Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Shirin Ebadi
Here is an Iranian song. It is a very old one. I hope you like it.
Marjan: Bi To- High Quality Stream
By the way, I went to Madame Ebadi's talk yesterday. She is this year's Nobel peace prize winner. Her speech was excellent. She was talking on the relationship of Islam, democracy and human rights. Basically all she said was that you cannot judge an ideology based on the act of its so-called followers. She said that although Israel does not comply with many of the UN resolutions or although many of the Bosnians were killed in their war, nobody will ever consider Christianity or Judaism cruel and in contrast with human rights.
I am not a religious person. However, I enjoyed her talk very much. There was 20%-30% of what she said that I didn't agree with but I respect that she is more religious than I am and that is how she thinks. I should mention though that if instead of all these conservative mullas we had a handful of Muslims like her in our country we would not have all these problems with the religious state. Oh, by the way she said that there could not be such thing as religious state and that the government is really a state religion in our country. I think she is very brave. She can go to jail for what she said.
One of the audience asked her about her views on the was in Iraq. She said that "Don't Americans know that you cannot give people their rights in the form of the falling bombs?"She said that after WW2 that the first statement of human rights was being written, Mrs. Roosevelt was one of the people who really cared to make it a universal code. She said that Mrs. Roosevelt's endless efforts combined the name of the US with human rights throughout the globe. She said that Mrs. Roosevelt would be very sorry to see what the world is going through, had she been alive today. She said that she was wondering what has happened since then that the countries in the world have this negative view of the US now. She said that the US should apologize to the spirit of Mrs. Roosevelt.
...Here the audience started to applaud.
Well, I should get going now. I am really sleepy!
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Marjan: Bi To- High Quality Stream
By the way, I went to Madame Ebadi's talk yesterday. She is this year's Nobel peace prize winner. Her speech was excellent. She was talking on the relationship of Islam, democracy and human rights. Basically all she said was that you cannot judge an ideology based on the act of its so-called followers. She said that although Israel does not comply with many of the UN resolutions or although many of the Bosnians were killed in their war, nobody will ever consider Christianity or Judaism cruel and in contrast with human rights.
I am not a religious person. However, I enjoyed her talk very much. There was 20%-30% of what she said that I didn't agree with but I respect that she is more religious than I am and that is how she thinks. I should mention though that if instead of all these conservative mullas we had a handful of Muslims like her in our country we would not have all these problems with the religious state. Oh, by the way she said that there could not be such thing as religious state and that the government is really a state religion in our country. I think she is very brave. She can go to jail for what she said.
One of the audience asked her about her views on the was in Iraq. She said that "Don't Americans know that you cannot give people their rights in the form of the falling bombs?"She said that after WW2 that the first statement of human rights was being written, Mrs. Roosevelt was one of the people who really cared to make it a universal code. She said that Mrs. Roosevelt's endless efforts combined the name of the US with human rights throughout the globe. She said that Mrs. Roosevelt would be very sorry to see what the world is going through, had she been alive today. She said that she was wondering what has happened since then that the countries in the world have this negative view of the US now. She said that the US should apologize to the spirit of Mrs. Roosevelt.
...Here the audience started to applaud.
Well, I should get going now. I am really sleepy!
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