Occidental Malakut

A few days ago, one of the writers of the Realm of Malakut, Mehdi Khalaji, had made some references to the suspicious death of a clergyman in Iran who had been critical of the theological texts of the clerical system. This clergyman who had been a friend of Mehdi when he used to go to the seminary himself, falls dead and no one questions why this has happened.

The point Mehdi had raised here was that in Iran, when it comes to the domain of the relgious clerical system of the 'Special Court for the Clergymen', no one can ever monitor and question what happens to a human being. Although he may not at all be in favour of a clergyman, the point is simply that a clergyman is also a human being. Why are we supposed to forget the rights of a human being who is a clergyman merely because he belongs to this system? Death is death for everyone. Murder is a great crime whoever be the target. Humanitarian Organizations of the world have got used to pursuing the case of journalist and political activisits. Yet, they are not aware that when it comes to the violation of human rights, many of these do happen within the big family of the clergymen themselves. This is an internal settling of accounts. Someone must speak out. Mehdi has written about this (and brought the critical text of Abbas Yazdani, the deceased clergyman, in PDF format in his weblog) in Farsi. We need to announce it publicly in English as well.

P.S. I supppose it would be noteworthy to go through Sina Motallebi's version of his interrogations (this is in Farsi again).