Once upon time, Mostafa Chamran -Iranian scientist, holding Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Physics- was hired as the senior research staff scientist at Bell Laboratories and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
As the restless soul he was, he couldn’t stand a carefree life in the US and later became a leading of the Islamic revolutionary movements in the Middle East, organizing and training guerrillas and revolutionary forces in Algeria, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon.
After Islamic Revolution, he came back to Iran and was mysteriously killed in action, battling Iran-Iraq war on 1981.
Musa Sadr the Iranian-born Lebanese philosopher and prominent religious figure, was Chamran’s buddy in Lebanon. Chamran helped Musa Sadr and they together found the Amal Movement in southern Lebanon and fought alongside Amal guerrillas in the late 1970s.
Ṣadr was well known as a moderate, demanding that the Maronite Christians relinquish some of their power in favour of the Lebanese muslim community, but pursuing ecumenism and peaceful relations between the groups.
In August 1978, before Islamic Revolution in Iran, Musa Sadr and two other companions disappeared in an official trip to Libya.
They were never heard of again, though there’ve been hearsayes and unconvinsing reports suggesting he’s alive.
However, Chamran and Musa Sadr are not the only ones. Each time there’re similar examples in different countries of the Middle East. From Palestine to Lebanon, Iraq to Saudi Arabia, Egypt to Afghanistan, women or men, poets, writiers, politicians, artists and so on.
Whether directly by CIA, Mossad and whatever western secret service or indirectly via their puppets, everytime someone intelligent is working, writing or fighting for justice to heal the difficult life of people in the region, though moderate, something mysteriously happens. They’re ‘mysteriously’ assassinated, killed or kidnapped.
That’s where story of great men of the ME end up. Or maybe There’s not going to be an end for the story. Maybe “Great men never die” and “The End” is just to start from the beginning.
P.S: Has been cross posted on MEY
August 25, 2009 at 11:32 pm
One of the greatest philosophers I read, was, is actually the brilliant Ali Shariati. He’s such an open minded philosopher that formed a turning point in my way of thinking. We are blind if reading to the West philosopher without turning back to look at our societies and people…. He (professor Ali Shariati) was also assassinated in France in the early 70s.
My display picture is of the great Palestinian story teller, novel lest and writer who published more that 10 books and assassinated by the Mussad in Beirut while still so young of 36 years, on July 8th 1972…. the series is endless but our people is generative and no word is said in vain.
They, the zionists and the West, dont want free-thinker at all, they only want yes-men and puppets who have nothing but hollow minds and big mouths to spread the Western poison !!!
Sami, the bedouin.
August 25, 2009 at 11:46 pm
God bless all these great men, while alive or when not.
August 27, 2009 at 5:10 am
great men are the blessing of God.
it is CIA and Mosad old technique to remove the oppossition by target killing, bombblast or by kidnapping
August 27, 2009 at 10:55 am
Vaghean harfet doroste! Harmoghe adamhaaye khoob peyda mishan, zoody saketeshoon mikonan!
Chetori Shahrzaad joon? Maahe Ramadan mubarak bashe, inshAllah maahe khoobi dashte baashy, por az barekat. Eltemaase duaa.
August 28, 2009 at 2:32 am
Eh! Be commentam chee shod?! Did I say anything wrong?! Let me know!
August 28, 2009 at 3:05 am
Tee,
The zionists say funny or furious comments to receive a funny or furious reaction !!! No, nothing wrong… but you prove the tricky zionist mentality @:
http://www.mideastyouth.com/2009/07/06/mocia-the-tricky-jewish-girl-and-me/
Sami, the bedouin.
August 28, 2009 at 6:48 am
Great men of history leave their marks forever………as did the Prophet Mohammad (pbuh)
August 28, 2009 at 10:08 am
Sami, we don’t know each other, and if you understood Farsi you would have known that what I said had nothing funny or furious in it. I wonder if saying Ramadan Mubarak from one muslim to another is considered tricky zionist mentality?
