Stop Violence Against Women!

- By Bahram Maskanian

The absolute facts are that; real men are kind, humble, brave, respectful and tough. Real men are caring and protective of women. Real men have a clear understanding of the fact that women are absolutely equal to men. Real men perceive women as equal partners, not their property.

Also another fact is that; abusive men are cowards, weak and misogynists.

All forms of brutal violence towards women are due to men's sense of superiority and entitlement, instilled in them through the patriarchal criminal religious barbarism, upbringing and social conditioning.

Precisely the reason why women are seen, and treated as liability, subhuman, slave and subservient to men, but men are seen, as assets made in the image of a manmade mythical god, fabricated and widely disseminated by Judaism and its two derivatives: Christianity and Islam religion myths and their barbaric manmade religious manuals.

The origins of every man's sense of superiority and entitlement, expecting to be furnish with the rights and claim for owning women comes directly from their immediate family first, coupled with the religious and social conditioning therein.

Why do we, the humankind, knowingly deprive our own daughters, sisters and women of the most essential and basic human dignity and equal rights?

Why almost all over the world our daughters, sisters and women are denigrated and perceived as less of a human and liability, but our sons, brothers and men, are celebrated and seen as assets?

Why do we, the humankind of the 21 Century, impose such barbaric medieval traditions on our own daughters and sons? - We even dress them apart, coloring girls in pink a passive color and boys in blue an aggressive color, thus grouping and categorizing our children in two opposing teams, pushing them down hill on the path of a never-ending social and domestic conflict.

Why do we insist and also volunteer to brainwash our children by teaching them these terrible, divisive, mythical, racist, sexist, misogynist, genocidal, murderous, slave trading and war mongering religious nonsense of the criminal and barbaric old cultural hogwash and medieval backward traditions to our daughters and sons?

Why don't we see the destructive, soul crushing cause and effect of our actions, when we deliberately sentence our daughters to a life of misery and slavery, shaming them for being a woman?

Why do we insist to impose the obligation of paying for our daughter's wedding, and or give dowry, money, or property, to a man, for becoming her life partner, as if we are unloading a rotting merchandise, our daughter, the bride, to her husband for marriage?

Why are we such blind, ignorant, merciless and savage beasts? - The savage beasts living in the jungles, that never claimed to be so-called civilized, would have never done what we do to our own children and each other every day.  Stoning women to death for being raped, or having sex, murdering women to save the honor of her family?  The stupid men would rather murder their own daughters, or sisters, or female family member to uphold a barbaric law written by bunch of criminal political hostlers thousands of years ago, than growing up and learning the truth, that women deserves a revered social position and a high respect.

Shame on all of us for allowing these atrocities to continue, each and every one of us must do what we can to dismantle and correct these criminal barbaric religious behaviors.

Why do we maintain and teach these obvious barbaric and criminal religious nonsense, these dim-witted old cultural rubbish, these medieval traditions to our own daughters and sons, setting them up for an unnatural, miserable and unhappy life of constant struggle against one another, and the fundamental obvious principles of common sense and ethical standards and the superior laws of Mother Nature?

The answer to all of the above vital questions is surprisingly a very simple one, ignorance, yes, IGNORANCE, which is the most deadly and destructive Weapon of Mass Destruction. - If we stop burning books, and start reading them with an open mind, we can easily remedy this problem and many others we, the humankind are grappling with in this day and age?

Even though we had over a few centuries of enlightening, exciting and mind opening scientific discoveries and insights, substantiating billions of years of history of life itself on planet Earth, and billions of years antiquity of our Milky Way Galaxy and the Universe, the followers of the three Abrahamic Adam and Eve based religions; Judaism and its two derivatives: Christianity and Islam have been brainwashed to believe that dinosaurs lived two by two upon Noah's Ark, that such thing as Noah and his Ark ever existed, and the first members of human species were fashioned out of dirt and the male God breath, in the God’s own image, in a garden in the sky, with a talking snake who fooled Eve to have bite of an apple thereby pissing off the male God and get thrown out of the non-existent heaven, all by the will of an invisible male God. Furthermore, - that the entire Milky Way Galaxy and the Universe was created a little less than 6,000 years ago!!!

These are incidentally, despite the overwhelming existence of many historical FACTS and EVIDENCES, that beginning over 12,000 years ago the matriarchal Persian Empire has been recognized as a peaceful advanced civilization ruled under matriarchal social governing system, governing Asia, Europe and North Africa, up to little less than 4000 years ago. - Under the matriarchal rule Persian people have developed a flourishing civilization, language, music, dance, poetry, philosophy, science, mathematics, agriculture and much more. - The Persians highly rich culture and civilization, or the World's Cradle of Civilization and Culture, was centered in Mesopotamia, the capital of Persian Empire for thousands of years, an ancient region of southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in today's Iraq. Mesopotamia was attacked by the Islamic savages and destroyed little over 1300 years ago. Soon after the invasion of Mesopotamia Arabs began subjugating and force converting people of central Asia to Islam at the point of the sword.

