Letter From Iran
A number of Iranian writers, artists and academics would like you to know they are not a nation of A-holes like A-Jad. Letter to Normblog:
In the history of mankind, there have been dark events that have treaded upon human values and broken basic moral principles in such a way that make them distinct from other comparable events. The scars left behind on the face of humanity by these events are irreversible and talking inconsiderately about them can only be described as rubbing salt into the wound and exacerbating the pain.
… One of the main claims put forward in this conference was that the Holocaust, as a historical event, has been used as a tool to justify the policies of the state of Israel … Such claims are at best unhelpful to the cause of Palestine. The creation of the state of Israel on the lands of Palestine has its own history. No matter what political position we adopt regarding the creation of Israel and its further expansion, the historical evidence for the Holocaust remains intact.
… Forgotten amongst all the sensationalism … was the bitter reality that the undermining or denial of human suffering for the sake of making political points – whatever they might be – will inevitably lead to moral degeneration: a moral degeneration that makes any judgment on the wrongfulness of the murder of the innocent dependent upon its political reverberations; a moral degeneration where by questioning the number of the victims, it fails to realize that “whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind”.
We, the signatories of this letter, are of the opinion that such “conferences”, more than anything, harm the academic image of the Iranian universities. We believe that conferences like this do not help the cause of the Palestinian people and only provide pretexts for the warmongers in the region. (Ed note: That’s us) We are of the opinion that holding a conference in Tehran in support of the denial of the Holocaust has perpetuated an immoral stance that seriously endangers the culture of peace and the peaceful cohabitation of human beings.
Topics: Iran
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:57 am on Wednesday, February 21, 2007
4 Responses to “Letter From Iran”
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February 21st, 2007 at 12:41 pm
They don’t want to die, and they don’t want their country to become a smoking hole, and who can blame them? Mark Steyn and Glenn Reynolds’ ideas about targeted assassinations are looking better all the time (even though, Alf, they are not advocating that. Yet.
February 21st, 2007 at 4:16 pm
The letter makes an important point that holds true no matter what your philosophy is–unless it is the nihilism embraced by collectivists of all stripes.
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:29 am
They need to quit waiting for someone else to come fix the problem and get off their asses and start taking care of business themselves.
If they keep fiddle farting around and make us have to come clean up for them, then they have no right to expect mercy or kindness from us in the process.
February 24th, 2007 at 6:45 am
Grimmy, I registered for this site just to comment on your comment:
Get a frigging grip on yourself boy! (or girl, for all I know) It’s these kinds of uninformed and war-mongering comments that get my hackles up. Everyone over 35 (that’s “everyone”) I know in Iran knows someone dear to them who was killed in the war or in the revolution or since. They are revolutioned-out. This is a population that needs time to make changes in an evolutionary rather than revolutionary manner. We’re giving that time to China… We gave that time to the Soviet Union… Iran is small potatos in comparison to those 2 giants of repression.
Right now, you are looking at THE most moderate population in the Islamic world. As a group, most Iranians are not anti-American, most are not fundamentalists, most could care less about Israel, and most are not anti-Semitic. Seems hard to believe, doesn’t it?
But there is a big war machine out there that is too busy comparing Iran to Nazi Germany to notice.