Yani Nikolai

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Yani Nikolai
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I am Aryan aka Yani Nikolai, I am a British born and raised Iranian, from both sets of parents. Since I was a child, I grew up thinking and acting like an Iranian, I learned fluent Persian and to top that I even researched about Persian history and learned to read, write and speak in the ancient language of the Achaemenian dynasty, I also learned about religions of Iran which since I was a child I was curious to learn. I was baptized a Roman Catholic when I was 6, but please don't get this mixed up with the Armenian Apostolic because I am actually a pure bred Iranian not Armenian.

When I visited Iran on my own for the first time I was amazed at my heritage, at this time I was twelve years old, young, naive and curious. This made me want to learn more about Iran and be proud to be Iranian and get involved with everything that makes Iranians what they are. The following year I went again on my own and this time my task was to learn about Iran's predominant religion of Islam.

I had two uncles living with my grandfather not much older than myself, one with educated dreams, the other basing his life around his religion of Islam. Being thirteen and still naïve I believed my youngest uncle would have the correct wisdom to teach me the true meaning of his religion. One night he sat me down on his bed and for five hours taught me about Islam, the prophet Mohammed, the Shiite belief, the Imams etc. of course now I look back, I see it was just the Islam through his eyes and not the Islam I later educated myself about.

For two years after that I had based my life around Islam also, wanting to be a Muslim just because it was the so called neo-Iranian thing to do, my family resented me for that, although they still loved me and cared for me, they knew I was just proving a point and following something which I really had no Idea about.

After two years some light had shone, I began to realize that Islam was not for me and I went back to being a practicing Catholic which made me feel deep down a whole lot better about myself, I wasn't restricted, my belief's were made more simply, people started respecting me again, it was like I just came out of prison. It was after this, which I began to realize the true meaning of Islam and the religion in which the Muslims are called, the soldiers of God. After this, I started asking myself, why terrorism? Why are Muslims hated more than other religions? What did Salman Rushdie have to say to cause such uproar in the Islamic world? I was keen to find out.

I started researching into religion and politics when I was 18 years old, as an enthusiast of Iran and Iranian culture my interest grew broader as I grew older and matured. I respect everyone’s beliefs provided it is not intolerant or forceful which is why my interests mainly focus around Islam and its origins, Islam in Iran and Iranian politics. Through my own research of religion I converted to Christianity when I was 19 and never looked back. I believe in complete democracy and complete separation of state and religion.

In a nutshell, I am an Iranian raised in the UK with an interest in Politics and Religion. From the age of sixteen I grew a massive interest in the current state of my own home nation Iran and the root of its problem, 'Islam'. I started reading articles, books, magazines, watching documentaries etc. however I only started to express myself once I had established a firm agenda which is realistic as well as practical, this was a process of nearly four years. With all my accumulated knowledge over the four years of study I grew my own opinions based on what I learned. One of my main subject areas of research is Islam and its true nature; I have educated myself in the scholarly works of the Sunnis as well as the Shias. As a critic of Islam I believe everyone has the right to criticize all Religions in order to motivate progression of mind. I believe no one has to respect a Religion or a Political Ideology but respect good people that embrace the true meaning of a Free and Democratic society.

If I was to describe myself, then I would say that I am:

* Nationalist
* Secularist
* Futurist
* Right-Wing
* Anti-Islamist

Yani Nikolai

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