Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran

Monday, Februrary 6, 2006 Hour #1 9:05: Aryo Pirouznia, President of the Iranian National Secular Party, The struggle for freedom and democracy in Iran. 9:20: Daniel Schwammenthal, Contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Some of the cartoon images that are creating violent protests in the Middle East are a hoax. 9:35: Dinesh Wagle, Nepal Correspondent, King Gyanendra's attempt to hold municipal elections even as discontent with his royal dictatorship grows. 9:50: Irshad Manji, Contributor to the Wall Street Journal, European Union vs. Muslim world over caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. Hour #2 10:20: Jodi Schneider, Correspondent for the Congressional Quarterly, The budget is finally released for the next fiscal year, including a large defense budget. 10:35: Aaron Klein, Middle East Bureau Chief for World Net Daily, Lebanese leader accuses Damascus of using undercover soldiers in cartoon-protest attacks. 10:50: Eli Lake, Correspondent for the New York Sun, The Egyptian ferry disaster becomes a political event; questions why there was no rescue. Hour #3 11:05: Aaron Klein, & Walid Jumblatt, President of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon, The riots burning Scandinavian embassies in the Middle East may be Iranian in origin. 11:20: Daniel Schwammenthal, (See Above) 11:35: Irshad Manji, (See Above) 11:50: Jeff Stein, Correspondent for The Congressional Quarterly, Today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on eavesdropping. Hour #4 12:05: Aryo Pirouznia, (See Above) 12:20: Dinesh Wagle, (See Above) 12:35: Douglas Century, *Author-Barney Ross,* Dov-Ber Raskovsky, born in the New York ghetto of 1909, who fights to three world championships and a silver star on Guadalcanal as Barney Ross; hero. The Day's Guests:
Walid Jumblatt Walid Jumblatt is the Druze leader of the Progressive Socialist Party and leader of the leftist alliance, The Lebanese National Movement after the death of his father. Leadership of the PSP also passed to Walid Jumblatt upon his father's death, but few expected that he would last politically. Born in 1949 and educated at the American University of Beirut and in France, Jumblatt was not politically active in his youth. He had earned a reputation as a playboy, commonly wore jeans and a leather jacket, rode a motorcycle, and broke with tradition by marrying a non-Druze Jordanian woman. Jumblatt's political inheritance was shaky from the start, as he lacked the political stature, experience, and charisma of his late father.

Aaron Klein Aaron Klein is Jerusalem Bureau Chief for WorldNetDaily. He has broken many of the top Mideast stories since opening the bureau in February, 2005. Klein's previous interview subjects have included West Bank Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Chief Ala Senakreh; leader of the 2002 siege on Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, Jihad Jaara, PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas chief Mahmoud al-Zahar, Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano, former Lebanese Prime Minister Michel Aoun, Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, imprisoned spy Jonathan Pollard, leaders of the Taliban, Palestinian negotiation minister Saeb Erekat, former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben Ami, worldwide Al-Muhajiroun leader Omar Bakri Muhammad, among many others. Klein also secured the only interview with the families of the three U.S. servicemen killed in the 2003 Gaza ambush. Klein made headlines in 1999 when he traveled overseas to spend time with and interview members of a group connected to Al-Qaida. His article about the experience, "My Weekend with the Enemy," was published in major-city newspapers in four countries. Klein previously served as editor-in-chief of the Commentator, the undergraduate student newspaper of Yeshiva University. He can be read every day on WorldNetDaily.

Jeff Stein Editor, CQ Homeland Security. Jeff is an editor and investigative reporter of long standing specializing in national security, foreign policy, intelligence and defense issues. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and Washington Post, Jeff is also the co-author of "Saddam's Bombmaker" (Scribner, 2000), written with an Iraqi dissident scientist, and the author of "A Murder in Wartime: The Untold Spy Story That Changed the Course of the Vietnam War" (St. Martin's Press, 1992). He was deputy foreign editor for UPI during the 1980s. Besides the John Batchelor Show on ABC Radio, he appears regularly on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, NPR, the BBC and other news outlets as a commentator on homeland security issues.

Irshad Manji The New York Times has dubbed Irshad Manji "Osama Bin Laden's worst nightmare." She takes that as a compliment. Irshad is the best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith. It has been published internationally, including in Pakistan, Turkey, India and Lebanon. In those countries that have banned The Trouble with Islam Today, she is reaching readers by posting free translations in Arabic, Urdu, and Persian on this website. Currently, Irshad is based at Yale University as a Visiting Fellow with the International Security Studies program. She writes columns that are distributed worldwide by the New York Times Syndicate. She is also making a feature film about Islam. Among the ideas it will showcase is "ijtihad," Islam's lost tradition of independent thinking. Oprah Winfrey honored Irshad with the first annual Chutzpah Award for "audacity, nerve, boldness and conviction." Ms. magazine chose Irshad as a "Feminist for the 21st Century." Maclean's, Canada's national news magazine, selected her one of ten "Canadians Who Make a Difference." Born in 1968, Irshad is a refugee from Idi Amin's Uganda. In 1972, she and her family fled to Vancouver, where Irshad grew up attending public schools as well as the Islamic madressa. In 1990, she earned an honors degree in intellectual history from the University of British Columbia, winning the Governor-General's medal for top graduate. After graduation, Irshad became legislative assistant to a member of parliament, then press secretary to the Ontario Minister for Women's Issues. In 1992, at age 24, she entered the media as National Affairs Editorialist for the Ottawa Citizen, the youngest person to sit on the editorial board of a Canadian daily newspaper. She left to take up the post of speechwriter for the first female leader of a Canadian political party. In 1998, Irshad began producing and hosting QueerTelevision on Toronto's Citytv. This was the world's first program on commercial airwaves to explore the lives of gay and lesbian people. She also negotiated the syndication of QueerTelevision through San Francisco-based web portal, planetout.com, making QueerTelevision among the first programs ever to be streamed entirely on the Internet. As such, it built a global audience quickly while circumventing state censors. It also won the Gemini, Canada's highest broadcasting award, for best-edited general information show. www.muslim-refusenik.com

Daniel Schwammenthal Daniel Schwammenthal is an editorial page writer for the Wall Street Journal Europe. Before joining the Journal, Mr. Schwammenthal worked for six years as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires in Bonn, Berlin and Brussels covering German and European politics, economics and regulatory affairs. Mr. Schwammenthal studied political science and political economy at the University of Aachen and received an M.A. in international relations and international communication from Boston University and an L.L.M. in European law and policy from the University of Manchester.