PhobeWatch on the WPI
Islamophobia Watch have a feature on how Maryam Namazie's friends in the Worker-Communist Party of Iran were thrown out of a CND conference last weekend for causing a disruption:
Jeremy Corbyn, who was chairing the session, took four or five questions from WPI supporters. He answered one himself, explaining that whatever their views on the present government all Iranians would agree that they didn't want their country bombed by the USA. The problems began when other contributors took a different line from the WPI, who shouted them down along with the ambassador's replies and refused to allow the meeting to continue. They were then ejected from the room. As they were bundled out, one was heard to shout "Bomb the fascists!"
Phobewatch also notes that they distributed a poster containing pictures of the Mashhad hanging, the victims of which were said to be two "boys" whose crime was consensual sodomy. In fact, this claim is disputed, with Human Rights Watch and others not convinced that the crime was not in fact rape. Pedro Carmona points out that homosexual rape is not generally equated with homosexuality in Iran - even in this country, a substantial percentage of perpetrators and victims are heterosexual, hence the slang "bully ramming".
They also note that Homa Arjomand, of the same communist sect, gained the praises of Alyssa Lappen in Front Page Magazine, and Lappen also appears not to have bothered to dig up Arjomand's political connections, surprising given the site's vitriolic anti-communist and general anti-leftist stance, which is written all over it, including its front page.
Comments
All these people are an incentious bunch.
Posted by: brownwonder | October 22, 2005 6:23 PM
These commies are a riot. Anybody who has read the history of Europe alone from 1917 to 1992 knows that this lot has zero interest in human rights. So its down to fishing for broke third world refugees posing as communists to make a fast buck. Pathetic really.
Posted by: DrM | October 22, 2005 10:05 PM
DrM: I wouldn't say the WPI are a riot, but the people who promote them are. Are they too stupid to do a quick Google on them to find out who they are, or do they think we are too stupid to do the same?
Posted by: Yusuf Smith
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October 23, 2005 12:58 AM
Well Yusuf, the west is often erroneously accused of double standards, when in fact, it has none. Back in the 80s it is good sunnis versus bad shias, now its the other way around in addition to good docile pro-regressive moslems versus bad unassimilated Muslims. The labels change but the intent never does. Simple divide and conquer, even if it means offering a carrot on a stick to third world communist rejects. Hypocrites are only consistent in their hypocrisy. Maybe you'll get a laugh out of this, back in the 60s zionist arch-orientalist Bernard Lewis was advocating a neo-Ottoman empire as a bulwark against communism. Talk about weaving a tangled web.
Posted by: DrM | October 23, 2005 7:36 AM
I think Islamophobia has increasingly become a defining characteristic of the US Right.
This is made clear in the way that Eric Margolis, a Toronto Sun columnist with pro-capitalism, pro-Reagan, pro-Thatcher, even pro-Pinochet views, has been smeared as a "leftist" simply because he views Muslims in a positive light.
Posted by: George Carty
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October 23, 2005 12:54 PM
Thats very true George, infact America's asinine right also views Pat Buchanon with contempt. Speaking of Margolis, his book "War at the top of the World" is excellent.
Posted by: DrM | October 26, 2005 11:35 AM
Buchanan is a racist and a genuine anti-semite though (although that's not why the neocons hate him)
Sure he didn't really want a Kemalist empire with the same territorial extent as the 1914 Ottoman empire.
Posted by: George Carty
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October 26, 2005 3:12 PM