Posted on 23 June 2009 by Will O' in Politics
Memorial to Neda Soltan: Angel of Freedom
The current horror in Iran between a majority of people who want to be free in a secular society and the minority of insane fundamentalists who are happy to slaughter in the name of Allah is a clear example of a species that looks to have passed its use-by date. After centuries of moral crimes committed by each and every religion, it’s hard not to conclude that now, in the 21st century, the human race is too broke to fix.
The Iranian government, led by the devastatingly vicious ignorance of Ayatollah Khamenei, his stooge, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and their stooges, the Basiji, speaks for the persistence of evil in the human psyche. Perhaps not since Hitler and Stalin has a regime so blatantly embodied a hatred of their fellow man. Indeed, for them their fellow man is non-existent.
At the root of the insanity is a triumvirate of hopelessness: 1) The Y Chromosome. 99.99 per cent of all violence is caused by the malformed male gender. 2) Religion. The Gods are not crazy. The people who made them up are. Religion is the single greatest contributor to intolerance in history. 3) Money. If religion is not involved in the quest for power, money is. All three work together in most cases.
The Iranian killers are all men. The Iranian religious hierarchy is all men. Allah is a man. God is a man. Yahweh is a man. Men and religion are the toxic combination that will eventually destroy the human race.
History shows one thing very clearly: life is cheap. Iran’s protesters have two choices. For Neda Soltan and every human being who realizes that we are all brothers and sisters, they can use their numbers to overrun the Basiji, the police, the Revolutionary Guards, and finally the desiccated old men at the top, until what is left of them can take over the government. It’s time to stop offering their precious lives as nothing more than target practice for a mob of deluded maniacs.
Or they can go home and try to live out their lives as best they can.
