Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Hezbollah

Thursday, 21st February 2008

David T links to an ad for this rally.  The speakers are a fascinating bunch:

Ibrahim Mousawi, Editor of Hizbollah newspaper Al-Intiqad

Hassan Jumaa, Iraqi oil workers’ leader

Tony Benn, Former MP

Lindsey German Convenor, Stop The War Coalition

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Journalist

As David writes:
Mousawi...is billed on the poster, in English, as the "Editor of Hizbollah newspaper Al-Intiqad".

However, in Arabic, Mousawi is described as "Editor of Magazine "Intiqad" and spokesperson for Hizbullah".

And his headline asks a pertinent question: 
Why Hasn't Gordon Brown Banned "Hizbollah Spokesperson" From the United Kingdom 
But there's another aspect to this: the presence of the last-named speaker. 

Let's be charitable and assume that Ms Alibhai-Brown is too ignorant to know - or too lazy to find out - who her fellow panellist, Mousawi, is. Perhaps she simply liked the sound of the name World Against War. 

Well she can be in no doubt now. Ibrahim Mousawi is the spokesman for a gang of murderous Islamist terrorists. 

We'll find out on Thursday week what kind of woman Ms Alibhai-Brown really is. If she pulls out of the meeting now that she knows who Mousawi is, credit to her.

If, on the other hand, she is happy to share a platform with Hizbollah's official spoksman, then we will truly have the measure of the woman.

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