were doing their rituals. Then, the IR guards and the militia attacked it and arrested numerous people. The attack took a couple of hours and is reported to be a serious war between ordinary people with no weapon and the militia gunmen (see see ).

Pictures are from here (see).

Solution to A Dumb Problem

Kamangir | February 14, 2006 | Category Iran

Frankly speaking, I was never really convinced that there are places on the earth where there are six-month days and nights. I was told about that in the science school and then I watched Insomnia, but I remember Azadeh and I talking about it a few months ago. None of us was really understanding it. Now, thanks to Hoda, I found a webpage to me which helps understanding this problem.

A homepage dedicated to the earth and moon seen from the above helps dumb guys like me. You can watch earth from any satellite there (see), though it is not very helpful for our problem. However, there is another tool there (see), called home planet, which enables you to “watch” the earth and how night and day evolve on it (download). There are a bunch of more stuff there, like some fancy screen savers (download, download, download).