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[ashahidi1995]

In 1976 before revolution, I also had similar experience with my Quran teacher. I don’t remember his name. But I vividly remember, he was a very short man. He had a very old saggy wrinkled suit that was never ironed, and never wear any ties.  He always carried a thick rolled up newspaper in one of his pocket that stick out from the side of his jacket.

[ashahidi1995]

My teacher was always making fun of me, and my religion in front of other students in the classroom. When I told my father, my father make a compliant against the teacher, and the school principal did absolutely nothing about it. Next week my teacher was upset with me and made my life even more miserable in the classroom. He asks me to stand with only one foot in front of the class for entire one hour. Every time I put two feet on the floor he hit hard on my head.

[ashahidi1995]

This time my father came to the school and told the principal, that from now on my son will not attend the Quran class (Talimateh Dini), as we are not Muslim. From that day forward, I was happy playing with my fellow Christians, Armenians, Jewish, and Zoroastrians friend in the playground during Talimat Dini session.

[ashahidi1995]

In 1977, (my last year in Iran) my math teacher was a very fanatic, psychotic and crazy man. Almost every morning he was beating a student. Sometimes he was asking students to bend over, and then he was jumping and ridding kids as if they were donkey. One time, he hit me so hard, that his hand mark was on my face for two weeks.

[ashahidi1995]

Again next day my father comes to the school, shouting at the school principal and the teacher behind closed doors, while I was standing outside. My father was a very well dressed and strong man. He could have easily bit the hell out of both the teacher and the principal.

[ashahidi1995]

But when he came out, for some reason both the teacher and the principal were so polite to my father and me. I asked my father what happened! He said I hired the guy to be your private teacher. He will come and teach you every week for two hours. I could not believe what I was hearing. I was very angry with my father, as why he hired this criminal to be my private teacher. All he told was: be patient (wisdom),

[ashahidi1995]

Many years later I asked my father why did you hired that guy to be my private teacher. He said for two reasons. One, your Math was really bad. Two, that was the only way to make that teacher respect you. When I look back, now I realize, my father was my real teacher. God bless my father and his soul. May he rest in peace, as he was a real gentleman, who never raised his hand on any of us.

[ashahidi1995]

Ask any Iranians, who were born in Iran; they will bear witness to all the cruelty that was perpetrated to them when they were young or old in a wrong system. Almost every one of them has been faced with some kind cruelty from some teachers (not all teachers), or some authorities. This wrong part of our culture was inherited by a cruel old generation (not our culture) and passed on to the next generation, and needs to be stopped.

[ashahidi1995]

The Bab and Baha’u’allah (from Babi and Bahai religion from Iran/ Persia) prohibit cruelty to children, wife and even animals. Unfortunately most of these words of wisdom do not apply in middle east in general. Mohatma Ghandi says: If you want to find about a country, look at how they treat their animals. That says a lot about us.

Just think about it!

[jigili2008]

@ashahidi1995

Nice comments, Thank you

[ashahidi1995]

The charter of human right originally was written by the noble king of Persia Cyrus the great.

Why after 2500 years, we do not have any human rights in Iran or most of the Middle East?

When King Cyrus invaded Babylon, he freed all slaves and gave immunity and respect to all the religions and even idol-worshipers, and he protected all their temples under his rule. King Cyrus was a noble Zoroastrian man.

[ashahidi1995]

How many temples have we destroyed? How did we treat our people, and minorities? In Afghanistan, we destroyed a huge historical monument of Buda with TNT. We leveled and confiscated all the temples of Bahai’s. We disrespected and persecuted our fellow Armenian, Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, Sufi, communist, and other political beliefs and ideas…

[parveenh1]

Beautiful and touching song. Wonderful voice, full of heart and soul. I loved it. Thank you soooooo very much for sharing.

This really hits home. It exactly happened to me many many years ago. Can not ever forget it. The unjustice that happens over and over...

Thank you so very much, Dariush, for this excellent song and beautiful performance.

[naghmeh13]

great video and lovely voice . thank you so much

[Brian28105]

Whose voice is this??

[BahaiiGlory]

@Brian28105

Pedram Marandiz