I have told this vignette before but there’s a lesson in it somewhere.
When I was 19 years old, very many years ago but I was young and beautiful. I was probably no more beautiful than any one reading this entry but everyone is beautiful at 19.
I had a boyfriend. Understand he was no Iranian. Well he was from Iran but he called himself Persian.
His name was Ali, he made home-made yogurt using cheesecloth in his sink and we ate sitting on the floor. He was a great guy and the handsomest guy on planet earth then and since.
Yes, I loved him but at 19, well who knows. Add to it that he was from Persia and I am about as American as they come.
This was BEFORE the worst president ever, Jimmy Carter, the Iran hostage crisis. At that time the Persians were a very intelligent peoples, were not crushed by the oppression of Islam. The young people worked and lived, no burkas.
Then Ali....who was a great chef....wanted to go home to Persia and visit his mother.
He wanted me to go. I pondered such a trip but all bets were off when he told me I would need to wear a burka.
Like I said, the Persians didn’t wear burkas but it was his mother and the idea was for me to show allegiance to the Persian heritage.
The Mullahs and Ayotollas have since destroyed that country.
I refused the burka thing and, at the time, I bid Ali goodbye and moved on.
Just know that Iran was once a paradise, beloved by its people. There were no stupid mullahs and religious police to bring down the civilization.
I think about Ali, of course, from time to time.
They use that awful religion to control people. These are not good people. They are nothing-burgers who could never rise to anything in a free country.
Funny about the Persians - they do have a history. Two big wars with the Greeks, that story about the 300 comes to mind. Some time later Alexander chasing one of their kings who fled the scene of battle where he lost.
Also some interesting stuff from later, but I need to go look that up
The Shah was the first Muslim to recognize Israel; I'm sure that also added fuel to the fire in the minds of the antisemitic maggots worldwide, including Carter.
Have you ever seen the movie 'Not Without My Daughter'? An excellent portrayal of Iran and the radical nutjobs after the revolution. Sally Field plays the wife of a doctor who is from Iran. I'm sure she'd like to distance herself from that movie (put out around 1990) because it is so brutally honest about the cockroaches that took over Iran and if released today, we would hear worldwide shrieking because of its truthful portrayal. It also shows that those people (if you can call them that) once radicalized in Islam, will revert back to that mindset, which you can see happens to her husband, who was fully westernized when they went to 'visit' Iran.
....Like I said, the Persians didn’t wear burkas but it was his mother and the idea was for me to show allegiance to the Persian heritage....
Took a look at some old footage.
I did not see burka’s, but did see women wearing bedsheets over their clothes.
The bedsheet covered their hair, and their body, much like a Russian babushka wore a scarf over her hair. The Russian scarf could be considered a smaller version of the Persian bedsheet body cover
....Like I said, the Persians didn’t wear burkas but it was his mother and the idea was for me to show allegiance to the Persian heritage....
Took a look at some old footage.
I did not see burka’s, but did see women wearing bedsheets over their clothes.
The bedsheet covered their hair, and their body, much like a Russian babushka wore a scarf over her hair. The Russian scarf could be considered a smaller version of the Persian bedsheet body cover