Tehran Calling to the Faraway Towns
From the desk of A. Millar on Thu, 2009-09-24 11:09
Last week was al-Quds (or ‘Jerusalem’) Day. It sounds as if it could be an ancient religious festival. But it is not. This annual event – usually held on the last Friday of Ramadan – was founded by Ayatolla Khomeini, as a day to oppose the “usurper Israel.” Today it’s also an occasion for hardliners of all stripes, around the world, to celebrate Iran’s clerical regime and its client, the Lebanese-based terrorist militia Hezbollah.
In Tehran, president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at an anti-Israel march, and, once again, referred to the Holocaust as a “myth.” “The very existence of this regime [Israel],” he said, “is an insult to the dignity of the people.”
In Germany, the neo-Nazi German People’s Union (DVU) leant its support to the al-Quds Day, and called on its supporters to join in the Berlin march.
In London the annual al-Quds event was held on Sunday September 13, and sponsored by an array of organizations from the Muslim association of Britain to the Respect Party.
The day was marked by Islamists, Leftists (many of whom wore the keffiyeh), and even some extremist anti-Zionist Jews, marching through the streets of Britain’s capital. Hezbollah flags and photographs of the terrorist group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah filled the streets, along with Palestinian flags, and placards with pro-Hamas and anti-Zionist slogans. One or two even proclaimed unashamedly: “We are all Hezbollah Now” [video]. Besides the waving of flags and placards, the also crowd chanted “free, free Palestine,” “boycott Israel,” and even “boycott Starbucks” – the coffee chain that “offended” Islamists with its logo of a mermaid (which they believe is actually the “queen of the Jews”), and which they now believe to be financing “Zionist aggression.” (A Starbucks near the Israeli embassy in London was smashed up by “pro-Palestinian” demonstrators in January.)
Guest speakers for the 2009 London al-Quds event included Dr. Daud Abdullah, Sheikh Bahmanpour, Rabbi Ahron Cohen, Yvonne Ridley, and Anas Al Tikriti. However, this rather multicultural sounding bunch is a whole lot more worrisome than it might first appear.
Dr. Daud Abdullah – who led the Muslim Council of Britain’s boycott of Holocoaust Memorial Day – came under fire a few months ago after he signed a declaration of support for Hamas. The declaration, moreover, suggested that attacks on British navy were perfectly acceptable, if it was attempting to prevent arms shipments to the Palestinian terrorist group. Yvonne Ridley – a socialist who converted to Islam(ism), known for her radicalism – is a presenter for Press TV, the London-based propaganda agency of the Iranian government, which recently tried to portray Iran’s pro-democracy demonstrators as “terrorists.”
Rabbi Cohen leads the Neturei Karta group, which has publicly aligned itself with Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, as well as the clerical regime of Iran. He spoke at Iran’s 2006 Holocaust denial conference – along with former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke – to say that the Jews who were murdered by the Nazi regime “deserved it.”
Hitting a new journalist low, British media outlets nevertheless described counter protestors as “Rightwing extremists” and “troublemakers.” No such appendage was used for those openly supporting Islamofascist regimes, terrorist groups, and cranks who have openly declared that the “A-lmighty [had] wished” for genocide against the Jews, under Hitler. None of this apparently sinks to the level of “Rightwing extremism” in Britain, so long as it is endorsed or promoted by Islamists and the far-Left. Nor did the media feel it necessary to note, or remark upon, the nature of the groups and speakers present at the al-Quds day event, which, disgracefully, was described as a multicultural march for peace in Palestine and everywhere.
The nature of this movement is clear enough. This coalition of Islamists, socialists, neo-Nazis, and anti-Semites, has taken over – in the most literal way – from the old “blood and soil” Nazism, even as it disguises itself as a “human rights” movement. Consider this: in the 1980s, the neo-fascist (British) National Front championed Ayatollah Khomeini. Now Western “anti-fascists” and “anti-racists” march through the streets of London, Berlin, and other Western cities, in essence, in support of the successor Khamenei regime – even as it brutally suppresses its own people, and works toward nuclear weapons.
"socialism and fascism are
Submitted by siegetower on Fri, 2009-09-25 09:28.
"socialism and fascism are as ideologically opposed to one another" No, they are not. Remember the Nazis? Ever stopped to think about what 'Nazi' means? Here's a hint: National Socialist Workers Party of Germany. The Fascist party led by Mussolini was also a national socialist movement. Go and look up some of Hitlers speeches, most of them rant about alleged evils of the capitalist societies of the free European nations. And the Nazi party instituted a huge welfare state (for ethnic Germans only). And the Nazis put their anti capitalist ideals into practice. The tax rate on any corporation who resisted the nationalisation of their industry and assets was smothered with a 98% tax rate, until they gave in and let the government take control. In 1942 the corporate tax rate was 102% of revenue as it was evil for the big bad corporation to be making money at the expense of the socialist worker in war time.
