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How cynical, what is happening in Iran currently and past 30 years are a repeat of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition.  How ironic that the killing, torture, and expurgation of our Iranian people have been called as an Islamic fight against heresy.

Today, the largest number of our best people are sitting in the jails, are being beaten on the streets, are being hanged publicly, all because heresy has come with these clerks themselves.

The level of hate, lies, deception, prejudice, and abuse of power by the Islamic regime of Iran are beyond imagination for our Iranian nation.

These clerks in Iran do not even know the history; they are repeating a school of thought that belonged to the Roman Catholic Church inquisition dated back to 12th century.

The executions, hangings, and killings of any one holding another belief than the clerks of Iran, are not a new behavior.  They continued same pattern as Roman church yet they called it a pure Islam.

How paradoxical that the history is repeating itself, yet in another format with the practice of an old doomed pattern.

We Iranians are suffering from the irresponsible decisions made by a so called holy power that is indeed a mix match of extreme form of religion and hateful beliefs towards people justified with name of religion.

The inquisition of our people past 30 years has been orchestrated by a group of clerks in Iran who abuse their power to kill, to hate, to destroy any one with a different belief.

How sad that these clerks do present their religion as holy and they fight the rest of the world to destroy “heresy.”  Aren’t these clerks a good example of practicing heresy?

Where is the true, real, and pure practice of religion, any of them? Human beings are suffering due to the falsifications, prejudice, and violations of all the borders, the border of respect to human life with or without religion.

Peace will come when and if our world establishes an end to the barbaric acts of those who are far from being holy.

June 30, 2009

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Democracy and dictatorship have direct impact on our mental health. How?  We can explore that.   It may be mind-freshening to just compare these two polar systems in the context of psychological footprint on individuals.

Democracy is as an embodied, dynamic, and growing movement, while dictatorship can be described as an static, monologue, and rigid system.  These two social contexts are providing socially embedded field for mental health and growth while most certainly in two opposite directions.

Being human means we are moving towards a goal in our life from day one. This goal is always pertinent to survival, growth, and self-actualization.  Moving towards a goal happens whether we know it or not.  Alfred Adler, the founder of individual psychology argues human being is a goal directed individual (Ansbacher & Ansbacher 1956).

In countries where oppression, censure, and brutality is the norm, individuals cannot move towards the goals they have in mind. With democracy you can have choice, freedom to speech, and freedom to feel.  It is incredible how people who live in democratic countries take this right for granted.  In dictatorship we know that reading one book, one article, or one newspaper literally can cost life and fortune.

We have to consider the fact that in democracy writing, thinking, feeling, perceiving, and listening are significant factors for living a human life that we all deserve.
If food, shelter, air are the basic human rights, then democracy meaning the right to feel, to be, to think, and to decide are also integral parts of our basic rights.
This is something we Iranians have felt it with our flesh and blood. our history is filled of crack down of our intelligent, brave, and decent citizens who ask for the right to be healthy,physically, emotionally, spirituality, and mentally. Democracy does open the filed for a holistic health.

June 25, 2009
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Reference:
Ansbacher, H. L., & Ansbacher, R. R. (Eds.). The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler.  New York: Basic Books.

Thirty years later: our young generation takes their destiny into their hands. For all of us who marched the streets of Tehran and other cites back in 1979, now flash backs of memories are hard to cope with.
Here in Vancouver, B.C.: A group of young, intelligent, caring, and brilliant Iranians have come together to organize for actions against the brutality that is unfolding in our home country.
The methods this group of young Iranians are using are however different than our older generations ways of protesting.
This group are inviting to silent actions called silent scream for Iran.  Starting from June 16, 2009 the silent scream gatherings are being attended by more and more Iranians and all other supporters.
The beauty and glory of this way of protesting is that people use silence instead of chanting.
In these moments of silence people find ways to collect their thoughts while using the positive energy of other individuals who are all sharing the grief.
The silent scream is an innovative, pragmatic, and peaceful way of sending a strong message out there, although there are some radical Iranians who do not think this way.
However, what is for sure is that the peacefulness nature of the silent scream is obvious and attention grabbing.   I guess we Iranian in large are attending a new era of demanding our human rights.
Meanwhile our people are under horrible attacks in their homes and communities, we can only remain hopeful.
Silent screams and peaceful protests are proper ways to keep our minds intact while raising our voice in most loud ways by asking the international community to support us.
We believe that our people in Iran will win in this very unfair battle one day soon and justice will prevail in our home country. Meanwhile we silently scream, the loudest we can.

June 22, 2009
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What is happening in Iran is not an internal affair anymore. This is a civil war imposed on a peaceful nation.

This is a civil war with civilians who take their life in their hands going to streets to ask for justice.

When all the doors for seeking justice through legal means are closed, when all the communication means are shot down, when attacks on people’s physical body is a reality, people find no other way but to fight back.

It seems to us Iranians outside our home country that our people are trapped and they are under attacks, literally under all kind of attacks.

The images that are coming out by brave individuals who risking their life for showing us what is unfolding in Iran, are heart breaking and harsh.

It feels that Iranian government with leadership of men who will not lose their face, are willing to silent people with any means they have.

The world has to understand that we should not and can not afford a nation being left alone under this massive and brutal attack.

After  thirty years of most horrible crimes towards our people, people had a hope for a change towards better with help of this election. They were willing to put the past in the past and move forward. People were willing to live under this current regime of Iran, yet with reform and change. Yet an eleciton coup changed everything towards the worst we could not imagine.

Now our great nation risk horrible suffering, if not in form of a genocide, more probably in form of a mass killings of our people.

Our life, our Iranian life has now changed forever. We are in a killing pain due to the unprecedented events that are occurring.

It is safe to believe that the world has a responsibility to not leave our people alone.  The clear picture for many of us includes a great nation as ours in the hands of most savage individuals who are trained for years to crash down our people.

Many of us are traumatized badly and our every day life is impacted in a massive scale. Iranian citizens around the world get together in protests and they share a uninsumountable pain that is debilitating them.

Peace in the world is a world’s affair. The events in Iran is about humanity being attacked in our home country. People are being shot at on the streets and attacked in their homes.

There are enough evidence coming out to prove this point, why we can not let go of what is happening. This is a door-to-door attack on people’s lives.  It is not only about their physical life, yet the emotional pain, the spiritual hurt, and the community’s suffering are all on the stake. The amount of fear imposed on families, children, disabled, and less powerful people are unfattomable.

It is obvious that our people need help from the free world .

This is no loner an internal affair because special guards who are related to terrorists organizations are holding our people hostage in the most dangerous way.

Now that all the reporters, bloggers, and media is cut off, the human life in Iran is in great danger.

In a regular dispute and in a free country people can claim their rights by going to Judicial authorities. Now when our Iranian authorities or at least those in charge are allowing this act of cruelty happening, where do people go for justice? people are left out with no options.

The world can not afford this blood shed in Iran to be continued. This is our responsibility as human beings to help anyone in pain.For sure our families in Iran and outside of Iran are distressed, desperate, and frustrated. Our physical bodies as well as our emotional bodies are in massive pain. Our mental health is the least that is in danger. Where do we go from this? Hopefully we find options. Soon.

June 21, 2009
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