International Muslim Association of Scientists and Engineers
IMASE statement on the killing of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
The murder of Muslim scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan in Tehran as he sat in a car on the way to work is a shameless and criminal act. This follows the murders of Professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi of Tehran University, Majid Shahriari and several attacks on Muslim scientific institutions in recent years.
The late Mostafa was a married man just 32 years of age and father of a young boy. Our condolences go out to the deceased's family and close ones, and we pray that Allah raises him in the company of His own close ones, and forgives all his shortcomings. The sight of a scholar's blood on the street is indeed sad. The event and its aftermath have been reported on widely in the international press. [Al Jazeera, Guardian]
IMASE calls on relevant justice systems in Iran to investigate this incident carefully and thoroughly and act appropriately. Every nation and community has a right to defend itself and the right to human dignity.
IMASE calls on all nuclear armed powers to decommission their own weaponry before seeking to police the nuclear programmes of others.
IMASE calls for greater protection of aql (intellect) in its many forms, and urges believers to nurture an autonomous, living and indigenous knowledge culture in the Muslim world. We reject the logic and interests that would extol the virtues of assassination over alternative politics, and reject the war drums that are being prepared for Iran.
Best regardsThe IMASE Team
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Constellations - Vol. 2, No. 4, January - March 2012 ReleaseThis quarter we unveil our latest project and present a range of articles, papers and poems connecting to contemporary social and conceptual developments, from the Occupy Wall Street Movement to Neutrinos. |
Introducing Developmentia
As a compound of development and dementia, the term developmentia challenges the ideology of development as a social good and makes the idiocy of the development industry clear for us in order that we act more wisely. It is a much needed idea in a world where costly marketing campaigns, political coercion and failures of imagination have dulled our abilities to nurture a world to His pleasure and conduct islah. Developmentia has subjects and prosecuters but also intermediaries; those in its crosshairs, the developmented and much mediatised beneficiaries. It describes a common institutionalised attitude that prevents actual improvement and selfhood. Methods that it employs include; cooption of talent, manipulative science, suffocation through technocracy, resource wastage and strategic misdirection. It can be difficult to see as it is normally camouflaged as virtue. Developmentia is not just about the development industry, it is manifest in fields of learning, war, governance, social work and religion. Since conception, IMASE and OtherAsias have pursued this as a joint initiative, bringing arts and science back together for enhanced creativity and scope. At present the team is collecting eyewitness accounts of developmentia and creating visual resources. The initial public face for the project is through the developmentia blog. www.developmentia.tumblr.com Featuring a timeline, keywords, misconceptions and a reading list, it is regularly updated with text, comment and multimedia, providing multiple points of entry to this work in order to bring about wider consciousness of developmentia. If you have any experiences you think you might like to share with us, we invite you to get in touch. |
