This woman needs to stop

This woman needs to stop driving in circles.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi has sued the United States because its economic embargo on Iran is blocking publication of her memoirs in America, a literary agency said on Wednesday. Iranian human rights lawyer Ebadi said she wanted to write a book for a U.S. and international audience about her life and career "as a woman, a mother and a lawyer living and working in a country that confronts many human rights problems." The suit filed by Ebadi and the Strothman Agency seeks to strike down U.S. Treasury Department regulations requiring a license to publish authors from embargoed countries such as Iran -- a nation dubbed in 2002 as part of the "axis of evil" by President Bush along with Iraq and North Korea. "The ... regulations seem to defy the values the United States promotes throughout the world, which always include free expression and the free exchange of ideas," Ebadi, who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, said in a filing to the court. She has completed a draft of the book in Farsi but needs the help of an agent and editor in America to translate and re-write the book for international readers, she said. But Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) rules are blocking her from signing a contract with the Boston-based Strothman Agency, which wants to represent her and negotiate with publishers on her behalf.

Somehow, this woman who apparently is intelligent enough to win the frickin' Peace Prize , yet isn't smart enough to realize that Shari'a isn't ever going to allow her to publish her seminal work...ever. Yet, somehow, she believes she's entitled to publish her work here, even though there's a law against doing just that, because Iran is a repressive country that sponsors terrorism worldwide and the United States has said we shouldn't do business with them. Hmmmm. To be clear about it, Ebadi, has gone on record claiming that Shari'a---particularly the Iranian version of it---is a valid form of law. Even though she was a judge and the mullahs don't think she's qualified to be one anymore because she's a woman. Even though the people she defends have generally been shafted one way or another by the government because they've run afoul of Islamic law. She still thinks this system works; she's just advocating her clients and perhaps striking a blow here or there. Ahem. Bitch, if you want to publish your work here, move here. Only then you will be entitled to conduct commerce on our shores. If you want to publish your work in Iran, well then maybe you should stop supporting repressive legal systems and work toward a free society. One, in particular, that respects women and treats them as equals. I, for one, don't want to read a book about a "{..}a woman, a mother and a lawyer living and working in a country that confronts many human rights problems." And I really don't want to read a book written by a woman who supports a country she claims "confronts human rights problems" when it's obvious even to Stevie Wonder that Iran is all about doing precisely the opposite. To quote John McClane: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Stop being part of the problem. Posted by Kathy at November 1, 2004 01:26 AM | TrackBack