Kamangir (Archer)

Busy days

Kamangir | November 12, 2007 | Category Personal

When you are a blogger, blogging is what you do. Sometimes, however, things we do to prepare for blogging, such as dealing with technical issues, distract us from doing what we have exactly set up our blogs for, i.e. blogging. This rather twisted sentence is maybe the best way to describe my situation during these days.

I am preparing for a trip to Cairo, for a scientific conference (I talked about it here). At the same time, I am being sucked into the Persian blogosphere, mainly because of the fabulous community we are building there. That’s my main “reason” for having not updated here in the last few days.

I mentioned all this to assert that I am alive and that I am following the news. I am going to a very long trip, passing through many European capitals. That means that I will have a lot of pictures to share in less than a month. In the mean time, do not lose the opportunity of getting to know the “Persian Young Goats“, as Ahmadinejad put it a few days ago.

Ahmadinejad calls some opponents “less intelligent than a young goat”

Kamangir | November 12, 2007 | Category Iran, Islam, Islamic Republic

In his trip to Southern Khorasan Province, Ahmadinejad stated [Persian],

The whole world has been created for that holy day to occur [the Islamic Armageddon]. The day in which all the prophets and martyrs and good people will arrive and will help. Some people ridicule this. They have no faith in their hearts. These are modern idolaters and devil worshipers. They pretend to be intellectuals but are in fact less intelligent than a young goat.

Well, Mr president, I don’t necessarily ridicule the idea of the Islamic Armageddon, but I don’t subscribe to it. And last time I looked at myself in a mirror I was not a goat.