Had it not been for the initial 8,000 years of matriarchal civilization, wisdom and enlightenment, we the humankind would probably be still living in caves.

The followers of the three Abrahamic Adam and Eve based religions; Judaism and its two derivatives: Christianity and Islam ended up basing their decisions concerning all aspects of life on their ignorance to elect / select and support the criminal and barbaric patriarchal types of social governing systems we currently have all over the world.

To avoid ignorance, we must learn and realize the simple, obvious and fundamental laws of nature, that our daughters, and our sons, both need love and attention, they both need respect, emotional stability, dignity, equality and education. - Teaching our daughters one sets of rules, and our sons another, is the recipe for disaster and highly stupid, divisive, destructive and unnatural.

The sad and unfortunate truth is that we do these atrocious violence towards each other and our children based on the rules and regulations prescribed in the so-called Bibles, or - Religious Manuals, - without even bother to read these religious manuals for ourselves. - Consequently we end up following the words of criminal religious mullahs blindly. - We must have a change of heart and attitude, read and learn what is in these manuals.

We must recognize our endless ability and all of what we are capable of doing. - We, the humankind, must realize our endless built in self-determination and self-motivation to be kind, just, ethical and moral, highly noble and admirable human qualities, which are strongly apposed by the warmongering, manmade, dividing and conquering three Abrahamic Adam and Eve based religions; Judaism and its two derivatives: Christianity and Islam.

Women are our mothers, sisters, daughters, friends and partners / wives.  Well over half of the world’s population consists of women.  Over half of the world’s creative power, half of the world’s consciousness and over half of the world’s brainpower are women.  Human rights, gender equality and equal rights are all inalienable rights given to every woman and man by Mother Nature.  We must realize that the one and only way to truly prosper on Planet Earth is to free and unleash the unimaginable majestic power of women for the benefit of all humanity.

To insure our species continued being; we must evolve and learn to embrace reason, common sense principles, ethical standards, knowledge and wisdom.  We must eliminate and get rid of the idiotic, manmade, patriarchal and barbaric religions along with their superstition lunacy. We should all be dedicated to the defense and promotion of justice, love, liberty, democracy, equality, human rights, abolition of female and child slavery, female rights, gender equality and environmental protection measures.

Womankind + Mankind = Humankind

Silence solves nothing, it never has, and it never will.  Our silence will encourage more devastation, violence and judicial corruption at all levels, all over the world.  Our silence will help to defeat and silent the peaceful ethical voices of reason and common sense. - It is our civic duty, ethical and moral obligation, to get involved and never be silent, to solve our many problems, by simply casting the light of truth and exposing the source of the problem, followed by enlightening educational measures to solve the problem through a peaceful conflict resolution.

All real men must break the silence whenever witnessing any form of violence against women, must act, prevent and educate the abuser.  All real men should unite to bring about change of abusive practices and attitudes against women. All real men must rise to stop violence perpetrators and condone violence at any level especially against women and children.

There are only two ways of spreading the light of truth and hope, either to be the source of light, truth and hope, The Projector, or be The Mirror, that spreads and reflects the light of truth and hope to others, which one are you?

Cooperative way is the Solution

- By Bahram Maskanian

Definition of Cooperation And Cooperative:
Is to work, or take action together toward achieving a common purpose, through an association and cooperation of persons, and or organizations for achieving a political, social, or economic, goals, benefiting a common good, cause, or purpose.

A Cooperative, or Co-Op effort is the work done through cooperation with others, relating to, or formed as cooperatives enterprises, or organizations, which will be jointly owned and managed by the employees and local population, such as but not limited to; cooperative radio and news groups, cooperative organic farms, cooperative stores, cooperative apartment buildings, cooperative preventive healthcare clinics, cooperative factories, cooperative restaurants, cooperative record label, cooperative music and film production, etc.

Co-Op Marketing:
Cooperative (Co-Op) marketing philosophy is based on the 4 pillars of common sense principles, ethical standards, loyalty and mutual respect. One could become a trendsetter and treat one's customers in a straightforward fashion, with respect and honesty. And not use the many common practices of deception, to push for over consumption.  One example would be pricing one's products and services in a none deceptive and honest manners of $1, instead of $0.99.

Co-Op Time Bank:
Cooperative Time Bank must be instituted among cooperative organizations and or bartering community members to keep records of time investments in the bartering community.  The bartering members can at anytime recoup any and all time she / he has invested in the community, recorded by the Time Bank.  Time invested in cooperative organizations by a carpenter, or truck driver shall be valued as equal to time invested by a lawyer, or a doctor, or the bank's accountant / timekeeper.  All invested times of all different skills and professions must be counted as equal in value, meaning one hour equals one hour.

