نامه سرگشاده دانشگاهيان ايرانی به دبیرکل سازمان ملل
زنا، زلزله و حقوق زنان
نامه سرگشاده دانشگاهيان ايرانی در سراسر جهان
۸ اريبهشت ۱۳۸۹
خطاب به: دبيرکل جناب بان کی مون
رونوشت: آيت الله علی خامنه ای؛ رهبر جمهوری اسلامی؛ رسانه های عمومی
عاليجناب؛
سخنان يکی از روحانيان رسمی جمهوری اسلامی ايران در خطبه های هفتگی نماز جمعه ۲۷ فروردين ۱۳۸۹ در تهران، در خور امعان نظر جدّی است. اظهارات حجت الاسلام کاظم صديقی که زنا را زمينه ساز زلزله اعلام نموده است عين جهالت و تعصب دينی است آن هم در مقياسی چندان وسيع که حتی در رژيم جمهوری اسلامی نيز از حدّ انتظار بيرون است (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8631775.stm).
اين نخستين بار نيست که جهان شاهد مطرح شدن چنين گفته های بی معنايی از سوی اسلام طالبانی در ايران است، اما نکته غم انگيز اين است که اين قبيل اظهارات غيرعلمی و بی اساس قبلاً در پشت صحنه از جانب عناصر حاشيه ای در عرصه قدرت مطرح می شد و آن هم با آداب صوری جمهوری اسلامی در تناقض بود. اکنون حقيقت اين است که بخصوص از ابتدای رياست جمهوری آقای احمدی نژاد، و ادعای مشاهده هاله نوردر جريان سخنرانی ايشان در سازمان ملل انتشار خرافات و اراجيف به ارتفاع بی سابقه ای رسيده است. چاه خشک جمکران در نزديک شهر قم که ادعا می شود مجرای ارتباط با امام غايب است، نمونه سخيف ديگری از جهالت و تحميق رسمی است.
از يک سو جمهوری اسلامی ايران خواستار فن آوری هسته ای است ولی روحانيان بلندپايه ادعا می کنند رفتار جنسی زنان باعث لرزش زمين می شود. پرسش اين که آيا عنان بلندپردازيهای هسته ای جمهوری اسلامی ايران را می توان با آسوده خيالی به دست اين متعصبان بی خبر و خرافات زده سپرد؟
پيامدهای ويرانگر اين ايدئولوژی خرافه آلود راه را برای نقض حقوق زنان و سرکوب و نفی آزادی، بخصوص آزادی زنان، در ايران هموار می سازد. ما به رهبر جمهوری اسلامی ايران، آقای علی خامنه ای توصيه می کنيم تا اينگونه اظهارات غيرعلمی مشاوران ارشد خويش را رسماً منتفی اعلام کنند.
ما دام که جمهوری اسلامی ايران به نقض آشکار حقوق بشر و حقوق زنان سرسختانه ادامه دهد، همان طور که در دستگيريهای گسترده، زندان و شکنجه و اعدام زندانيان سياسی و عقيدتی می بينيم، شايسته نيست که جمهوری اسلامی ايران در مجامع جهانی و از جمله در کميسيون حقوق بشر سازمان ملل متحد، و کميسيون امور زنان، نمايندگی و مقبوليت داشته باشد.
ما امضاکنندگان اين نامه بدين وسيله از مطرح شدن اينگونه سياستهای جاهلانه و خرافه آلود از سوی عناصر جمهوری اسلامی ايران و نيز از نقض حقوق بشری به معنای کلی و بخصوص نقض حقوق زنان ابراز انزجار می کنيم.
Promiscuity, Earthquakes and Women’s Rights: Open Letter from Iranian academics worldwide
April 28, 2010
To: Secretary-general Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
CC: Supreme Leader Mr. Ali Khamenehi; World Press
Dear Sir:
The assertion made by a senior official cleric in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) government, on Friday 16th of April 2010 at the Tehran’s weekly Friday prayer sermon, warrants a deeper scrutiny. Hojat ol-Eslam Kazem Sediqi’s suggestion that [women's] promiscuity is the reason for earthquakes is rhetorical ignorance and religious bigotry on a grand scale even by the IRI regime standards.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8631775.stm)
This is not the first time that the world has witnessed such utter absurdity propagated from the Taliban brand of Islam in Iran but the tragedy is that these kind of unscientific and unsubstantiated propositions were in the background provided by the fringe key elements of IRI and in contradiction of the already meagre Islamic Republic code of conduct. The fact is that since the presidency of Mr. Ahmadinejat in particular, and his UN infamous holy aurora of light (haleh noor, saint like) the rise of superstition and quackery has reached unprecedented new levels. The Jamkaran dry well near the holy City of Qom, which is claimed to have direct conduit to the absent imam Mehdi, is another ludicrous example of state perpetrated ignorance and cult mind control.
