From: alireza@eng.umd.edu (Alireza Karimzadeh-Rad)
Subject: Re: Rostam
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 05:49:27 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Apr5.023250.1037@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> minhaszt@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
>In article <1992Apr04.222135.2418@eng.umd.edu>, alireza@eng.umd.edu (Alireza Karimzadeh-Rad) writes:
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>> the war with our so called moslem brothers is not dry yet. Every Arab
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>> country in the "Persian Gulf" (I hope I haven't offended you by calling that
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>> body of water the Persian Gulf) backed Saddam Hossein in his sadistic attempt
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>> to invade Iran.
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>False. Not every arab country in the Persian Gulf supported Saddam in his war
>against Iraq. In fact Yemen, UAE, and Kuwait did not. Also there has been a 
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If you must talk at least get your facts right. Kuwait not only helped
Saddam financially, it let Iraq use the Bubian(sp) Island, off the
mouth of the Shatol-Arab waterway for military purposes. This act lead
Iran to start attacking the Kuwaity oil tankers, thus allowing the
Americans, who had been looking for an excuse to help Iraq, to justify
their escorting of the mentioned tankers.

 
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>In case you haven't forgotten there is something the british, and all colonial
>European powers implemented over the Asian and especially muslim nations, its
>called divide and conquer. It worked very well in India where one Sultan would
>fight against another, and it worked very well against sultanat-e-usmania in
>the formation of Arab nationalism. In case you haven't forgotten the state of
>Israel was formed as a result of this thing. When have the Arabs ever tried to
>shove their culture down your throats? 1300 years ago? 1400 years ago? Is your
>brain still stuck there? Islam took 200 years to spread in Iran. How can you

I never said anything about Islam. I said the Arab culture (e.g their
language, etc). If you want to spread the love of God to a particular
nation, why must you attack and conquer them first. Believe you me the
last thing the Arabs had in mind when they attacked any country was
the love and words of God. They just used that as an excuse to justify
all the bloodshed.


>say it was shoved down your throat? It would have taken a much shorter time if
>the sword was really used. Even if it were true that Arabs forced themselves
>upon you, are they posing a threat now to Iran as far as ideologies go? Islam
>or westerism? Islam is already part and parcel of Iran. Is complete acceptance
>of Westernism going to be good for Iran? I don't think so. The experience of it
>has already proven to be bad. Why do you have to hate a culture so much that
>doesn't threaten you? Persian culture influenced Arab culture more than Arab
>culture influenced Iran. Persian culture has a strong influnce on the
>language and culture of India and Pakistan. So don't worry, you should not feel
>threatened by them and hate them so much.
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Neither Westernism, which by the way was also shoved down our throats,
nor any other ism is good for Iran. All people like myself seek is our
own culture. On a final note:

   Sir the culture you speak of may stir many a feeling in me, 
   and disgust is but an example, but rest assured it threatens me
   not, for I have the likes of Ferdosi as my keeper.


Payandeh Baad Iran
Alireza