Gee, I wonder why? From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
CAIRO, Egypt - Arab governments remained silent Thursday as international condemnation grew over a call by Iran's new president for Israel to be destroyed.Despite the silence, analysts in the region said Tehran's Arab rivals may quietly be pleased to see the radical regime further isolated by its extremism.
However, some Palestinians — who would have the task of destroying Israel according to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — rejected the remarks.
"We have recognized the state of Israel and we are pursuing a peace process with Israel, and ... we do not accept the statements of the president of Iran," Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said. "This is unacceptable."
European governments condemned Ahmadinejad's comments, with British Prime Minister Tony Blair saying they increased concerns the clerical regime is a threat to global security and may even trigger pleas for pre-emptive action against Iran.
"I have never come across a situation (with) the president of a country saying they want to wipe out" another nation, Blair told reporters Thursday.
French President Jacques Chirac called the remarks "completely irresponsible" and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed "dismay" at them, in a rare rebuke of a U.N. member state.
In contrast, newspapers across the Middle East reported Wednesday's speech by Ahmadinejad without comment, many of them on their front pages.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry and Cabinet officials said Cairo would have nothing to say on the address.
Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher also declined comment, apparently to avoid further aggravating relations with Iran, which the kingdom has accused of interfering in Iraq to strengthen the Shiite influence in the Middle East.
If stern action is not taken against this fool,
there is a risk that he will, like Bin Laden, be
moved to take more concrete steps.
At that point retribution on the Old Testament model
will be the only possible response. This will be
regrettable on our part, much more so from their
perspective.
Question is how do you get folks who are quite
capable of peering through a keyhole without
squinting to realise exactly what they risk.
On some occasions I have felt moved to suggest
an object lesson in the form of a mushroom cloud
over some particularly noxious pesthole but I don't
think we've reached that stage just yet.
IBM
What? None of our buddies comdemned "in the strongest terms" this harsh language? Wow, maybe we have to send them more money or give them special visas or something, eh?
I dont doubt they really mean it...
I also know that islamic states and islam itself has made it abundantly clear that All the problems in the world can be blamed on Israel and all who support her..
I have also had an arab friend of mine admin that the arabs and jews are brothers, then in the same sentance began to curse all jews..
What they dont realize is
Israel is Gods and the jews are his people.
America may come and go, as well as the west..
But to fight against Israel is to fight against
God himself....
For he will protect her as he has promised.
Oh my goodness! Mr. Annan is dismayed. I bet this really makes Mr. Ahmadinejad feel bad about what he said.
Mr. Ahmadinejad probably will apologize any day now.
ia786 should xplain this.
In 1924, Mohammed Ali to whom Gandhi showed such affection said, : "However pure Mr. Gandhi's character may be, he must appear to me, from the point of religion, inferior to any Mussalman even though he be without character." In 1925 he emphasized: "Yes, according to my religion and creed, I do hold an adulterous and a fallen Mussalman to be better than Mr. Gandhi". That is the true Islamofascist mentality revealed in all its glory.
In this way Gandhi's experiment with Islam failed. This should serve as an object lesson to all who try to appease the fanatic Muslims. It will not succeed but only lead to greater fanaticism and destruction.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/HinduWoman40718.htm
All that mossies got, is bunker mentality like this bugger:
`After six years of military rule, the picture is that General Musharraf stands confined to Army House in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. He does not even venture out to the capital city of Islamabad, next door, for his official duties.`
http://saag.org/papers16/paper1581.html
I was right on the tsunami and the quakes. I`m now making another prediction of `divine` intervention.
It`s very possible that this `avian flu` thingy will be most damaging to the mossies in Europe.
French President Jacques Chirac called the remarks "completely irresponsible"
Does this mean the comment was evil or that he shouldn't have stated it publicly?
The Iranians will fight for the holy land to the last arab.
Palestian moslems, Israeli moslems, understand that the Iranians will happily destroy them along with the Jews, just as long as the Jews go down. Be most sensible for the 'palestians' to make peace.
Iran is an empire, with half the population being 'others', Kurd, Arab, probably Turkic, etc; let's take their empire/country apart, give the minorities freedom, redraw the map, take away much of the oil wealth of Iran; think of the austro/hungarian powerhouse that become little austria.
Create Kurdistan, join south shiite arab iraq with south shiite arab iran in a new nation, join the iraqi sunnis to syria.....
Shiite militiamen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (search) clashed Thursday with Sunni militants in fighting that killed at least 15 people, and three American soldiers died in separate attacks the day before, officials said.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.com/Articles/alsadrmilitia.html
leavingtheleft:
whatever bones of contention we have with ia at times, he condemns violence and Muslim intolerance of non-Muslims and feels equally threatened by it.
waterdragon52: I very much wish that your comment was made by me. I would love to believe it.
My reason for that comment is that he/she has consistently maintained that there are no `evil` verses in the Koran which the mullahs bandy about.
On being confronted with the same, he airily dismisses them.
He reminds me of this moderate:
“34. It cannot be that there is no other way. 1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. There must be a way. And we can only find a way if we stop to think, to assess our weaknesses and our strength, to plan, to strategise and then to counter attack.......
http://www.abelard.org/news/fundi2.htm#fundi_191003
I meet many of these `1a` sort of people every day. They`ll drink liquor even and do all the things that may seem ok. But somewhere along the line the true muslim will surface.
leavingtheleft:
ia is fairly young and, if you and I found it hard to divorce ourselves from our leftist beliefs, imagine how hard it is, especially when you have probably been raised on a relatively benign form of Islam and nurtured in a family who came to the UK and assimilated, and is grateful for the lifestyle they enjoy as British citizens, to become tarred with the same brush as the rabies-infected cretins. ia and I have exchanged comments on DW to the effect that yes, he says he has had his eyes opened by some of the things we've told him and he's also heartened to know that we don't all hate Muslims with a passion and want to see them either deported or annihilated. He also hates the radicals and wants them to be prosecuted or expelled and is disgusted by the PC assholes who take offence at squiggly logos that "resemble" holy names written in Arabic script.