Re: [ppiindia] Fw: [issuesonline] In Ahmadinejad's Iran, Jews still find a space
Untuk beragama memang ada kebebasan. Cuma jika kaum Yahudi berusaha memonopoli ekonomi/kekuasaan dengan berbagai cara, itu cerita lain. --- Kartono Mohamad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Original Message--- (Photograph) A Synagogue amid mosques: A Jewish man at the Yousefabad Synagogue last month in Tehran, Iran. Some 25,000 to 30,000 Jews live relatively freely among the country's majority Shiite Muslims. Scott Peterson/Getty Images In Ahmadinejad's Iran, Jews still find a space Some 25,000 Jews still live in Iran and many say that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's fiery anti-Israeli rhetoric is about politics, not religion. By Scott http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/encryptmail.pl?ID=B2B0B0B4B0B3B0B1B1B6B2B3 B4B6url=/2007/0427/p01s03-wome.html Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Reporters on the Job We share the story behind the story http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0427/p06s02-wogn.html . TEHRAN, Iran - Enmity runs deep between arch-foes Iran and Israel. And that confrontation complicates the lives of Iranian Jews, who make up the largest community of Jews in the Middle East outside the Jewish state. Iran's Jews are buffeted by inflammatory rhetoric from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about wiping Israel off the map and denying the Holocaust, and a politically charged environment that often equates all Jews with Israel and routinely witnesses the burning of the enemy flag. But despite what appears to be a dwindling minority under constant threat of persecution, Iranian Jews say they live in relative freedom in the Islamic Republic, remain loyal to the land of their birth, and are striving to separate politics from religion. They caution against comparing Iran's official and visceral opposition to the creation of Israel and Zionism with the regime's acceptance of Jews and Judaism itself. If you think Judaism and Zionism are one, it is like thinking Islam and the Taliban are the same, and they are not, says Ciamak Moresadegh, chairman of the Tehran Jewish Committee. We have common problems with Iranian Muslims. If a war were to start, we would also be a target. When a missile lands, it does not ask if you are a Muslim or a Jew. It lands. The continuous Jewish presence in Iran predates Islam by more than a millennium. One wave came when Jews sought to escape Assyrian king Nebuchadnezzar II around 680 BC; others were freed from slavery by Cyrus the Great with the conquest of Babylon some 140 years later. Anti-Semitism historically 'rare' Historically, say Jewish leaders, anti-Semitism here is rare, a fact they say is often lost on critics outside, especially in Israel, where many Iranian Jews have relatives. Still, the Jewish community has thinned by more than two-thirds since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, to some 25,000; the largest exodus took place soon after the Islamic Republic was formed, though a modest flow out continues. Our problem is that the Israel issue is not solved, and that affects us here, says one Iranian Jew who asked not to be named. But that does not affect every Iranian Jew. Surgeon Homayoun Mohaber measures his nationalism in blood, and bits of metal the kind of support that Iranian Jews say has defined their small community's ties to Iran. During the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, as an Iranian military surgeon, Dr. Mohaber conducted more than 900 frontline operations, was himself wounded, and gave blood twice to save fellow Iranian soldiers. Today, in his Tehran clinic, he keeps a jar full of bullets and shrapnel fragments, extracted during the war from wounded soldiers. The relations between Jews and Muslims, between 70 million Muslims and 30,000 Jews, are very good, says Mohaber. In Israel, the situation for Iranian Jews is quite misunderstood. [The Islamic regime] made very good respect for me all the time, and did not care about my religion after the revolution, says Mohaber, who avoided a general purge of Jews from the officer ranks after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. But some episodes have shaken those who remain. In 1999, charges of spying for Israel were brought against 13 Jews in Shiraz and Isfahan, sparking a new exodus and widespread fear. Amid a welter of international criticism, 10 of those charged were handed sentences later shortened that ranged from four to 13 years in prison. Jews in Tehran at the time told the Monitor of their fears that Zionist groups connected with the US were hurting their cause by using the issue against Iran. Today, all 13 are free, and remain living in Iran. The effect [of the Shiraz cases] was very bad, recalls Mohaber. But they have rectified it. I think it was a political case between Iran and Israel. Fine line between faith and politics The saga underscored the delicate line Iranian Jews draw daily
