The former First Muslim vs. Peter Dow on "impunity" in international relations

Humza Yousaf, the former First Muslim of Scotland, was interviewed for BBC Sunday Show (BBC1 Scotland) broadcast on 29th March 2026.

This video includes excerpts from that interview and commentary in rebuttal by Peter Dow. The transcript follows.

Gary Robertson: "I started by asking Humza Yousaf about his thoughts about the war in the Middle East and how perilous a moment this is for the world."

Humza Yousaf: "I think it is one of the most challenging, fractious and really worrying times for us as certainly post-war in terms of the the complete collapse of the rules-based order.

International law is being breached and violated with absolute impunity and we are now living in an era where those who are the mightiest and the strongest are the ones who are doing whatever it is, frankly, that they want to do with virtually zero consequences and that of course leaves everybody else at the peril and the mercy of those superpowers."

Gary Robertson: "How should politicians deal with the likes of Donald Trump."

Peter Dow: "Politicians should thank Donald Trump for ending the impunity of Iran, by bombing Iran.

Politicians should deal with Pakistani-organised terrorism by ending Pakistan's impunity and by complaining when the BBC supports Pakistan's impunity by platforming Pakistanis like Humza Yousaf."

Humza Yousaf: "I think, actually, what I would have liked to have seen from world leaders, across the entire globe, is saying, well, actually, we are going to stand by the international rules-based order and there should be consequences for those that violate that and not just ignoring when our allies breach international law but when our enemies breach international law that's the only time that we speak up. That hypocrisy .. clearly erodes trust in the international order."

Peter Dow: "There should be consequences for our enemy Pakistan for supporting the terrorism of Al Qaeda and the Taliban - we should break off diplomatic relations with Pakistan.

The hypocrisy of Pakistani diaspora politicians like Yousaf claiming that Pakistan is our "ally" while Pakistan secretly betrays us and attacks us as our enemy is hypocrisy which erodes trust in Pakistanis and in Muslims generally so Scots and Britons should not vote for them.

Thank you."

The SNP GESTAPO force me off X, & censor me in any social media site

Bail conditions imposed - 16th March 2026

(f) not to use the social media platform 'X' previously known as Twitter

(g) not to make reference to any MP, MSP or Lord Advocate in any social media

After a sleepless weekend in police custody and facing the SNP GESTAPO's threat of remand to Saughton (HMP Edinburgh), I accepted (temporarily) the draconian bail conditions offered.

Saturday, 14th March, began with my tweet to the SNP Conference with hashtag #SNP26

Soon 2 plain clothes detectives from Police Scotland were at my flat door insisting on arresting me. They hurried me into locking the flat up and they drove me to Kittybrewster Police Custody Centre after reading another trumped-up charge from their smartphone. On what pretext I can't remember - was it the "John Swinney's Gestapo women of Scotland - the Taliban's useful idiots" video 

which had set them off - or was it the 

"BASTARD JOHN SWINNEY😡
Afghan girls, same age as Dunblane victims, are sold into marriage under Pakistan's Taliban rule as the SNP GESTAPO arrests and prosecutes me for holding the Pakis to account"

 tweets of the 12th March? Who knows?

I had my finger prints taken by a fragrant Greek woman police officer, which was nice. I asked for a book to read and was offered a paperback copy of "Bravo Two Zero" by Andy McNab. Reading about very brave men in a much more dangerous situation than police custody was fortifying to my own courage.

Later in the day, a prisoner transport van transported me and my borrowed copy of "Bravo Two Zero" from Aberdeen to Edinburgh. (Annoyingly the prisoner cell light was on a timer and it kept switching itself off and I had to repeatedly remind the van staff to put the cell light back on).

It was dark by the time we arrived at St Leonards Police Station where the cells are not as "luxurious" (sarcasm) as Kittybrewster - no intercom, no basin with trickle of water to wet your hands and no way to flush your own toilet - just a push button "help" light. The dim lighting made reading my paperback very difficult.

There I was imprisoned in spartan conditions through Saturday, all day Sunday until a bigger van took all the St Leonards prisoners to Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday morning. I asked for and was granted a court custody cell to myself which is less stressful for me.

I had an interview with a mental health nurse where I declared myself to her to be "Fit for court".

Late in the afternoon I was handed a bundle of legal papers, told I couldn't keep them, but I could read them now.

Just from memory they were seeking an order to remand me to HMP Edinburgh, a letter offering legal advice for those facing a "solemn" procedure (with jury and longer prison sentences) and a letter saying that I didn't have to attend the hearing in April as per my signed undertaking to the police of 27th February.

So then I was taken upstairs to the court room where I was asked if I was Alastair Dow?

I told the court that I was Alastair Peter Dow, Bachelor of Science with Honours, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh.

The Sheriff wasn't interested in my supplementary details and said they didn't normally ask for a plea at this stage (of a solemn procedure presumably) but the matter of bail was addressed at this stage.

I suggested simply being ordained to appear (no additional bail conditions beyond the routine).