Nazi/Soviet/Maoist - in practice their attitudes to economics were similar. They disagreed on who would receive the supposed benefits of their economic and social policies. Oh, and yeah....they both killed a lot of Jews.
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The state of Israel is more than Jewishness, yes. It houses the largest Bah'ai temple in the Middle East, a huge community of Bah'ai have sought refuge in Israel as the intolerant muslims of the surrounding countries oppress them (big surprise). Israel is also home to many other minority groups such as the Samaritans of antiquity. And Christians, oppressed and beaten into submission in the rest of the Middle East.
Scienta est Vox!
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Defend Christendom. Defend Jewry. Oppose socialism in Europe.
Socialism and fascism 2.1
Submitted by KO on Fri, 2009-09-25 11:07.
KA: If we grant, arguendo, that socialism and fascism are ideological opposites with nearly identical social praxes, what may we tentatively? That ideology for both socialists and fascists is a fantasy, a lie, an imaginary gratification used to unite one group in society to pillaging the others groups. The socialist fantasizes social control of production while serving an aristocracy of socialist politicians. The fascist fantasizes an all-powerful state while serving an aristocracy of fascist politicians. They differ only in their costumes and propaganda. The reality is politically sanctioned robbery and murder.
It is easy for socialists, fascists, and Muslims to make common cause, because they agree on the one essentiial principle, a preference for dictatorship over deliberative self-government.
movement
Submitted by kappert on Fri, 2009-09-25 08:56.
The text gathers a multitude of groups and persons from the present and the past to underline a hardline discourse from the
right-wing knowing its right-wing public probably will be very pleased. It does not refer to the occupation, the ethnic cleansing, nor to illegal house building or the separatist regime of the Israeli military junta. The state of Israel has little to do with jewishness, despite its propaganda.
Under Siege
Submitted by Kapitein Andre on Fri, 2009-09-25 02:24.
Whatever their commonalities in practice, socialism and fascism are as ideologically opposed to one another as they are to liberalism; in fact, even more so.
"This is neither a movement
Submitted by siegetower on Fri, 2009-09-25 01:43.
"This is neither a movement nor a coalition." Regardless, it is a wide swathe of people who have beliefs that are wrong, frankly. It is up to clear thinking people to combat these beliefs with reason and prove they are wrong. However if the major sources of information that most people rely on to gather information about issues wider than their own day-to-day affairs are biased, and show the same wrong opinions as the anti-Westerns and present those opinions as facts....
Well the job is a lot harder.
Linking communism with National Socialism is easy - they are both strains of socialism. The original 'left' and 'right' wings of socialism. Both the left and right wings of socialism were allied internationally, do not forget, politically and greedily divided Poland between themselves, even after they fought each other in the Spanish so-called Civil War. Nationally in Europe during the Great Depression the international socialists (the left) and the national socialists had constant running battles in the streets of Germany and elsewhere that had more to do with fighting to gain constituency.
We see from the above article that the left and right wings of socialism seem to be allied once again, this time with cause a contemporary cause of destroying a democratic republic, Israel. A third ally, Islam, has been welcomed. Their century old causes, destroying the classicaly liberal democracies of Europe (both Monarchies and Republics) are still self evidently displayed in their rhetoric and propaganda alike.
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Defend Christendom. Defend Jewry. Oppose socialism in Europe.
RE: "Tehran Calling"
Submitted by Kapitein Andre on Thu, 2009-09-24 22:02.
This is neither a movement nor a coalition. This is the convergence of disparate interests and movements in the area of criticism of and/or opposition to Israel. Even this area includes positions ranging from criticism of the treatment of Palestinians, to advocacy for an independent Palestinian state, to the destruction of Israel and establishment of an Islamist state in its place.
In the main, ultra-nationalist and supremacist movements in Europe tend to focus on ethnically cleansing their respective countries of non-Whites. Though anti-Semitism remains, it is ludicrous to believe that movements targeting Africans, Arabs and Gypsies would consider Jews a priority or enter into some sort of alliance with Islamists.
As it became popular to link communism with national socialism in order to mobilize public opinion against it, so too we are now exagerrating the links between Islam and fascism/national socialism, as well as the bonds between Christians and Jews i.e. "Judeo-Christian".