Date: 12 May 2010
Another example of brutal and bloody Islam comes from IRAN: ////////////// In a message dated 12/05/2010 09:08:05 GMT Standard Time, m.namazie@ukonline.co.uk writes:////////// Today, my work has just begun,’ mother of executed political prisoner, Farzad Kamangar///////////// ‘If we stay silent, these executions will continue,’ Mohammad Amin Kamangar, brother of executed political prisoner Farzad Kamangar ////////// In the early hours of Sunday 9 May 2010, the Islamic regime of Iran executed political prisoners Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alam-Houli and Mehdi Eslamian. The four young men and one woman were executed for their political opposition to the regime. Farzad Kamangar was a teacher and human rights activist who was arrested in 2006 and charged with ‘enmity against God’ in a ‘trial’ that lasted seven minutes. Mehdi Islamian was arrested on May 4, 2009 and spent six months in solitary confinement; his brother has also been executed. Shirin Alam Hooli was arrested in May 2008 in Tehran and sentenced to death in November 2009. Ali Heydarian and Farhad Vakili were imprisoned since 2006/2007. ///////////// The sentences were carried out in secret, without their families or lawyers being informed, and despite the fact that three of the cases were under review. The Islamic regime has refused to hand over the bodies of the dead unless their families guarantee that there will be no protests in Iran and abroad. ////////////// Since yesterday, thousands have gathered in protests at the Islamic Republic’s embassies and consulates in various cities across the globe. In London, Paris and Frankfurt angry demonstrators pelted the buildings with eggs, red paint and stones. The families of the five had called for a demonstration outside Tehran University in Iran on Monday 10 May, which was attacked by the regime’s security forces. On May 13 a general strike has been called in Iranian Kurdistan and elsewhere. Many are expected to join this day of protest. //////// Iran Solidarity is outraged at the executions of the five political prisoners as well as the recent execution of 45 Afghan immigrants in Iran and calls on people everywhere to stand in protest against executions in Iran and everywhere by joining the May 13 general strike and ongoing protests at the regime’s embassies or consulates or by carrying out acts of solidarity against executions wherever they are. Another 27 political prisoners are at imminent risk of execution and need public support. ///////////// Farzad Kamangar’s mother recently said: ‘If anyone can do anything, please do. Do not let them execute youngsters en masse. You and the world shall be my defence. Please let the world hear my plea.’ ///////////// Notes: ////////////// 1. You can find out about protests in various cities on the Iran Solidarity blog. You can also add your protests here: http://iransolidarity.blogspot.com/ /////////// 2. Join us on 20 June 2010 in London and across the world to break that silence and take a stand against Sharia law and Islamism and in defence of universal rights and secularism. June 20 is particularly poignant because it is the first anniversary of Neda Agha-Soltan’s extra-judicial execution in broad daylight by the Islamic regime of Iran at a protest there. Like Neda, all Farzad Kamangar and the others wanted was freedom. You can find out more about the rally in Trafalgar Square here: ///////////// http://iransolidarity.org.uk/events.html ////////// 3. Support Iran Solidarity and its demands by signing up to our petition: http://iransolidarity.org.uk/iscommit/iscom186.php?nr=97158834&lang=en. //////////// 4. Join our daily acts of solidarity with the people of Iran. Since Monday July 27, we have organised acts of solidarity EVERY SINGLE DAY. It is easy to join in – just videotape or photograph yourself doing something and send it to us to upload to our blog. You can see other acts here: http://iransolidarity.blogspot.com/ ///////////// 5. Set up Iran Solidarity groups in your neighbourhoods, workplaces, universities and cities. So far we have groups in Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden and the UK. Like the solidarity committees during the anti-apartheid era, these committees can be instrumental but we need many more in every city in the world for that to happen. ////////////// 6. For more information or to send in your daily acts of solidarity, contact://///////// Maryam Namazie///////////// Iran Solidarity BM Box 2387 London WC1N 3XX, UK Tel: +44 (0) 7719166731 iransolidaritynow@gmail.com www.iransolidarity.org.uk ////////////// ----------------------- RESPONSE TO ABOVE: ///////////// Our heart bled on reading the account of barbaric execution of these YOUNG people who had all life ahead of them. ///////////// When someone is short on reason, logic or argument, he goes for KILLING. The Government of ISLAMIC Iran falls in this category. //////////// Islam is nothing but BRAINWASHING & CONDITIONING of human minds. Just see the statement of those who support this ugly FASCISM, "Killing ONE innocent person is like killing entire mankind." You must have heard it, too. But in reality such killings amount to KILLING THE ENTIRE MANKIND MANY TIMES OVER. //////////// I wish to express my highest appreciation for YOU to act so bravely for the sake of Truth and saving lives. Most people would read this just like another story but your heart is pure Iranian and therefore you feel the anguish. Be sure: there are many righteous thinking people behind you. I am one of them. ///////////// My support for BNP was for NO other reason but revulsion on the brutality of ISLAM that is practised by the Government of Iran and the role of ISLAM in giving India her brutal and bloody PARTITION. ///////////// I join you in condemning this savage act and MORE SO, I wish that this IMMORAL AND BRUTAL Government is replaced very soon by one based on the teachings of Zoroashtra, the great Saint and Seer of Iran. ///////////// Iran isn't an Arab nation and, unlike most Arab Muslim nations, it has a pre-Islamic past which is arguably grander and more important than its Islamic history. This has been a source of embarrassment to Iranian mullahs who believe that there is nothing of value outside of Islam, but it may becoming more appealing to Iran's huge youth population ///////////// 12 May 10//////////////////// ============ 000000000