On one hand IRI is seeking advance nuclear technology and yet senior clerics are claiming seismic phenomena are linked to women’s sexual behaviour. The question is, can IRI’s nuclear ambitions be trusted in the hand of uninformed and superstitious bigots?
The devastating implications of such superstitious ideology open the door for violating women’s rights and the exclusion and suppression of freedom, particularly for women in Iran. We urge the Supreme Leader of the IRI Mr. Ali Khamenehi to publicly repudiate such unscientific assertions by his senior advisors.
So long as the IRI regime continues to remain belligerently complicit in the blatant violation of human and women’s rights, also evident from mass arrest, imprisonment and tortures, and execution of political prisoners of conscience, IRI must not be given any representations or legitimacy on world forums such as the UN Human Rights Commission, and Women’s Rights Commission.
We the signatories do hereby deplore the propagation of ignorance and superstitious strategies as perpetrated by the IRI elements to undermine legitimate human rights in general and women’s rights in particular in Iran.
Signatories:
Abrahamian, Ervand: Distinguished Professor; Baruch College, City University of New York, USA
Abghari, Siavash: Siavash Abghari, Professor of Finance & Director, Morehouse College, Atlanta, USA
Abghari, Shahla: Professor of Microbiology ,Life University, Atlanta, USA
Afshar, Ali: Professor Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA
Afshar, Haleh OBE: Professor the Baroness AcSS, Department of Politics, University of York, UK
Afshari Reza: Professor of History, Pace University, New York, USA
Alamdari, Kazem: Professor of Engineering, California State University, Northridge, USA
Atabaki, Touraj: Professor, Chair and Head of the Middle East and Central Asia, Leiden University Netherland
Baghi, Heibatollah: Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Global & Community Health, George Mason University, VA, USA
Barati, Mehran: Free University Berlin-Germany, Research Unit Globalization and Int’l Politics, Germany
Bastani, Bahar MD: Professor of Medicine – Nephrology and Director of kidney transplantation at Saint Louis University, USA
Bayat, Asef: Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies, Leiden University, Netherland
Darvishpour, Mehrdad: Malardalen University ,Sweden
Daryaee, Touraj: Howard Baskerville Professor in the history of Iran and the Persianate World, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Farhang, Jahanpour: Associate Fellow, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Farhang, Mansour: Professor of Political Science, Bennington College, USA
Gorji, Ali: Professor of Neuroscience Research and Neurophysiology; Munster University, Germany
Haghighatjoo, Fatemeh: Visiting Scholar, Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA, USA
Hashemi, Nader: Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, CO, USA
Jahanbegloo, Ramin: University of Toronto, Canada.
