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Title: Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident by Parvin Darabi, Romin P. Thomson ISBN: 1-57392-682-5 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Parvin's New Exposing & Informative Book!
Comment: ...In the memory of Dr. Homa Darabi
a symbol of resistance
I strongly recommend for you to read this book. The book has been written by Parvin Darabi, a fine scholar & a wonderful comrade of ours. Parvin does a great analysis of the sad event of the self burning of her powerful sister Dr. Homa Darabi as a protest to Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), in the middle of a main square in Iran!
Parvin also expands on the IRI oppression & specifically, oppression of women & their human rights. Parvin does an interesting over all analysis of the blood thirsty regime & it's denial, & extreme anti women stands. Parvin explores the fundamentals of Islamic Society & @ the same time informs the reader of the true nature of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The book is basically an exploration about Dr. Homa Darabi, IRI, Islamic Traditions & Islamic Culture in relation with women's rights. The book is also available through Amazon.com
We wish Parvin the best of luck in all her struggles
We wish Parvin The best of luck on behalf of Oppressed Women of Iran
We thank Parvin for publishing this book...
Rating: 5
Summary: A touching story of an islamic dissident
Comment: The book "Rage against the Veil" has deeply impressed and touched me. The biography describes an established bourgeois Iranian family, the foundation of which will be shattered by the suicide of the daughter and sister. She was a devoted medical doctor and a committed activist for peace despite the extraordinary political circumstances ruling her life.
Homa, the main figure and one of the victims of the Iranian society, was arrested by the SAVAK (Shah's secret service). She didn't betray her co-students, thus country and population. Contrary, after her release she continued to participate in demonstrations and other political actions.
Finally she and her husband decided to move to the USA where she was employed as children psychiatrist in a well- renowned hospital.
Despite the fact, that Homa had great success in her profession in America, her heart was connected to Iran, her home country. Her intentions were clearly to return to Iran and help the oppressed women and children. After the revolution, which pushed the Shah out of Iran, Homa decided to risk and returned.
In Iran Homa faced oppression and restrictions to teach and work as children psychiatrist and at the end the government took away her right to practice her profession. The freedom she experienced during her stay in the USA was gone with the wind and she started to doubt herself and the way her country was taking shape. Her desperation grew so enormously that she didn't see any other way but to undertake the ultimate sacrifice. She poured a can of gasoline over her body and set herself on fire - on a location in northern Tehran in front of a big crowd.
The question, which we should have reading this stirring book is what is the purpose of the structure of a religion, which will be misused as instrument of power and wealth? A religion which destroys human beings with great mental and human talents and leave them one way out of their lives: To sacrifice themselves.
Is Islam unlike Christianity according to which all life is holy, the purpose is to hate, however, no human has the right to extinguish the life of another. How could a religious leader as Khomeini who claimed to be a "selected one" do such damage and harm to a whole nation?
Religion has always been the reason and trigger for inquisitions, wars and destruction. Today this happens at the holiest places at Jerusalem and Palestine - quite questionable.
The book by Parvin Darabi and Romin Thomson is highly topical - than ever before. And it should cause us to think about it.
Rage against the Veil is a sad, painful story and will move the reader to comprehend many details of our life differently.
Rating: 3
Summary: Courageous
Comment: Parvin Darabi writes in this book about the life and heartbreaking death of her sister Homa, a psychiatrist, who married an Iranian Muslim, lived for a time in the U.S. and finally returned to Iran, driven by her desire to help the poverty-stricken people there.
The book is indeed courageous. Unlike Jean Sasson's Princess, which I read when it came out in 1992, this one reveals real identities to go with the very disturbing details. For courage alone, I give Parvin Darabi four stars.
The book is an anecdotal personal story, based entirely on experiences. That's fine, as far as it goes. Clearly, based on this account, Iranian men control women's lives, offering them little freedom. But enormous abuses are also described here, and one comes away wondering how pervasive these might be. Most likely, no studies exist.
But I most missed political and social context. The authors did not report, for example, the UN General Assembly resolution condemning Iran's corporeal punishments (flogging and stoning), often meted out to youngsters under 18--or that Iranian figures such as former Attorney General Ayatollah Morteza Moqtadai and Judiciary Head Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi approve of these punishments for moral crimes. They also omit Iranian constitutional provisions requiring the government to export radical Islam.
Poor writing and a weak structure also detract from the work.
Nevertheless, the book is worth reading. It opens a window on the sorrow that afflicts many, perhaps even most, Iranian women.
--Alyssa A. Lappen
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Title: Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) by Mahnaz Afkhami ISBN: 0815626681 Publisher: Syracuse University Press Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World by Jan Goodwin ISBN: 0452283779 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Nine Parts of Desire : The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks ISBN: 0385475772 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out by Ibn Warraq, Ibn Warraq ISBN: 1591020689 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Trouble with Islam : A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji ISBN: 0312326998 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 16 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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