Amil Imani
Amil Imani is an Iranian-born American citizen and pro-democracy activist residing in the United States of America. Imani is a columnist, literary translator, novelist and an essayist, who has been writing and speaking out for the struggling people of his native land, Iran.
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Articles by Amil Imani
October 28, 2009
October 29th has been designated as the international day of Cyrus the Great, a matchless king of Persia. Commemorating Cyrus the Great is synonymous with honoring the glorious ancient Iranians and Iranians´ way of life. Palpable reminders to Iranians and all liberty-loving people of the world of th...
October 06, 2009
One dreadful day, the bullet of a henchman of tyranny pierced the young heart of Neda Agha Sultan, and she collapsed on the pavement, gasped for air as her crimson blood painted the black asphalt. Her music teacher along with a young doctor tried desperately to revive her. They kept frantically tell...
September 23, 2009
It is not true that the Islamic Republic of Iran lacks compassion. Here is the proof:
Recently, I met Mrs. M was at a gathering of Iranian ex-pats. She is an elderly widow, suffering from a variety of brain, neurological, and vision disorders. She is a lone woman without a country, moving from ...
September 11, 2009
The Islamic fire, fueled by immense oil income, is raging in certain regions of the world, smoldering in others, and is ready to ignite in yet other parts of the world. It is imperative for the free people of the world to abandon all illusions about Islam and put out its fire, once and for all. Mult...
August 29, 2009
Unlike anything encountered in recent memory, the formidably complex and unique situation present in today´s Iran poses an enormous challenge. It defies any conventional solution, and simply resorting to civil disobedience is the equivalent of fighting off a pack of hungry and blood-thirsty wo...
August 28, 2009
August 29, 2009 marks the 5th anniversary of the formation of The International Committee to Save the Archeological Sites of Pasargad. The Institute is to be saluted for its outstanding tireless work to safeguard the irreplaceable historical heritage of Iran against the machinations of the Islamists...
August 15, 2009
The Iranian people are calling for help and much of the world either turns a deaf ear or feels it has its own priorities to worry about. Then, the horrors keep playing out, unabated, in the streets, prisons and dungeons of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A reality check.
A 19-year old beautiful Tar...
August 15, 2009
Standing on two feet doesn´t make a person human, only standing on principles does. It is for this reason that I am saluting Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany: A German woman who has bravely divorced herself and her nation from the ignominious past of Nazi Germany. A German woman who is...
July 19, 2009
When one mentions the country France, what instantly pop into the mind are its fabulous wine and cheese and a taste for romance. But that´s not all she is known for. France is also known for capitulating to the enemy in times of crises. France has never been a reliable partner, the sort of Wes...
July 09, 2009
The anniversary of the 18 Tir, the Iranian Students National Uprising, is once again upon us. The 18th of Tir (July 9th) has become a symbolic struggle and resistance against the tyrannical, totalitarian and barbaric Islamic regime in Iran. The very brave and courageous freedom loving Iranians have ...
July 03, 2009
Neda, the young and beautiful freedom-loving Iranian student was slain in cold-blood by the current Islamic regime in Iran. Almost instantly, Neda became, not only the divine call of the Iranian uprising, but, she symbolized the call for liberty around the globe. Here's the video of Richard Roth's r...
July 02, 2009
Some 1400 years ago, across the arid Arabian Peninsula roamed disparate primitive tribes in a constant state of war with one another. Acts of violence, pillage and slave trading were their way of life. Out of necessity and expediency, they refrained from active warfare for only one month a year&mda...
June 24, 2009
I am so restless, I cannot cease thinking! It seems like the world we live in reveals to us incessantly, at certain moments or in certain circumstances, just how little we are and how vast the universe is. This world of ours is a very complex world. The world we live in is a world of many brutal voi...
June 20, 2009
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy
Today, all Iranian expatriates are united in solidarity with the Iranian people in Iran. Today, we are all standing tall to let the world hear our continuous aspiration for a free and democrat...
