[lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Political executions happen in Iran frequently, but in the United States 
we've already won some battles.  Mumia is still breathing on death row 
and wasn't woken up one morning 16 years ago, video taped on a crappy 
camera-phone and hanged. Bill Ayers wasn't strapped to electrodes after 
he tried to blow up the Capitol building.

If you can't respect why Iranians fight and die for "bourgeois" 
democratic rights, if you can't understand why they receive solidarity 
from progressives abroad, you are a douche-bag.  If you can't understand 
why the Ayatollah is a class enemy, you are a reactionary douche-bag.

And if your position is representative of the contemporary Left, then no 
wonder /Reading Lolita in Tehran/ was dedicated to creeps like Paul 
Wolfowitz.

On 8/3/2010 9:45 PM, Peter Ward wrote:
> That's it: time to send in the bombers. Torture: we can live with that. Political executions: happen every day. But music, the linchpin of liberal civilization...!
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> Peter Ward
> pontificatingwithoutalicense.wordpress.com
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>> From: dhenwood at panix.com
>> Hamid Dabashi's Facebook status update:
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>>> Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said today that music is "not compatible" with the values of the Islamic republic, and should not be practised or taught in the country."
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