The Ghost and Legacy of Nasim Aghdam
Last month I was filtered in my online posts for challenging a cleric to a duel. Twitter had decided that the post which read, "I will kill you Masroor Ahmad, or convert you to Marxism," was outside of the free speech guidelines of usage on their site.
Notwithstanding the primacy of communications in a complex world of competing interests it must be noted that Masroor Ahmad frequently calls out for the killing of people he doesn't like through the television station MTA. Most infamously the Ahmadi hierarchy are implicated in the assassinations of the religious scholar Lehk Ram and the political leader Zia Ul-Haq. No one seems to mind.
This is a mental health post to celebrate the attempted justice bid of Nasim Najafi Aghdam. Nasim was a vulnerable migrant worker from Iran who lived in California. She had made wonderful contributions to changing the world through her YouTube Channel. She espoused peace, veganism, health, unity, inclusion and fun for people in the challenges of life. However YouTube saw differently.
Either through design or accident YouTube filtered and demonetised the revenue that Nasim was getting. She tried in vain to communicate the problem to us on the blogosphere and in a bid for retribution she went out to kill the beast, i.e. Big Tech. She said she was being "killed with cotton," meaning slowly. It is obvious that YouTube did not entertain her pleas for restorative justice.
Nasim made the decision to punish YouTube.
Now she is dead. Three YouTube corporate minions are wounded.
Where is the Justice in this case? Most comments left about her try to demonise the woman she was. I say that she was a woman betrayed. I pray for the light of Nasim Aghdam to be known now and afterwards.
If only YouTube had agreed fair and acceptable terms of contract and business. The victory for us through Nasim is that the Big Corporations now know that they are not invulnerable to social justice avengers. Our only tragedy is that Nasim took her own life instead of boldly going before an American court to stand trial for her justice bid. That is a loss. She should have defied the corporate judge also.
Who are these people in the world who think that they they are more important than their dependents?
The economics of oppression and slavery are maddening and confusing. In clarity it is the rationality of bullies against weaker people. Happily Nasim will live on in the cloud of the blogosphere. Her sacrifice and speeches will always be there if only as an archive.
Rest in Peace Nasim Najafi Aghdam.
Significance Locally
The significance for me was that I was sectioned for 3 weeks by the Irish Psychiatric State for invoking Nasim as a warner to the VIP Society in June to July 2022. The Irish Police dragged me through a window in order to stem my communications. I stayed for several weeks in Tallaght Hospital in a forced check-up.
Soon I will have to return to the partial gloomy hell that is Jobstown to continue my life. The dangerous men will still be there, cunningly keeping beneath the radar of their police frenemies.
I hope to teach English for remuneration by the end of the year.
I will always remember that I have not been tested by God with ownership of a gun. What is the use of a gun except to shoot a snake or a scorpion that is intent on stinging you?
There are 5 men either side of where I live who have threatened me with physical violence. There is another man who damages the security camera that I have on the wall. It should not be a battle to achieve equality in real terms.
Is not the reward of good, good, asks The Noble Qur'an.
I will ask that of my violent neighbours, God Willing.
I do not expect anything other than confirmation that the revolution must sweep away the power of brutish men and the compromised women who support their brutality. The glass is empty. Will God fill it?
