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beim heutigen Vortrag Shirin Ebadis im Renaissance-Theater in Berlin habe ich auch einige Fotos gemacht. Es gibt hier im Blog bereits einen kurzen, englischen Text zum Vortrag; ein längerer in Deutsch wird hier morgen erscheinen.
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Berliner Lektionen / Berlin Lectures, Renaissance Theater. A place where I had also the pleasure, years ago, to listen to dear Edward Said.
Today Shirin Ebadi, noble prize winner for peace spoke about human rights (or rather the lack of them) in Iran.
She said, to judge a government, one has to have a close look at its legal system. A socialist system would have different laws concerning property rights than another system that stands for free market (a fine example). As for the iranian system she clearly stated that after the election in june 2009 where out of ca. 400 candidates only 4 were chosen to "apply" for presidency, it is hard to speak of either a republic or islamic.
Also she claimed that blaming other states (like the US, China, Israel, Saudi Arabia and others) which violate human rights, does not legitimate iranian government to do so too.
The abuse of Islam in Iran has been a topic, - and although being an atheist, I think she is very right and this point needs more attention.
Comment:
The "islambashing", such a common issue these days in the West, does not fit to human rights either, because it avoids proper dialogue and what is needed more than ever in countries like Iran is communication (freedom of speech), not among governments and nokia (to name just one) about economic deals or nuclear issues but between the people who live there and have a articulated question: WHERE IS MY VOTE? and people who live somewhere else and want to know what is going on in our global village. Many keep an eye on what happens in Iran, some are collecting the names either of the victims or the ones who commit these crimes against humanity.

S.