The reaction of the UK blogging community to the rigged Iranian election has been fascinating in some cases. Many on the ‘left’ who usually frequently post about Iran have remained strangely silent about the scandal. Others have actually come out in sympathy or even support for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a “hero” and the like.
Some questions for them:
1) Ahmadinejad has for years brutally clamped down on Iranian bloggers. Why do you think you should be able to blog freely but that Iranian people should be denied the same privilege?
2) What first attracted you to the Jew-hating, Shoah-denying, second holocaust-planning, woman-stoning, dissenter-torturing, gay-executing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
3) With friends like you do the Iranian people really need enemies?
Lynne
Does he stop people blogging?
20 June 2009 at 8:28 AM
Tal
well said.
20 June 2009 at 8:46 AM
Chas Newkey-Burden
Thanks Tal.
Yes, Lynne, he has long clamped down on dissenting bloggers. So it’s interesting that many Western bloggers support him.
20 June 2009 at 8:56 AM
Anon
Oh piss off
20 June 2009 at 10:13 AM
re Semblance
the left are hypocritical with unflagging consistency. name a dictator they don’t support tacitly, if not outright.
20 June 2009 at 9:04 PM
Proud Zionist
Wow, Anon must be an Ahmadinejad supporter and can’t think of a way to answer your questions without sounding like a douche.
Many of Ahmadinejad’s Western supporters are probably that ‘human rights’ lot that also support Hamas but don’t realise that Hamas (and Ahmadinejad) couldn’t care less about the human rights of their people.
20 June 2009 at 11:30 PM
Chas Newkey-Burden
They are indeed often one and the same, PZ.
21 June 2009 at 6:41 AM
garry
no links to these bloggers?
22 June 2009 at 10:24 AM