Benjamin Weinthal

German members of parliament have been eerily silent about Iran’s repression of the Baha’i, sexual minorities, women and trade unions, as well as Iranian Holocaust denial, and the country’s notable lack of free speech. Just last October, German parliamentary representatives from the Green Party, Left Party, Social Democrats, Christian Social Union and Christian Democratic Union met with Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, the head of Iran’s parliamentary cultural committee, who famously supported the fatwa calling for the murder of British novelist Salman Rushdie… http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-4020087,00.html

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