Re: The Sound of Silence

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The sound of silence gets louder in Iran.

Confirming the earlier extraordinary report posted below, it appears that sheer silence is becoming the loudest rallying cry of the Iranian protestors.

From a main stream major media source, the LA Times:

"Posters held aloft Wednesday urged demonstrators to stop their march at a certain point and call out praise for the prophet Muhammad. Then, the witnesses said, they were instructed to remain silent for 10 minutes in honor of those killed so far in the unrest, disperse and go home.

"Big rallies held Tuesday and Wednesday were largely silent, devoid of slogans altogether, except for the occasional salavats -- blessings for the prophet and his descendants -- which served to both refresh the crowd as it walked along in the late spring heat and make older, pious protesters feel welcome as they worked their prayer beads."

As I said before, the maturity, reasonableness and complete spiritual depth exhibited by the Iranian people in this most distressing of times is absolutely startling and marvelous. This is not your Father's Iranians, who in 1979 casually violated the most basic rules of civilized behavior and occupied a non-military Embassy of a foreign country.

These Iranians are grown-ups, engaged in a grown-up struggle for fundamental freedoms.