Obama - are you listening! Maybe you'll rethink your luncheon date with Ohsomadinejad. Shocking!

Posted by: champ at May 29, 2008 6:33 PM

G*d (not Allah, but G*d) help him. He's been in their prisons for over a year. It's surprising there's anything left to execute.

Paging Amnesty International, anyone home?

Posted by: special_guest at May 29, 2008 6:33 PM

"Dr. Fouladvand was led to believe by an agent of the Mullahs' regime posing as a monarchist activist from within Iran that there were many Iranian patriots inside Iran who believed in him, and that a meeting with them would be fruitful in organizing and uniting people inside Iran to oppose the Mullahs. On October 13, 2006, Dr. Fouladvand and a number of his friends, including the above-named men, left London for the Turkish/Iranian border. The last news of Dr. Fouladvand's whereabouts was on January
17, 2007, when he was expected to meet the supposedly Iranian activists in the Kurdish province of Hakkary in Iraq, which is close to the Iranian border.

In January 2007, the agents of the Mullahs' secret police arrested and smuggled these three men into Iran, where they were imprisoned and were subjected to torture."
-- from the article above

This is exactly the modus operandi employed by the Cheka in luring Sidney Reilly -- see the book "Reilly Ace of Spies" by Bruce Lockhart -- back into Russia across the Finnish border, which is where he was either killed, or taken away for killing later.

He was told there was a powerful group of people eager to overthrow the Soviet regime, and that he would meet with some of them. This group, called the Trest' (Trust), did not exist, or rather, it was a fiction created by the Soviet Secret Police to undo those who, from abroad, still thought there was a chance to overthrow the miserable Bolshevist dictatorship.

The Iranian government is run of, by, and for murderers. They have chosen Islam and only Islam. An Iranian who knows, who studies, who loves, who sees as a way out of the hell in which Iran has been plunged (by Khomeini, by Khomeini's most important aiders and abetters including Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Gary Sick)ever since 1979, the other Iran, the pre-Islamic Iran, or the Iran represented by those such as Firdowsi, whose patriotic pen in writing the epipc Shahnameh in Farsi helped Iran fend off the arabization of Iranian life, resisted the linguistic and cultural imperialism of the Arabs that comes, inevitably, with Islam (for Islam is and always has been a vehicle for Arab supremacism), that this kind of man, representing the very best of Iran, and the only way out of the hell-hole into which the troglodytic mullahs, offering Islam and nothing but Islam, have plunced it -- well, there should be people, and not only Iranians, marching everywhere, there should be demonstrations, and outraged articles.

But will there be?

Posted by: Hugh at May 29, 2008 6:34 PM

More on how, in 1925, the criminal Bolsheviks employed the technique used again by the criminal Mullahs:

"Trest ("the Trust") was created in 1921 by the Cheka, the original Bolshevik state security service, as a fake organisation of supposed Tsarist sympathisers, whose purpose was to identify and eliminate foreign and domestic enemies of Bolshevism. Its greatest coup was the capture in 1925 of Reilly, who was perceived by Felix Dzerzhinsky, Cheka's founder, as one of his most dangerous foes.

The Russian-born Reilly - said to have been an inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond, and later known as "the ace of spies" - was an extraordinarily colourful figure: businessman, womaniser, and inventor of bizarre schemes to overthrow the infant Soviet state. Gudz had only a modest role in his downfall, as a courier for Eduard Opperput, one of the agents who in September 1925 enticed Reilly across the Finnish border into the Soviet Union, supposedly to make contact with representatives of Trest.

Instead he was captured and taken to Moscow, where he was imprisoned at the Lubyanka prison, headquarters of the OGPU (as the Cheka was now called). There Reilly was interrogated before being shot (according to the official Soviet account) in Sokolniki park on 3 November 1925. The execution was said to have been on the personal orders of Stalin."

[excerpted from an obituary of Boris Gudz in "The Telgraph"]

Posted by: Hugh at May 29, 2008 6:41 PM

Sick Irony....

The irony of this matter is mind-blowing: Qur'an teaches murder and hatred, man speaks out about the murder and hatred, man is then hated and murdered (as instructed by the Qur'an). It's like watching the merry-go-round from hell - that has no brakes.

Posted by: champ at May 29, 2008 6:43 PM

As Tony Blankley says in his book, "The West's Last Chance" (2005), Islam is "an ideology of mass murder."

And here is this article proving the point. Along with many, many, many, others who have been murdered in the name of evil Islam.

Dr. Fouladvand - our prayers are with you.

