Lenin, The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion…
The proletariat in a particular region… is divided, let us assume, into an advanced section of fairly class conscious Social Democrats [the name used by socialist groups in Russia], who are of course atheists, and rather backward workers…who believe in god, go to church, or are even [...]

John Molyneux…
… there is the question of the relationship of the revolutionary party to religious workers. Any such party operating in a country where religion remains strong among the mass of the population, which is much of the world, must reckon with, indeed count on, the fact that the revolution will be made by workers [...]

John Molyneux…
From the standpoint of Marxism and international socialism an illiterate, conservative, superstitious Muslim Palestinian peasant who supports Hamas is more progressive than an educated liberal atheist Israeli who supports Zionism (even critically).
Well said Comrade!

Comrade John Molyneux has an article on Marxism and Religion in the new ISJ issue… Circulate the article ya shabab, coz it’s time to reclaim the true Bolshevik tradition regarding religion from the Stalinist fucks…
For more information on Marxism and religion, make sure you also check out this article on The Bolsheviks and Islam, [...]

Al-Azhar “experts” are now training the State Security pigs on how to “confront the threats of Shite thought”…

Sarah Carr reports…
Local schools are denying Bahais the right to enroll their children, five months after an Egyptian court recognized the right of members of the minority religion to leave the religious affiliation field on birth certificates and ID cards blank.
Adel Ramadan, a lawyer with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) — which brought [...]

The bastion of religious reaction and bigotry in Egypt… The man who claimed fame by handing out fatwas left and right to support whatever Hosni and his gangsters say…

A7a!
One hundred years after it was founded, Cairo’s School of Fine Arts seeks to train Egypt’s artists but has to make do without nude “life” drawing classes so as not to offend Islam.
It is in this academic hive, sheltered inside a neo-classical villa on the chic island of Zamalek, that 2,500 students come from around [...]

Mabrouk for the Bahaai’s…  and fuck the bigots…

My friend Hannah Allam had asked me to contribute to a blog posting on her website, about the campaign agaisnt “Islamofascism Awareness Week” at US universities… Click on the pic below to check it out…

[A UC Berkeley student arguing against a Christian fundamentalist demonstrator who spent the whole day standing with a sign reading "Islam [...]

I received the following statement from HRW…
Egypt should immediately free two men active in promoting the rights of Egypt�s Shi`a minority and halt any criminal proceedings against them, Human Rights Watch said today. The two men were arrested after also criticizing the prevalence of torture in Egyptian prisons.
Click on the poster below to read [...]

Mubarak’s regime continues its bigotry…
A State Security prosecutor sentenced Mohamed El-Derini, prominent Egyptian Shia activist and writer, to 15 days in jail for publishing false information about being tortured in prison.
His son Ahmed El-Derini, a journalist at Al-Badil daily newspaper, told Daily News Egypt that the charges against him also included contempt for religion [...]

Youssef el-Badri, the fanatic cleric, is trying to push forward Judge Mourad’s lawsuit, where the latter is demanding 51 Egyptians websites and blogs (including mine) to be banned by the government… The latest developments in the case is included in the following statement by HRINFO… Click on Latuff’s cartoon below…

I’ve just received news from Cairo that Shiite rights activist Mohamed el-Derreini was arrested again by Mubarak’s Gestapo, who raided Derreini’s house around 2am, dragging him to Lazoughli (State Security Police’s main torture facility, located in downtown Cairo).
Derreini, the father of our blogojournalist friend Ahmad, was arrested and brutally tortured by Mubarak’s SS in 2003, [...]

From Reuters…
Young U.S. non-Orthodox Jews are becoming increasingly lukewarm if not alienated in their support for Israel in a trend that is not likely to be reversed, according to a study released on Thursday. ….
The study found only 48 percent of U.S. Jews under age 35 believe that Israel’s destruction would be a personal [...]

Here’s Al-Jazeera’s documentary on the assassination of Hassan el-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brothers…

After you watch it, make sure you click on the pic below to download Sameh Naguib’s booklet: The Muslim Brothers: A Socialist View…