Kangarlu, Alayar: Professor of Medical Physics, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
Kar, Mehrangiz: Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, USA
Karimi-Hakak, Mahmood: Professor Department of Creative Arts, Siena College, New York, Artistic Director, Mahak International Artists Inc, Albany, New York of Theatre, NY, USA
Keddie, Nikki: Professor Emerita of History, UCLA ;Santa Monica, CA, USA
Keshavars, Fatemeh: Professor and Chair, Asian & Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Washington University in St. Louis, IN, USA
Khosrokhavar, Farhad: Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
Kian, Azadeh: Professeur de sociologie, Directrice du CEDREF Université Paris-Diderot-Paris, France
Mahdavi, Pardis: Assistant Professor, Pomona College, USA
Mahdi, Akbar: Professor of Sociology, Ohio Wesleyan university, OH, USA
Malekahmadi, Farshad: Associate Professor of Sociology, Naugatuck Valley Community, College, CT, USA
Mansouri, Mehdi: Associate Professor of Education & Technology, Herzing University, New York, USA
Milani, Abbas: Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies Stanford University, CA, USA
Milani, Farzaneh: Professor of Persian Literature and Women Studies, University of Virginia, USA
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba: Professor, London Middle East Institute, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom
Moaddel, Mansoor: Professor of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University, MI, USA
Mohammadi, Majid: Visiting Scholar in Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies, NY, USA
Monshipouri, Mahmood: Associate Professor, Dept. of Int’l Relations, San Francisco State University, CA, USA
Mousoli, Reza: BSc (Hons) MSc FHEA CED MBCS, Senior Lecturer, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, United Kingdom
Naraghi, Arash: Assistant Professor, Religion and Philosophy, Moravian College, PA, USA
Navab, Mohamad: Professor, Project Leader, Cardiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Niroomand-Rad, Azam: Professor Emeritus, , PhD, DSc, DACR, FAAPM, FACMP; Fellow, American Association of Physicists in Medicine; Past President, International Organization for Medical Physics, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703, USA
Parsa, Misagh: Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College, NH, USA
Rakei, Ali: Theoretical Physicist, Mitre Corporation, Washington DC, USA
Rahni, Davood: Professor of Chemistry, Pace University New York, NY, USA
Sadeghi, Nader MD, FRCSC: Associate Professor of Surgery, Dir. Head & Neck Surgery George Washington U. USA
Shariatmadari, Hassan: Theologian and Philosopher, former Director of Publication Department of Dar-al-Tabligh Islami ( 1973-80), Publisher and Chief Editor of Pyam Shadi and Nasle. No (1975-80)
Shavarini, Mitra: Lecturer, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life and Women’s & Gender Studies, Brandeis University, USA
Shirazi, Arman Ph.D.: Senior Scientist, CSM North America
Talattof, Kamran: Professor, University of Arizona, AZ, USA
Thomasian, Alex: Thomasian and Associates, New York USA
Tourage, Mahdi: Professor of Religious, Social Justice & Peace Studies King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario Canada
Tohidi, Nayereh: Professor & Chair, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA
Ziai, Hossein: Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies, Director of Iranian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA, CA, USA
نامه سرگشاده دانشگاهيان ايرانی به دبیرکل سازمان ملل
زنا، زلزله و حقوق زنان
نامه سرگشاده دانشگاهيان ايرانی در سراسر جهان
۸ اريبهشت ۱۳۸۹
خطاب به: دبيرکل جناب بان کی مون
رونوشت: آيت الله علی خامنه ای؛ رهبر جمهوری اسلامی؛ رسانه های عمومی
عاليجناب؛
سخنان يکی از روحانيان رسمی جمهوری اسلامی ايران در خطبه های هفتگی نماز جمعه ۲۷ فروردين ۱۳۸۹ در تهران، در خور امعان نظر جدّی است. اظهارات حجت الاسلام کاظم صديقی که زنا را زمينه ساز زلزله اعلام نموده است عين جهالت و تعصب دينی است آن هم در مقياسی چندان وسيع که حتی در رژيم جمهوری اسلامی نيز از حدّ انتظار بيرون است (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8631775.stm).
اين نخستين بار نيست که جهان شاهد مطرح شدن چنين گفته های بی معنايی از سوی اسلام طالبانی در ايران است، اما نکته غم انگيز اين است که اين قبيل اظهارات غيرعلمی و بی اساس قبلاً در پشت صحنه از جانب عناصر حاشيه ای در عرصه قدرت مطرح می شد و آن هم با آداب صوری جمهوری اسلامی در تناقض بود. اکنون حقيقت اين است که بخصوص از ابتدای رياست جمهوری آقای احمدی نژاد، و ادعای مشاهده هاله نوردر جريان سخنرانی ايشان در سازمان ملل انتشار خرافات و اراجيف به ارتفاع بی سابقه ای رسيده است. چاه خشک جمکران در نزديک شهر قم که ادعا می شود مجرای ارتباط با امام غايب است، نمونه سخيف ديگری از جهالت و تحميق رسمی است.
