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Monday, June 5th, 2006

Khamenei: Nukes are against islam

05

June

From a speech by Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei of Iran on Sunday, transposed in full by Juan Cole:

We do not need a nuclear bomb. We do not have any objectives or aspirations for which we will need to use a nuclear bomb. We consider using nuclear weapons against Islamic rules.

That’s right. The supreme leader of Islam in Iran says that using Nuclear weapons is against Islam. Yet what are our governments doing? Sabre rattling.
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Cameron’s Clause IV: Electoral Reform?

05

June

Robert Philpot has an excellent analysis of the need for the Conservative party to adopt electoral reform as a platform (via): (more…)


Britblog Roundup # 68

05

June

Yup, it’s up again. A regular reader and occasional commenter here may be interested to know that this week he is the Best of British. A late announcement post from me, went to see V for Vendetta with some friends, hadn’t got around to seeing it before. Really knocked into me the abuse that could be possible with some of the powers the Govt is legislating unto itself if put into the wrong hands.
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