"Iran-phobia"! Really! I'm not making it up! Here is yet another example of the tendency of jihadists to displace responsibility -- indeed, to disclaim it entirely. The idea that the US would be "spreading anti-Iran sentiment" gratuitously, without any connection to the words and deeds of Iran's leaders, is as absurd as the idea that there is an epidemic of "Islamophobia" sweeping the countries of the West, completely unconnected to Muslim declarations of supremacy and acts of violence.
This also manifests a cultural attitude that I believe derives from the stipulation in the laws of dhimmitude that a dhimmi must not speak ill of Allah or Muhammad, or of the Muslims -- and if he does, his contract of "protection" is revoked, and he can legitimately be killed.
"Iran: US spreading anti-Iran sentiment," by Nasser Karimi for The Associated Press (thanks to Mackie):
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran charged Sunday that the United States was trying to spread anti-Iranian sentiment in the Mideast by accusing Iranian boats of threatening U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.The U.S. has said an Iranian fleet of high-speed boats zoomed dangerously close to a three-ship U.S. Navy convoy passing near Iranian waters on Jan. 6 in the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian boats veered away as the American ship commanders were preparing to open fire.
Iran has insisted its boats never threatened the U.S. ships and that the incident was a normal occurrence in the Gulf waters.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini reiterated Sunday that the incident was not unusual and would not affect Iran's policies in the region. He accused the Bush administration of trying to stir up tensions in the Gulf.
"Some political factions in the U.S. are pursuing adventurism to help Bush to spread Iran-phobia in the region," Hosseini said at a weekly press conference. "U.S. officials should apologize to Iran, regional countries and the American people."
Reductio ad absurdum. Let these folks pursue this foolishness to the extreme. Even infidels can't be that stupid.
Was it the threat of the famous spy squirrels that finally drove the mullahs over the edge?
Come back, guys. We got pictures of you trying to attack our ships.
Pictures. All you have are outrageous claims and allegations.
I think.
Therefore, I'll master the use of these @!*%# HTML tags.
Infidels, you still don't understand how it works:
Muslim scholar Bassam Tibi:
“Muslims are religiously obliged to disseminate the Islamic faith throughout the world…. If non-Muslims submit to conversion or subjugation, this call can be pursued peacefully. If they do not, Muslims are obliged to wage war against them. … Those who resist Islam cause wars and are responsible for them”
So after all the infidels are the one who don’t want world peace according to Islamic scholars.
World peace in accordance to Islamic teachings can be achieved only when all the people in the world submit themselves to Islam.
"Iran charged Sunday that the United States was trying to spread anti-Iranian sentiment in the Mideast ..."
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I don't think we have all that much influence over what Middle Eastern nations think of Iran.
As for what WE in the USA think of Iran, does "52 hostages, 444 days in captivity" ring any bells? Remember Ayatollah Khomeini? (He was, by his writings, as crazy-evil as he looked: find his reasoned judgment on sex with farm animals and babies!) He also said "there is no humor in Islam". Agreed. From a civilized point of view, there is no ANYTHING in Islam.
ahhh COME ON!
Everything with those muslims are phobia, islamophobia, iranophobia... and they never suffer from atheophobia, jewphobia, christianophobia... the sort...
It seems that they are a bunch of schizophrenic people!
They think everyone is guilty, everything has a jew behind... paranoiac people!
Great Satanophobia is OK presumably!?
Yet another proof that Islam is a mental disorder.
Why would anyone of sound body and mind, entertain themselves for a split second, with the accusations and threats of these tyrannical Bigots???.
They are amongst the most duplicitous, two faced purveyors of hate our world has ever known, and that, god alone knows, takes something special!!!.
Indoctrination into the ways of a venomous dehumanization, toward anything deemed "UN-Islamic", seems their staple speciality, and a Miss- Information of the West, when lecturing their UN-educated hoards, comes not from any reality or reasoning but obnoxious, outrageous lies.
Josef Stalin himself, could have learnt from Iranian propaganda!!.
There is nothing anyone could say about the government of Iran that could make me hate them anymore than I do already. We will never forget the hostages you tortured!
Aunt Bea
"Iran has insisted its boats never threatened the U.S. ships and that the incident was a normal occurrence in the Gulf waters."
....about 6 months ago Iran broadcast a military video claiming to show the leathality of the speedboats and some new anti-ship type missiles attacking naval targets...THe Iranians claimed such weapons could not be defeated...
....I saw the video and I am sure the US Military officials saw it....
...perhaps you did too....
"Iran claims that US promoting "Iran-phobia"
...hmmmmm. Iran is doing a better job of that than any westerners....