An anti-dhimmitude protest. From World Net Daily, with thanks to EPG and RB:
About 90 police officers removed 56 Iranian activists from an airplane at the Brussels airport after a 15-hour standoff in protest of Western accommodation of Tehran's cleric-led Islamic regime.The activists, who refused to disembark a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt yesterday, were in cell phone contact with an Iranian scholar and activist in London who runs a TV station out of his home, Frood Fouladvand.
The protesters, according to Fouladvand, were chanting: "We are the
messengers of peace. We are against global terrorism. We will remove the malignant terrorist regime of the Mullahs."...
Its these brave protesters who don the true mantle of 'anti-establishment "courage" ' today, not the radical leftie-leftovers of the woodstock era. They deserve every ounce of our support.
True, the Bush doctrine's democratization priorities may well lead to some anti-US democratic regimes in the mideast, at worst they'd be no worse than the present set of mendacious autocrats.
However, the upside is that its far more likely that an open society of sorts - with a free press to boot- will follow and it'll be increasingly difficult to brainwash entire populations on anti-americanism in an open society. People are in general, more willing to accept responsibility for their situation in democracies than they are in autocracies. There lies the big difference.
This is akin to the roundup of Iranian anti-Islamic Republic exiles by the French police during the past year or so. The French, who throughout the 1970s provided Aytatollah Khomeini with a refuge at Neauphle-le-chateau , from which he sent his audiocassettes Iran-wards, with the results we all know, and which failed singularly to protect a number of prominent exiles who were murdered (including Shahpour Bakhtiar, during World War II a member of the French Resistance), has a lot to answer for.
One hopes that after the current Iranian regime has been overthrown, that memories of this appeasement will remain, and those who were inflexibly opposed to the theocracy be rewarded, and those who appeased be punished.
Hugh wrote:
"The French, who throughout the 1970s provided Aytatollah Khomeini with a refuge at Neauphle-le-chateau , from which he sent his audiocassettes Iran-wards, with the results we all know, and which failed singularly to protect a number of prominent exiles who were murdered (including Shahpour Bakhtiar, during World War II a member of the French Resistance), has a lot to answer for."
Shapour Bakhtiar was murdered by a Killer who cut his head off. Look at that stringency of archaic ritual murder 20 years ago and the ongoing beheadings today in Serbia, Chechnya, Iraq and Algeria, where GIA beheaded hundreds of persons and killed tens of thousand, let alone in the history of Islam.
It's official folks,CAIR and Mr.Hooper now declare the Sunni's in Iraq aren't part of Islam as true Muslims,the recent press release is a carbon copy of CAIR's usual diatribe ever since the 911 attack by 19 Muslims.
http://www.cair-net.org/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=1483&theType=NR
CAIR has the nerve to define what a "True" Muslim is and CAIR speaks for only 0.00084 percent of the workds Muslim population.
Mr.Hooper just doesn't get it,he may be the one that's got it all wrong and the 99.99916 percent
outside America ARE the real Muslims following the Quran and teachings from Muhammed.
"Pay no attention to that Prophet behind the curtain", I..I..am the great Allah,all knowing,all seeing and all powefull.
First: What beheadings in serbia ?
Secondly: The Iranian protestors wanted the Iranian Monarchy back and EU stopping its support for Iran ("the Evil of all evils").
Defacto Hijacking an airbus for that...is not the way to do it.
Of course hijacking an airplane is wrong. But how else do you get your protest heard in a state where news from Muslim countries is no news?
Briggs,
beheadings of serbians.