June 19, 2009
Iran's President Ahmadinejad, a veteran of the Islamic Republic's repressive Revolutionary Guard, took office on August 3, 2005, after unexpected win in a sham presidential election -- there are no democratic elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran. All candidates are prescreened by the Guardian C...
June 13, 2009
What is a demagogue? According to the encyclopedia, a demagogue is a politician skilled in oratory, flattery, and invective, evasive in discussing vital issues, promising everything to everybody, appealing to the passions rather than the reason of the public, and arousing racial, religious, and cla...
May 28, 2009
I repeat: Is democracy the killer of liberty? The dictionary defines democracy as the rule of the people. Even at its best, "democracy is the worst form of government except for all the rest," according to Winston Churchill.
Is democracy a very bad form of government? Does it hold the threat of ...
April 24, 2009
Never mind the mythical angels of religion and poetry. Meet a living angel in flesh, Nazanin Afshin-Jam. Many of you may not know that we have a hero in our midst. Many of you may not know that this individual, singlehandedly, has done more for her compatriots, as well as for other people of our pla...
April 21, 2009
The vast land of United States was once inhabited by a relatively small number of indigenous people. These native "Indians" had lived throughout the land for thousands of years, and they will always remain the first inhabitants of what is now the United States. These native people helped the pilgrim...
March 27, 2009
During the U.S. presidential election, President Obama boasted that he would embark on a personal diplomacy to solve our foreign policy problems with terrorist countries such as Syria and the Islamic Republic. He said that he would meet their leaders without any preconditions to settle our disputes....
March 12, 2009
There are some 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, the overwhelming majority of which are Cultural Muslims who are generally called moderate Muslims. Muslims are born into Islam, where a great many never go through the process of deciding for themselves if they want to be Muslims. It is not a religion...
March 04, 2009
Geert Wilders, an outspoken politician and chairman of the Freedom Party (PVV) in the Netherlands who produced a 16 minute-long movie "FITNA," has been accused of Islamophobia and refused entry to the UK by immigration authorities after arriving at Heathrow airport in London. UK Independence party p...
February 26, 2009
The cult of death, Islam, is marching forward under its battle cry: "We love death, the infidels love life," says Hassan Nasrullah, leader of Lebanon Hizbollah. There is no limit to the Shi´a mullahs´ obsession with all matters dealing with death.
On one front, the mullahs are work...
February 19, 2009
"I am almost finished making you, except for inserting one last gene," says God to man.
"Yes Lord, can´t wait to get on my way," replies man.
"Now, since I like you, I will give you a choice in this very important last component. Do you want the gene that automatically conducts your life...
February 17, 2009
As the Islamic Revolution completed its third decade, it would not be too difficult to realize the reality and the fruits of its mismanagement during its imperial and revolutionary eras. Throughout the three decades of its existence, the Islamic Republic has managed, notably, to produce more hunger,...
January 30, 2009
"Love" is thought as virtue, while "hate" is considered vice. But not all forms of love are good and not all hates are bad. If you love to set buildings on fire, molest children, or steal, these are obviously bad loves. If you hate racism, sexism or injustices of all sorts, then these are good hates...
January 26, 2009
What´s in a name? A great deal. Democracy, fascism, and communism represent different systems of government. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are also titles for different religious systems.
Whereas democracy is defined as the rule of the people, by the people, for the people, Islam is defined a...
January 02, 2009
It is not about God or love, it is about control and domination--just as Sadism is not about human intercourse or love, it is about control, torture, punishment and domination.
Why else name a so-called religion "submission?" Islam seeks nothing less than a total global domination. The word Isl...
October 29, 2008
Iran's Mullahs are trying to stamp out the memory of a great hero of human rights, a Persian who preceded Islam and therefore threatens it. Free people all over the world celebrate the memory of Cyrus the Great, the author of one of mankind's greatest documents, the first Charter of Human Rights, on...
