As bad as it gets (part 2)
The “left” supporters of ‘Al Quds Day’ (see below) really aught to read this, from yesterday’s Observer, drawn to my attention by ‘Scoop Shachtman’ over at the sots.
October 1, 2007 at 7:27 pm (anti-semitism, Civil liberties, class, Free Speech, Human rights, Iran, Jim D, left, liberation, thuggery)
The “left” supporters of ‘Al Quds Day’ (see below) really aught to read this, from yesterday’s Observer, drawn to my attention by ‘Scoop Shachtman’ over at the sots.
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tim said,
October 1, 2007 at 8:40 pm
light relief
http://www.lumison.co.uk/~walkerslater/record0907.jpg
Jim Denham said,
October 1, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Good grief, man! That’s truly horrible. Why did you put it up here? Because the title of the piece is “As bad as it gets”?
Dr Paul said,
October 1, 2007 at 11:07 pm
The more the neo-con lunatics threaten war against Iran, the more the frummers in charge in Iran are going to clamp down on anyone and anything left-wing and secular. That’s why I have signed the appeal by the Hands of the People of Iran campaign — http://www.hopoi.org. No to imperialist war. No to the theocratic regime.
twp77 said,
October 2, 2007 at 11:24 am
Oh my God – I am blind! Please DO NOT post any more naked piccys of Sheridan!!!
Renegade Eye said,
October 3, 2007 at 1:26 am
See: http://maryamnamazie.blogspot.com/2007/10/against-al-quds-day-in-london.html
Quote of the Day: On ‘Dictators’, Common Denominators, And Preparing For The Worst » Comments from Left Field said,
October 3, 2007 at 2:24 am
[...] Iran may not be the immediate existential threat the trigger-happy jingoists in Washington and Paris paint it out to be, nor is its figurehead president an all-powerful despot in the vein of Saddam Hussein or Muammar Qaddafi. However, Ahmenajad does, as Beinhart acknowledges, represent a formerly Revolutionary (now bourgeois nationalist) theocractic regime. One that has, in recent years, viciously and violently attempted to stifle and roll back serious (and, for a time, largely successful) attempts at cultural and democratic reform and shore up its not-so-absolute influence, as Robert Tait outlines in a riveting report from this past Sunday’s Observer (h/t Shiraz Socialist). [...]
resistor said,
October 3, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Some other views of and from Iran
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=82480
‘Iran builds new cultural centre for Jews
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
TEHRAN – Agence France Presse
‘ Iran started building a huge new cultural and sports complex for its Jewish minority in central Tehran on Sunday,’
http://tinyurl.com/3d3wzs
Iran’s Unlikely TV Hit
Show Sympathetic to Plight
Of Jews During the Holocaust
Draws Millions Each Week
“It’s captivating. No matter where I am or what I’m doing, on Monday nights I find a television set and watch the show. So does every Jewish person I know here,” says Morris Motamed, the lone Jew in parliament.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=23530§ionid=3510212
A Jewish member of Iran’s Parliament, Morris Motamed has termed the recent US allegation that the country violates minority rights as ‘a lie’.
“The recent report by the US administration, arguing that the rights of minorities, especially those of Jews are violated in Iran, contains incorrect and fabricated information,” Motamed told two Conservative Party members of British House of Commons.
The Jewish community has protested the allegations via an official statement, the lawmaker said, adding that religious minorities live in the Islamic Republic of Iran like other Iranians.
“They have independent members in the parliament, these MPs enjoy the same rights as Muslim members of the parliament and they are chosen in free and fair elections,” he underlined.
Meanwhile, Jonaten Bet Kelia who represents Assyrians in the parliament said Assyrians were free to practice their religious rituals in Iran.
David Broder said,
October 4, 2007 at 3:47 pm
I wonder whether, if the CPGB were more deeply submerged in Islamo-Trottery, the Weekly Worker would feature extensive coverage of faction fighting within Hizb-ut-Tahrir? Or does the Islamist movement have a similarly august publication/esteemed organ for its gossip?
voltaires_priest said,
October 7, 2007 at 12:01 am
“resisitor”: you, (I strongly suspect) think that Lenni Brenner’s stuff about Jews -sorry “Zionists”- co-operating with Hitler, is sound: so do you think a token Jew apparently supporting the holocaust-denier and enemy of Israel’s very existance, Amadinejad, is comparable?