Posted by: darcy at May 29, 2008 6:47 PM

So, he was lured by an invitation to a meeting among friends. That ladies and gents is a tried and true tactic of the Mafia. That's how Capone got Albert Anselmi and John Scalise in a banquet with "friends" where Capone bashed their heads into pieces with a shovel or a bat.

In "Goodfellas" Joe Pesci's characted was lured into a meeting where he was going to become a made member, and was summarily killed - true story of Tommy DeSimone.

Joe "The Boss" Masseria went to lunch with "his friend" Charles Luciano. Masseria was shot while Luciano was in the toilet. There's more, but y'all get the picture.

The comparisons between Islam and organized crime are too close for comfort.

Posted by: Pelayo at May 29, 2008 6:56 PM

I'm afraid that shamnesty international isn't going to be much help here. They're too busy condemning the U.S. for over feeding the prisoners at Gitmo. So where is the U.N. Human Rights council in all this? Oh yeah, investigating the U.S. for racism.

This is a tragedy in a long line of tragedies to the Iranian people perpetrated by the purveyors of the religion of peace. The same government that hanged a young girl for the heinous crime of being raped by a cab driver.

I wish I could say I was shocked to hear such a thing in our modern times of cooperation and human rights. But I'm not.

My prayers are with these fine men and their families.

Posted by: walterc at May 29, 2008 6:58 PM

What US representative would we reach out to?
Would it do any good? This is very sad and just wrong. Maybe Obama could start talking to Ahmadinijad right now...

Posted by: nyone at May 29, 2008 7:20 PM

OK - reread article. It tells me who to contact.

Posted by: nyone at May 29, 2008 7:26 PM

Perhaps Jimmy Carter can help, or that other Nobel laureate, Al Gore.

Posted by: MP at May 29, 2008 7:54 PM

The last news of Dr. Fouladvand's whereabouts was on January 17, 2007, when he was expected to meet the supposedly Iranian activists in the Kurdish province of Hakkary in Iraq, which is close to the Iranian border. In January 2007, the agents of the Mullahs' secret police arrested and smuggled these three men into Iran, where they were imprisoned and were subjected to torture.

If the article is accurate, Dr. Fouladvand, a British citizen, was kidnapped in Iraq, not Iran, and only later smuggled into Iran.

I'm sure our "good friends" and "strong allies" the Iraqis will make good on their multi-trillion dollar debt to the Westerners, and out of their gratitude for our having overthrown the evil dictator who was oppressing them, and out of their shared high value of human rights and freedom of speech, will soon get right on the phone with the Iranians to secure this man's safe release.

Or is that asking too much?

Posted by: special_guest at May 29, 2008 8:08 PM

Let us see if the "friends" and "supporters" find their way on to the Streets seeking "change". The kind that gives the UN the willies over the prospect of Unilateral US action.

Posted by: flowerknife_us at May 29, 2008 8:11 PM

One German, one British and one American citizen, all lured into Iran for kidnap by the mullahs.

So where are the leaders of these countries?

Jimmy Carter wouldn't lift a finger, since he's on the side of the mullahs.

Someone ask Barack Hussein Obama what we should do. What will he do if this happens on HIS watch, as it most surely will?

Posted by: PMK at May 29, 2008 8:19 PM

The Saudi Information Minister needs to call Tehran and show the mullahs the error of their ways. He needs to remind them that Islam prohibits killing another human being.

Posted by: PMK at May 29, 2008 8:28 PM

One more mythical "Iranian Resistance".

Pretty naive to trust any Muslim.

Posted by: profitsbeard at May 29, 2008 8:31 PM

So: it is announced that this free thinker and questioner of the Qur'an, this Persian dissident, Foroud Fouladvand, is to be executed.

Does anyone else, like me, see a pattern here? This past month or so, the Persian Muslim theocrats seem to have been especially paranoid and violent: ramping up the oppression and the accusations, cracking down on the Bahaiis, cracking down on men and women for 'un-islamic' dress, cracking down on the feminists, and arresting whole batches of Persian ex-muslim Christians from what I might call the Church of the Catacombs.

The Ayatollahs seem to be making a specially energetic effort, just lately, to 'purify' their country. Maybe the execution of Mr Fouladvand is intended to be, so to speak, the 'star turn', the piece de resistance of the spectacle of terror, demonstrating the supreme power of 'allah'.

Makes me wonder what might be happening to the remnant dhimmi Jewish community inside Persia. We haven't had, at dhimmiwatch or jihadwatch, any stories about the Persian Jews. Question: is that silence, that absence of recent stories about the Jews in Persia, when everyone else 'un-islamic' inside Persia is being targeted, a good thing or a bad thing?

