Poem for Iran: ‘Tomorrow is Saturday. Tomorrow is a day of destiny.’
by John Nolte
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No comment is really necessary. Just a reminder of the power of art. Reports say this was recorded last night. The transcript is below:
Tomorrow is Saturday. Tomorrow is a day of destiny.
Tonight, the cries of Allah-o Akbar are heard louder and louder than the nights before.
Where is this place? Where is this place where every door is closed? Where is this place where people are simply calling God? Where is this place where the sound of Allah-o Akbar gets louder and louder?
I wait every night to see if the sounds will get louder and whether the number increases. It shakes me. I wonder if God is shaken.
Where is this place that where so many innocent people are entrapped? Where is this place where no one comes to our aid? Where is this place that only with our silence we are sending our voices to the world? Where is this place that the young shed blood and then people go and pray — standing on that same blood and pray. Where is this place where the citizens are called vagrants?
Where is this place? You want me to tell you? This place is Iran. The homeland of you and me.
This place is Iran.
Godspeed.
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God bless and protect her. It restores my faith in humanity to hear "Allah al Akbar" shouted as a cry from the heart for freedom, rather than an invocation of hatred.
By speaking out FORCEFULLY against the apparent fraud in the Iranian elections, it appears as though French President Nicolas Sarkozy has stepped up as the NEW LEADER of the West. No doubt our child President will sit on the sidelines long enough to see how things play out. He will then emerge out of the blue to take credit if the Iranian people do, in fact, succeed in overthrowing, or at least disrupting, the current Iranian regime.
That seems to be his style, he lets BETTER MEN to the hard lifting, then he brushes them aside and says, "See what I did. Do you believe in my greatness now?"
He’s a weak and shallow opportunist involved in a never ending quest for adulation. That will be Obama’s legacy.
Will the American press ever stop enabling him and expose him for the empty suit and false prophet that he is? Not likely, they have too much invested in him as they helped get him (s)elected!
We must give credit to the French on this one.
Please, President Obama, stand up to these bullies.
It's easy to take freedom for granted, isn't it? My biggest frustration on a lazy Saturday was that I wrote a couple of comments here that didn't post.
Pray for these Very Valiant People. I can only Hope and Pray that We will have the same Courage and Resolve to Fight to Keep and Protect Our Rights and Freedoms if, God Forbid, We Must.
This video breaks my heart. What hurts just as bad is that Obama will never hear it. He has this hearing problem, see? Started 20 years ago with his 'God D**M America' pastor, with a 'friend in the neighberhood' who complained he didn't kill MORE people, and another friend who made money off slum properties. Obama didn't hear any of that. So he for sure isn't going to hear this video.
This is sad.
This video breaks my heart. What hurts just as bad is that Obama will never hear it. He has this hearing problem, see? Started 20 years ago with his 'God D**M America' pastor, with a 'friend in the neighberhood' who complained he didn't kill MORE people, and another friend who made money off slum properties. Obama didn't hear any of that. So he for sure isn't going to hear this video.
This is sad.
Hope and change…
Good luck to the people of Iran. If the Mad Mullahs are taken down, it’ll be a good day for the world.
That poor girl, how I wish people HERE would understand how important FREEDOM is. I wish that it was within our power to help every country that is starving or oppressed without having to suffer the backlash. Sad, sad video, it almost made me weep for that poor girl who has probably never known one moment of freedom.
I wonder if Obama has seen this? Based on his tepid and weak statements of "deep concern", I am guessing the answer is no.
It is sad that so many Americans take for granted that which these Iranians are willing to die. Solidarity from the USA.
So what does everyone think the outcome might be? Could this actually make the government of Iran finally fall? Or will it just be Tiananmen 2009? If we support these kids and they lose, now the Ayatollahs are even more pissy because we've openly cheered for their downfall, and they still might end up with the bomb. If the government falls, is it likely to fall completely, with the Ayatollahs fleeing, or is the country likely to split into years of bloody infighting? Will we be on the hook for yet _another_ nation building/security project? I really don't want the U.S. spread into the affairs of yet another middle eastern country. No matter who comes out the winner it's going to be an expensive, bloody mess that we really don't need right now. I don't mean to sound heartless, and I sympathize with what the Iranian people have dealt with since the revolution, but I just don't feel good about how this is going to end.
Amen. "God is great" should always have been a rallying cry for the righteous, but at some point the hypocrites took over.
It is worth remembering that, as Khomeini's supporters grew in strength and led the revolution against the Shah, the Shah finally realized that violence against his own people to stay in power was not a solution.
Despite the corruption around him and the tyranny of Savak and others, he realized that it was time to go rather than time for civil war against his own people. He could have used his power to brutally crush the revolution, but that would have been devastating for the country, and clearly would have left him with no legitimacy at all. He would have been just another ruthless tyrant who put his own interests in power over those of his people.
Will the Guardian Council exercise similar wisdom, and recognize that brutal repression is not a solution? Will Khamenei choose to actually crush the opposition as he has already threatened? They may be capable of cracking down on these protests, and driving any opposition into the shadows in fear again, but the idea of liberty is more powerful than the most ruthless tyranny. Eventually, the people will win this one – but it could be a very long and painful struggle. Most tyrants don't give up their power easily, without a fight. They are quite willing to let other people die as they defend their own power. They are not willing to listen to opposition.
It is always the innocents that suffer the sins of others. It breaks my heart to herar her speak those words but in a strange way it makes me proud that she had the courage to put her message/poem out there. I can only hope that whatever happens I hope that she and her family get through this OK.
