Speech by Homa Arjomand, central committee member of the Worker Communist Party of Iran, at the Toronto conference against sharia law.

Comrade Arjomand declares: “I need to emphasize that I am talking about political Islam as a movement…. Their conduct is primarily in the form of opposition to the freedom of women, women’s civil liberties, and freedom of expression. It is misogynistic and goes against modernism…. Islamic terrorism is a military section of Political Islam…. Political Islam with its terrorist action clearly says that if you don’t recognize Islamic states, terrorism is what people in the West will face.”

Butterflies and Wheels, 23 August 2005

Yeah, the usual Islamism=terrorism nonsense that you get from the WPI (and from Nick Cohen, Searchlight magazine and the BNP, for that matter). The idea that Islamism contains reformist tendencies, who oppose terrorism and pursue democratic change, is of course completely absent from this hysterical Islamophobic discourse.