Neda Agha-Soltan, a 26 year old university student in Iran was killed during protests over the recent election. She was peacefully assembling with others in an non-violent means of protesting the harsh crackdown and initial suspicions of voting irregularities. She was shot. In the chest. Her death was captured on video and has served as a rallying cry for Iranians demanding fair and equitable treatment. My questions to you are the following: how on earth is this okay? Are we to simply excuse it since it is a different culture/country that follows a different set of laws and expectations? I am just so appalled at these events and I needed to vent. Below are links to an article and a video as well. Think about this in the context of life in general, voting in the US, universal rights and expectations, and morality.
CNN article on Neda
NY Times blog video on Neda
Mr.Metz:
ReplyDeleteive been seeing this on the news and its very trageic. Ive also noticed that they hate the U.S for not helping but in the start when we came a wile before this they hated the U.S.....Odd isint it?
HEY MR. METZ HOW IS IT GOING ITS NEVIN HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A GOOD SUMMER
ReplyDeleteNevin, this a really sad topic so can you stop with the nonsense?
ReplyDeleteAlso Today is 9/11. We must have a silent time...
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when you kill someone without justice, even with justice, unless its war, its not okay. they complain that we arent helping, well yeah, were not. why? they hate us and it would just lead to so much conflict an unneeded violence. i wont lie, but war is not bad. it keeps us in line. would you rather have a known and legal war or a violent infiltration of many 1st world country. its annoying because no matter what we do, the countries of the middle-east keep killing and following weird extremist muslim codes of conduct.
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