On Oct 28, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Nothing in the article below is over the top,
> though, nor anything else by her I have read. If her work seems very
> persuasive to you, perhaps you might tone down your rhetoric to her
> level.
So you don't object when Moghadam describes "'Islamic democracy' [as a] pipe-dream or a highly managed form"; says that the choice between Rafsanjani and Ahmadinejad was "rather like the choice between a Republican and a Democrat"; that Ahmadinejad "hijacked" legitimate discontents; that women "are now the main losers" in Iran"; that the constitution limits the role of women "to that of mothers - not workers or political actors"; that Ahmadinejad is a "religious conservative and a moralist...located squarely within the political establishment"; and that Iran needs "holistic reform," including the elimination of the mandatory hejab, allowing young people to listen to music and dance, that "political prisoners be released and civil liberties be established" (implying that they don't exist now), and that the country's wealth should be redistrbuted (implying that that's now not on offer)?
Doug