The fiscal depute said, "in this case" (a politically-motivated witch-hunt) he was prepared to offer bail with the additional bail conditions to get off X etc (see above).

I told the court "Those bail conditions are acceptable to the defence".

With that the Sheriff granted bail with those conditions and ended the hearing.

Short and sweet because that was the quickest and surest way out of the hell of custody. The legal argy-bargy about bail conditions could wait for another day.

The court staff reclaimed the bundle of legal papers and I was soon a free man.

I urgently bought some mouthwash from a shop on Princes Street because my dental health needed it by then and mouthwash is refused in police or court custody.

Then the bus back to Aberdeen for around 10pm.

I encountered a house-breaker snooping around the hallway of our block of flats, presumably sensing an opportunity with my empty flat over the weekend but when I opened my flat door he went on his way without a word exchanged between us.

That was me safe and sound again after another rough long weekend for a political prisoner in John Swinney's SNP GESTAPO police state.

John Swinney's Gestapo women of Scotland - the Taliban's useful idiots

The video begins playing an inset of an Afghan girl being stoned to death. The background's central image is an AI-generated image dressing in Nazi SS uniform Scotland's First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney MSP and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar MSP in front of the entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The left and right sides of the background feature the women who run the police state in Scotland. They are -

Kate Forbes MSP, Deputy First Minister,
Dorothy Bain KC, Lord Advocate
Ruth Charteris KC, Solicitor General
Jo Farrell, Chief Constable of Police Scotland
Alison Johnstone MSP, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
Christine Grahame MSP, SNP member of the parliament's corporate body
Claire Baker MSP, Labour member of the parliament's corporate body
Maggie Chapman MSP, Green member of the parliament's corporate body.
Lynsey Hamill, Director of Operations at the Scottish Parliament - operations including the Social Media "Monitoring" (actually GESTAPO censorship) unit.

Then Peter Dow speaks saying -

"An innocent Afghan girl was stoned to death after Pakistan helped the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

Hello. I'm Peter Dow from Aberdeen.

SHAME on the EVIL WOMEN AT THE CORE OF JOHN SWINNEY'S GESTAPO which is arresting and prosecuting me to try to stop me saying one word to help the women and girls of Afghanistan - that word being "Paki" meaning "Pakistani".

Swinney's Gestapo claims - 'Ooh, you can't use THAT word - that's "racist", that's "prejudice", that's a "hate crime", that's a "breach of the peace"'.

Well, no, actually, it's not. I'm correctly using the word "Paki" to hold Pakistanis to account for Pakistan's crimes against humanity.

So shame on Kate Forbes, Dorothy Bain, Ruth Charteris, Jo Farrell, Angela Constance, Alison Johnstone, Christine Grahame, Claire Baker, Maggie Chapman and Lynsey Hamill.

Shame on John Swinney and all his Gestapo's men and women, who are a disgrace to Scotland.

The Scots should call off Swinney's Gestapo police state and let me do my feminist duty. Thank you."

Swinney's Gestapo ambushed me in Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday

Yesterday, Friday 27th February, just after representing myself at a "Defence for the Accused" hearing in Edinburgh Sheriff Court, as I was leaving the courtroom, I was arrested by two officers of Police Scotland and taken to St Leonards police station, where at a recorded interview, I owned up to my harmless, dutiful political posts on X, which they charged me was some sort of "crime" and after 5 hours, they liberated me from custody on condition that I attend another court hearing and that I don't mention someone on social media.

Jo Farrell, Chief Constable of Police Scotland

But my property was NOT "liberated" with me. I can't forgive Chief Constable Jo Farrell's thieving pig bastards for stealing my laptop and smartphone for "evidence" that the prosecution won't ever need to prove the complained-about posts were mine.
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I, however, need the laptop which I had in court with me to display digital productions evidence for the defence on the courtroom monitor. So the police seizing of my laptop is police criminality by ATTEMPTING TO DEFEAT THE ENDS OF JUSTICE and CONTEMPT OF COURT.

I also used that laptop for science duties in the service of humanity, so police obstructing science by seizing my laptop is police criminality by a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

Scotland needs a new Chief Constable who will focus on real crime and stop police officers taking their orders from the Scottish Parliament's Gestapo to take political prisoners, crush democracy and commit various other crimes in the process.

I was in custody for about 5 hours and was dropped off at Edinburgh bus station and back to Aberdeen after midnight - long day.

The Scottish Parliament's Gestapo was set up by MSPs of the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body - Jackson Carlaw (Conservative), Maggie Chapman (Greens), Claire Baker (Labour), Alison Johnstone (was Greens now Presiding Officer), Christine Grahame (SNP).

John Swinney (left) and Anas Sarwar (right) in fetching Nazi SS uniform pictured outside the place which inspired their vicious assault on Scottish democracy - Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Lodged "Defence for the Accused" with Edinburgh Sheriff Court

I have today lodged with Edinburgh Sheriff Court the document of some 32 pages, titled "Defence for the Accused".

Link to view online

This is in relation to my tweet as described in my blog post of Wednesday, 12 November 2025

John Swinney's GESTAPO make fresh false charges against me