Iran Claims an Oscar Win, Warily Whilst Asghar Farhadi accepting the Academy Award Continued the Lie

"A people who respect all cultures and civilizations and despise hostility and resentment."

All 'cultures' all 'civilizations' without limit - this Pathological Altruist paradigm would have Druids again hanging human bodies in sacred forests and Hitlers and Stalins and ...

This construct enables a world citizen to be killed because they say 'God does not exist' this enables young girls to be sold in arranged marriages (in reality as sex-slaves), religious terror to be defined as ' ' terror, women to be subject to Mans determination, etc

Worse still it enables Moderate/Liberals of Religions of Certainty to deny their own culpability in their foundation text informing 'Death to.., Death to Other to take secular power within the very same State from which they shout their tawdry claim 'respects all cultures'.

The truth of this so called ‘respect’ for Other can be found in the Pew Global Attitudes Project. For Lets face the facts - of Muslims in Turkey only 6% had a positive view of Christians and 73% did not believe Arabs carried out the 9/11 attacks. A survey on ‘Freedom of Religion’ in Indonesia revealed the same contradictions between a view it was a good idea with what actually occurs on the ground.

Then we have the counter 'Religion of Certainty' view, the result the counter-terror in Norway.

Unless Cultural Relativists controlling current policy both internal and external face the fact these ‘feel good’ proclamations when you scratch the surface are lies, we continue to leave foundation text vilifying Other and determining women as less in place to create another generation subject to terror and unable to realise their full potential.

Well, let's hope that Iran (and America too for that matter) can bring out its good side before all hell breaks loose.

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... and it well-deserved the Oscar for best foreign language film. Bravo!

Is an excellent movie. Iran did great. Joshua is bitter.

This is a film that really deserves to be watched. It's not easy but it's unforgettable. More worthwhile than some of the American films nominated.

Would love to have a screening and sit next to Old Man McCain and some of his stuck-in-time disciples - Chambliss, Graham, Santorum, Kyle, Petraeus - all those babbling coots who purport to an uneducated America that war equates to patriotism.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing humanitarian aid to Haitian asylum seekers in Tabatinga, a town in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. MSF teams have been monitoring the situation of Haitians in this small town, located at the border between Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, since November. In December, MSF started distributing more than 1,300 personal hygiene kits and other relief items.

The Haitian asylum seekers first began arriving in Tabatinga in March 2010, escaping a country devastated by a massive earthquake. More than 1,200 Haitians are currently staying in the town, two-thirds of whom say they were directly affected by the earthquake and came to Brazil in hopes of helping other family members who stayed in Haiti.

“Before the earthquake, the situation was already difficult in Haiti. Now, there is nothing left, there are no opportunities. But having to wait in Tabatinga is even worse,” says 32-year-old Olga, from the small room she shares with four other Haitians.

While they wait for an interview with the Federal Police in Manaus, the Haitians are not allowed to work or to leave Tabatinga. Many are living in extremely poor conditions, after spending all their savings on the journey to Brazil.

“I visited a house where 40 people are sharing one latrine. In another residence, there are a lot of tiny rooms, without proper light or ventilation, where up to five people have to sleep. It is really hard to maintain minimal hygiene in conditions like this,” says Renata de Oliveira Silva, MSF’s project coordinator in Tabatinga. “Our biggest concern is that these living conditions are having serious effects on the physical and mental health of these people, such as stomach infections or psychological disorders.”

Without any assistance from government authorities, the Haitian asylum seekers are reliant on the goodwill of local people and the help offered by a few civil society organizations.

“The federal government needs to take responsibility for providing aid to these people, who are not allowed to work while they have to wait in Tabatinga,” said Tyler Fainstat, executive director of MSF Brazil. “Also, local and state authorities should proactively help to find a solution to the situation of Haitians in Tabatinga.”

After the plight of the asylum seekers was raised at the national level, the Brazilian Justice Ministry announced that some 4,000 Haitians who had arrived in the country since the devastating quake would be granted residence and work visas. This includes 1,600 migrants that had already been authorized to stay and some 2,000 more that are in the country illegally.

MSF launched the largest emergency aid operation in its history in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, in which it attended more than 358,000 patients, carried out about 16,000 surgeries and assisted the birth of 15,000 babies. In the 12 months after cholera broke out in Haiti in October 2010, MSF treated more than 160,000 cholera patients, or 35 percent of the total cholera cases reported in the country.

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Microsoft project 2010

This summer, Cartoon Movement’s editorial team, Matt Bors and Tjeerd Royaards, will travel to Haiti in search of a talented comic artist/journalist. The purpose of the project: find someone whose work would otherwise go unnoticed and give them a global platform to create a long-running comic that will give an inside perspective on living in Haiti. Well over a year after the devastating earthquake, Haiti is still in shambles. Unfortunately, the attention span of global media is chronically short; with this project, we hope to show that disasters do not end when the camera crews leave.

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Microsoft project 2010

Director Asghar Farhadi won the Best Foreign Language Film last night at the Academy Awards for his film A Separation. And the Iranian had a message he delivered in a handwritten speech:

At this time, many Iranians all over the world are watching us and I imagine them to be very happy. They are happy not just because of an important award or a film or filmmaker, but because at the time when talk of war, intimidation and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country Iran is spoken here through her glorious culture. A rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics. I proudly offer this award to the people of my country. A people who respect all cultures and civilizations and despise hostility and resentment.

I read this as a rebuke to politicians on both sides who have amped up the rhetoric in recent weeks. He criticizes the leaders of the Islamic Republic for hiding the beautiful culture of Iran. And he criticizes politicians on these shores, who fail to distinguish between those figureheads of the Islamic Republic and the ordinary people who would be so affected by war. In the rush to settle this conflict with bombs and guns, nobody has stopped to remember the people.

As Juan Cole writes, the subject of A Separation has a dual meaning as well:

But there is one feature of the film that is political in a US context, as well. The protagonist is charged with murder for causing a miscarriage. That is, the embryo is being viewed as a person by the Iranian judiciary, and so pushing a pregnant woman turns into a charge of murder.

Isn’t that where Rick Santorum and the religious Right, want to take the US, in the direction of the Islamic Republic of Iran?

I imagine that Farhadi already found it difficult to operate in Iran as a filmmaker. Now, with his use of the world stage to appeal for respect, it will probably get harder for him. That’s the meaning of courage.

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