I wonder if this Wikipedia page is blocked – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books

I wonder if this Wikipedia page is blocked – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books

Scott,

Thanks for posting this news.
Your assumption about Azar Nafisi being the cause for this blocking may be right, but the IRI has in fact a long history of censorship, and a special office dedicated to it within the Vezarate Ershad (Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance).
After a period of relative freedom of publishing during the Khatami era, censorship has intensified since AN came to power, as noted by the exiled editor and journalist Faraj Sarkouhi already in 2007: http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1079193.html

Arresting writers, journalists and translators, banning books, newspapers, journals, and blocking websites like Goodreads is the result of a totalitarian concept of “unity”, which allows no other interpretation of the world than its own.

As the IRI is going to require even the Islamic principle of “towhid” (monotheism) for itself (remember the SL’s poster with the Hidden Imam), blocking Goodreads is only an irrelevant fact within this ongoing project of “unification …

Arshama

Scott,

Thanks for posting this news.
Your assumption about Azar Nafisi being the cause for this blocking may be right, but the IRI has in fact a long history of censorship, and a special office dedicated to it within the Vezarate Ershad (Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance).
After a period of relative freedom of publishing during the Khatami era, censorship has intensified since AN came to power, as noted by the exiled editor and journalist Faraj Sarkouhi already in 2007: http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1079193.html

Arresting writers, journalists and translators, banning books, newspapers, journals, and blocking websites like Goodreads is the result of a totalitarian concept of “unity”, which allows no other interpretation of the world than its own.

As the IRI is going to require even the Islamic principle of “towhid” (monotheism) for itself (remember the SL’s poster with the Hidden Imam), blocking Goodreads is only an irrelevant fact within this ongoing project of “unification …

Arshama

My post might get deleted, but I’ll stick my neck out and say it anyway — When I hear and read about Muslim reactions to Lolita, The Satanic Verses, The Jewel of Medina, and especially historical non-fiction books causing great controversy, torture and death, I see a lack of intellectual maturity — not just in Iran — but in the Muslim world in general.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Dashti

My post might get deleted, but I’ll stick my neck out and say it anyway — When I hear and read about Muslim reactions to Lolita, The Satanic Verses, The Jewel of Medina, and especially historical non-fiction books causing great controversy, torture and death, I see a lack of intellectual maturity — not just in Iran — but in the Muslim world in general.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Dashti

Ali Dashti was tortured, but Wikipedia is not brave enough to say so.

Ali Dashti was tortured, but Wikipedia is not brave enough to say so.

Ali Dashti was tortured, but Wikipedia is not brave enough to say so.

I think you’ve misunderstood Wikipedia a bit there Dave.

Ali Dashti was tortured, but Wikipedia is not brave enough to say so.

I think you’ve misunderstood Wikipedia a bit there Dave.

How so?

How so?

Re: Ali Dashti

Dave seems to be right, as far as the English wikipedia-version is concerned, which does not mention anything about the suspicious circumstances of his death.

Different the French wikipedia-version

“Un journal iranien fit part de son décès en 1982. Il fut torturé à mort par le régime islamique.”
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Dashti
[An Iranian journal reported his death in 1982. He had been tortured to death by the Islamic regime]

and the German wikipedia-version

“1979, im ersten Jahr der Islamischen Revolution, wurde Ali Dashti verhaftet und in ein unbekanntes Gefängnis verschleppt. An den in der Haft erlittenen Verletzungen erlag er 1981 in einem Krankenhaus.”
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Dashti

[In 1979, the 1rst year of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Dashti was arrested and deported into an unknown prison. Having fallen victim to injuries inflicted on him in prison he died in hospital in 1981]

Re: Ali Dashti

Dave seems to be right, as far as the English wikipedia-version is concerned, which does not mention anything about the suspicious circumstances of his death.

Different the French wikipedia-version

“Un journal iranien fit part de son décès en 1982. Il fut torturé à mort par le régime islamique.”
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Dashti
[An Iranian journal reported his death in 1982. He had been tortured to death by the Islamic regime]

and the German wikipedia-version

“1979, im ersten Jahr der Islamischen Revolution, wurde Ali Dashti verhaftet und in ein unbekanntes Gefängnis verschleppt. An den in der Haft erlittenen Verletzungen erlag er 1981 in einem Krankenhaus.”
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Dashti

[In 1979, the 1rst year of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Dashti was arrested and deported into an unknown prison. Having fallen victim to injuries inflicted on him in prison he died in hospital in 1981]

Well nobody’s really making those sorts of editorial decisions on Wikipedia- if you think something’s missing from an article you can just add it.

Well nobody’s really making those sorts of editorial decisions on Wikipedia- if you think something’s missing from an article you can just add it.

@ Mike Dunn

Thanks, Mike,

indeed, it is exactly as Sherlock Holmes pointed out

“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.” (in Conan Doyle. A Scandal in Bohemia)

and emphasized

“Elementary, my dear Watson” (in the 1929 film The Return of Sherlock Holmes)

Apologies !

@ Mike Dunn

Thanks, Mike,

indeed, it is exactly as Sherlock Holmes pointed out

“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.” (in Conan Doyle. A Scandal in Bohemia)

and emphasized

“Elementary, my dear Watson” (in the 1929 film The Return of Sherlock Holmes)

Apologies !