Kamangir (Archer)

An Iranian looking at Iran as a foreigner…

Archive for April, 2008

Ahmadinejad and wiping Israel off the Map, A Persian Perspective

By Kamangir • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Features, Iran, Islamic Republic, Israel, Lead Story

“Are you sure the Islamic Republic/Ahmadinejad have asked for Israel to be wiped off the map?” This is the question I have been asked by so many people over the course of the last few years. While I became more and more concerned why so many people kept asking the same question, I kept [...]



Goats and Dolphins: Journalist under Fire and the Conservative Reformists

By Kamangir • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Features, Iran, Lead Story, media

Three years ago, around these days, Masih Alinejad was banned from entering the Parliament [Persian]. At the time, Alinejad worked as the parliamentary correspondent for ILNA, a media source close to the reformists. When she published reports that indicated that contrary to their claims of “living an ordinary life”, the MPs do enjoy a [...]



Dress for Sale on eBay for saving a Mother from Execution

By Kamangir • Apr 20th, 2008 • Category: Features, Human Rights, Lead Story, Picture of the Day

Akram Mahdavi is another victim of unjust and unequal laws in a country where, for the most part, the legal system considers females only half human, and where women’s rights, as well as their cries for help are routinely and systematically ignored, trampled upon, and even ridiculed. The now 32 year old mother of [...]



Is It Offensive to Joke about Bombing Iran?

By Kamangir • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Features, Iran, Lead Story

After I published the post “Why bombing Iran is a Must” in Persian, I received a lot of angry responses. The outrage was to the extent that I deleted the Persian post and apologized from the readers. The same day, later in the evening, a group of us gathered in our apartment to talk about [...]

 
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Obama, the President Muslims love, or maybe not?

By Kamangir • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Picture of the Day

Let’s accept that “word has been out in the Islamic community worldwide for some time (specially Indonesia and Malaysia) to begin overt support for Obama”. Let’s also accept that “[there are] rumors of the Islamic Republic of Iran also passing the word to their American agents and clerics to support Obama”. Let’s go further and [...]



Khamaneii meets Messiah, Medieval Islamic Propaganda

By Kamangir • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Islam, Islamic Republic, Picture of the Day

A major source of legitimacy for the Islamic Republic is through its claims of being the connecting period between the time of the Prophet and Imams and the end of time, when the Islamic Messiah overthrows all earthly governments. To make this acceptable, Ayatollah Khameneii is commonly claimed to be a descendant of the Imams, [...]



Woman waiting for Her Execution and “Discount” from a Hosting Company, The “Iranian Connection”

By Kamangir • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Blogging, Features, Human Rights, Iran, Lead Story

If you have not guessed how the case of a woman on the death row could have anything to do with “discount” a hosting company offers to its customers, well, that’s what I call the “Iranian Connection”.



Why bombing Iran is a Must

By Kamangir • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: Features, Humour, Lead Story, media

Camels do not run on nukes. That, alone, is sufficient to prove that the Iranian theology is pursuing nuclear bombs.

This is the article I wrote for the joke version of The Manitoban, the University of Manitoba students’ newspaper.



If Ahmadinejad was not Iranian…

By Kamangir • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Humour, Islamic Republic, Picture of the Day

What would Ahmadinejad look like if he was not born in Iran? I used this online tool to see the Chinese Ahmadinejad, as well as the White Ahmadinejad. There is also the Ape Ahmadinejad, in case you are interested to see. Find all the pictures at this address, or watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZhoD0q4NMk

(direct link to video)