Nasrin Sotoudeh According to Iran's
Kaspar Schoppe
Nasrin Sotoudeh According to Iran's
Kaspar Schoppe
Sam Ghandchi
http://www.ghandchi.com/2101-nasrin-sotoudeh-eng.htm
نسرین ستوده از زبان کاسپر شاپ ایران، ویرایش دوم
http://www.ghandchi.com/2101-nasrin-sotoudeh.htm
P.S. Feb 28, 2019: Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh is still in Evin prison. Two days ago in Lawyer's Day of Iran, Mr. Heshmat Tabarzadi talked about Nasrin Sotoudeh's current situation: https://www.facebook.com/heshmat.tabarzadi/posts/10219466130704379
Preface to Second Edition: A few minutes ago, news sources reported of new arrest of Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh in Tehran. The following article was written 6 years ago when Ms Sotoudeh was in jail. She has stood up to the anti-Republican Islamic regime of Iran as a human rights lawyer all these years. Among other clients, Ms Sotoudeh has accepted legal cases of women who have opposed compulsory hijab in Iran in recent months (1), the women who had been arrested by the Islamic KKK in Iran (2). I condemn repeated arrests of Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh and wish her the best in her untiring battle for secularism, democracy and human rights in Iran. S.G. June 13, 2018
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Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned Iranian lawyer defending human rights, does not
need to be introduced. There was a time when we heard from her about the
situation of her clients like Heshmat Tabarzadi, the imprisoned political
activist (3). Today it is ridiculous but sorrowful that after a long hunger strike we have to
be informed about the situation of Ms. Sotoudeh in jail from Javad Larijani –
Iran's Kaspar Schoppe - who describes Nasrin's condition as 'good' (4).
Kaspar Schoppe was not the "Secretary of Human Rights" for the Church of the end
of Middle Ages. However, similar to Larijani, Schoppe claimed to have several
degrees in higher education and was able to attract the attention of the Pope of
his time, not only to wage an ideological war against the Protestants, but also
to be witness to the burning of Giordano Bruno in Rome. And even more shameless was that Schoppe put his hands on the hand-written works
of Bruno to introduce his own sterile mind with prolific writings.
From these historical events, what has remained for us is the report of the last
days of Giordano Bruno as narrated by Kaspar Schoppe. How dreadful it is that
400 years after those days, we see the conditions of life of today's Iran
in the 21st Century
in the events of the year of 1600, serving as a reminder of the end of the
Middle Ages when the Catholic Church was beginning to see itself in danger of a
downfall, the reason for which they burned Bruno at the stakes. Incidentally,
Bruno’s ideas about the birth of Jesus were similar to the views of Islam.
Here is how the day of burning of Giordano Bruno at the stakes has been recorded in
history:
"For Holy Year 1600 more than three million persons were crowded into Rome.
There were parades of pilgrims, processions of flagellants. The city was in
turmoil, as robberies and murders multiplied., The number 1600, composed of a
nine and seven, had magical meaning: perhaps it signified that the end was near.
Prophets prophesized. In the meantime, the penitents who expected to amass the
necessary absolutions from sin before it was too late were fleeced by the noble
Romans. One of the minor attractions of February 17 was announced in fly sheets.
The Nolan [Giordano Bruno], a most stubborn heretic, was being burned in the
Piazza Santa Fiore. A witness was a German converted to the Catholic faith, a
scholar who never missed a major theological contest, Kaspar Schoppe. He hovered
over the final days of Bruno, vulture-like, picking up his last words and
spreading them about. To him we owe the report of Bruno's defiance of his judges
in Santa Maria sopra Minerva: "I daresay you are more afraid to hand down the
sentence against me than I am to receive it." And after the burning, Schoppe
dispatched a gloating account to the rector of the University of Altdorf: "Thus
he perished wretchedly by roasting, and he can go tell in those fantastic worlds
he dreamed up how in this world impious blasphemers are dealt with in Rome."
Schoppe would reappear in Campanella's cells a decade later and dish out
promises to work for his deliverance, while plagiarizing the manuscripts he
could get hold of" (5).
Doubtlessly the resistance of the leaders of Islamic anti-Republican
regime of Iran against
human rights in the 21st century, when they even issue death sentences for the
opposition outside Iran (6), is more complex than the situation of Kaspar Schoppe's
leaders
400 years ago. With this narration of history, hearing the news of the situation of Nasrin
Sotoudeh in jail from Iran's Kaspar Schoppe is not only hard but is also
ridiculous when he does not feel shame from the weak body of Nasrin after over
40 days of hunger strike and does not dare to say that she has accepted all this
hardship so that her children and thus all people of Iran
can live in freedom in Iran in the future. Undoubtedly this is why Nasrin’s
place is in the heart of Iranian people.
Hoping for a democratic and secular futurist republic in Iran,
http://www.ghandchi.com/index2.html
November 29,
2012
Footnote:
1.
اعتراض به حجاب اجباری در ایران ادامه دارد
http://www.ghandchi.com/hejabe-ejbaari.htm
2.
#کوکلاکس_کلان_اسلامی
http://ghandchi.com/islamic-kkk.htm
3.
نسرین ستوده در مورد وضعیت حشمت طبرزدی در زندان
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWobf8nqBA
4. لاریجانی: وضعیت نسرین ستوده «خوب» است
https://ir.voanews.com/a/1553639.html
5. Frank R. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World,
1979, P. 241
6. Islam and Globalization
http://www.ghandchi.com/695-IslamGlobalizationEng.htm
اسلام و گلوبالیسم
http://www.ghandchi.com/695-IslamGlobalization.htm
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