Javanmardi
Eight employees of the British embassy in Tehran have been arrested:
The arrests were first reported by Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency.
“Eight local employees at the British embassy who had a considerable role in recent unrest were taken into custody,” Fars said, without giving a source.
No evidence has been provided either.
This is not 1979. Local employees do not have diplomatic immunity, so that Rubicon has not been crossed. However, it is an ugly echo, perhaps intended on the part of the regime.
What to do? Javanmardi! This short post and video at Potkin Azarmehr’s blog caught my eye earlier today. It is reproduced here with his permission:
We Are Iranians and You Should be Too
Look at the nobility of the Iranian freedom protesters once again. The riot guards are trapped in what seems to be a dead end. The mass of protesters facing them are ready to give them a battering they deserve, yet the Iranian trait of ‘Javanmardi’, the noble tradition of the strongmen protecting the weak, shows again in this clip. Leaders tell the protesters to hold back and one of them is heard telling the riot guards, ‘We are Iranians and you should be too, so be off’. Will all these honourable virtues finally have an impact on these brainwashed savages?
There are daily demonstrations outside the Iranian embassy in London at 16 Prince’s Gate SW7, starting at 6 PM on weekdays and 4 PM on weekends. Please join in if you can.
No javanmardi for Daud Abdullah and Mohamad Nasrin Nasir. In an obscene gesture, next month they will deliver speeches on “liberation” at the Islamic Centre of England, a face of the regime in London.
The universal theology of Liberation: Views from Muslim history
22 July 2009Talk and Q&A with Dr. Mohamad Nasrin Nasir and Dr. Daud Abdullah.
With a set by performance poet ‘Truthseeker’Wednesday 22 July 2009
6.00 – 8.30p.m.
Programme starts with light buffet, tea and coffee
The Library, Islamic Centre of England, 140 Maida Vale, London, W9
Entry is freeProfiles of speakers
Dr. Nasir is a colleague from Malaysia. His research interests include the spread of the Ibn al-‘Arabi school to southeast Asia, Malay Sufism, Islamic thought in general and the school of Mulla Sadra in particular. He is a co-editor of Palestine Internationalist which is a web based journal focusing on Palestinian affairs. He was formerly Head of the MPW Department at University College Sedaya International in Kuala Lumpur. The Department was responsible for teaching philosophy of Morals as well as Islamic studies and Malaysian Studies. He is also part of the academic staff at the Islamic College for Advanced Studies in the UK.Dr. Daud Abdullah is senior researcher at the Palestinian Return Centre (www.prc.org.uk) based in London, UK, and is a well known writer and activist on issues pertaining to Palestine. He is author of A History of Palestinian Resistance, and lectures in Islamic Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Nasir’s “Palestine Internationalist” is a pathetic Israel hatred journal where you will find articles by luminaries such as Victoria Brittain, Sukant Chandan, Rashid al Ghannoushi, Roland Rance and Yvonne Ridley.
For the Maida Vale centre’s politics, please see this ode to Khomeini from a conference held there earlier this month. A sick-making sample:
The Conference was opened by the welcoming speech of Hujjatul-Islam Moezzi director of the Islamic Centre of England. Mr Moezzi called Imam Khomeini a revolutionary and inspirational figure for the Muslim world, when the Ummah was in the clutches of oppression and tyranny. He described Imam Khomeini as an unparalleled revivalist of the Ummah (Islamic world wide community). Hujjatul-Islam Moezzi added that one of the contributions of the Imam was that the revitalization of Islam by re-establishing it as a religion of active movement together with the rejection of injustice and oppression.
Some people don’t even know what nobility is.
