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A Response to the Book: "Iran and the Challenge of Diversity" Summary:J. Garshasp azargoshnasp.net English & Persian 340 pgs.; P. 2008 This is a well-researched book in response to : http://gigapedia.com/items:description?id=195869 , A book full of misinformation & obvious intentional flaws by a Pan-Turkist refugee living in Canada under fake name of : A. Asgharzadeh. This study aims to show that the recent book by Alireza Asgharzadeh is unscholarly, unacademic and racist. The book by Alireza Asgharzadeh titled: ―A. Asgharzadeh, Iran and the Challenge of Diversity: Islamic Fundamentalism, Aryanist Racism, and Democratic Struggles , Palgrave Macmillan ( June 12, 2007) ) is full of conspiracy theories and based upon pseudo-scholars who support conspiracy theories. The book is incoherent and inconsistent in terms of putting forward the racist thesis of the author. The aim of the current article is to examine the book and show the multitude of inconsistent argument, historical revisionism and selective amnesia of quoting sources by Alireza Asgharzadeh. The current article only examines some of the falsehood and historical forgeries perpetuated by Alireza Asgharzadeh. Had the writer of this article attempted to expose the falsehood of every single argument of Alireza Asgharzadeh, the article would simply be more than 1000 pages. But sufficient examples are given to show that Alireza Asgharzadeh is himself an extremely racist person, supports pan-Turkism and is a historical revisionist. An important note should be made that Alireza Asgharzadeh uses the term Azerbaijani and Turk equivalently. Thus when the author of this article states statements such as: ―X does not have anything to do with Turkic culture, it does not mean that ―X does not have anything to do with Azerbaijani culture. But since Alireza Asgharzadeh uses the term interchangeably, the author of this article will take a note of this. Also some of the language used in this article might seem a bit straight forward, but when any Iranian who has not been tainted by antiIranian ideologies like pan-Turkism reads the book of Alireza Asgharzadeh, the response will naturally be straight forward. After the complete response, the author will give his suggestion and strategy on confronting pan-Turkism which has risen due to the ignorance of the Islamic republic and its lack of interest in Iranian nationhood and also due to foreign influence as will be shown. Also the author wishes to express that he has nothing against the citizens of any neighboring country including Turkey or Azerbaijan republic and does not judge humans based on their background which they have not chosen. But there is not a shadow of doubt that there are expansionist groups in these countries which actually inhibit mutual regional development and have expressed their desire to separate NW Iran from Iran. Thus some of the comments of this article should be seen in this defensive light. Note: This article might be expanded slightly in the future to take into account several other falsehoods created by panTurkist chavaunists. NEWER EBOOKSOLDER EBOOKSSponsored LinksA Response to the Book: "Iran and the Challenge of Diversity" Keywordsalireza article iran response pan turkism historical challenge diversity racist falsehood inconsistent islamic republic due argument conspiracy based culture azerbaijani theories alireza asgharzadeh conspiracy theories racist thesis democratic struggles fundamentalism aryanist aryanist racism inconsistent argument argument historical forgeries perpetuated article attempted |
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