Animalistic & inhuman - European or Iranian society today?

Andrew Scott Cooper, in his outstanding book, The Fall of Heaven – The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran, on page 241-2, writes: “In the summer of 1977, a tall, austere, twenty-six-year-old seminarian named Ali Hossein divided his time, between Qom, where he studied religious studies, and Tehran, where he was enrolled in Western philosophy classes at the University of Tehran.”

According to Cooper, Ali Hossein liked to study Western culture, hence, at twenty-three he sells his small piece of land and finances his trip to Europe. Once in Europe, Copper writes: “he asks people the same question: ‘What is the acceptable philosophy for the creation of human being?’ Each time the answer was the same: ‘comfort and pleasure.’”

Following this trip, he concludes that Westerns believe in individualism, multiculturalism, nationalism and rationalism, when he decides for himself that these societies are nothing but ‘animalistic and not human.’

The irony, however, is that in today Iran we have the most animalistic and inhumane society built, encouraged and developed by Islamic theologians who have ruled the country for over four decades. In this republic men and women are only treated equally in prisons’ torture chambers, or in detentions centre, where young and old, girls or boys, are raped. I wonder where Ali Hossein is today and how he would describe the current regime in comparison to the one he fought against and toppled.

It is a sad reality that despite the power of media today, to which Iranian youth are using them to its possible maximum, the barbarity of the Islamic-Nazi regime in its treatment of Iranians rarely receives the necessary global coverage that it deserves.