The theocrats are either getting the wind up about something they fear, or they are preparing for something that they intend to try, and are setting out to 'purify' Persia ahead of it. Nothing like a whole batch of de facto human sacrifices, 'honor' murders on a national scale, lots of blood, death, pain and fear, to feed 'allah' and power up for Jihad...

You know, if you look objectively at that 'slay and be slain in the cause of allah' business in the Qur'an, it's salvation-by-murder.

The only way to be sure of entering allah's Paradise, is to ritually murder at least one other legitimate victim, preferably more than one; and if you yourself get killed in the process of carrying out the ritual murder, hey presto, you're a martyr.

If the Muslim entity is too weak to attack its non-Muslim neighbours who can provide, by their deaths at Muslim hands, the tickets-to-paradise for their jihadi murderers, then the dhimmi populations, against whom capital charges may always be trumped up, provide the backup. (Of course, if you kill too many of them at once, you run out of dhimmis to sacrifice - and thus, you don't have your non-Muslim-murderee to provide that all important ticket to paradise).

If you run out of dhimmis - as in Afghanistan, Somalia, Gaza - the seekers of allah's paradise have to fall back on killing women and fellow Muslims. After all, all one has to do is accuse them, even falsely, of those crimes that under sharia demand death, and there you go, you've got your human sacrifices for 'allah', the sacrifices that 'cleanse' the honor of the family or of the Ummah and get the killers into paradise.

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at May 29, 2008 9:22 PM

Pretty naive to trust any muslim. profitsbeard. Even muslims gotta learn, it's not a religion of peace.

Posted by: AMartinez at May 29, 2008 9:23 PM

The Islamic 'unholy' Inquisition is alive and well in Iran's Mullahood. First they threaten, if that doesn't work show instruments of torture, if that doesn't dissuade then torture, and finally if there is no recanting the 'heresy' it's execution. Will they burn him at the stake? They've gone back 500 years in time, and wallow in their primitive 7th century ideology. Keep going Mullahs, you've only got another 8 centuries backwards to get to your perfect Islamic ideal, your warlord's (pbuh) Mohammad's ignorant superstitious Cult of pure anti-freedom death of the human soul. Not a religion.

Posted by: Battle_of_Tours at May 29, 2008 9:59 PM

U.S. State Department comment form:

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Posted by: MelM at May 29, 2008 11:04 PM

I'll get O'Reilly on it tomorrow. Dr. Foroud Fouladvand is all but delivered.

Posted by: awake at May 29, 2008 11:31 PM

Amnesty International, State Department (thanks for the link, MelM!) looks like God is next...

Posted by: Abscedere at May 30, 2008 12:02 AM

and how many are killed and we don't know about them.

Awake

good luck if you can get O'Reilly on this.

Posted by: Tartine at May 30, 2008 12:17 AM

Posted by: Tartine at May 30, 2008 12:17 AM

I will almost die trying, good sir.

Posted by: awake at May 30, 2008 12:32 AM

The White House, the English Embassy and the German Embassy should be flooded with letters regarding this matter. Get all 3 candiates for the Presidency, Amnesty International and even
Jimmy Carter.
Where is big mouth Reverend Wright now?
May be the 3 men are not black enough to waist there time on a matter like this.
Jessy Jackson, Al Sharpton, these men's life are at stake, not a word that that was so upsetting, that T.V. stations talk about it for weeks.
Where are they now???
All of them should be outraged.

Posted by: Maria at May 30, 2008 12:47 AM

Meanwhile, next door in Afghanistan, a similar drama unfolds.

Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, a 23 year old Afghan student has been sentenced to death for simply printing out a Web page in which Muhammad is described as a misogynistic prophet.

The text read:

"Muhammad sinned often. Muhammad subjugated women. The Koran portrays women as if they were not quite sane. Islam is a religion that is against women.

The Koran justifies Muhammad's sins. Whenever Muhammad wanted something, he would sing a sura and claim that it was coming directly from Allah. He simply banned everything that didn't suit him and allowed the things he liked. It's a joke. This is the true face of Islam, Allah and Muhammad."

Read the full story:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,555513,00.html

Spiegel says, "Kambaksh may have overestimated his own country. Or perhaps he was deliberately pushing his luck, and maybe he was simply trying to determine how far one could go in the new Afghanistan."

He seems to have underestimated his own cult! But his courage in questioning islam in defiance of all odds and in clear risk of his life is monumental and deserves support from all those who cherish free speech and the Right to Think & to Question.

Posted by: Dunk at May 30, 2008 1:48 AM

I"ve emailed Amnesty International Sydney office about this but so far, no response. I'm an increasingly disenchanted member. They spent tens of thousands on fat little David Hicks.

