As details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality
More than 45 days after a brutal January crackdown that left thousands of Iranian protesters dead, students across several universities are protesting again. As Iran’s new academic term began on Saturday, students in Tehran gathered on campus, chanting anti-government slogans, despite a heavy security presence and plainclothes officers stationed outside university gates.
The Guardian spoke to protesting students about why they were rallying despite the fact that thousands had been killed and tens of thousands arrested in the January demonstrations.
“Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full,” said Hossein*, 21, a student at the University of Tehran. “It’s for them – our friends, classmates and compatriots, who were gunned down in front of our eyes, that we decided to boycott the classes.”
Book #2!
I chuckle once more and, as you seem at least somewhat interested in history, serve you this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelver_Shi'ism & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Iran
Ugh. I promise this is the last time I will rise to your bait.
It is literally impossible for religions themselves to be “original” to a land. Religions develop among indigenous cultures and they compete for mindshare. All religions emerge from the activities of humans in social contexts and religions winning or losing mindshare is not enough to conside them indigenous or colonizing. It is the PEOPLE who are of the land or not of the land. At the cutting edge of indigenous social science there is research and analysis going on about the process of becoming indigenous to place since nearly all place with humans on it received humans through migration. Your shallow analysis of the history of Islam is useless in navigating this terrain.
The people of Iran, including the people who form the government, the people who support the government, and the people who oppose the government, are indigenous to the lands that they occupy. Their development and use of religion is [edit] not [/edit] genetic - ideas are not indigenous to lands, people are.
And now that that’s been dealt with, we return back to your statement that the Iranian government is what would happen in the US if conservatives had unopposed power for 40 years. Your own references to Wikipedia show that position to be completely at odds with reality.
But you don’t read sources to understand. You read sources to reinforce your already preconceived positions, cherry pick the smallest facts that you can vibe with, draw incorrect conclusions, and then assume everyone else is less educated than you are and operating purely from irrational positions of emotion and ideological fervor.
Bye.
Thanks!
btw I think this is your best sentence in there: