NY Times: Few Americans have heard of Howard Conklin Baskerville, but most Iranians know his name. A native of Nebraska, Baskerville graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary and moved to Iran as a Presbyterian missionary. He was 23. The year was 1907. Baskerville was an idealist at a time of idealism in Iran.
The year before Baskerville’s arrival, the ailing king of Iran, Mozaffar ud-Din Shah, had bowed to popular demands for a constitutional monarchy and Iranians had drafted the first Constitution of their 25-century-long history. A parliament, the Majlis, was established and each city elected an assembly, or Anjoman. Tabriz — where Baskerville worked as a schoolteacher — was the capital of the constitutionalists and its assembly assumed a national role in the movement. Many Iranians presumed that the time for change had finally arrived.
But the shah died in January 1907, and his son Muhammad Ali Shah was a Russophile and despot who opposed the Constitutional Revolution. His Cossack brigades, commanded by Russian officers, attacked and bombarded the Majlis. The constitution was suspended. Politicians, journalists and the leaders of the constitutionalists were hanged.
Surrounded by royalist troops, the people of Tabriz fought back. And instead of choosing the safety of the American consulate, Baskerville joined the outgunned and outnumbered constitutionalists. The young Nebraskan has been quoted as saying, “The only difference between me and these people is my place of birth, and this is not a big difference.â€
Baskerville was given command of a contingent of 150 men whose job was to defend the city’s fortifications. Three weeks later, on April 19, 1909, while he was leading a mission to break through the royalists’ siege and bring food into the city, a bullet tore through his heart and he was killed instantly. He was 24 years and 9 days old.
Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of his death and, despite the Iranian government’s estranged relationship with the United States, Baskerville is still revered and honored as a symbol of American ideals and principles. In 2005, President Mohammad Khatami unveiled a bust of Baskerville in Tabriz’s Constitution House. Someone still leaves fresh yellow roses on his gravestone in Tabriz. To Iranians, Howard Baskerville is their American martyr.
FINALY! A good educational post among numerous dumb useless posts you have had. Agha Pouya, even though I hate your blog and I think everything you write does not come from any experience rather hatred, however this one actually shows significant improvement. I hope you continue this pattern and do not revert to propaganda like your previous posts.
I could only hope.
http://www.alalam.ir/farsi/NewsPage.asp?newsid=045260120090419232908
On the contrary, Arash the Occupation Soldier aka “The Joker” (bc we love laughing at you), I hardly write on my weblog. I post other people’s stuff often, however, and those posts come from Jewish scholars and Jewish activists that are critical of your murderous ideology.
Unlike you, I am NOT one-dimensional and like to enjoy a broad range of stuff, anything from politics and movies to popular culture and comedy clips.
Your entire blog is a joke, however. From top to bottom, you have nothing to offer except your one-dimensional narrative on the same subject, over and over again, without any credible sources, of course, because they are just your grammatically incorrect and incoherent rants, haha. And when you do try to change it up and recommend a movie, for instance, it, of course, is somehow tied to your one-dimensional mind-set (like when you posted the trailer to “O Jerusalem” hahahahahaha).
On the rare occasion that you post on something that is not based on your obsessive blind support for your murderous ideology, it is about a lame topic, like your car, where you self-righteously proclaim that your car is not the typical Persian car. So what does that mean? That you are better than Iranians in So Cal bc you didn’t get a beamer or a benz? On the contrary, I think you are worse than the stereotypical Iranian since they are one-dimensional, racist, ignorant, and self-righteous, all of which you embody and then more!
And if I post articles that are critical of your murderous ideology and the death and destruction that it visited upon the Gaza Strip and the continued construction of settlements in the West Bank and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine… if all that makes me “full of hatred” then I feel sorry for you.
Enjoy,
iPouya
Oh no! I gave you a compliment and yet you used it against me. lol anyways I am not going into detail of what you write because it is filled with anger. Just good job on this article. That’s all.