Posted by: jewcat at May 30, 2008 4:27 AM

This piece shows just how true Marco Polo's words regarding the Persians - today's Iranians - are today, around 750 years after they were written in his diary:

"The Muslims in Persia are wicked and treacherous. The law which their prophet Mohamet [Muhammad] has given them lays down that any harm they may do to one who does not accept their law, and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all. And if they suffer death at the hands of Christians, they are accounted martyrs. For this reason they would be great wrongdoers, if it were not for the government. And all the other Muslims in the world act on the same principle. When they are on the point of death up comes their priest [Mullah] and asks whether they believe that Mahomet was the true messenger of God; if they answer "Yes" then he tells them that they are saved."

Marco Polo obviously got it spot on about Islam back in the 13th Century, so why on earth can't our politicians and media get it in the here and now of the 21st Century? It seems that an increase in our knowledge gets accompanied by an equal increase in our stupidity.

Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at May 30, 2008 5:45 AM

I"ve emailed Amnesty International Sydney office about this but so far, no response. I'm an increasingly disenchanted member. They spent tens of thousands on fat little David Hicks.

Thats because Amnesty International is a Leftist-infiltrated sham of an organisation that is in bed with the mad mullahs and ayatollahs, and works overtime on behalf of our enemies, but does absolutely nothing for our friends in need. This is true of all Leftist and feminist organisations. To them, Israel, the US and the entire West is the enemy, and not the tyrants and cutthroats Islam has churned out en masse over the last 1,400 years, and will continue to do so for as long as that vile death cult exists.

Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at May 30, 2008 5:54 AM

Thanks for posting this, Robert. I've just copied and pasted it to my MP, who is quite a good guy and wrote letters about Abdur Rahman two years ago.

Spirit wrote that Marco Polo wrote:

For this reason they would be great wrongdoers, if it were not for the government.

Can't help thinking Muslims could use that to argue in favour of the return of the Caliphate. 'See? It's the only thing that kept us under control!'

WSW

Posted by: Wild Slutty Womens at May 30, 2008 7:21 AM

Marco Polo lived in a Europe that recognized Islam and its practitioners for what they were. The 13th century? The Crusades were yesterday for them. Even Spain was still in Islam's grip.

What's remarkable is that Marco Polo was even able to make that journey, through enemy territory, all the way to China. But then again, Constantinople hadn't yet fallen to the Turks.

Posted by: PMK at May 30, 2008 8:34 AM

I've just emailed the british embassy in Tehran.

http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1017170895239

If everyone floods their inbox it may make the chinless swines take notice.

My thoughts are with the good doctor and his colleagues.

Posted by: ovinesongs at May 30, 2008 10:03 AM

Poor Dr Foroud, at the mercy (???) of judges whose notions of justice make Lavrenti Beria look like Lord Denning. The persons at Jihad Watch better not fall into similar traps.

Posted by: Hedgehog at May 30, 2008 10:36 AM

Marco Polo lived in a Europe that recognized Islam and its practitioners for what they were. The 13th century? The Crusades were yesterday for them. Even Spain was still in Islam's grip.

The Crusades were still ongoing during Marco Polo's time in the 1250's, and lasted until around 1290. The Crusades did slow down the Jihad by 200 years, and enabled the Renaissance in Western Europe, and the necessary advances in military technology and organisation to take place before Vienna was besieged in 1529.

Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at May 30, 2008 12:47 PM

Poor Dr Foroud, at the mercy (???) of judges whose notions of justice make Lavrenti Beria look like Lord Denning. The persons at Jihad Watch better not fall into similar traps.

That lot make Torquemada look like Lord Denning.

Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at May 30, 2008 12:50 PM

Spirit Of 1683,
Thanks for the correction. I got my dates wrong.

Posted by: PMK at May 30, 2008 2:13 PM

In the past, Iranian agents would have tracked down these "agitators" and killed them. I guess they decided against it. They guessed it would be easier to quietly kidnap them. I'm stunned that none of these men sensed a set-up.

I'm also stunned that this is the first I've heard of it.

Posted by: Bingo at May 30, 2008 7:49 PM

ovinesong, to which department did you communicate?

Posted by: imamerican at May 30, 2008 10:12 PM

imamerican

I sent emails to all departments and headed them

"For the urgent attention of Geoffery Adams"

Adams is the British Ambassador in Tehran and although I know little about him he will most probably be a New Labour marxist throw back and about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike..

Regards

Posted by: ovinesongs at May 31, 2008 8:11 AM