THE BOOK: Vali Nasr’s "Forces of Forture: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean to our World.“

THE THESIS: Globalism and free trade are not a threat to Islam, but constitute a major threat to Islamists advocating totalitarian rule under their supervision. Michael Totten, in a NY Times review, summarizes the key idea

…the Middle East will be transformed by a middle class commercial revolution. "The great battle for the soul of Iran–and for the soul of the region as a whole–will be fought not over religion–but over business and capitalism…"

Book Review - ‘Forces of Fortune - The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World,’ by Vali Nasr - Review - NYTimes.com

THE MURDEROUS INFLUENCE OF EGYPT’S SAYYED QUTB

Qutb, who fathered the Islamist movement, hated the West and blamed it for every problem in the muslim world. The decisive was a Baptist church social he witnessed while visiting the conservative…

Another Iranian Diplomat Joins the People | Persian2English

And another one;) Welcome to the fold Mr Eslami

(Feels a bit like 10 green bottles . . . .)

It is the level of literacy which permits the leap. The center of those thoughts round which one leap as Larijani does, is an insult even to larijani himself if we do not deal with educating Larijani.

shame on you Larijani!

Green Brief #91

By Codeman177 – http:/twitter.com/codeman177

Since Niteowl has started posting on his own blog, I have asked if I could begin publishing the Green Brief so that everyone on wwp would once again have a summary of the day’s news from Iran. I, like Niteowl, have gotten all of my information from reliable tweets and am not reporting any information that I could not confirm.

January 24, 2010

Protests/General news

1. Persian2English has published a set of pictures from the “birthday ceremony” at Neda Agha Soltan’s grave yesterday.

2. The head of Iran’s judiciary, Sadegh Larijani, has again warned of those seeking to create divisions within Iranian society, announcing that the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance will be more vigilant in monitoring and punishing publications over false information.

3. Fereshteh Ghazi has published a lengthy article on those arrested after the election, including the detentions of family members of activists, the…

If I wanted to say my name in Persian, how would I say it?

I plugged in my name into Google Translate, and I got: غول آبی مورچهخوار

Persian adjectives come at the end, do they? From my understanding, غول means giant in noun form, does it? Now I’m trying to describe myself as an anteater that is giant and blue. So how do I say "Giant(a Blue(a Anteater(n" in Persian?

(a = adjective
(n = noun