Bahram Soroush

Bahram Soroush is a UK-based civil rights activist [http://www.iranian.com/Namazie/2004/June/Islam/ Two thumbs down] - Transcript of TV interview with Bahram Soroush aired on TV International English, a channel owned by Worker-Communist Party of Iran, June 2004] and a member of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran Central Committee [ [http://www.wpiran.org/central%20committee%20page.htm Worker-Communist Party of Iran Central Committee] ] . He has said that is "very difficult to try to separate Islam from Islamic terrorist organisations". In a conference held in June 2006, Bahram said that the "Iranian regime is antiworker and anti-human" [ [http://www.kargaran.org/international%20labor%20solidarity/Wi/IWS_18.pdf Iranian delegation should not have been admitted to the ILO conference] - Bahram Soroush’s speech at the ILO Conference 12 June 2006 ("Workers in Iran", News & views from the labour movement in Iran)] Soroush has said that the Islamic Republic is not a representative of the Iranian people and that it would be dangerous for the Republic to attain nuclear weapons. [ [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2004/10/300245.html A Nuclear-Free Iran] - Interview with Bahram Soroush and Fariborz Pooya, aired on International TV, October 24, 2004]

Comments on Islamophobia

Soroush has said that the term "Islamophobia" is being used to "stifle the criticism of Islam" and that "considering the atrocities" committed by Islamic movements, terrorist attacks and honour killings in Muslim countries, it is "understandable that people should have a dislike of Islam and that this negative perception of Islam should have grown".

References

External links

* [http://www.iranian.com/Namazie/2004/June/Islam/ Two thumbs down] - Transcript of TV interview with Bahram Soroush aired on TV International English, a channel owned by Worker-Communist Party of Iran
* [http://www.wpiran.org/English/wb174freshbreeze%20in%20labour%20movement%20in%20Iran.htm A fresh breeze in the labour movement in Iran] - transcript of a TV International interview conducted by Fariborz Pooya (March 7, 2005)
* Various TV appearances on "TV International English", a channel owned by Worker-Communist Party of Iran: [http://www.anternasional.tv/english-f/archive.htm] , [http://www.anternasional.tv/english-f/archive2.htm] , [http://www.anternasional.tv/english-f/archive3.htm]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/02/middle_east_iraqi_opposition_conference/html/7.stm Picture of Soroush as a protester in the "Iraqi opposition conference"] - [http://www.wpiran.org/b-srosh2.jpgAnother picture]
* [http://www.wluml.org/english/newsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B157%5D=x-157-217609 UK: Mayor of London, political Islam and us] - Transcript of Interview with Bahram Soroush and Fariborz Pooya (25/05/2005)