Comments
| 28 June 2009, 11:19 pm |
Khomeini was a sick twisted pervert:
”A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However he should not penetrate, sodomizing the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages the child then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl however does not count as one of his four permanent wives.” Ayatollah Khomeini (Chapter 17, Tahrirolvasyleh, 4th volume)
| 28 June 2009, 11:20 pm |
more of Khomeini’s evil is on this page:
http://www.homa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104&Itemid=58
| 28 June 2009, 11:51 pm |
What are we doing employing Iranians knowing what we do about the regime. Another example of the dangerous naivety that has been guiding our policy on Iran.
| 29 June 2009, 12:01 am |
I’ve been liveblogging a series of tweets coming in this evening from one of the Iranian student protesters, in which he tells what happened to his friend and other students who got rounded up, beaten up and made to take part in false confessions by the Iranian security service.
A story of a mass protest of 3,000 today, with women again playing a role in defying the thugs and bullets.
Running flow of tweets on the uprising here.
| 29 June 2009, 12:28 am |
i saw some of the false confessions a few days ago on skynews (i think). absolutely stomach churning to watch
| 29 June 2009, 12:55 am |
Isn’t there somewhere among the wit and wisdom of Khomeini a bit about the circumstances under which it is or isn’t legitimate to eat the flesh of a goat or sheep that’s been buggered?
| 29 June 2009, 1:09 am |
Anyway, these people have clearly fallen beneath the basic standards for membership of the human race. (Remember: there is no serious scientific distinction between the species homo sapiens and other species. We will just have to fall back on a moral one, which clearly not all members of the species reach.) Either the people of Iran bring about regime change, or we can expect the Israeli remake of Apocalypse Now before the year’s end. To rousing cheers, from me at least.
| 29 June 2009, 3:23 am |
“Dr. Nasir is a colleague from Malaysia”
Dr. Nasir, lebih bagus jika anda pergi ke neraka daripada pergi ke Inggris Raya. Kami tak mau dasar extremis, dasar anti-Yahudi, seperti anda kunjung ke Inggris Raya. Semoga anda ada kesempatan untuk membaca pesanan ini.
| 29 June 2009, 5:33 am |
I think they’ve taken these men as prisioners, knowing that Brits will always be completely submissive when someone’s life is at stake.
They’re hoping this will keep your politicians from criticizing or taking steps like pushing for sanctions.
Think of the captured seamen. You’ve got a reputation as wimps now.
| 29 June 2009, 8:09 am |
@ The Count of Monte Cristo in a Bubble Car: Does what I assume to be a Malay term, Inggris Raya, translate into English as Great Britain?
| 29 June 2009, 9:53 am |
“@ The Count of Monte Cristo in a Bubble Car: Does what I assume to be a Malay term, Inggris Raya, translate into English as Great Britain?”
Yes, but I inadvertently used the Indonesian term, Inggris Raya, which would still be understandable to a Malaysian (something like “Greater England”). The word “Britain” tends to be used by Malaysians, so on reflection that would have been a better choice since Nasir is a Malay. Malays can understand Indonesian, and vice verse, since both languages are effectively the same or at least extremely similar.
Translation:
Dr. Nasir, it would be better if you just went to hell rather than coming here to Britain. We don’t want basic extremists and anti-Semites like yourself here. I do hope you have the opportunity to read this post”.
| 29 June 2009, 2:43 pm |
uppty – ‘more of Khomeini’s evil is on this page:’
http://www.homa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104&Itemid=58
The fact that he felt it necessary to be explicit here indicates that presumably there is some dire problem in Iran.
Amongst the many other problems of course.
| 29 June 2009, 4:16 pm |
I looked at the homa.org page. I am not a Christian, but I think to describe dipping a child into a font of holy water as ‘waterboarding’ is rubbish. The trouble is that some people have no sense of proportion. Yes, it probably is scary to a child, yes they will cry, but it is not the same as slicing bits of their anatomy off, and to claim so is highly suspect in my opinion. As for the bit about ’sex with animals’, wasn’t a man in Sudan forced to marry a goat that he had had carnal relations with recently? I’ve heard that they are both very happy.
This is sickening. We need to work up a head of steam here, to make it clear to such people that they are not wanted in this country. I hope that by showing face at the Hezbollah-fest at Friends House on 9th July we will be able to create momentum, enabling us to picket this disgrace as well.