Giving it another try…
Amazing video. Heartbreaking, as we listen to this young woman almost whispering, into the dark night, while the sounds out in the street echo in the background. A very powerful piece.
Thanks John for posting.
Godspeed, indeed.
The Ayatollahs are vicious zealots I would imagine they would be willing to sacrifice many a soul to keep their power.
Via con dios to the Iranians, freedom is not free.
Beautiful and heartbreaking. God be with these people who are finding the will to fight for freedom, the will that we surrendered for convenience and "free" government services.
I can't help but wonder what sort of opportunity we are missing by standing by doing nothing. Yes, President Obama came out today and gave a form letter objection to the force being used by the Iranian government but it was empty. Reagan evoked emotion when he pleaded for the freedom of those under the crushing heel of the Soviets, we felt it and clearly so did those under Soviet control. If Iran were to become a free Democracy it could change the world and set a fire of liberty that would spread across the Islamic world and reduce to ashes the hatred that currently exist. Free people do not hate. Yet we, America, the aspiration of all oppressed people and the fathers of freedom stand back because we don't want to be seen as interfering. In our quest to become secular we have become souless.
Beautiful and heartbreaking. God be with these people who are finding the will to fight for freedom, the will that we surrendered for convenience and "free" government services.
I can't help but wonder what sort of opportunity we are missing by standing by doing nothing. Yes, President Obama came out today and gave a form letter objection to the force being used by the Iranian government but it was empty. Reagan evoked emotion when he pleaded for the freedom of those under the crushing heel of the Soviets, we felt it and clearly so did those under Soviet control. If Iran were to become a free Democracy it could change the world and set a fire of liberty that would spread across the Islamic world and reduce to ashes the hatred that currently exist. Free people do not hate. Yet we, America, the aspiration of all oppressed people and the fathers of freedom stand back because we don't want to be seen as interfering. In our quest to become secular we have become souless.
My heart is broken. I'm so ashamed of myself and my petty problems. I'm sending this to everyone I know – and I'm praying for the Iranian people.
Hey, it's cool- obama went out and got ice cream today to show his solidarity with the woman on this video, and all the folks shedding blood in the streets!
That's what leaders do, right?
When the going gets tough, the tough get soft-serv.
For some reason, most of my comments get deleted here. I am glad my comments are getting posted today. Big fan of this site.
Godspeed Iran.
[...] Iran before heading out for ice cream with his daughters. I thought about it when I listened to a poem an Iranian woman recited over the nighttime sounds of chanting, screaming, and gunshots. I thought [...]
Hot Air has a continuing run under the HotPicks section by Ed Morrisey. There's a very sad and tragic video of a young girl, whose name per twitters is Neda…she was shot through the heart by a Basij sniper from a roof of one of the nearby homes..all she was doing was standing on a side walk with her father watching the protesters…a doctor who was there commented on his facebook site about what happened and that it was deliberate..there was no reason to murder this young girl..it needs to be forwarded to everyone you know..Obama may not have the courage to stand with Iran's citizens fighting for their very existence, but we do. Anything we can do to alert the world to this brutality. Keep them in your prayers, and the family of Neda. **warning..it is a horrible graphic video so some may just want to read the doctor's commentary**
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/20/iranian-pol...
I cry with her.. and my heart aches for the Iranian people who just want freedom.
Zealots like the Ayatollahs and Moollahs think God told them to kill.
The only way they can be convinced they are wrong is for someone to send them to God so that they can be reeducated.
Like the schooling begin I say.
Why are we not handing out M-16's to Iranians with Green Armbands from the Iraq and Afghan borders? Oh I forgot Mr. Diplomacy is President. Why should a little thing like a revolution get in the way of his ability to take credit for engagement with Iran.
Was it not another famous Muslim here in America who said "It is the Ballot or the Bullet" Someone should ask Obama WWMXD. What would Malcom X Do. Maybe then he could do the right thing and still sound liberal.
I smell freedom
There is the words and the acts and unfortunately, the French are only good in the first thing. Too bad, some years ago, with Bush 43 in charge, the US Army would have crossed the border.
There is the words and the deeds and unfortunately, the French are only good in the first one.
Dittos & Amen!
So true. Iranians will be the first in the middle-east to stand up becasue they're mad as hell and they're not gonna take it anymore.
Heart-breakingly beautiful. I pray for my fellow humans living under such conditions.
This really relates more to the castration of America. Liberals detest action and thus applaud Obama whenever he shows 'inaction'. People of principle have become lampooned by pop culture and unfortunately pop culture seems to be all that matters now; don't look at my policies…I'm cool and I'm hip.
If you consider acting rather than sitting on your hands dementia or sticking to your principles rather than seeing what polls well as "increasing malelvolence", fine I'm guilty. I just know a historical opportunity when I see one and I don't need a poll to tell me. You guys aren't "progressive" you're regressive and it would not be a mistake for Obama to stand strongly with the people of Iran rather than siding with their oppressive dictators. What he is doing now is the mistake.
[...] Iran before heading out for ice cream with his daughters. I thought about it when I listened to a poem an Iranian woman recited over the nighttime sounds of chanting, screaming, and gunshots. I thought [...]
[...] Iran before heading out for ice cream with his daughters. I thought about it when I listened to a poem an Iranian woman recited over the nighttime sounds of chanting, screaming, and gunshots. I thought [...]
[...] Iran before heading out for ice cream with his daughters. I thought about it when I listened to a poem an Iranian woman recited over the nighttime sounds of chanting, screaming, and gunshots. I thought [...]
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