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"KULTURA.AZ": HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY THEY THINK AZERBAIJANIS ARE LIKE PEOPLE FROM STONE AGE?
15:33 12/02/2013 " SOCIETY
"Ekrem Eylisli needs to run away," wrote Lala Ismailzade on
"Kultura.az" site in the article about baiting the author of the novel
"Stone Dreams". She wonders whether it is possible for the crowd
living in authoritarian regime be tolerant with dissenting opinions.
"Today, the school principals hold meetings as if they are one,
propagating Ekrem Eylisli's as "traitor of the fatherland." They
say that such "meetings of the Bureau" used to took place under
Stalin regime as well," the author writes, and notes that one of the
Azerbaijani TV channels called on taking away Eyylisli's all property
and give to immigrants, apparently hoping to solve the problem of
the poor Azerbaijanis by the property of the writer.
According to the author, Azerbaijan has two ways. First is to destroy
all dissent writers who criticized the Azerbaijani society, and
obliterate any positive references about the Armenians. "What did Sabir
write about the Azerbaijani? I fear whenever I see a Muslim. You see,
he's not afraid of Armenian but a Muslim. After his death Armenians
collected money for publication of his poems and helped," notes the
author and adds that by this logic, it is necessary to erase from the
history of Azerbaijan Mirza Fatali Akhundov as well, because one of
the characters in his comedy "Haji Gara" who is a lazybones recognizes
that he is not Armenian to work all day with a hack in his hands.
Akhundzadeh in this play describes the Azerbaijanis as troublesome
people and thieves. He describes Ohan, Sargis and other Armenians as
law-abiding and virtuous people. "And what would they suggest? To put
the works of Akhundzadeh in a coffin and to bury it?," the author says.
"The second way is to understand why, in spite of our economic
strength, we are not respect in the world? Have you ever thought
why the Azerbaijanis are considered people from the Stone Age? The
generation that is presents us in the world culture is dying out, it's
not going to live forever. And in their place a generation of RABIS
music is coming, with a hatchet in their hands, and famed by the trade
of potatoes and onions. What should we do? Should we rally around the
ax and destroy our cultural monuments, or should we respect freedom
of speech and try to present a civilized society?" the author says.
Source: Panorama.am
15:33 12/02/2013 " SOCIETY
"Ekrem Eylisli needs to run away," wrote Lala Ismailzade on
"Kultura.az" site in the article about baiting the author of the novel
"Stone Dreams". She wonders whether it is possible for the crowd
living in authoritarian regime be tolerant with dissenting opinions.
"Today, the school principals hold meetings as if they are one,
propagating Ekrem Eylisli's as "traitor of the fatherland." They
say that such "meetings of the Bureau" used to took place under
Stalin regime as well," the author writes, and notes that one of the
Azerbaijani TV channels called on taking away Eyylisli's all property
and give to immigrants, apparently hoping to solve the problem of
the poor Azerbaijanis by the property of the writer.
According to the author, Azerbaijan has two ways. First is to destroy
all dissent writers who criticized the Azerbaijani society, and
obliterate any positive references about the Armenians. "What did Sabir
write about the Azerbaijani? I fear whenever I see a Muslim. You see,
he's not afraid of Armenian but a Muslim. After his death Armenians
collected money for publication of his poems and helped," notes the
author and adds that by this logic, it is necessary to erase from the
history of Azerbaijan Mirza Fatali Akhundov as well, because one of
the characters in his comedy "Haji Gara" who is a lazybones recognizes
that he is not Armenian to work all day with a hack in his hands.
Akhundzadeh in this play describes the Azerbaijanis as troublesome
people and thieves. He describes Ohan, Sargis and other Armenians as
law-abiding and virtuous people. "And what would they suggest? To put
the works of Akhundzadeh in a coffin and to bury it?," the author says.
"The second way is to understand why, in spite of our economic
strength, we are not respect in the world? Have you ever thought
why the Azerbaijanis are considered people from the Stone Age? The
generation that is presents us in the world culture is dying out, it's
not going to live forever. And in their place a generation of RABIS
music is coming, with a hatchet in their hands, and famed by the trade
of potatoes and onions. What should we do? Should we rally around the
ax and destroy our cultural monuments, or should we respect freedom
of speech and try to present a civilized society?" the author says.
Source: Panorama.am