Another Peorian blogging for Iran #iranelection #neda
Welcome to the fight, Witches Brew:
For the family of Neda Agha Soltan: Mourning is an important ritual in Iranian culture, and it is strongly tied to protest. Public mourning rituals are held 3 days, 7 days, and 40 days after a death, and they can turn into demonstrations against injustice. In an effort to discredit/suppress a young martyr, the government of Iran not only buried Neda without her family’s knowledge and banned all mourning rituals for her, but they forced the family out their apartment and cut them off from the community that would have embraced them in their grief. So we must mourn and we must protest for them
She bogs on the much-more-stable Blog Peoria Network.
Original post by Billy Dennis
