Podcast – Interview with an Iranian student living in the UAE
October 2nd, 2007In this podcast, I talk to two students, an Iranian and a Palestinian. One walked into the discussion and had very interesting things to say, and the other was a scheduled yet very informal interview with an Iranian student who moved with her family to the UAE partly because of her political activism. Several important issues are discussed in the podcast, some relating to activism others relating to culture and Islam.
Tune in and I hope you enjoy it! It’s about 10 minutes long as always (edited from a 45 minute interview) so there was so much more to be shared but I picked the highlights.
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Good job, you! Both students sound very interesting and educated. I especially liked the part about the role Islam should play within governments as well as how they vary from one country to another. Very true.
Thanks, I’m glad you liked it.
This was (unintentionally) funny: “There’s Jews all over the place.”
Hey I meant that in a good way… interfaith and tolerance etc.
How is her English so good? Iran and Dubai and school in Switzerland? Where do you guys get the opportunity to speak with no accents?! Awesome.
Both students were schooled in either Iran or the Gulf all their life, so the accent comes with practice I guess. I actually faked mine until I got it right.
English is very widely spoken in the Gulf, and many teenagers speak it flawlessly.
Not Banalising the Dramatic Truth
Human Rights are baffled if not violated in any Islam-based constitution—Shiite IRI, Sunni Wahabbi, Afghan Taliban. The more the state Islamic is, the more Human Rights are dire and violated. This includes men, women, and children, regardless of their religions, faith, and ethnicities.
Some victims in Iran, especially Baha’is, paid a high price; the price is more dramatic, bloody, and barbaric than what we heard in this reconcilable interview. The young interlocutors do not know or were not asked that a Shiite sect called “Hojjatyeh”, to which most Islamic seniors, including Ahmadinejad belong, is founded long before the IRI.
According to this anti-Baha’i sect “Baha’is are apostates and must be physically eliminated”. The sect did the job before 1979, Iranian revolution, and would do it with or without the current ruling Sharia.
Those who try to undermine the Human Rights, in expense of religious solidarity with Islamic states, ignore the crucial role that freedom plays in human growth and development and today is more important than any faith.
Very consequently, some Muslims neither truly believe in Human Rights nor solidarity with the victims of such Islamic states; therefore, this interview does not care about this human issue that Baha’is are the victims of Shiite sect, not forcibly the alleged Sharia. Instead, it banally attempts a reconciliation between the culprits and victims in the expense of the truth.
It is like kindly asking Jews if they like to go back to Germany while the Nazi would be still there!
Jahanshah,
Iran is in a serious state of decay religiously and morally. Right now all we can do is look to the future.
Sweet podcast, ladies. Interesting and concise, just how I like it.
Very interesting podcast!
I particularly like the jews all over the place part, made me laugh for a while. I like how this is not all about politics and what not whereas the normal person that stumbles upon it could find it intresting. As always, great job Esra’a!
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Do you post the full interviews anywhere? I loved this and would like to hear more, I’m sure you had to cut a lot of substance to fit a 45 minute interview in ten minutes.
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