Open Letter (Part 2 of 5)

In second half of 2007, a group of students and followers of Master Ilia “M” Ramollah, signed and issued an open letter which was published in a plenty of Persian human activist websites and newspapers. The second part of its translation is as follows:


Open Letter (Part 2)

For the last five months, we have received plenty of confirmed news from the cultural butcher’s jail. During these months, Ilia has been forced extremely and tortured mentally to deny the truth: all his and his movement’s accomplishments in the last fifteen years.

Advised by Master, his followers have remained quiet for months. They have deliberated and pondered silently, hoping the officials themselves to response to the religious fanatics and cultural Al-Qaeda’s who were in charge of serial assassinations and the incidents of Tehran University Alley...

Months were gone and there were no responses from the officials. This heedlessness was because of the counterfeit justifications, distortions, and forgeries, which ARA provided and presented to the officials as special newsletters and bulletins against Master and his followers. Consequently, we now decide to step out into the battlefield ourselves, in accordance with temporal circumstances.

Presently, the greatest lively ideas and the extracts of intellectuals’ opinions and words have been butchered for several months in the slaughterhouse of belief inquisitors and thought, liberty, and spirituality executioners. From now on, we strive to reveal the truth loudly, all around the world, as a respond to all cruelties and injustices we have suffered.

When he was sixteen, Ilia “M.” practically started to reveal the resultant of his deliberations, cognition, and observations regarding esoteric sciences and spiritual aspects of Koran and word of God (and a soul-oriented and inward-focused interpretation of word of God as a result) to a limited number of his followers. The practical and theoretical discourses had continued in the same limited level before he was twenty-three, when his first series of public lectures started in Tehran. The audience, especially youths, students, and literate and knowledgeable persons, acknowledged the lectures exceptionally and extensively.

After a short time, none of The Tehran halls had the capacity to accept all the audience. Accordingly, the lectures broadcasted as recorded tapes and videos for several times. In the years after, his speeches decrease in number because of ARA’s widespread restrictions and pressures. The religious fanatics and cultural Al-Qaeda’s, who incessantly want to dominate the whole domains of religion and culture to exploit for a variety of their profits, rushed new attacks every now and then.

Eventually, the first apparent physical assault took place at Shahid Shiroodi Arena in Tehran but Master’s arrestment plan failed at that time in consequence of people’s fortified position and strong resistance. After the incident, dimensions of attacks against Master Ilia “M.” took a new form and the wave of social and personality terrors increased and appeared more intensively in the fanatics and extremists’ bulletins.

(To be continued…)