TYT: How the Iranian Revolution is Changing the View of Islam in the West

[ihavenobias]

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Summary: Cenk explains some of Mousavi's background and that it's a good sign that he actually is moderate. He also talks about the negative image of Muslims in the western world and how the rooftop shouts might help change that.

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[izquierdista]

1. When is George Carlin going to make it to Iran?

Then people can be shouting "Allahu bullshit".

[Rhiannon12866]

2. K&R.

On Bill Maher this week, Ahmadinejad's former translator said that Mousavi is very liberal by Islamic standards and that he has changed profoundly since the 1979 revolution, has moved to the left... :-)

[democracy1st]

3. K & R

[Turborama]

4. 5*s and off to the greatest. Check out this piece from the UK's Times about this

June 22, 2009
Mir Hossein Mousavi will destroy Ahmadinejad’s Iran regime if he can

Martin Fletcher

Three weeks ago Mir Hossein Mousavi was chastising women for appearing at his rallies with “bad hijab” — wearing their headscarves too far back.

At that point he was a mere presidential candidate seeking to attract disaffected conservatives as much as moderates and reformists. His single most daring act was to hold hands in public with his wife, Zahra Rahnavard.

Today, at considerable personal risk, the 67-year-old artist, architect and grandfather pops up at massive rallies, speaks briefly into a hand-held loudhailer, then vanishes again.

He sends letters to the Guardian Council, the election commission and other institutions, denouncing their “disgusting” attempts to rig the election. He openly defies Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, who demanded on Friday that the demonstrations end.

It is an astounding transformation. A former prime minister and creature of Iran’s political establishment since the revolution of 1979, Mr Mousavi now threatens its very survival.

Despite threats of violence and mass bloodshed, and intense pressure from Iran’s Supreme Leader and others, he has refused to accept what he sees as a rigged election and betray the millions of protesters who have taken to the streets in his name.

“Be sure that I will always stand with you,” he declared in a remarkable statement to his supporters posted on his website at the weekend.

Continues: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6550303.ece

[Divine Discontent]

6. hmmm

not sure if he's just power hungry, like many men in politics are, and figures there is massive unrest and disgust about the dictator, so he's playing on it - or that he truly is showing his true colors and abhors the closed-minded governing of the dictator and religious political situation that Iran runs upon.

best wishes to the people of Iran to open their eyes to open thought!

[Turborama]

5. ...

:kick:

[ejbr]

7. k & r n/t

[Turborama]

8. From Time: What the World Didn't See in Tehran

What the World Didn't See in Tehran

By HOWARD CHUA-EOAN

Iranian state television yesterday broadcast the soap operas and covered the news about Rafael Nadal's withdrawal from Wimbledon and Pakistani operations against the Taliban as if they were the most important stories in the world. Meanwhile, arriving over the Internet transom, rough and insistent and bloody, were the tiny electronic dispatches from protesters forced off the streets in Tehran, shaky videos from a city screaming for help. For outsiders tuned in to the blog posts, Facebook updates, Tweets and YouTube videos, the torrent of information was compelling and confusing, emotional and rife with rumors, full of sound and fury signifying ... what we do not yet know.

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In the weekend cacophony of messages and videos, one note lingers. A video posted the night before the crackdown is of a woman reading a poem about Iranians standing up to change their country, afraid but determined to move into the morning, even if it is to face forces that would destroy them. The voice is sad and at one point almost breaks into a sob, and in the backdrop of the Tehran night can be faintly heard protest chants: "Allahu-Akbar, Allahu-Akbar." God is Great, God is Great. A Palestinian friend of mine remarked that those words would once have struck fear into the hearts of Americans. Now they inspire. That is a revolution all by itself.

Full article: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1906040,00.html?imw=Y