August 28, 2009 at 10:12 am
Tee, sorry it seems your comment wrongly went to spam box and i just checked and made it back to its place. WordPress issue..
Ramadan bar shoma ham mobarak. Khubam mamnun. Shoma khubi? Motmaen bash comment hat hamash miyad inja doost joonam
August 29, 2009 at 9:43 am
I figured it must be spam issue, I hadn’t come by in a while! I’m glad everything is going good with you! Hamechiz bamanam khoobe va inshAllah hamechiz vaseye hameye adam haaye donya khoob bashe…
All the best..
xoxo
September 25, 2009 at 5:08 pm
“the end is to start from the beginning…” dearest Shahrazad, what I see with so much indoctrination of hatred preocupies me. I don’t think I want to know what that quote means– so once everybody starts encarcerating, killing, raping, torturing and killing their countrymen, then neighbors, who would be the next on the list to exterminate? Do we go back to the Christians against Muslims–East against the Americas? Didn’t our magnificent and gracious God create diversity, seasons, foods for each season? And if so, isn’t His creation deserving of respect and reverence? I just wish we could all help fellow human beings to rise to a higher level (but that’s only for the one who truly seeks and adores the ever powerful Allah), instead of lower the human species to a level lower than animals–Allah did not create us for that. We were created to adore and worship Him, “help” our fellow man to rise and always do our best each day in what is ‘rightous’ –not wicked.
September 25, 2009 at 7:00 pm
barsili, i dont get you. Don’t you see double standards in our world? Do you mean we help “Israel” to continue siege on Gaza (even doesnt allow them to get cookies and sweets from outside Gaza) and everytime attacks neighbouring countries for its own wishes, murdering children and women, doing war crime by using phosphorous bombs (based on UN report) and everytime terrorise great and educated men of Middle East countries by its intelligent service Mossad and many many other crimes???
Do you eventually read this verse in Quran that God says:
“o ye who believe! stand out firmly for allah, as witnesses to ‘fair dealing’, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. be ‘just’: that is next to ‘piety’: and fear allah. for allah is well-acquainted with all that ye do.” (5:8)
Should i remind you how many times God mentioned the word ‘justice’ in Quran next to the word ‘piety’? As long as you take the piety part and you drop the justice, your faith is not complete.
And Yes! the end is to start from the beginning, to produce more and more wonderful men and women who serve human beings, who are educated and intelligent, and rise against injustice in the world upto the time of hope and ‘justice’
September 26, 2009 at 5:46 am
Ah dearest Shahrazad, I don’t think any feeling person and much less a mother can condone oppression and injustice in any form–no matter who it is coming from, but I have noticed a lot of fighting words full of hatred which obviously doesn’t come from the heart. People aren’t aware of the effects of their words in the air once it leaves their mouths–and once said, it can’t be taken back. And as for God, if I could only tell you how much I even fear to say His name in any language dearest Shahrazad….I fear Him more than you will ever know or could ever imagine…to an extreme level. But darling, when are you going to go back to writing nice, sweet, beautiful things? I truly dislike politics. But then again, I was thinking, OK, so everybody wants to blow everybody else off the map (so far my race hasn’t been mentioned in all the heat), but one-by-one at this pace humanity will find an excuse to hate his brother in humanity to erase him off the map once the previous hated one has disappeared. Suppose everybody starts sending off bombs right and left and there’s a nice hugh fire works display in the sky we’ll all be able to watch from around the world…the after affects would remain for those unfortunate remaining people. I have spoken to people who survived war in Vietnam and El Salvador and seen how to this day kids playing in the fields of Cambodia get limbs blown away–now that is very sad. As brothers of humanity, why don’t we bring people up to their highest potentials in honor of Allah, instead of investing so much money in methods of mass destruction? I truly don’t understand–but then again I am happy in serving people through my work and living in constant zhikr.
November 5, 2009 at 7:41 am
The killers of humanity’s Great Men used to operate in the dark, their deeds shielded by government/corporate/media henchmen. Now they are exposed for all to see. As the saying goes, “sunlight is the best disinfectant.”