December 22, 2008
We all need scapegoats. It is in our fabric. It is a potent human disposition to blame others for our failings. Without scapegoats to blame, we are forced to look at ourselves for our problems. Examining ourselves can be very disturbing, particularly when we either lack the resources or the willingn...
December 11, 2008
For years, the U.S. State Department has called the Islamic Republic of Iran the world´s "most active state sponsor of terrorism," For years, U.S. officials say the Islamic Republic of Iran has continued to provide funding, weapons, training, and sanctuary to numerous terrorist groups based in...
September 29, 2008
CNN´s king of the talk-show hosts and the icon of one of the major television networks, Larry King, hosted an interview on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 with the devil himself. Many Iranians felt completely betrayed by Mr. King´s line of questioning. They felt that Mr. King was missing ...
September 21, 2008
* Religious belief is emotional at its core. And emotions are not governed by logic or reason. Becoming religious is similar to imprinting, most dramatically seen in ducklings. During a critical period of time after hatching the ducklings become imprinted on any moving object—be it the mother ...
August 26, 2008
In order to understand the clerical rulers of Iran, we need to learn about the genesis of their religious faith, Shi´a Islam, and the pivotal place of the Mahdi. Examination of the vast Islamic literature shows that the present sect of Shi´a Islam has evolved from a mix of cultural, poli...
August 17, 2008
It is a fundamental human trait to locate the source of anything bad happening and try to neutralize it. There are, however, times that the source of the harm cannot be pinpointed or when successfully recognized it cannot be eliminated. Failure to recognize the source or neutralize it is frustrating...
August 09, 2008
In one of my articles, Terrorists´ Bill of Rights, I described how America will be taken over by the Muslims. I warned that Muslims do it first by establishing Mosques in every town and city. These mosques range from the ostentatious, such as the one in Washington D.C., to the academically-cl...
July 27, 2008
The Islamic Republic terror machine once again has taken off at the speed of light in Iran and exemplifies a depraved, clerical system of government, which legitimizes its depravity through a series of terror, fear and intimidation of Iranian people. With the additional handpicking of the newly sele...
July 20, 2008
I am bombarded by hate and threats by the Allah-fearing fanatics, simply because I speak the truth about Islam. If telling the truth about Islam is Islam bashing, then mea culpa.
Question: Does Islam get a pass because it is a religion? Who says Islam is a religion? Millions do? What is the evid...
July 16, 2008
She is called the Angel of Iran, because she lived her short life angelically. The demonic Islamist Mullahs, true to their nature, couldn´t bear an angel in their midst. On June 18, 1983, they hanged the young woman, barely past childhood, for refusing to renounce her belief: the belief in lov...
June 27, 2008
By: Amil Imani
The intolerant monolithic Islamists are on the march, lashing out with fury at non-Islamic people and cultures. This cult of violence and death spares neither the living nor the non-living heritage of humanity: wherever and whenever it can it commits culturecide—wiping out ot...
June 15, 2008
A tribute to Tim Russert
Always remember, those kids shed their blood on the sidewalk there. They replaced the sidewalk, there's no sign left of it, but the memory lives on with you and it lives on with me.-John Siegenthaler
NBC news lost its franchise player and America lost one her franchise...
June 10, 2008
This is the best of times and the worst of times, as the saying goes. Humanity is struggling on the one hand to free itself from the vestiges of its barbaric past while embarking on an exhilarating new way of life. It is the same story. The old is doggedly fighting the new on many fronts. And the ne...
May 31, 2008
By: Amil Imani
There is so much smoke around the Iranian Mullahs´ bomb that it makes Tehran´s smog feel like a fresh ocean breeze, by comparison. Here is a partial list of misconceptions about the Mullahs, their capabilities and intentions about the bomb affair.
The Mullahs:
* Wil...
May 23, 2008
Me and my brother against my cousin; me, my brother, and my cousin against the other. This is an old Muslim saying and Muslims live by this motto. To be sure the people of the-religion of peace- find the world full of "other," to oppress and kill, both within as well as without the Islamic Ummah.