With regard to Jewish writters not being propaganda, come on! Look through out history and you will easily find Jewish Self-haters and their books who targeted Jews. Come on, a minority of less than 5% is what you are relying on? Through out history, we’ve always had self-haters, even during Nazi era, so please please please, just because unlike the ideologies that you support, judaism and Zionisim does tolerate opposite views and even criticisim and we don’t kill them for it(unlike arab countries and of course muslim countries) it does not mean that their ideas who are not even supported by 5% of Jews around the world is the right idea or it’s the justice. Last time I checked, it was Hizbollah using propaganda saying Jews drink blood of Palestinian kids for passover and you clearly support Hezbollah.
come on pouya, Bad argument to use. Very bad argument.
Against, this was not meant to criticize this post, rather I was attacking a subject matter that you brought up. Just because I didn’t address every sinle one of those, does not mean I agree with them or you even right. It means I didn’t feel they are important.
LSAT logic 101, you should never look at who’s doing the talking, but what is being said. Did you not learn this at Testmasters? I only use Jewish sources so that people like you won’t say something like, “Of course, he’d say that… he’s Palestinian [or Arab, Muslim, Iranian, etc].” But still, now that you can’t use that flawed logic, you resort to saying they’re self-haters? Why is it so hard for you to look at the content rather than the person? Is it bc the truth hurts your one-dimensional comfort zone? I mean these are brilliant professors and writers at prestigious universities who are devoutly Jewish, but now all of a sudden since you disagree with their politics, they’re self-haters? How self-righteous are you? Who gave you the authority to level such accusations? What, just bc your extremism prompted you to pick up a gun and join the Israeli Occupation Forces (until you were kicked out) and serve the occupation, now you have the authority to say who is proud to be Jewish and who is a self-hater? Get real.
And of course you cherry pick what to respond to because you CAN’T respond to anything else, even though my response was a response to your “compliment” (which by the way is hardly a compliment by any standard… you certainly are off your rocker).
Also, you haven’t apologized to the blog’s viewers for your usage of threatening language. You are still on time-out until you apologize and promise not to misbehave again. Until then, you are forbidden from blogging here.
lol whatever dude… just good job on the article, you deserve it on this one.
This is the completely insane world of Arash. Arash thinks that it is hateful to put up articles from the BBC, or detailed reports from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. In his world, when you go on rants and fabricate history (like about Hezbollah massacring thousands of christian civilians, or about Egypt invading Israel in the 1973 war etc. etc.), it is NOT hateful. That is, it is hateful to use serious sources, it is not hateful to spew things you make up in your head.
Arash, politics aside, I really think you might be a little retarded. This has nothing to do with your politics. I, for example, dont believe JZ has a mental disability. But when you have been so unable to make the most simple connections, use sources, or even apply some of the most basic principles of logic, that is all i can conclude. And I really am not trying to be insulting here. I am actually serious about this. How does this make you feel?
The funny thing is that if Arash only said something like, “Look, I heard a lot of these things and I just said them without any evidence thinking they were true. Given I have no evidence, they are not true, and I made a mistake.” I would stop bringing this stuff up. But its the fact that he consistently does this over and over again, and of course NEVER EVER responds to it after I expose him and ask him for evidence, that I keep using it to mock you Arash. Just admit, these things you said are not true, you have no evidence, and we can move on.
-I wont hold my breath.
Israeli justice:
“The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Haim Castro, a former Border Guard officer, who was convicted of shooting dead an Israeli Arab in Kfar Qassem six years ago, without there being any immediate threat to his life.
Castro was sentenced to six months community service by a district court. He then appealed to the Supreme Court arguing he did not shoot the man in question, but his appeal was rejected.”
Hard not to be proud of that judicial body.
I hope people dont think Israel’s crimes have ended…
“The water-supply regime used by Israel and the Palestinians must be changed, according to a World Bank report that is to be published today. The report notes that an average Israeli gets four times as much water as the average Palestinian, and warns that the Palestinian Authority water system is “nearing catastrophe.”””
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:19:23 GMT
Addressing a UN anti-racism confab Iran’s president minces no words in calling Israel ‘a totally racist government’ formed on the back of ‘military aggression’.
