Ganji's Fight against Islamic Fascism

Fire of Liberty
The New York Sun has a great article by Eli Lake on how Akbar Ganji's vigilant stand against the tyrannous regime of Tehran is sparking a ground-swell of democracy amongst the people of Iran. In fact the journalist turned dissident has continued his public denunciations of figures within the regime by various friends and relatives smuggling various letters out of his prison cell and posting them on the Internet for all the people of Iran and the world to read. Just see what The NY Sun had to say about Ganji:

In recent open letters from Evin Prison and later Milad, Mr. Ganji has dissected the movement he once championed. In one, dated July 22, Mr. Ganji respectfully told his old mentor - a professor widely seen as the intellectual founder of Iran's reform movement, Abdol Karim Soroush - that he would not heed Mr. Soroush's advice and end his hunger strike. The dissident's protest began on June 11, when he was re-arrested for urging a boycott of the presidential elections reluctantly endorsed by the heirs to the outgoing reformist president, Mohammed Khatemi.

"It saddens me considerably to see some who are under the impression that it is possible to confront the Sultanist system by cautious words about democracy and free speech, and to make the transition to a democratic system this way," Mr. Ganji wrote to Mr. Soroush.

Mr. Ganji has sent even bolder missives from prison. In one, he called for the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to go, using nearly the exact phrasing that Ayatollah Khomenei did when demanding the shah's ouster a generation earlier. But it was the journalist's discourse with Mr. Soroush that exposed the failure of his country's eight-year reformist experiment. Its vanquished leaders sought to use Mr. Khatemi's office to open Iranian society. Such measures were invariably overturned by the men responsible for keeping it closed: the body created to ensure no political laws would contradict Islam, the guardian council.

I hope that this campaign by Ganji(I prefer he lives to keep up the good fight) will provide the much needed flint to start up the Fire of Liberty in Iran. All the need is an added push from the free world. So carry on Ganji.