Sunday, February 18, 2007

Virtual Community

30 October 2003

Islam is compatible with democracy*

*Subject to terms and conditions

[www.ksajadi.com/fblog]


18 February 2004

There are those such as [Muhammad-Ali] Abtahi [the Iranian Parliamentary ex-Vice President] who have called our virtual community too political and have said that we should use weblogs for their intended use...that is to say, for cliched daily diaries...So what if we use our blogs in ways not intended for or defined during the distant conception of this medium?
At a time when our society is deprived of its rightful free means of communication, and our newspapers are being closed down one by one - with writers and journalists crowding the corners of our jails...the only realm that can safeguard and shoulder the responsibility of free speech is the blogosphere.

[http://bijan-safsari.com]

20 July 2003

Has everyone noticed the spooky absence of graffiti in our public toilets since the arrival of weblogs? Remember the toilets at university we used to call our 'Freedom Columns'?

[http://python.persianblog.com]

19 July 2002

Death to America! Death to Bush! Death to Colin Powell! Death to Elizabeth Taylor!
But I want to go and live in America.

[http://dentist.blogspot.com]


Excerpts from 'We are Iran' by Nasrin Alavi

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