Saint Julian Assange

Famous feminist Naomi Wolf has a hunch that Saint Julian could not possibly have abused two Swedish women. Therefore he hasn't and is the victim of a smear generated by those fiendish Yankees.
If Saint Julian is innocent why is he not simply going back to Sweden to clear his name ?

Meanwhile the two women are being pilloried. I might be wrong but I suspect that Saint Julian is fighting extradition in the not unreasonable expectation that, with a bit more time, the continuing vilification of the women will be enough to make them withdraw their allegations.

Perhaps John Pilger and Jemima Khan, who hopefully consider rape a serious matter, might have a quiet word in the saintly ear.

Having said this about Saint Julian, I would like to make it quite clear that I approve of leaks where they do not endanger lives. It is amusing to note for instance that Saint Julian who sees the US as the Great Satan has probably scored countless own goals; the reports of US diplomats back to the State Department reflect very well their honesty and professionalism. Thus who, in the Great Club of Appeasers, could find fault with the restraint shown by the US when it is being continuously urged by the likes of Saudi Arabia to decapitate the Iranian Serpent? Wonderful stuff!

Aisha after the Taliban and then After the Americans.

A bit of good news for a change. Below is what Aisha, not her real name, looked like when the good Islamic Taliban leader allowed her husband to cut off her nose and ears and leave her for dead.



This is what she looks like now after being taken in care by the Grossman Burn Foundation in California. The GBF, which amongst other humanitarian activities supports the fight against the abuse of women, has given Aisha a prosthetic nose and will in time operate on her to permanently reconstruct her nose and ears.

Belles in Bras on Streets of Kandahar Sponsored by Taliban.

Wouldn't that be great? Well for the moment we will have to be content with seeing it at the Notting Hill Carnival. Nice sunny day. One shooting on last night.

Mayor Bloomberg; Admirer of Islam.

Bloomberg wrote in the London Times that anyone can open a place of worship anywhere( In the West )*; correct. He also said that Islam had nothing to do with the New York bombings; wrong. For the record here is my reply to the Times. Not published but here nonetheless in its modest way in the public domain.

Sir, Mayor Bloomberg ( 7 Aug ) was wrong to assert that Islam had nothing to do with the Twin Towers bombings. The bombers were Muslim and their support from the Islamic community may have been small but it was not insignificant. To plan an opening of a mosque on the anniversary of the atrocity and on its doorstep shows a lack of sensitivity that will do nothing to repair Islam's tarnished image.
Something more fitting, perhaps, would be to dedicate the buildings funding to a reform of Islam that would preclude the inspiration of acts of violence.


* Try opening a non-Muslim place of worship in a Muslim country! Don't even think about it.

The Betrayal of Afghan Women. Aisha and the Degenerate Taliban.

Now days the talk in Afghanistan is of negotiation with the Taliban. When, quite soon, NATO and its allies withdraw from the country, the Taliban will return to power or at the very least be partners in some frightfully corrupt and flaky governing coalition. When this happens, the thousands of dead and crippled Westerners and Afghans and the trillions of dollars spent will simply have taken the country and in particular all its women back to the degenerate stone age of the Taliban tyranny. In the Taliban hell, women (denied all education or rights) are there to be abused, mutilated and murdered at will. This will happen because when all is said and done most Afghan men rather like the Taliban way of doing things.

For trying to escape from a marriage where she was beaten and lived in fear of her life, Aisha above, was taken at night from her village in Uruzgan and dragged into the woods where she was condemned by the good Muslim local Taliban commander and mullah to have her nose and ears cut off. This was done with alacrity by her inlaws with her husband wielding the knife. She was left for dead but managed to survive*. This is institutionalised barbarism. This is again Islam. This is the Taliban.

*Thanks to Time magazine and others, Aisha will go to America for reconstructive surgery. Very few female victims of this deplorable society will be so lucky.

Cameron, Turkey and the EU.

Cameron has been blustering about how the EU must accept Turkey and French and German opposition must be reversed. Well no and here's my letter to the Financial Times on his intervention.

Sir, The elephant in the room for the Prime Minister, the FT,the Americans and others who are demanding that Turkey be admitted to the EU is the fact that Turkey is Islamic. Contrary to the claims of the Prime Minister, Islam is not compatible with true democracies as it does not accept the West's hard won freedoms of expression and conscience or the equal rights of women and homosexuals. It is the belief that these freedoms and social cohesion itself would be imperiled by the admission of 80 or more million Turkish Muslims that will sway the French and the Austrians when they vote in referenda on the issue and bring to nothing the Prime Minister's huffing and puffing.

The Turks are a hard working and enterprising people and they would profit hugely from the generous Special Economic Partnership on offer from Germany and France. They do not need a more intimate relationship and nor do we.

In the sphere of international political and military alliances, there is absolutely no reason why Turkey outside the EU should not remain a good friend. Both sides have enjoyed this friendship, why would that change?

Sakine Mohamadi Ashtiani Day. 24th July 2010. London, Trafalgar Square.

This was part of an international day of protests organised to publicize the case of Sakine who has received 99 lashes and has spent the last 5 years in prison waiting to be executed for adultery. Originally condemned to death by stoning, the international outcry means that she will now probably be hung instead. Maryam Namazie, above, organised yesterday's protest. It was sunny and a lot more signatures were added to the petition demanding that Sakine be set free and that stoning be banned in Iran and the Islamic world in general. A shrouded woman enacted a stoning.
Main link for more information is at the Sakine Campaign.