Re: [ppiindia] Fw: [issuesonline] In Ahmadinejad's Iran, Jews still find a space
Apakah sikap (umat Islam) Indonesia demikian? Akan memberi kebebasan beragama kepada orang Yahudi seandainya ada yang ingin mendirikan sinagog di sini? Lha wong gereja yang sudah secara resmi diakui pemerintah saja sulit. Tentang monopoli ekonomi. Bagaimana sikap umat Islam Indonesia dengan keturunan Tiong Hoa yang pada umumnya menguasai ekonomi dengan berbagai cara Sebagian melakukan dengan cara yang baik sesuai aturan tetapi gigih sehingga berhasil, sebagian memang dengan menyuap pejabat? Melarang? Marilah kita konsisten dalam ucapan dan perbuatan. Supaya tidak munafik. KM ---Original Message--- From: A Nizami Date: 30-04-2007 8:22:19 To: ppiindia@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [ppiindia] Fw: [issuesonline] In Ahmadinejad's Iran, Jews still find a space Untuk beragama memang ada kebebasan. Cuma jika kaum Yahudi berusaha memonopoli ekonomi/kekuasaan dengan berbagai cara, itu cerita lain. --- Kartono Mohamad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Original Message--- (Photograph) A Synagogue amid mosques: A Jewish man at the Yousefabad Synagogue last month in Tehran, Iran. Some 25,000 to 30,000 Jews live relatively freely among the country's majority Shiite Muslims. Scott Peterson/Getty Images In Ahmadinejad's Iran, Jews still find a space Some 25,000 Jews still live in Iran and many say that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's fiery anti-Israeli rhetoric is about politics, not religion. By Scott http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/encryptmail.pl?ID=B2B0B0B4B0B3B0B1B1B6B2B3 B4B6url=/2007/0427/p01s03-wome.html Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Reporters on the Job We share the story behind the story http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0427/p06s02-wogn.html . TEHRAN, Iran - Enmity runs deep between arch-foes Iran and Israel. And that confrontation complicates the lives of Iranian Jews, who make up the largest community of Jews in the Middle East outside the Jewish state. Iran's Jews are buffeted by inflammatory rhetoric from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about wiping Israel off the map and denying the Holocaust, and a politically charged environment that often equates all Jews with Israel and routinely witnesses the burning of the enemy flag. But despite what appears to be a dwindling minority under constant threat of persecution, Iranian Jews say they live in relative freedom in the Islamic Republic, remain loyal to the land of their birth, and are striving to separate politics from religion. They caution against comparing Iran's official and visceral opposition to the creation of Israel and Zionism with the regime's acceptance of Jews and Judaism itself. If you think Judaism and Zionism are one, it is like thinking Islam and the Taliban are the same, and they are not, says Ciamak Moresadegh, chairman of the Tehran Jewish Committee. We have common problems with Iranian Muslims. If a war were to start, we would also be a target. When a missile lands, it does not ask if you are a Muslim or a Jew. It lands. The continuous Jewish presence in Iran predates Islam by more than a millennium. One wave came when Jews sought to escape Assyrian king Nebuchadnezzar II around 680 BC; others were freed from slavery by Cyrus the Great with the conquest of Babylon some 140 years later. Anti-Semitism historically 'rare' Historically, say Jewish leaders, anti-Semitism here is rare, a fact they say is often lost on critics outside, especially in Israel, where many Iranian Jews have relatives. Still, the Jewish community has thinned by more than two-thirds since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, to some 25,000; the largest exodus took place soon after the Islamic Republic was formed, though a modest flow out continues. Our problem is that the Israel issue is not solved, and that affects us here, says one Iranian Jew who asked not to be named. But that does not affect every Iranian Jew. Surgeon Homayoun Mohaber measures his nationalism in blood, and bits of metal the kind of support that Iranian Jews say has defined their small community's ties to Iran. During the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, as an Iranian military surgeon, Dr. Mohaber conducted more than 900 frontline operations, was himself wounded, and gave blood twice to save fellow Iranian soldiers. Today, in his Tehran clinic, he keeps a jar full of bullets and shrapnel fragments, extracted during the war from wounded soldiers. The relations between Jews and Muslims, between 70 million Muslims and 30,000 Jews, are very good, says Mohaber. In Israel, the situation for Iranian Jews is quite misunderstood. [The Islamic regime] made very good respect for me all the time, and did not care about my religion after the revolution, says Mohaber, who avoided a general purge of Jews from the officer ranks after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. But some episodes have shaken those who remain