Cooperative Management:
I am an unyielding believer of a management philosophy based on mutual respect, kindness, loyalty, support, encouragement and reward, equal respect and equal benefits for all cooperative employees.  No use of fear, intimidation, insults or pressure to lower employee’s wages.  Instead, one must constantly encourage the spirit of teamwork and cooperation.  All major decisions must be made with the consent of the majority of the employees.  There should be 65% majority vote necessary for any major decision to pass and become organization’s policy.

All employees must participate, learn and become fully aware of all aspects of different department’s obligations and involvements in the organization’s day-to-day operation.  Employees should learn about each other's work and responsibilities through temporary job rotation done every few months, until such time that they all know how to support and help each other seamlessly.  All employees should realize that cooperation brings out the best in all of us, but competition brings out the worse, therefore the cooperative’s team motto should be, “one for all, and all for one”.

Definition of Greed:
Greed is idiotically short sighted, greed is unreliable, greed is highly selfish, greed is blind, greed is destructive, greed is criminal, greed knows no limit, greed is endless and highly unethical. Greed's endless criminal selfishness and predatory practices have already given us many wars, Global Warring and Global Warming, which have brought humankind to the brink of self-annihilation. - Greed could be best describe as one's narcissistic excessive desire to acquire, or possess far more than what one needs and deserves, especially with respect to material wealth and worldly possessions. - Greed grows in the absence of ethical standards, common sense, compassion and morality, which leads to suppressing the urge in one's conscience to prefer doing right, over wrong. - Many believe, as I do, and attach to competition, the stigma of selfish greed. - Humanity must choose Cooperation for survival instead of Competition, in order to stop greed in its tracks and bring humanity closer together out of the danger zone of the war of self-annihilation.

Things that will destroy humanity are:
Politics without principle;
Pleasure without conscience;
Wealth without work;
Knowledge without character;
Business without morality;
Science without humanity;
And worship without sacrifice. - - Mahatma Gandhi - (1869-1948)

The Vital Role of Women

- By Bahram Maskanian

Defenseless innocent women and children are, and have always been the first innocent victims of poverty, ignorance, mediocrity, stupidity and violence. The oppressive and brutal treatment of women prescribed in all of the patriarchal man-made misogynist religions is the main cause of social backwardness in many countries practicing the said barbarism. We must put an end to this male savagery, violent and tragic treatment of women and children. We must empower and educate women and provide the required funds and knowledge for creating, managing, maintaining and growing women unions and organizations all over the world.

We must inform and educate men everywhere, and help men to evolve and realize that women are our Mothers, Sisters, Friends, Partners and equal human beings in every sense of the word.  Men need to learn that women must be revered, respected, honored and treated as absolute equal.

Men must learn that women are autonomous human beings, fully capable of making their own decisions and charting their own destiny.  Humanity, particularly men, must be educated and woken up, in order to realize and appreciate the enormous contributions women have and are making every single day, to human advancement and civilization.

We must learn and realize that, educated women will stop over population.  Educated women shall eradicate poverty.  Educated women shall raise intelligent caring children, guaranteeing a better future for all of humanity.  Educated women are precious and much needed friends and life partners for their counterpart.  Educated women would create prosperous communities for all citizens.  Educated women will stop our on going environmental degradation, and much, much more.

Women are more than half of the world’s population.  Women are half of the world’s wisdom, talent, brain-power, productive and creative energy.  But sadly, not included in the day-to-day social, political and economic decision making equation.  True human rights, female equality, democracy, democratic rule of law and economic prosperity requires women participation and will be achieved far faster, better and more effectively if women are equal participants and partners in these efforts.

Humanity cannot operate intelligently, fairly and democratically in a sustainable fashion, while hopping on one leg, blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, with one hand tied behind our backs, using only half of our collective brains.  I believe humanity needs to begin healing women soul by recognizing women, justly and deservedly as absolute equal human being.

Women must be present and represented fairly and equally in all aspects of social, political and economic forums, governmental and social institutions through equal representation.  For example in the United States, each state elects 2 senators and for every 100,000 citizens, 1 representative is elected and sent to U.S. Congress.  This configuration must be change now, making it mandatory to elect 1 female and 1 male senator from each state, and for every 200,000 citizens, 1 female and 1 male representative to be elected for U.S. House of Representatives.  In short the 500 members of U.S. Congress MUST consist of 250 female and 250 male senators and representatives, only then we can boast about beginning to respect and protect human rights and gender equality!

Womankind = + Mankind = Humankind

Iranian Women on the Frontline

Judaism and its 2 derivatives: Christianity and Islam