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?
Does he stop people blogging?
well said.
Thanks Tal.
Yes, Lynne, he has long clamped down on dissenting bloggers. So it’s interesting that many Western bloggers support him.
Oh piss off
the left are hypocritical with unflagging consistency. name a dictator they don’t support tacitly, if not outright.
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.
They are indeed often one and the same, PZ.
no links to these bloggers?