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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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