Yvonne Ridley
The below New York Times article reports the hanging of two more protesters by the Iranian regime:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/world/middleeast/02iran.html
It is not just the despicable mullahs who run Iran that should hang their heads in shame. It is their apologists in the West. I am thinking about apologists like Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist who works for Iran's English-language Press TV. She's the one who is always attacking Israel and hanging out with radical Muslims in the UK who want to bring in shariah law. Of course, I have already asked Ms Ridley on this blog what she has to say about the repressive Iranian regime, but she won't respond. (I know she has read this site because she once commented on it.) Where is she now-in hiding? So tell me, Ms Ridley-while Israel is digging survivors out of the rubble in Haiti, your pals in Iran are hanging 19-year-old youths who dared to protest fraudulent elections. Are you not embarrassed?
I am also thinking of that ignorant fraud who calls himself an imam-Clarence Reams aka Abdul Alim Musa. Like Ridley, he has also spoken on our campus at UC-Irvine-guest of the Muslim Student Union. Like Ridley, he is an open supporter of the Iranian regime.
Clarence Reams-aka Abdul Alim Musa
Where is he? Oh, he is talking about how American police and FBI are "murdering" Muslims in America.
While I am at it, I might ask where the gay activists are since Iran is now virtually gay-free-according to Ahmadinejad. And no wonder! In Iran, being gay is a capital crime-punishable by death- as a Muslim chaplain at Vanderbilt University has just confirmed. So where are the voices of the gay activists?
Well, you see, they have to moot their criticism here because they don't want to offend Islam. That's why people like me (who oppose gay marriage) get called "homophobe" while those who preach death to homosexuals get a free pass. If you are a real homophobe who goes out and beats a gay to death such as Matthew Shepherd, it's news. But if you do it in the name of Islam, well, that's a different story, you see.
So where are you people? Where are you, Ridley? Where are you, Reams/Musa? Where is the gay lobby?
In all fairness, I think that gay people in America are more concerned with things like gay marriage and things like the Matthew Shepherd incident because it affects them directly. They're fighting for their rights in their own country, and what's happening in Iran might seem like another battle for another time.
ReplyDeleteLance,
ReplyDeleteThat is sad because in Europe, gays are indeed being targeted for harassment, intimidation and assault. There are voices calling for shariah law in UK. We already have honor killings in the US and forced female genital circumcision behind closed doors in Europe.
Women and gays better wake up because it may start affecting them here in the near future.
Unfortunately, you might be right.
ReplyDeleteI am right.
ReplyDeleteI was referring to when you wrote, "Women and gays better wake up because it may start affecting them here in the near future."
ReplyDeleteUnless you've got some crystal ball...?