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We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.
Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:
We continue the program with talking to our special guest Dr Mohammad Sadigh Yazdchi.
My first question to him is why some Iranians who do not have the means of even providing bread for their families walk to Karbala to perform a religious ritual that gives them no security or benefit?
How can we correct this devastated society when some of its members behave in this manner?
Dr Mohammad Sadigh Yazdchi:
We had already discussed about this issue in the previous programs and concluded that the psyche of the Iranians is polluted with many backward religious thoughts and superstition.
The mentality of the modern Iranian is still blended with deep religious beliefs that have continued to be part of our culture for the last fourteen centuries.
It is not an issue that can be tackled over night and requires a new education system that is based on secular and democratic values that separates state from religion.
In democratic countries of the world whatever their responsible leaders do is in line with the interest of their people but in our country the rulers claim to be doing it for the interest of their religious duties.
In a country where half of its population is not even free to choose what they wish to wear in public any talk of having democracy is nonsense.
The first priority that our forefathers wanted in the 1905 Constitutional Revolution was to have a society that works on the principle of the rule of law.
I think more than a century later we are still in search of this noble idea for Iran.
