Snoopy the Goon links to our piece on Zahra Kamalfar, the Iranian woman, and her two children who Pajamas Media and others say is living in the Moscow airport, trying to avoid deportation back to Iran where she says she…

I also strongly suggest that in your e-mail or letter attaches the following websites;

A: Petition that endorses to grant asylum to Mrs. Zahra Kamalfar and her children.

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?Kamalfar&1

B: The video from Zahra Kamlfar and her children trapped in Moscow airport.

http://pajamasmedia.com/2006/11/iranian_dissident_trapped_in_m.php#comments

C: The film shows the public hanging of Alireza Gorji, 23, and his friend Hossein Makesh, 22, in July in Broudjerd, Iran. According to official versions of the charges, they were put to death because they had behaved ‘immorally’. The truth, according to anti-government campaigners, is that the two men were among increasing numbers of political activists being executed by Iran on trumped-up charges.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Iran+Execution

MONTE SOLBERG

Minister of Citizenship and Immigration

The Honorable Monte Solberg, P.C., M.P.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Ottawa, Ontario

K1A 1L1

E-mail; Minister@cic.gc.ca

Best regards,

The Hare can run ten times faster than the Tortoise. In the interval of time it takes for the Hare to cover the distance between itself and the Tortoise, the Tortoise will always be able to make additional incremental (though diminishing) progress against the Hare. If the Hare, running at 100 yards a minute sets out exactly when the Tortoise is 1000 yards ahead, it will take him 10 minutes to cover that 1000 yard distance. During this 10 minute interval, the Tortoise (who trundles along at 1/10th the speed of the Hare or 10 yards a minute for the sake of our little story) has covered an addition 100 yards. The Tortoise has added 10% additional distance now before the Hare can catch up and surpass him — In the 1 minute it now takes for the Hare to run that additional 100 yards, the Tortoise has covered an additional 10 yards, and so forth.

Conclusion: The Hare can never quite catch up with the Tortoise because there will always be an infinitessimally smaller distance for him to cover, and in the span of time it takes to cover that additional increment, the Tortoise will add 1/10th of it again for the Hare to traverse.

What is wrong with this formulation?

The answer is important, for it relates directly to the mindsets of many of those above who unquestioningly think this is worth all the attention it’s getting, and argue against those who utterly disagree (and note sometimes the silly vituperation above!)

So for all the Sisters Rosetta, the JDs, the Nancy Hunters and Arashes, the Khashayars and the Winstons, and the Mohammad-Reza Pardisans and the MarcHs, and the myriads just like them in the West — To all those who seem unable and unwilling to understand what is plainly before our noses I say this:

You opt for emotional exhibitionism over intellectual reflection, prefer gushy sentimentality over effective and worthy actions. You view the hugeness of our calamity with the absurd and microscopic scrutiny of the befuddled ancients, and do so at a moment in time when the minions of Islam are marshalling in every quarter and across the Globe to subvert and destroy that which makes it possible for persons such as you to persist in fantasist bubbles.

“Obfuscation cloaked in a hysterical and ill advised false humanitarianism.”

Sister Rosetta: “Say what…?!

And now for something completely different.

“the most important gift catalog in the world”

I know you wouldn’t even be risking exposing yourself to some of these comments if you didn’t genuinely care for the welfare of your fellow human beings.

So, hopefully you are beginning to think of this giving season and where best to direct your abundant resources.

We were blessed to live in the Memphis, Tennessee area in the years
1991 – 1994. While we were there, my two children and I had the opportunity to visit Heifer International in the beautiful state of Arkansas.

Ed Asner was the spokesman for the organization at the time and he was there when we visited.

Now, I’m sure that Mr. Asner wouldn’t agree with my politics, but that doesn’t bother me. It was a privilege to meet him and I treasure the photograph of him with my kids.

I also treasure the remarks he made about me…that “all the pretty girls were from Memphis.” That is so true, of course, even though I’m not from Memphis.

Most of these comments are so impersonal. I hope you don’t mind this personal story.

While you are sending your prayers that this family finds its way to freedom, how about giving from “the most important gift catalog in the world?”

Barbara Bush and President Clinton both agree.

http://www.heifer.org

http://www.hungermovement.org

Sister Rosetta

How shocked would those Mullahs be to learn (from a bleeding heart Westerner so manifestly ignorant of Islam).

Not a Westerner–> Moron, Mooorton. I’m sure the Mollahs won’t be shocked at anything unless it is their bank account on fire!

I know Islam alot better than you do despite your big, idiotic and nonsensical words and phrases. Think again. Then again, DON’T THINK AT ALL, it’d be a waste of time!!

Your name ought to be “Moron” not Morton. You are a lunatic from Islamic Repugnant Iran, aren’t you? Tell me, ARE YOU ON OPIUM AND HOME MADE VODKA AGAIN, like your masters in Iran? How much do you get paid? You’re pitiful.

For your information, in the West, we don’t value people including Mollahs who rape and torture and maime and execute. Go figure!

Tell me about Shia Doctrine versus Khomeini Doctrine. Educate us.

The prophet Mohammad had two distinct phases in his life, tell us about them?

Tell us about, even, Shia versus Sunni Doctrine.

If you can’t, Shut your trap.