Andrew Ward

It should be obvious to anyone who has paid any attention to the actions or rhetoric of the Jihadists that they are not a protest movement; they do not have
progressive goals; they are not part of a liberation movement, and do not represent either Muslims, who are their primary victims, or the people of Iraq or
Afghanistan, who they are killing on a daily basis.

This is a movement whose goals are fascistic and whose methods are indefensible. Their aim is the destruction of any progressive, liberal, secular and
democratic forces in the Arab world, and their replacement by the most pitiless, repressive, misogynistic and rigid form of religious dictatorship. Opposition to this enemy is therefore a moral imperative for all anti-fascists, and for anyone who values free societies, free expression, sexual equality and human rights.

Whatever your views on Blair, Bush, Iraq, Palestine and all the rest of it, signing this statement requires only this: that you do not support the deliberate, targeted mass murder of civilians with the aim of establishing a totalitarian theocracy which hates women, and which executes gays, Jews, infidels and Muslims alike. It is that simple.