Qubad Talabany Quotes
He will be released from jail. We are an emerging democracy and still have to change some of our laws
The American troops were fighting and dying to protect Iraq freedom and this incident caused much soul searching in America. Political pressure was brought to bear on the Kurds and Talabany announced that Kamal Sayid Qadir would be pardoned and released from jail. However, he acknowledged that the laws themselves had to be reformed to make them more democratic. See {589503} for the law.
Qubad Talabany, Iraq Kurdish Representative to the United States, Son of the President of the Kurdistan Area of Iraq, Response to a question about Kamal Sayid Qadir who was sentenced to 30 years in jail for criticizing the government of the Kurdish province, CNN Late Edition, March 26, 2006
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Under this law Kamal Sayid Qadir who had posted material of the on the internet was accused action “defamatory of government leadership” and given a 30 year jail sentence. See {589505}.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Katyl had represented Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni suspected Islamic terrorist being held at Guantanamo who sued the Government over his detention without trial or due process and the Bush Administration’s Military Commissions. In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court ruled that the Government was violating Hamdan’s rights.
He was writing on behalf of a VA nurse who had been accused of sedition for publicly criticizing the government. See {589454}.
See John Stuart Mill for a similar English quotation that very year.
Three Chicago Aldermen had marched on an art school demanding that a painting they found offensive be removed from public display. The police seized the painting, prompting a lawsuit.
Ironically, without the word “wicked” most people would regard the first sentence as a good description of elements of a modern democracy. It illustrates that for the Islamic fundamentalist democracy substitutes the rule of man for the rule of God, freedom of speech allows heresy and blasphemy to to uttered and communicated, and religion which is supposed to inform and direct politics. So what is good for the lover of democracy is the very thing that is bad for Islam. This is not a uniquely Islamic viewpoint. It has been and is held by fundamentalist Christians and Jews as well who would return to Biblical law punishing blasphemy and heresy with death and have religion drive all politics.
The Red Scare had affected the country. The House Un-American Activities Committee had frightened much of the country claiming that the Communists had infiltrated the government. But when facts and proof were demanded, they only came up with some workers in the Hollywood film industry who had gone to communist meetings and some who had joined the party before the War when The Great Depression was still plaguing the country. The Hollywood and TV executives caved in to the political demagogues and fired and blacklisted not only the communists but those who refused to testify. The actors and musicians could not work for several years until the country came to its senses, but the screenwriters wrote under false names. At least one Academy award was won that way.
