Reading Time: 1 minute Enlightening, eye-opening, and extremely moving writing. Published in the superb blog, Between a Veil and a Dark Place, it’s called “What it is like to grow up in Hezbollah culture“. It’s a long article, but it’s worth your time, it’s also very hard to read at times but it’s worth your emotional investment too. You […]
Kaveh Mousavi
An Iranian researcher, writer, and teacher who is an ex-Muslim atheist currently living in one of the theocracies in the world, Iran. Interested in literature, philosophy, and political sciences, especially International Relations. A pragmatic liberal and a reformist with values that some might consider revolutionary.
Posted inBooks, Politics, The Secular
The Ideology, the Believer, the Society, and the Text
Reading Time: 3 minutes The response to some of my earlier posts about Islam pointed out that there is some essentialism in my articles, and that I should simply say that Islam is “practiced” this way, or Muslims “believe” it this way, and to me all of this doesn’t necessarily point to a disagreement about Islam but a more […]
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Female Soccer Players Can Be Suspended for “Masculine” Behavior + Quality of Education and Religion in Iran
Reading Time: 2 minutes These are two posts from BBC Persian, the first dealing with Iranian female soccer players and the second with the negative way way religion affects education in Iran. The reports are of course in Persian, so here I present to you an English summary, as I find these issues worth reporting.
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So in Case You Were Wondering about the Names
Reading Time: 2 minutes What the hell On the Margin of Error is supposed to even mean? And do I have a reason for choosing Kaveh Mousavi as my pseudonym? Do these questions trouble your mind and haunt your dreams since this blog started yesterday? What, no? OK then, I guess I’ll go ahead and answer them anyway.
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Is Islam a More Radical Religion? Part 2
Reading Time: 10 minutes Introduction: I am very excited and happy to be posting on Freethought Blogs, it is an honor and a great privilege. I want to thank everyone for providing this opportunity for me. “There is no Islam except political Islam.” – Ruhollah Khomeini This is a sequel to what I wrote previously and had appeared […]