Welcome to the Iranian Worker-Communist Movement, Dr. Ulfkotte!

My blogger-friend (and Ulfkotte advocacy victim) Jochen Hoff from Berlin had a big Scoop, this 10th of October!

The German maverick anti-Islam professor Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, who is working hard, to get racist ideas accepted into European mainstream political parties, is desperately seeking a "third position" between the European extreme right and the left who are criminally "soft on Islamism".

That made our Professor Faustus fall into the trap of a rather obscure "worker-communist" Iranian Party in exile.

Did Ulfkotte make a misjudgment again, like last year, when he allied with extreme right wing separatists (Vlaams Belang)? Or, is he preparing the Citizens Movement Pax Europa, which he presides, to convert to workers councils' communism?

Mina Ahadi,

is well known in Germany as representative of the "Central Council of Former Muslims". She is also a leading member of the "Workers-Communist party of Iran" (WCPI). This party is in exile all over the world. In 2006, it started an international petition against "US Imperialism" as well as "Islamic Terrorism", positioning itself as a "Third Camp".

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Willkommen bei den iranischen Rätekommunisten, Herr Ulfkotte! [DE]

Da hat Jochen Hoff am 10. Oktober einen Riesen-Scoop!

Ulfkotte hat entweder (wieder) eine grossartige politische Fehleinschatzung gemacht, oder ... hat er jetzt den Rätekommunismus umarmt?

Mina Ahadi,

die man hier neben Ulfkotte sieht während der "Kritischen Islam Konferenz" am 12. September in Köln, und nochmals, am 19. September bei der ulfkotteschen "Massendemonstration" der "Dritten Kraft" gegen braunen Rechtsextremen UND gegen linken Verrätern die der "Herrschaftsanspruch des Islams" beigetreten seien, diese Frau Mina Ahadi also, ist eine Hauptvertreterin der iranischen "Arbeiterkommunisten" die im Iran eine Arbeiter-Räterepublik gründen möchten. Eine kleine-, im Exil lebende, Bewegung, die in den meisten westlichen Ländern vertreten ist.

Antireligiöser Rätekommunismus

Mir ist die ideologische Gesinnung der "Arbeiterkommunisten" eher sympathisch. Obwohl Anhänger von Marx und Lenin, sind diese Arbeiterkommunisten (im Gegensatz zu den Salonkommunisten der Tudeh von Teheran) alles anderes als Massenmordheuchler, wie die Stalinisten.

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Ethnic cleansing made the violence fall in Iraq [EN]

Why was the "Iraq Surge" a "success"?
Juan Cole explains it once again:

A crucial element in the fall of violence from the catastrophic levels of summer,2006, was the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad of its Sunnis. I wrote in mid-July:

"As best I can piece it together, what actually seems to have happened was that the escalation troops began by disarming the Sunni Arabs in Baghdad. Once these Sunnis were left helpless, the Shiite militias came in at night and ethnically cleansed them. Shaab district near Adhamiya had been a mixed neighborhood. It ended up with almost no Sunnis. Baghdad in the course of 2007 went from 65% Shiite to at least 75% Shiite and maybe more. My thesis would be that the US inadvertently allowed the chasing of hundreds of thousands of Sunni Arabs out of Baghdad (and many of them had to go all the way to Syria for refuge). Rates of violence declined once the ethnic cleansing was far advanced, just because there were fewer mixed neighborhoods. Newsrack was among the first to make this argument, though I was tracking the ethnic cleansing at my blog throughout 2007. See also Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post on this issue.". . .

As Think Progress pointed out,the Washington Post illustrated Karen DeYoung's important article with a clear ethnic map showing the ethnic cleansing:


The point is not that there are no Sunni enclaves left in Baghdad, only that there are many fewer such enclaves, and that many formerly mixed neighborhoods are now entirely Shiite. In fact, this ethnic cleansing is among the major reason that the some 4 million Iraqis displaced internally and externally by Bush's war refuse to return. They have nothing to return to. The mixed or Sunni neighborhoods from which the Sunnis among them escaped no longer exist. A fourth of the Iraqi refugees in Jordan have, moreover, had a child kidnapped. Even if the child was returned, the family is not going to risk returning.

The Americans built walls in the city, isolating neighbourhoods, with Israeli help. Now, the Sunni exode is worrying the US, and it prepares to crush the Shia. Starting with the Sadr movement. But Sadr hides his fighters among the population. A clash with mainstream Shia politicians and - paramilitary bands is looming.

In my earlier post, I also quoted this:

"As Think Progress quoted CNN correspondent Michael Ware:

' The sectarian cleansing of Baghdad has been — albeit tragic — one of the key elements to the drop in sectarian violence in the capital. […] It’s a very simple concept: Baghdad has been divided; segregated into Sunni and Shia enclaves. The days of mixed neighborhoods are gone. […] If anyone is telling you that the cleansing of Baghdad has not contributed to the fall in violence, then they either simply do not understand Baghdad or they are lying to you.'

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McCain and ideologues such as Fred Kagan must deny or ignore the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad and other areas, and ignore the millions of Iraqis now living abroad or in other provinces, many of them in dire straits, because their Rambo complex forces them to insist that an extra 30,000 US troops, inserted for 16 months, made all the difference.

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Inval in Irak "opdracht van God"? [NL]

Updated on 10-09-2008 by Huib

U weet het, ik voel me niet in de eerste plaats bevoegd en bereid om allerlei onzin over God te weerleggen. Maar er zijn grenzen. De Republikeinse kandidate voor het vice-presidentschap van de V.S., Sarah Palin, haalt God erbij, om Amerikaanse recruten op te jagen, om het smerige werk in Irak te doen, en in één moeite door, om milieuvervuilende pijpleidingen aan te leggen...

Ze is helaas niet de eerste, noch de enige: de huidige president Bush antwoordde op een vraag van The New York Times, of hij wel eens naar zijn vader, de voormalige president Bush, luisterde, dat zijn "vader" niet van deze wereld is, doch dat hem dagelijks influisteringen van god de vader bereikten, die hem leidden.

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