"All the Taliban," declares William Martinez, a 24-year-old barber at Le Moustache, a hair salon across the street.
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A New Mosque in Nicaragua Fires Up the Rumor Mill - WSJ.com - 0 views
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"There are two types of people who use the mosque," she says, matter-of-factly. "The Arabs and the Iranians."
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Many here refer to all Muslims or Middle Easterners as Turks, and seem to know next to nothing about their religious beliefs.
"They pray to the god of the moon so they only gather at night," says Ms. Melendez.
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Largely a non-story, except for what it reveals of public attitudes and knowledge, or lack thereof.
NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists' can't handle the truth - 0 views
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For all of our talk about “the world watching”, what good did social media actually do for the people of Iran? Did the footage out of the country actually change the outcome of the elections? No. Despite a slew of YouTube videos and a couple of thousand foreign Twitter users turning their avatar green and pretending to be in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still in power. It’s astonishing, really. Despite how successful ten million actual voters marching through Washington, London and other major cities in 2003 were in stopping the invasion of Iraq, a bit of entirely virtual cyber-posturing by foreigners didn’t lead to real change in Iran.
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Mostly not about Iran, but about citizen journalism. I think Carr is all kinds of wrong here, but it's an interesting and probably important debate.
Student stuns Iran by criticizing supreme leader - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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Interesting to see the doubts about this - staged? real? how did he get away with it? It shows the debased media climate in Iran, but also the genuine uncertainty about where the (moving) boundaries of acceptable behaviour are.
Iran's Politics Open a Generational Chasm - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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the generational chasm
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“This was an explosion of 30 years of suppression and intimidations of my generation,” she said of the protests. “I am happy that we finally found the courage to speak up.”
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MEMRI:Iran, Saudi Arabia Face Off in the Media - 0 views
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"Beginning in mid-2009, the Iranian and Saudi media have been regularly exchanging accusations on a number of points of conflict: the escalation between the Yemen army and the Houthi rebels, [1] the intensified attacks in Iraq, Iran's involvement in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and Iran's nuclear program. "
A reformed Islam could save Afghanistan - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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What the country needs is an interpretation of Islam that embraces freedom and human rights instead of violence and tribal oppression. Everything else is a Band-Aid.
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All forms of censorship within "self" and "society" have to be removed because they are obstacles on the path to realization. This means that no individual or group can legitimately dominate another, and that challenging all forms of domination in oneself and others is an ethical responsibility. This Islam is a religion of freedom.
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the enormity of the task should not prevent Afghans from undertaking it, as it is impossible to imagine a democratic and developing Afghanistan if the status of women is not confronted. It requires a frontal jihad – a political, intellectual, and spiritual struggle to liberate Muslims and Islamic societies from the addiction to force. This can only be successful when grounded in a freedom-oriented Islam, rather than Western models that seem increasingly alien to many Afghans.
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As-Safir Newspaper - مايسة عواد : «العالم» في مواجهة «العربية».. بل قل هو «كباش» ... - 0 views
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Interesting piece on Saudi media influence
FRONTLINE: Tehran Bureau: Me and My Basij Friend | PBS - 0 views
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Me and My Basij Friend
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the actual result is mixed. Such high schools give rise to two kinds of graduates. On one hand, there are the ones who take the message to heart and become members of the student Basij. Then there are those like me, who rebel against this constant pressure of religion and state. So my high school friends became either ultra-hard-line Islamists, or they became leftists, anarchists and liberals.
Eyewitness Account of the Conditions in Evin and How Amir Javadifar Died - 0 views
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They gave to all us a paper to write down our home addresses along with our emails and passwords.
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Some times a guard would come in to the cell with his face covered and then would leave without saying a word.
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The interrogator asked the question and we had to write down the answer on the paper. The questions included: what were you doing the day you were arrested; what do think of the election; what do you think of the protests and the demonstration?”
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Note the emphasis on communications - requirement to give up email addresses and passwords; being cut off from outside; false information.
Mohammad Khatami, a Former President, Criticizes Iran's Government - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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opposition leaders — much like their hard-line foes — are girding supporters for a long-term battle to be waged as much through ideas and quiet social organizing as through the public protests that followed Iran’s disputed presidential election on June 12.
Both Mr. Khatami and members of the group he addressed, the Islamic Society of University Professors, expressed deep concerns about threats to academic freedom in the coming school year. On Saturday, after days of calls by conservatives to purge Iran’s universities of professors and curriculums deemed “un-Islamic,” the government announced the start of a high-level investigation on how the humanities are taught.
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a “soft war” against internal enemies. Anyone in the field of culture must now recognize important distinctions between “friends and enemies,” “attack and defense” and “explanation and propaganda,”
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He warned that the West, with its sophisticated media outlets, is better equipped for soft war than Iran.
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Meedan | Iranian gamers head to Europe to... - 0 views
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Iranian gamers head to Europe to promote Tehran’s developers
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Iran's government-run Press TV says: Titles produced by Iranian videogames companies include an Iran-Iraq war tank shooter, a platform adventure set in Persia, an adventure game where you play the role of a girl called Sara, a young student caught up in events during the early stages of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and a role-playing game based on Iranian mythology called the Age of the Braves.
Watch Me Confess! - 0 views
Meedan | Hey dictator! Watch me confess! - 0 views