...
May 10, 2008
By: Amil Imani
Israel, your people, as well as people of good will, are celebrating your sixtieth birthday. We, the children of Cyrus the Great, also would like to offer our heartfelt best wishes to you on this occasion. Yet, this, in fact, is your rebirth. Your birth occurred some 4,000 years ag...
April 17, 2008
By: Amil Imani
"Europe will be Muslim in a dozen years," promises the Islamic Republic of Iran´s Supreme Guide (dictator) who is racing full-speed ahead to make as many bombs as possible with long-range missiles capable of delivering their payload anywhere in the world.
This past Friday,...
March 28, 2008
Since its inception fourteen hundred years ago, Islam has been at war with the people of this planet. Millions of people have been literally butchered with the sword of Islam.
Some may argue that all religions at one point in time have committed crimes against humanity. That may be so, but none o...
March 14, 2008
By: Amil Imani
According to the World Encyclopedia, cultural genocide is a term used to describe the deliberate destruction of the cultural heritage of a people or nation for political or military reasons. Since coming to power twenty-nine years ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been in a con...
February 29, 2008
In eloquent speeches presidential candidate Obama has made copious promises, understandably to attract voters. He talks about "change," without really spelling out change from what to what. It just sounds good: "change." A great sound bite, indeed. Change is exciting, while status quo is viewed as s...
February 11, 2008
By: Amil Imani
In the United States, the oath of office for the President of the United States is specified in the U.S. Constitution (Article II, Section 1):
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States, and will to the best o...
February 07, 2008
Ronald Kessler has written an extremely important book that discloses the inside story of the War on Terrorism. He takes a complex subject full of long functional names and leads the reader to relatively easy comprehension. He has exposed the incredibly difficult counterterrorism job of protectin...
February 05, 2008
By: Amil Imani
Fire, arguably, is important to life after air, water, and food. Fire, broadly defined, is energy. And energy runs the world. It fuels the body, operates the mind, heats homes, and runs endless machines and instruments.
When energy is put to good use, it is the boon of mankind...
January 27, 2008
It happened here, on January 26, 2008 at the UCLA Freud PlayHouse, in Los Angeles, California. It brought the world's most renowned scholars and top performing artists to a remembrance of the life of Cyrus the Great, the founding father of Persia and the mighty Persian Empire— perhaps the most...
January 25, 2008
As a group, Muslims are paranoid and suffer chronically from the disease of victimization. That is, they either victimize the helpless whenever and wherever they can, or scream murder against the strong. This mentality is one of the many bequests that Muhammad left for his Ummah.
Recall that Muha...
January 22, 2008
Dear Iranians: Have the Courage to Say No to Islam
By: Amil Imani
Nearly 1400 years ago, a group of nomads from across the scorching Arabian Desert conquered Iran (Persia), the greatest empire known to the history of mankind. With that, they injected their Islamic virus into the veins of their ...
January 17, 2008
America is a nation and an ideal, birthed by a group of visionaries that gave it the Constitution to nurture it and protect it. What makes America, America the Beautiful, more than just a blessed land is our legacy, the Constitution. Sadly, the Constitution also makes for America the Vulnerable by e...
October 05, 2007
To understand Ahmadinejad’s mind set and behavior requires a close scrutiny of the elaborate and intricate theology of Hujjatiyyah Shiism, perhaps the most fundamentalist of the numerous Shiite sects.
In the 1950s, a group of Islamic clergy led by Sheikh Mahmoud Halabi (a close associate of Ayato...
September 24, 2007
Underneath all conquests and expansions, underneath all the frivolous wars over religious differences, underneath all the oppression and tyranny, underneath all the motives of greed for wealth, underneath all the wars over injustices, lies one single drive: The will to dominate. The passion to domi...
September 10, 2007
It is said that "powerlessness frustrates and absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely; absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with."
Sometimes I wonder why I am so restless, why I cannot cease thinking! It seems like the world we live in reveals to us incessantly, at certa...