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This is a guest post by DaveM

Once you step outside Hezbollah’s core constituency …

… you can pretty much split its non-Islamist supporters into two broad camps.
The first group either have absolutely no idea what Hezbollah really stands for or desperately want them to be something else which can be shoehorned into their own ideological framework.
Hezbollah [...]

The Centre for Social Cohesion and Nothing British have today released a new report entitled Blood & Honour: Britain’s Far-Right Militants (PDF).
The culmination of six months’ work by Edmund Standing and Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, the report highlights the extremist ideology promoted by the ‘Blood & Honour’ international neo-Nazi movement and offers a number of recommendations, including [...]

The International Committee of the Scottish Socialist Party reports the news that Scotland’s legal autonomy is at an inglorious end after more than a thousand years of existence. A self-governing system of law jealously guarded after the 1707 Act of Union with England – then one of the most politically and commercially potent countries in Europe – [...]

The quotations below are from Ken Livingstone and were reported in the Observer in June 1987.
Paul of Tarsus was the Stalin of the Christian Church.
On Ronald Reagan
somewhere between a psychopath and a ham actor. He is very dangerous.
On Rupert Murdoch
He is an animal and we should put him on a boat and deport him.
Source:
Simon de Bruxelles, [...]

“Amnesty International has done its reputation incalculable damage by allying itself with Moazzam Begg and his group Cageprisoners, and holding them up as human rights advocates. It looks very much as if Amnesty’s leadership is suffering from a kind of moral bankruptcy, and has lost the ability to distinguish right from wrong.”
Read on here.

Because Andy Newman is active in Respect, a coalition between George Galloway’s ego and some very nasty fascists associated with Jamaat-e-Islami he now needs to justify theocratic politics.
But Max Dunbar has his number:

‘What we cannot do as atheists is assume that the evolution of moral and ethical viewpoints within our own society can be regarded [...]

This is a guest post by Joseph Weissman
This past week, ABC News reported the arrest of Ayatollah Khomeini’s granddaughter Zahra Eshraghi, along with her reformist husband Mohamed Reza Khatami.
In direct relation to this news, illustrated with a photo alongside Hassan Khomeini guarding a copy of his book on Christian Zionism, Stephen Sizer comments:
Two years ago I took part [...]

Bnar Talabani is the President of Cardiff University MedSoc. She was born into a Kurdish family in Kirkuk.
Read her story here:
“I have always been honest about my past, and whatever the audience, my story has always been well received. Britain is my home – it’s where I grew up. Although Kurdistan has played a huge [...]

Southall Black Sisters have won secularist of the year:
Receiving the award on behalf of the SBS was its Director, Pragna Patel. Pragna gave a very moving acceptance speech in which she commented: “If you had asked me 20 years ago what one of the biggest struggles would be in 2010, I would not have said [...]

Here’s some more top notch analysis from the Palestine Telegraph.
On 9/11:
We all know that we went to war in both Iraq and Afghanistan for reasons other than those given. Both wars were planned well in advance (at least 6 months) and it was just a matter of time for the leaders on both sides of [...]