Thank you for joining us. Today, our prayer leader is @_hatman: 
Dear friends from my heart I welcome you to alternative Friday prayers. Peace.
Common spiritual ideas run through humanity that I think all can identify with, whatever religious background. 
Being an original Hippy my guiding concepts are Love and Peace- 
easy understandable ideas we all share but the very hardest for the world to live up to.
The Quakers have a concept of bearing witness.  They gather and speak from the heart whatever moves them.
I would like to bear witness here this day and speak from the heart to you all.
I came here as a geek to see what the phenomenon of #iranelection and Twitter was about.
I was deeply moved by what I saw and by the people here striving for democracy and freedom.
I didnt know what to say at first, so I sent quotes from my spiritual quides: Rumi, Saa.di, and the Sufi poets.
I wasn't prepared for the bravery and passion for freedom I saw in the face of such brutality and oppression.
I wasn't prepared for the friendship, support, passion, community I found here amongst you as a total stranger.
I wasn't prepared for the horror, brutality, rape, torture, and death I found here- 
I wasn't prepared, but I had to open my heart and be hurt and angered by it.
I was reminded of my own freedom and human rights I took for granted and enjoyed, without thinking of the cost.
I was reminded that these freedoms were hard won.
Won by my forbears who laid down their lives so I could enjoy peace and security.
My own father fought in Burma.  He was shot and wounded, walked alone, in pain through alien jungle for days.  
He swam the Irrawaddy river in the dark with one arm shot.
He ended up on the same shore and had to swim across once again.  He never talked about it.
The horrors he went through had no parallel in my cosy world. only now with age do I understand.
I think of Isa, and his son @onlymehdi and humbly feel for them both.
I think of them, and it becomes personal and heartbreaking for me.
I wonder if id have the courage to wear green and walk out to face imprisonment, rape, torture, and death.
Im humbled by your bravery because you fight for all of us. Like those fathers and mothers gone before.
You are my father in prison, denied access and visits in solitary; bullied and pressured to "confess".
You are my mother gathered outside Evin, not knowing if I am alive, or dead, or worse.
You are my sister- raped, tortured, and dumped outside the city without dignity, and denied decent burial.
You are my brother, my son, my daughter,  you are my family wanting to live in peace, security, and freedom.
How can I not be fearful, worried, anxious?
But I am moved, inspired, and angered by your plight- for we all are the family of Adam.
As Sa'adi says: "If I had a thousandth of the courage in my heart as one Iranian woman I would be a brave man"
I wrote here: "I heard you chanting, not hate, but for freedom on Qods day on epersian radio. 
from Istfahan, from Shiraz, from Tehran, from all over Iran"
I had tears rolling down my face. 
My heart was breaking, and I was proud to bear witness to your brave strong voices.
Every minute I spend here I am praying for you, bearing witness to what you go through. 
Hoping for an end to your suffering.
The first Farsi I learnt here was Ma Hastim - I hear you, I hear you are in trouble, I am here for you.
I made a promise from my heart to myself that I wrote into a poem, for haiku day a while ago:
On a day in Spring, I will walk in Laleh Park, and see your brave faces
I bear witness on behalf of us all here on #iranelection - Love and Peace Iran.  Ma Hastim!