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[ergo sum]

Jda
Then you should read this. It is from the NYT Magazine a few weeks ago.

Down in the basement, a man with a resemblance to the ''Sgt. Pepper''-era John Lennon is rehearsing. With him in the hot, stuffy studio is a bassist dressed in black, a drummer and a 10-year-old Afghan boy playing small tambour drums. Behind the glass, a sound engineer is switching switches and twiddling knobs. A girl in jeans, T-shirt and sneakers is slouched on a sofa with a young man with whom she clearly has rather more than a passing acquaintance. Two other girls are watching the session.
As I enter this studio, my first impression is that I have stepped through the looking glass right into another country. A country far from the streets above us, with its women in black chadors, vast murals of revolutionary martyrs and throngs of demonstrators chanting ''Death to America'' and ''Death to Israel.''
But of course, I am not in another country. Iran is a country with two faces. There are the public face of conformity with Islamic rules and the private face, which as often as not shuns, ignores or even despises those strictures
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/magazine/01IRAN.html

Be Well
Ergo Sum

[Ste]

For some reason the US press portrays this image of Arab populations having four wives, murdering their daughters and praying five times a day. I don't know if this is a govt sponsored lie, or if it is just considered trendy.

It is so far from the truth that it would be funny - if it weren't the cause of such hatred and racism.

For a country so politically correct that you can't even suggest that AIDS came from Africa without being called racist, the double standards are amazing. It's almost as if certain influential people want world war 3 so they have to manufacture an enemy.

How Iran got its membership in the axis of evil when the majority is trying so hard to modernise itself and shake off the remnants of the Islamic ruling minority is beyond me.