Saya cuman mau mngingatkan omongan ayatollah biadab Khomeini yang telah
=:mengeluarkan fatwa mati terhdp Salman Rushdie, pernah bilang "No fun in
Islam".
Islam itu emang bagusnya cuman buat anjing dan binatang buas serta manusia
dungu kayak anjing doang...
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October 13, 1997
Teheran Journal; Who Says There's No Fun in an Islamic Republic?
By DOUGLAS JEHL
There are people here who remember the New City as Teheran's red-light
district, crawling with gamblers, pimps, addicts and the patrons of its several
brothels, none of which ever raised a blink from Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi.
Of course, the Iranian revolution of 1979 brought an abrupt end to the Shah's
reign and to such un-Islamic diversions. The strict social restrictions imposed
since then have hindered even healthy forms of recreation, particularly in
south Teheran, a gritty and often stifling quarter whose poverty is not easy to
escape.
It was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who once gloomily declared, ''There is no
fun in Islam.'' But a new spirit has seized the Iranian capital since the
election in May of a new President, Mohammed Khatami. It may be nowhere more in
evidence than in what is now Razi Park, where the former site of dens of sin
has been transformed into a vast public space with gardens, an artificial lake,
bumper cars and even the occasional in-line skater.
Asked what else she now expected from Mr. Khatami and his Government, a mother
of two who was among the recent visitors flashed a wicked grin from beneath her
black chador and replied: ''More fun!''
''Next, I want to ride a bike,'' said the woman, Afanseh Khani, 31, offering
the clear suggestion that she has put up long enough with rigid rules like
those that still bar women from bicycling in public lest they arouse male lust.
The New City was torn down by revolutionaries who regarded it as a symbol of
the worst of Western culture. But the wreckage sat untouched for well over a
decade until Teheran's municipal government found the money to transform it
into the biggest and newest of the 600 parks it has built in the last eight
years as part of an effort to restore some green areas to what has become a
sprawling, smog-choked capital.
And since the day last month when Mr. Khatami himself presided over an opening
ceremony, Razi Park has become a magnet for people who say they agree with the
new President that there is room in Islam for more personal space.
''We need a good and healthy society, not a society with too much restriction
and dictatorship, and not one with too much freedom either,'' said Shahin
Ahmedi, 41, who sat among a group of well-cloaked women but was watching
tolerantly as a teen-age girl broke another taboo -- for females -- by lighting
up a cigarette.
In cooler, wealthier north Teheran, near the base of the Elburz Mountains,
residents have long had leafy areas to flock to, while those who can afford it
have been able to escape the city and its prying eyes on weekends. Behind
closed doors are parties where people dance to forbidden Western music and
drink forbidden alcohol that some even manufacture at home.
But since the revolution, the chance to play in public has been constrained by
a long list of restrictions, including those that forbid women from appearing
unless they are properly covered, meaning at minimum a tightly bound scarf and
long raincoat.
Any transgression -- an unmarried couple, for example, out together for a
stroll -- always carries the risk of detection and punishment, sometimes even a
night or two in jail.
But gradually, some of those rules are being loosened, so that it is no longer
uncommon to see young women wearing makeup, which was previously banned, or
sporting platform shoes and varnished toenails beneath their cloaks.
The appetite for more freedoms is apparent even in south Teheran, with its
reputation for conservatism. Among those who found a quiet park bench one
recent evening were a young couple who freely admitted to being unmarried and
declined only to provide their last names.
''If people expect that women are going to be allowed to walk out in the street
uncovered, that's not going to happen, because that's not our culture,'' said
the young man, Amin, a 26-year-old government employee. Then he pointed to
himself and Mogjann, 22, a university student, and said, ''But who's to say
that there's something wrong with this?''
There is no doubt that the victory of Mr. Khatami has left some Iranians
feeling bolder, at least in one case to excess. A story being repeated around
Teheran tells of a revolt in August at a beach resort on the Caspian Sea in
which young people fought back with rocks and bottles against security men who
tried to arrest one of their number.
Resistance of that sort used to be unthinkable, and perhaps for that reason,
there has been no mention of the incident in Iranian newspapers. But several
people who witnessed the clash described it to a reporter on condition that
their names not be used.
Some of President Khatami's opponents have also been active. In the city of
Isfahan, a five-hour drive south of Teheran, there have been disturbances
outside the Imam Mosque against the city's chief cleric, Ayatollah Jalaleddin
Taheri, whom they fault for appointing a substitute Friday prayers leader whom
they consider too liberal.
Ayatollah Taheri, who supports Mr. Khatami, has blamed the protests on
disgruntlement in the wake of the elections. But in a statement addressed to
him, the radical group Ansar e-Hezbollah -- or Supporters of the Party of God
-- has described the objections as rooted in Iran's religious doctrine and
warned, ''We are going to fight to the end.''
On a mild autumn evening, though, such tensions seemed far away from Razi Park,
where the couples strolling in the breeze included mothers and daughters like
Masoumeh Aqbari, 44, in a shapeless black chador, and Marjoun Khodabardelo, 14,
in platforms and jeans beneath her scarf and colorful coat.
''A little more freedom is better,'' said Miss Khodabardelo, as her mother
nodded in agreement. ''For example, I heard that if the conservative candidate
had been elected, chadors would have been obligatory. With Khatami, these kinds
of things are not going to happen.''
* Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company
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Jusfiq Hadjar gelar Sutan Maradjo Lelo
Allah yang disembah orang Islam tipikal dan yang digambarkan oleh al-Mushaf itu
dungu, buas, kejam, keji, ganas, zalim lagi biadab hanyalah Allah fiktif.
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