From: bxm50@pars.amdahl.com (Ben Mahjoor)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: burning question and Hooshyar
Date: 22 Dec 92 05:23:45 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corp.

>
>  Regarding: "Re: A very burning question" by Hooshyar Naraghi, 21 Dec 1992.
>

Salam bar Hooshyar: 

Thanks for your reply and it is always good to hear from you.
I claimed that thousands of young men and women were attracted to the Mojahedin
Khalgh Organization (MKO) because of the "anti-USA", "anti-Israeli" and
in general "anti-West" principles of this organization. You claim that  
they were attracted to this organization because they were simply "anti-Shah".

There were many "anti-Shah" organizations, groups and  parties in 1979 
"revolution": "jebheye melli", "hezbe Mardom", "hezbe Zahmatkeshan" and
"peirovAne khate Mosadegh" are among the famous ones. If your claim is
true that these young men and women were simply "anti-Shah" then we 
should have seen an almost equal distribution of them among these 
"anti-Shah" groups. But we know that it was not so. If you want to know
where these "anti-x" princilples of MKO are coming from, then you must
familiarize yourself with a soup of Marxist_Leninist and Islamic views
of Dr. Shari'ati (or as they call him The Great Teacher)..a soup that I
call "Marxist/Rajavism" !

I still stand by my opinion that MKO attracted these new members precisley 
because of it's "anti-west" principles of that time.

Now a few words about my so called "sooznak" posting and my other 
postings about MKO on this net. My friend, sorry to make you sad with
my "sooznak" article. I am not a "rouze khoon" here and I had two 
objectives for postings those articles. These two objectives are:

1. There are many 25-26 year old Iranian professionals who are "silent"
readers of net. These young Iranians were 11-12 years of age at the 
time of revolution. Recently there has been some postings by a few MKO
supporters who try to give us the status of their "signature-collection"
efforts. Every one of these postings tries to show the MKO as a very
friendly and "democratic" organization whose sole worry in this world
is "fundamental rights" of Iranians. Not a single one of these postings
explains "what is MKO" and "what it stands for". I saw it as my duty
to show the other side of the coin and present my felow country men and 
women with a background on this organization. 

2. MKO supporters do not talk about their "democratic" point of views
on this net. I tried to establish a dialogue with them and through 
this dialige get them to spell out their ideas. Once these ideas are 
out then the readers will be the judge to see what kind of "model democracy" 
they are dreaming for our beloved country Iran.  So far I was successful
in making them admit that once they take power in Iran, "we can bet" that
they will have another wave of "democratic" execution in order to 
establish a "trusted" army. So basically, nothing has changed. Other than
that they have not answered one single question that I presented them
(as usual, they think by ignoring the questions, the questions themselves
will disappear).

Regarding the rest of your article:  I take them as your opinions. Sharing
the opinions, while it is necessary and interesting, becomes fruitful if
it leads to a "discussion" not an "arguement". If you are interested 
in a discussion based on facts and figures (and not based on personal 
experiences and family stories) then pick a topic from belw and let us do it:

	1. Noting the social and economical structure of Iran of
	57 years ago, were we able to accomplish more than we
	had at the time of Shah's downfall ? 

	2. Are a healthy economiy AND wide-spread basic education among
	the population two necessary steps in order for Iran 
	(or any third-world country) to become a "democracy" ?  
	Or Iran could (and can) become a democracy
	no matter what state she is in (as far as economiy and education) ? 

Anxiously waiting for your reply.

			- Behnam

"Tomorrow's battles are not won through the barrels of guns and canons. But
through the chimneys of factories and university classrooms" -Bismark
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