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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran hardliners threaten to kill exile TV man
2005-01-21
A hardline Iranian religious group threatened on Wednesday to carry out suicide attacks on a UK-based Iranian exile TV presenter, saying his broadcasts were inflammatory and insulted Islamic values. Mojtaba Bigdeli, the spokesman of Iran's Hizbollah group, said the British government must ban the satellite channel run by Iranian exiles within 30 days or face the consequences. "After one month, our commandos will carry out suicide attacks in London against the shameless presenter of the channel," Bigdeli told Reuters by telephone.
I'd call this significant. Here's an Iranian government-sponsored band of fascisti threatening a government. Now, to me, it would seem that Iran would be held accountable for the actions of the Sturmabteilung...
He said his group was independent of Lebanon's Hizbollah, which analysts say receives training and financing from Iran.
But they do receive their training and financing from the Iranian government. They're the thugs who're used to suppress the students when they try and break out of their straightjackets...
Farsi language Ma-TV presenter Manouchehr Fouladvand's comments, mocking the Prophet Muhammad and Islam's holy book the Koran, have spurred several hardline commentators in Iran to demand his death. "He has crossed our red lines by insulting our prophet and Islamic values," Bigdeli said. British embassy officials in Tehran were not immediately available for comment. Previously they had criticised Fouladvand's views while defending his right to free speech.
Yesterday it was Rushdie, today Fouladvand, tomorrow who? Murder is their business.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Bulldog,
I stand corrected about Rushdie.

Neverthless, IMHO this Fatwa thing has got to be stopped now irrespective of the harsh means needed to do it.
Posted by: EoZ   2005-01-21 2:05:25 PM  

#8  Rushdie lives in New York now, EoZ! And he was making public appearances in London for years whilst under 'fatwa'.

Don't disagree with you as regards deporting the Islamic malcontents though.
Posted by: Bulldog   2005-01-21 1:55:56 PM  

#7  Bulldog,
You're so wrong about Rushdie, mate !
Rushdie is still hiding, and I believe that he is still alive only because the police and secret services hid him away.
The mere fact that he cannot freely and openly walk the streets of London is a tremendous insult to the British people who so generously and naively accepted millions of Moslems into their country with no questions asked.
What is needed is an iron hand with internal Islamics as well as with al the nitwit Mullahs who issue such Fatwas.
The British should start using strict countermeasures by officially Harassing and deporting Islamic warmongers among them and by unequivocal active punitive measures against countries who harbour Fatwa initiators.

The secret is : Hit them where it hurts most !
Posted by: EoZ   2005-01-21 1:48:29 PM  

#6  Blair will quite rightly tell these thugs where they can shove their fatwas, I'm sure. These incompetent morons tried the same shit with Rushdie and proved themselves to be all mouth, no trousers.

But he'll still try to ingratiate himself with Chirac and Schroeder, as he feels is his duty as a good EUrophile.
Posted by: Bulldog   2005-01-21 1:35:16 PM  

#5  I think you've put your finger on the sensitive spot, EoZ.

Now we find out if Blair and his Band of Libs believe in true Liberal Freedom - or are the usual paper (mache) tigers -or worse. His actions in Iraq gave him immense status here in the US. The pasting he took at home told us that they are under the thumb of deluded dhimmitude. Can he wake them up, educate them that their claimed ideology demands support for the Persian people against their oppressors, or will he continue the ineffective pathetic appeasement of the E3 - being Chirac's lap poodle, as it were. Our RB UK Cousins could certainly use some support.

Bush has just put Blair and all of the razorblade riders on the spot.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-21 1:17:05 PM  

#4  If this ain't a Casus Beli for the Brits then I've never seen one in my life.
It's high time somebody cuts the hand that writes those Fatwas.
Personally I wouldn't mind if the British invade Lebanon, at least the logistics look much better than they were for the Falkland Islands :)
But then again, Blair is not Thatcher, is he ??
Posted by: EoZ   2005-01-21 1:05:00 PM  

#3  Haven't they successfully executed such executions before? Like the Bulgarians and their ricin-tipped umbrellas?
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-01-21 11:37:03 AM  

#2  They live in their own reality...
Posted by: Fred   2005-01-21 10:26:25 AM  

#1  oh how Iran needs a reality check.
Posted by: Chase Unomotch9553   2005-01-21 9:39:18 AM  

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