Snubbing Monday warnings by the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the post-World War II military invasions on Palestine which preceded the propping up of the entity, were explained by ‘Jewish suffering’.
“They resorted to military aggression to make an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish,” he said.
“They sent migrants from Europe, the United States and other parts of the world in order to establish a totally racist government in the occupied Palestine.”
Kouchner had earlier warned that all European envoys would leave the UN anti-racism summit, should Ahmadinejad level ‘racist or anti-Semitic accusations’ against Israel.
Ahmadinejad’s comments were followed by the walking out of the delegates from several European supporters of Israel. Ahmadinejad, however, continued his speech and was applauded by the audience.
France, which had sent its representative to the event, also reportedly condemned the presentation as a ‘hate speech’.
A Protesting European official was quoted by DPA as saying that the delegations were offended by the “inflammatory remarks”.
As the president was walking up to the podium, some three clown impersonators attempted at obstruction shouting “racist, racist.”
They were ejected by the guards and Ahmadinejad commenced his presentation saying “I would like to ask the respected audience to forgive these people. They are misinformed.”
wow! What an embarrassment for Iran and Iranian today. What an embarrassment! THIS IS WHAT IRANIAN HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO, TO HAVE THE WHOLE FREE WORLD WALK-OUT ON ITS PRESIDENT GIVING A SPEECH. THANK YOU ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN FOR YOUR SERVICES TO IRAN, IRANIAN PEOPLE, AND IRANIAN CULTURE.
http://rajanews.com/detail.asp?lang_id=&id=27595
http://www.isna.ir/ISNA/PicView.aspx?Pic=Pic-1318709-1&Lang=P
I love “the winner” aka (the racist holocaust denier Nahid who receives no criticisim from Pouya) put up a picture of a so-called Iranian student-he is nothing but a “joojeh basiji” put in the university to counter over-whelming anti-government movement in Iran!! AKH NAHID, VAGHEAN KE MOKHET ESHKAL DAREH!
I know Arash, can you believe the Islamic Republic? Given the absurdity of that crackpot regime, it makes total and complete sense to now support…the destruction of the Gaza strip and colonization of Palestinian land. (No it doesn’t make any rational sense. But this is Arash’s logic. See his LSAT score for more info.)
Arash, of course you are as usual unable to respond to all the factual innacuracies/fabrications of yours that I exposed. Now run away, with your tail between your legs. Again.
Also, Arash, you need to pluralize “Iranian” into “Iranians”. Jesus Christ you’re a retard.
By the way, another blatant lie/fabrication from Arash:
” THIS IS WHAT IRANIAN HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO, TO HAVE THE WHOLE FREE WORLD WALK-OUT ON ITS PRESIDENT GIVING A SPEECH.”
In fact, here is what happened according to CNN:
“any delegates at the controversial U.N. anti-racism conference in Geneva, Switzerland, cheered his words as a minority of diplomats — mostly from Europe — collected their papers and briefcases and left the room. Cameras at the scene showed empty seats where delegates from France, Finland and Denmark had been sitting.
The British and Spanish delegations also walked out, both countries’ foreign affairs divisions confirmed”
Now, Arash, does the “WHOLE FREE WORLD” consist of 5 countries? Please Arash, inquiring minds want to know. Or is this ANOTHER blatant lie/fabrication where you forgot to look at what actually happened? Please keep commenting. Please.
Of course, you wont respond to this bc you can’t. You have no way to defend yourself. Pathetic.
🙂 the fact is that it was embarrassing, wheter you are going to argue about the mere meaning of “whole” is not a concern of mine. European union delegates walked out. Watch the clip, it wasn’t just five countries according to you. It was still embarrassing and whoever they were cheering for is unknow. I am not saying they were cheering for that little retarded monkey or delegates walking out.
Good job Arash! You were humble, and sort of admitted your mistake. Now, we have official confirmation of 5 countries that walked out. if there is more then it will be reported, so be it. If not, then so be it. Slowly but surely, I am going to get you in the habit of not making things up/ exxaggerating things without evidence. Good boy.
Of, I forgot to ask you. How about that whole tens of thousands of christian civilians massacred by Hezbollah?