December 20, 2005
Don't let this man in your country
Shargh Newspaper reports that Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi (official website in English) is going to Saudi Arabia and is going to have a few speeches for other Muslims.
But I guess if there is one single person in Iran from whom the world should truly be afraid of, that person is Messbah Yazdi.
He's an influential ideologue of fundamentalism and violence among the Shia' Muslims and by the new rhetoric his that his true follower, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has adopted against Israel, they expand influence among the Sunni Muslims as well. (Ahmadinejad has already been very popular among the Saudi royal family and its public.)
This man is a real threat to democracy, human rights, and peace in the region and is rapidly expanding his financial, paramilitary and political influence. He preaches hate and violence. Somebody should stop him.
Posted by hoder at December 20, 2005 5:03 PM
Not true. He is no more dangerous than the likes of khatami or Rafsanjani. Actuially with their soft talk and pleasant words to fool the world opinion, they were the more dangerous ones.
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Dear Hussein: you are fear mongering. You are exploiting the ignorance of Westerners and are supplying them with innacurate and "feel good" information.
You are becoming an accessory to the coming war!
Mesbah in no way is more dangerous than Ariel Sharon, George Bush, pat Robertson and man many others who never get mentioned in your blogs.
Stop using your influence to prepare and massage the mind of western people for Israel's coming war. concentrate your effort and energy into exposing evil USA and Israel plans for the destruction of Iran.
Mesbah cannot possibly be as bad as his israeli american counterparts, simply because Iran does not have any of their nuclear weapons and depleted uranium amunition.
the greatest danger to the world and iran is not mesbah, but the war that Israel and USA are planning against Iran.
Wake up hussein. and please, stop using your fame and influence to fan the war.
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Mesbah Yazdi interests me. I have read some of his English-language textbook "Philosophical Instructions" (it used to be carried on his website, I hope they put it back), and just from a philosophical standpoint, he is clearly a very capable thinker. So how to explain his politics? Is it attributable purely to the religious, ideological element in his thought, or is there some other explanation? It reminds me of Heidegger's dalliance with the Nazis, although clearly Mesbah Yazdi is far more influential than Heidegger ever was.
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