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Topics covered on Monday 19 July 2004 are:

Mohammad Abdul Rahim’s Assassination in Iraq by Islamists; British National Party and Racism against Muslims, ‘Minorities’ and Immigrants; Honour Killings and the New World Order and Refugee Rights.

On Monday 19 July 2004, Maryam Namazie interviews Moayed Ahmad on the assassination of Mohammad Abdul Rahim in Iraq by Islamist forces; Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush on the British National Party and racist European parties and racism against Muslim, ‘minorities’ and immigrants; Diana Nammi on honour killings internationally and Reza Moradi on the New World Order and Refugee Rights. Moayed Ahmad is the editor of Al Sheoiya Al Umaliya; Fariborz Pooya, the co-editor of WPI Briefing; Bahram Soroush is a civil rights activist; Diana Nammi is the coordinator of the International Campaign against Honour Killings and Reza Moradi is a member of the Secretariat of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees.

Questions raised in this programme:

* What is the background to Mohammad Abdul Rahim assassination by Islamists in Kut?
* And these terrorists are being called the ‘resistance’ in Iraq?
* What’s your response to those among the Western left who say it is not their task to fight against political Islamic groups?
* Shouldn’t parties like the British National Party be banned?
* How can racist parties and racism be stopped?
* BNP speaks out against Islam so is speaking out against Islam racist?
* Given that the BNP is critical of Islam, shouldn’t one stop being so because one could be aligned with them?
* A commentary in the Guardian recently has called for an end to calling honour killings by that name as it reduces the authorities’ already limited concentration span on domestic. Is that case?
* Some would say singling out honour killings risks promoting a racist agenda. Yes or no?
* How have things changed for refugees under the New World Order?* Some say there are too many asylum seekers coming to the West; are there?
* How can all those fleeing Islamist societies be asylum seekers?

You can see the English programme on its website throughout the week:  http://www.anternasional.tv/english. It is also broadcast via satellite TV every Monday from 8:30-9:30pm Tehran time (5:00-6:00pm London time). The programme is broadcast on Satellite: Telstar 12, Centre Frequency: 12608 MHz, Symbol Rate: 19279, FEC: 2/3, Polarization: Horizontal.

TV International/English is a weekly hour-long news analysis and commentary programme that focuses on the Middle East and rights and freedoms from a progressive and Left standpoint. The programme also plays music selected by Mona Razani, the programme’s VJ. Prior to the English programme, Maryam Namazie also hosts a half-an hour long Farsi programme, which can be seen on  http://www.newchannel.tv.

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