Drug use, fabrication of alcohol, homosexual activity
Those were some of the charges in the arrest of the Iranian Poet Ali Akbar Saidi Sirjani .
Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami visits Chicago this weekend and will be speaking to various religous leaders while here. They should speak truth to power and ask President Khatami about the questions Iranian dissidents have asked about Sirjani's death in prison.
His daughter Sayed said,
Sayeh, daughter of Iranian poet Ali Akbar Saiidi Sirjani who died in an Iranian jail 12 years ago, accused Khatami of being her father's "murderer" and asked the former president to take part in a public debate over his responsibility in the repression of the opposition in Iran.And Iranian Woman wrote,
Also the Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization on criminalization of homosexuality in Iran including some paragraphs on Sirjani's case.The US State Department has issued the visa for Khatami, and Reverend Peterson is inviting him to The Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation. Reverend Canon John L. Peterson at jpeterson@cathedral.org or (202) 537-5745
Khatami's team MURDERED Saidi Sirjani in 1994. Khatami became the president of the Islamic Republic after this Murder and the system continued killing intellectuals and WHO EVER had a secular belief.
Gov Blagojevich's Human Rights Commission should be standing in front of that Mosque in Streamwood asking why.
3 comments:
Let me get this right:
According to Baar, the Illinois Human Rights Commission should do something about events in Iran in the past?
I always thought it was the job of the U.S. State Department to handle that sort of thing.
Why didn't you make any reference to the failures of the Bush Administration -- who, after all, controls U.S. foreign policy -- to do something about that?
Baar is really turning from a somewhat thoughtful writer to a cheap poltical hack and this post really demonstrates that.
Baar is no longer worth reading except to show how extreme the Illinois Republican Party has become.
According to Baar, the Illinois Human Rights Commission should do something about events in Iran in the past?
No, do something about Iran's future by simply taking up Khatami's offer to debate.
I'm sure Blagojevich has someone at the Rosemont conference....
Khatami freely paraphrased Reagan there by the way with this intesting insight on how medevil times were better...
Khatami was scheduled to speak Saturday night to the Islamic Society of North America, meeting in Rosemont for its 43rd annual convention. Leaders of the group said that had they learned earlier that Khatami had obtained a visa they would have staged a 'million man Muslim march' around Chicago.
On Saturday afternoon, Khatami took a campaign line from former President Ronald Reagan.
Asking whether the world was better off than it was in the 400 years before the Renaissance, Khatami answered by saying there is 'too much material and materialism.'
The result, Khatami said, is a world of 'insecurity.'
Khatami would make you a serf or court jester Skeeter...one or the other...
Bill,
Looks like you slept through social studies back in high school.
You see, in America, the STATE DEPARTMENT is responsible for how the U.S. interacts with foreign countries.
Meanwhile, the ACTUAL STATES do not have a role.
I realize it is confusing -- STATE, as opposed to STATE DEPARTMENT -- but the distinction is actually very clear and very important.
Or maybe do understand the difference but you've just become a cheap hack who wants to take shots at local Democrats and ignore the failures of the Bush administration.
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