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  • abunoor 2:41 pm on January 14, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , natural disaster, oppression, service, theodicy

    Message from Dr. Ingrid Mattson on the earthquake in Haiti

    We realize from this hadith that the path to closeness with God is, after worship, service to humanity. Perhaps the most needy collectivity of people in the world today are the Haitians after enduring this terrible earthquake. Helping the Haitians in this time of need is certainly a sign of religious sincerity.

    It is also important to realize, however, that this is much more than a “natural” disaster – that this suffering is not just part of God’s inscrutable plan. As was the case of the devastation that followed hurricane Katrina, human negligence and oppression made a challenging natural event into a disaster of hugely devastating proportions.

     

  • buzz 1:00 pm on November 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Food Summit Opens With Censure of Greed, Speculation
    By Karl Maier and Jeffrey Donovan

    Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) — A United Nations summit on food security opened with leaders slamming rich nations for worsening world hunger by allowing speculation in agricultural markets and using subsidies that hurt production in developing nations.

    Pope Benedict XVI cited “greed which causes speculation to rear its head even in the marketing of cereals, as if food were to be treated just like any other commodity.”

    Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who called hunger “the most terrible weapon of mass destruction,” urged rich nations to meet their commitments to boost investment in agricultural in poor nations and to end “shameful” farming subsidies.

    “They sabotage emerging agriculture in the poorer countries, wiping out their hope to create a bridge to development,” Lula said.

    Continues…

     

  • buzz 5:01 pm on July 24, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    July 24, 2009

    Sufi Dervishes Detained In Iran

    Some 20 Gonabadi dervishes were reportedly detained in the northeastern Iranian city of Gonabad on July 23, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.

    Sources close to the Gonabadi dervishes told RFE/RL that 200-300 dervishes were protesting in front of Gonabad’s judiciary building against the jailing of Hossein Zareyi — who is in charge of a dervish cemetery in Gonabad — when they were attacked by riot police and security forces.

    The police reportedly used force and tear gas and some dervishes were injured in the clashes.

    Zareyi was arrested earlier this week over the burial of a dervish at the cemetery.

    Authorities had banned dervishes from being buried at the cemetery for what they claimed are ecological reasons.

    But the dervishes say the ban is part of a government campaign against Sufis that has intensified in the past four years that President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has been in office.

    The leaders of the Gonabadi dervish order have lived and been buried in Gonabad for more than a century.

    Several conservative clerics in Iran have described Sufis as a cult and a “danger to Islam.”

     

  • buzz 3:00 pm on July 17, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Not a good sign…

    Friday, 17 July 2009
    NCRI – On Wednesday, July 15, the Iranian regime hanged a follower of Sufism, after he spent five years at the central prison in Orumieh (northwestern Iran). Younes Aghayan, originally from the town of Miandoab, was arrested along with four other Sufi dervishes in 2003 when the regime’s suppressive forces raided the village of Ojtappeh. He was later sentenced to death by hanging for “waging war” against the clerical regime through his alleged involvement in an armed conflict with State Security Forces (SSF).

    On February 28, 2009, another Sufi dervish, Mehdi Ghasemzadeh, was executed by the clerical regime’s henchmen in relation to the same case.

    By stepping up hangings in recent days, the clerical regime intends to instill fear and terror in Iran in a bid to fend off the growth of popular uprisings in cities around the country.

    The Iranian Resistance condemns the hangings and calls on all relevant international authorities, especially human rights organizations, to investigate the deteriorating conditions of human rights in Iran, including the dreadful situation of religious minorities and in particular the suppression of dervishes.

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    God Bless

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  • johnpi 8:21 pm on July 12, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    A warning about Facebook.

    As reported at NIAC:

    A scary anecdote from Iran. A trusted colleague – who is married to an Iranian-American and would thus prefer to stay anonymous – has told me of a very disturbing episode that happened to her friend, another Iranian-American, as she was flying to Iran last week. On passing through the immigration control at the airport in Tehran, she was asked by the officers if she has a Facebook account. When she said “no”, the officers pulled up a laptop and searched for her name on Facebook. They found her account and noted down the names of her Facebook friends.

    Anyone concerned about something like this happening to them should be aware that Facebook has extensive privacy controls.

     

  • johnpi 5:22 am on July 9, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    The dos and don’t of defending Muslim women: Fatemeh Fakhraie expands on several earlier pieces she wrote about well-intentioned but misguided efforts to help Muslim women by non-Muslim feminists.

    Not just a negative report, she has affirmative advice for helping Muslim women – most importantly, only when asked.

    Changing arrogance and co-option of voice

    If I ask you to speak for me because I am unable to speak for myself, make sure you’re doing it right: keep my concerns in mind, keep my circumstances in mind, and reflect that. Don’t reflect what you think is best for me.

    If a Muslim woman doesn’t ask you to be her voice or speak for her, don’t. If you wish to help a Muslim woman you feel is voiceless, help her get a voice. Never assume you have the right to speak on someone else’s behalf.

     

  • johnpi 8:13 pm on June 28, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    More women in the streets of Iran.

    According to a contact in Tehran, women police are now out in force. Not that the women protesters were free from being attacked, but now there is a special female force solely designed for them.

     

  • johnpi 9:20 pm on April 20, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    New book: “The terrorist in search of humanity: Militant Islam and global politics.”

    (More …)

     

  • razib, murtad fitri 10:45 pm on April 7, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: oppression

    Help, help, I’m being oppressed!.

     

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