Imperialism and Resistance – A spin off blog
The largest category on this blog is the one on Imperialism and Resistance (about 17% of all posts).
I’ve felt for sometime that this part of the blog needs to be better organized, and to do so in a way that did not overshadow other sections.
Rather than further clutter this blog with additional categories, and sub-categories, I decided on a spin off blog that will, inshallah, have a broader focus on Imperialism and Resistance. I will have a brief entry on this blog linking to each new entry on the new blog.
The first entry is “Islam e Mohammadi” – that is a critique of left mis-perceptions of Islam.
Asr-e-Imam Khomeini (Urdu)
A series of excellent lectures by Hujjatul Islam Sayed Jawad Naqvi on the 19th death anniversary of Imam Khomeini. Especially listen to talk #4 (parts A and B) for an excellent discussion on the Seerah of Hazrate Fatima Zahra (AS).
Ayatullah Khamenei
On the occasion of the death anniversary of Imam Khomenei, Ayatullah Khamenei gave a speech on a wide range of concerns, including imperialism, zionism, and Iran’s nuclear program.
President Ahmadinejad at FAO
Full text of President Ahmadinejad’s address to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization summit on the food crisis:
“On the one hand, they impose laws like the reduction of the agricultural import tariff on nations in the name of free trade and, on the other hand, they eliminate many weak farmers in other countries by granting subsidies to their own agriculture sectors.
Why do some powers turn the food of the people into object for profiteering and attaining illegal financial sources and keep hundreds of millions of people in poverty? Why do some powers trespass all human boundaries and moral values in order to secure wealth and world domination? Why do they act like this?”
Imam Khomeini, September 24, 1902 – June 3, 1989
Imam Khomeini’s last will and testament
The colonial powers have so frightened us through their satanic might and advancement that we dare not venture into any initiatives. Rather, we have submitted our minds to them and placed our fates in their hands and have become their followers with our own eyes and ears shut.
This vacuity and artificial mental inanity has prevented us from trusting in and relying on our own knowledge and thinking and made us blind followers of the East or the West. And whenever and wherever we did have and made manifest our own initiative, our own industry and culture these came under such heavy barrages of criticism and ridicule by Communist or Westernised writers and commentators that the net effect was to suppress our native abilities.
Foreign customs and ways, no matter how trite, hackneyed or redundant, were promoted and propagated and imposed on nations through actions, words and eulogies. For example, if books contain a number of foreign words and terms they are accepted right away with wonder and awe regardless of their meaning. The writer of such a book is deemed erudite and broad-minded. Whatever is tinted with Western or Eastern terminology is good, noteworthy and a mark of progress and civilization. If elaborated in native terms, it is regarded as decadent.
… Our children whose names smack of foreign Western roots are honored and progressive. if they carry traditional names, then they are looked upon as retarded. Streets, alleys, firms, drugstores libraries, textile materials, and other commodities, if manufactured locally, should have foreign names so that people may be pleased with them and receive them well.
Manifesting Western ways in all facets of life and in all aspects of social intercourse is cause for pride and regarded as tokens of civilization and progress. Meanwhile, traditional modes of conduct and customs are deemed as retrograde and ancestor-worshiping. Going abroad for treatment of minor ailments that are easily cured at home is the thing to do, disappointing our own scientists and physicians.
Making a trip to England, France, U.S.A or Moscow enhances one’s dignity, while going to Mecca to perform the Hajj or visiting other holy shrines is considered backward and old fashioned. Disregard for all that is related to religion and morality is a sign of open-mindedness and civilization whereas commitment to these issues is a sign of being backward and antiquated. I do not say that we have everything. In the course of recent history especially during the recent decades we have been deprived of any progress.
The treacherous statesmen of the Pahlavi regime and their propaganda belittled every domestic product, created inferiority complexes in us and withheld all means for advancement. The importation of all types of goods and commodities from abroad provided channels for our young men and women and specially our youth to preoccupy themselves with such trivial things. They became engaged in childish competitions and pursuits with imported objects as toilet articles, and games of chance. At the same time they became consumers of such things as well as items of luxury which has a long, sad story. No effort was spared in diverting the attention and the minds of our youth from thinking about their own fate and the destiny of their country.