از يک سو جمهوری اسلامی ايران خواستار فن آوری هسته ای است ولی روحانيان بلندپايه ادعا می کنند رفتار جنسی زنان باعث لرزش زمين می شود. پرسش اين که آيا عنان بلندپردازيهای هسته ای جمهوری اسلامی ايران را می توان با آسوده خيالی به دست اين متعصبان بی خبر و خرافات زده سپرد؟
پيامدهای ويرانگر اين ايدئولوژی خرافه آلود راه را برای نقض حقوق زنان و سرکوب و نفی آزادی، بخصوص آزادی زنان، در ايران هموار می سازد. ما به رهبر جمهوری اسلامی ايران، آقای علی خامنه ای توصيه می کنيم تا اينگونه اظهارات غيرعلمی مشاوران ارشد خويش را رسماً منتفی اعلام کنند.
ما دام که جمهوری اسلامی ايران به نقض آشکار حقوق بشر و حقوق زنان سرسختانه ادامه دهد، همان طور که در دستگيريهای گسترده، زندان و شکنجه و اعدام زندانيان سياسی و عقيدتی می بينيم، شايسته نيست که جمهوری اسلامی ايران در مجامع جهانی و از جمله در کميسيون حقوق بشر سازمان ملل متحد، و کميسيون امور زنان، نمايندگی و مقبوليت داشته باشد.
ما امضاکنندگان اين نامه بدين وسيله از مطرح شدن اينگونه سياستهای جاهلانه و خرافه آلود از سوی عناصر جمهوری اسلامی ايران و نيز از نقض حقوق بشری به معنای کلی و بخصوص نقض حقوق زنان ابراز انزجار می کنيم.
Promiscuity, Earthquakes and Women’s Rights: Open Letter from Iranian academics worldwide
April 28, 2010
To: Secretary-general Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
CC: Supreme Leader Mr. Ali Khamenehi; World Press
Dear Sir:
The assertion made by a senior official cleric in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) government, on Friday 16th of April 2010 at the Tehran’s weekly Friday prayer sermon, warrants a deeper scrutiny. Hojat ol-Eslam Kazem Sediqi’s suggestion that [women's] promiscuity is the reason for earthquakes is rhetorical ignorance and religious bigotry on a grand scale even by the IRI regime standards.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8631775.stm)
This is not the first time that the world has witnessed such utter absurdity propagated from the Taliban brand of Islam in Iran but the tragedy is that these kind of unscientific and unsubstantiated propositions were in the background provided by the fringe key elements of IRI and in contradiction of the already meagre Islamic Republic code of conduct. The fact is that since the presidency of Mr. Ahmadinejat in particular, and his UN infamous holy aurora of light (haleh noor, saint like) the rise of superstition and quackery has reached unprecedented new levels. The Jamkaran dry well near the holy City of Qom, which is claimed to have direct conduit to the absent imam Mehdi, is another ludicrous example of state perpetrated ignorance and cult mind control.
On one hand IRI is seeking advance nuclear technology and yet senior clerics are claiming seismic phenomena are linked to women’s sexual behaviour. The question is, can IRI’s nuclear ambitions be trusted in the hand of uninformed and superstitious bigots?
The devastating implications of such superstitious ideology open the door for violating women’s rights and the exclusion and suppression of freedom, particularly for women in Iran. We urge the Supreme Leader of the IRI Mr. Ali Khamenehi to publicly repudiate such unscientific assertions by his senior advisors.
So long as the IRI regime continues to remain belligerently complicit in the blatant violation of human and women’s rights, also evident from mass arrest, imprisonment and tortures, and execution of political prisoners of conscience, IRI must not be given any representations or legitimacy on world forums such as the UN Human Rights Commission, and Women’s Rights Commission.
We the signatories do hereby deplore the propagation of ignorance and superstitious strategies as perpetrated by the IRI elements to undermine legitimate human rights in general and women’s rights in particular in Iran.
