Quds day in Berlin
Aug 31st, 2011By Kayvan Kaboli, 8.31.2011
Iranian regime’s annual anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli ceremony, the Al-Quds Day, was held in Berlin on Saturday August 27. Al-Quds Day was initiated by Khomeini 33 years ago after the revolution, calls upon all Muslims to demonstrate their anger and hostility against the Jewish State on last Friday of Ramadan.
In Berlin, every year Islamic fundamentalists, mostly connected to the Iranian regime’s embassy and Hezbollah, organize a rally to show their support of Tehran and hatred of Israel. Ironically, this year again, the non-Iranian descents, mostly Arabs and Turks who take part in this event outnumbered Iranians overwhelmingly.
On the same day, another crowd confronted Islamists and tried to send a different message. The German special anti-riot forces with full equipments separated Islamic fundamentalist from the opponents who responded to the Stop The Bomb’s call to show the danger of radical Islam not only to Israel but to the region and the whole world. Stop The Bomb is a European non-partisan watchdog group that monitors the Iranian regime’s nuclear and fundamentalist activities in Germany and pushes for sanctions against the Iranian regime.
Dr. Kazem Moussavi, the leader of Green Party of Iran in Germany, was the only Iranian speaker in this counter rally opposing fundamentalists commemorating Al-Quds. As reported by Jerusalem Post, ” Dr. Moussavi, a leading Iranian dissident in Germany who fled the Islamic Republic because of political repression, delivered an extensive analysis on the situation of Iran’s domestic crackdown to the pro-Israel demonstrators. He said the “entire situation is already a catastrophe and scarcely manageable. Every eight hours an opponent of the regime is hanged, every hour 80 people are kidnapped, tortured and raped.”
Dr. Moussavi continued his speech pointing to the Arab Spring, “recent uprisings in the Arab world demonstrate the fact that Israel is not the enemy of people in the Middle East but these are dictators who slaughter their own people and fortunately from Egypt to Libya, people are becoming free. They are getting rid of dictators and anti-Semitic thoughts”
He criticized western countries specially the US that did not support the Iranian people when they confronting the regime during the 2009-2010 uprising. Dr. Moussavi also, slammed the so-called green movement leaders who contributed to the fading of the uprising by trying to keep in the boundaries of the regime constitution.
“Dr. Moussavi said the human rights situation for women and religious, ethnic and sexual minorities is getting worse in Iran. He criticized a top leader of the German Green Party, Claudia Roth for meeting with “murderers hostile to women” in Iran, Roth, who donned a head scarf while meeting last October with leading Iranian politicians who have denied the Holocaust and brutally decimated the pro-democracy movement in Iran, has faced accusations of placating Iranian human rights violators. ” Jerusalem Post added.