Signatories:
Abrahamian, Ervand: Distinguished Professor; Baruch College, City University of New York, USA
Abghari, Siavash: Siavash Abghari, Professor of Finance & Director, Morehouse College, Atlanta, USA
Abghari, Shahla: Professor of Microbiology ,Life University, Atlanta, USA
Afshar, Ali: Professor Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA
Afshar, Haleh OBE: Professor the Baroness AcSS, Department of Politics, University of York, UK
Afshari Reza: Professor of History, Pace University, New York, USA
Alamdari, Kazem: Professor of Engineering, California State University, Northridge, USA
Atabaki, Touraj: Professor, Chair and Head of the Middle East and Central Asia, Leiden University Netherland
Baghi, Heibatollah: Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Global & Community Health, George Mason University, VA, USA
Barati, Mehran: Free University Berlin-Germany, Research Unit Globalization and Int’l Politics, Germany
Bastani, Bahar MD: Professor of Medicine – Nephrology and Director of kidney transplantation at Saint Louis University, USA
Bayat, Asef: Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies, Leiden University, Netherland
Darvishpour, Mehrdad: Malardalen University ,Sweden
Daryaee, Touraj: Howard Baskerville Professor in the history of Iran and the Persianate World, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Farhang, Jahanpour: Associate Fellow, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Farhang, Mansour: Professor of Political Science, Bennington College, USA
Gorji, Ali: Professor of Neuroscience Research and Neurophysiology; Munster University, Germany
Haghighatjoo, Fatemeh: Visiting Scholar, Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA, USA
Hashemi, Nader: Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, CO, USA
Jahanbegloo, Ramin: University of Toronto, Canada.
Kangarlu, Alayar: Professor of Medical Physics, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
Kar, Mehrangiz: Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, USA
Karimi-Hakak, Mahmood: Professor Department of Creative Arts, Siena College, New York, Artistic Director, Mahak International Artists Inc, Albany, New York of Theatre, NY, USA
Keddie, Nikki: Professor Emerita of History, UCLA ;Santa Monica, CA, USA
Keshavars, Fatemeh: Professor and Chair, Asian & Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Washington University in St. Louis, IN, USA
Khosrokhavar, Farhad: Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
Kian, Azadeh: Professeur de sociologie, Directrice du CEDREF Université Paris-Diderot-Paris, France
Mahdavi, Pardis: Assistant Professor, Pomona College, USA
Mahdi, Akbar: Professor of Sociology, Ohio Wesleyan university, OH, USA
Malekahmadi, Farshad: Associate Professor of Sociology, Naugatuck Valley Community, College, CT, USA
Mansouri, Mehdi: Associate Professor of Education & Technology, Herzing University, New York, USA
Milani, Abbas: Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies Stanford University, CA, USA
Milani, Farzaneh: Professor of Persian Literature and Women Studies, University of Virginia, USA
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba: Professor, London Middle East Institute, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom
Moaddel, Mansoor: Professor of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University, MI, USA
Mohammadi, Majid: Visiting Scholar in Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies, NY, USA
Monshipouri, Mahmood: Associate Professor, Dept. of Int’l Relations, San Francisco State University, CA, USA
Mousoli, Reza: BSc (Hons) MSc FHEA CED MBCS, Senior Lecturer, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, United Kingdom
Naraghi, Arash: Assistant Professor, Religion and Philosophy, Moravian College, PA, USA
Navab, Mohamad: Professor, Project Leader, Cardiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Niroomand-Rad, Azam: Professor Emeritus, , PhD, DSc, DACR, FAAPM, FACMP; Fellow, American Association of Physicists in Medicine; Past President, International Organization for Medical Physics, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703, USA
Parsa, Misagh: Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College, NH, USA
Rakei, Ali: Theoretical Physicist, Mitre Corporation, Washington DC, USA
Rahni, Davood: Professor of Chemistry, Pace University New York, NY, USA
Sadeghi, Nader MD, FRCSC: Associate Professor of Surgery, Dir. Head & Neck Surgery George Washington U. USA
Shariatmadari, Hassan: Theologian and Philosopher, former Director of Publication Department of Dar-al-Tabligh Islami ( 1973-80), Publisher and Chief Editor of Pyam Shadi and Nasle. No (1975-80)
Shavarini, Mitra: Lecturer, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life and Women’s & Gender Studies, Brandeis University, USA
Shirazi, Arman Ph.D.: Senior Scientist, CSM North America
Talattof, Kamran: Professor, University of Arizona, AZ, USA
Thomasian, Alex: Thomasian and Associates, New York USA
Tourage, Mahdi: Professor of Religious, Social Justice & Peace Studies King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario Canada
Tohidi, Nayereh: Professor & Chair, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA
Ziai, Hossein: Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies, Director of Iranian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA, CA, USA
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2010