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December 16, 2005

Iranian official: Thug-In-Chief's Holocaust remarks "misunderstood"

Here we go again. It all so hard to understand. Non-Muslims cannot read the Qur'an and understand it. It just doesn't mean what it seems to mean at face value (particularly, but not limited to, Surat At-Tawba). The Hadith is the same way. I have read and studied volumes and volumes of it, but I don't get it. It doesn't really mean what it appears to mean. Nor do the teachings of the schools of Islamic law actually mean what they seem to. If I were a Muslim I would understand it all. If I had only read Book X or Tract Y, which I clearly haven't seen, then this mountain of evidence that Islam teaches warfare against and subjugation of infidels would melt away like ice cream in the summer sun. But it is just too complex for outsiders. It is a mountain too steep to climb. Give it up. Let us explain it all for you. It is a word of peace, you see. A message of love and brotherhood. Nothing to be concerned about. Nothing at all. Go back to sleep.

Oh, and Ahmadinejad's Holocaust remarks? Nothing there, you see. Nothing. You misunderstand, as usual. Jihad? Genocide? Anti-Semitism? Mais non! Love, brotherhood, and peace. Courageous stands decrying the outrages committed against the Palestinians. Don't you see?

"Iran Official Recasts Holocaust Comments," from AP, with thanks to JE:

ATHENS, Greece - The Iranian president's widely condemned remarks about Israel and the Holocaust were "misunderstood" by Western governments, Iran's interior minister said Friday.

Although "all Iranians" agree with them.

Speaking on the sidelines of an Athens conference on immigration, Mostafa Pur Mohammadi told The Associated Press: "Actually the case has been misunderstood. (President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) did not mean to raise this matter.

"He wanted to say that if certain people have created troubles for the Jewish community they should bear the expenses, and it is not others who should pay for that."...

Arab governments appeared reluctant to condemn Ahmadinejad. In Saudi Arabia, government-controlled newspapers picked up the remarks from international news agencies but did not comment on them.

Posted by Robert at December 16, 2005 10:22 AM
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More of that "taken out of context" nonsense. It's a shame that so many Muslims have so much trouble saying what they mean....Wink.

Posted by: DCWatson [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 16, 2005 10:34 AM

Yep, some European money-supplier leaned on the Iranians and now the muslims have to engage in a little taqiyyah to make sure the money keeps flowing so they can build their bomb to "wipe Israel off the map..."

The only people who believe this are the politically correct media "elites" and their American politician media-whores.

I'm sure we'll hear Bush and Condi bleating (I mean repeating) this same nonsense in the next few days. Of course, the dhimmicrats will swallow it all and beg for more.

Posted by: Mussolini [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 16, 2005 10:36 AM

Somebody ought to drag that rat faced son-of-a b*tch out into the gutter and do us all a favor by putting a bullet in the mother f*ckers pint sized brain...

Translation:

What I mean to say is that someone should take Mr Ahmadinejihad aside and explain to him that America and the free world look down upon his negative attitude.

Posted by: Kemaste [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 16, 2005 11:44 AM

Let's look at this no need to nuke Iran Isn't Russia building their Nucluar station well accidents always happen Like the one in Russia today??

Make it so hot can't be worked for a VERY VERY VERY LONG TIME????

Seams the Iranis were part of the Russian Blast??

Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE EYES OF THE WORLD TO THEIR EVIL AMEN


Ps
AMERICANS DON'T CARE ABOUT SPYING ON THE ENEMIES IN OUR GATES!!!

WE HOPE THEY ARE!!

Posted by: Catherine [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 16, 2005 12:10 PM

Can someone point out to Mostafa Pur Mohammadi that there are a lot of Persian Jews who felt compelled to leave their ancient home because of persecution by Muslims, including Israel's current president, Moshe Katsov.

Posted by: waterdragon52 [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 16, 2005 12:19 PM

"...It is a mountain too steep to climb. Give it up. Let us explain it all for you. It is a word of peace, you see. A message of love and brotherhood. Nothing to be concerned about. Nothing at all. Go back to sleep."

Creepy stuff bro..

"Oh..Your lookin' at the heads"
"...He's a prophet..A poet warrior in the classical sense..."

Dennis Hopper,-in Apocalypse Now

...may you all be smeared with smelly stuff...infidels

Posted by: anonamustafa [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 16, 2005 12:27 PM

Isn't it remarkable how similiar the tactics of the Jihadists are to our own home-grown leftist myrmidons. They always criticize the right by saying that patriotism is the last resort of a scoundrel.
But notice whenever one of the left (substitute jihadi) make statements revealing their true agenda, and someone has the audacity to question them, well they always seems to retreat into I was misunderstood or taken out of context. Hoi polloi (or kafir) just never seem to muster the mental powers to wrap our collective minds around what they meant.
They, the left and jihadists, are cut from the same cloth.

Posted by: Theseus [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 16, 2005 12:50 PM

Exclusive: Sweden to cut Iran ties Thu. 15 Dec 2005
The Jerusalem Post

Sheera Claire Frenkel

The Swedish parliament ceased all bilateral contacts with the Iranian parliament Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The move follows a letter Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin sent asking parliaments worldwide to express their support for Israel. The letter, which was sent to more than 80 parliaments, called for an international response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call in October to "wipe Israel off the map."

"In recent years Iran has not merely settled for verbal attacks on Israel, Zionism and the Jewish people. It has been unrelenting in its efforts to achieve nuclear military capability and has funded, supplied and provided operational guidance to several major terrorist organizations," Rivlin wrote in the letter. "I strongly feel that due to the severity of this statement, a worldwide parliamentary reaction is called for."
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4895

Posted by: otterfisher [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 16, 2005 6:57 PM

"Damascus Bans Jewish Press Columnist On Religious Grounds
Posted 12/14/2005
By Special to The Jewish Press
Aaron Klein, a Jewish Press columnist and the Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily.com, was prevented last week from entering Syria because, according to at least one official in the Syrian embassy, he is Jewish.

While in Syria, Klein planned to interview Syrian, Lebanese and American officials as well as co-host ABC Radio`s nationally syndicated John Batchelor Show.

Klein, an Orthodox Jewish American citizen, made arrangements — along with Batchelor and radio producer Lee Mason — with the Syrian embassy to travel to Damascus.

All three were told last week by Ammar al-Arsan, the press attache for the Syrian embassy in Washington, that the applications for the visas were approved, and that Damascus had sent an approval letter that would permit them to enter the country from Amman, Jordan, on Thursday.

When the trio arrived in Amman, however, they were told there was a problem with the application. They met with Eyad Alarfi, assistant to the ambassador in Amman, who said visa approvals had been granted for Batchelor and Mason, but not for Klein.

Klein was put on the phone with an official from the Ministry of Information in Damascus who declined to provide his name. At first he refused to suggest why Klein had been singled out and prevented from entering the country. Later, however, he asked: “What religion are you?” Klein said he refused to answer.

“You know what you are,” said the official. "
more...
http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=5823

Posted by: otterfisher [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 16, 2005 7:21 PM

Conditions for pre-emptive Israeli nuclear strike on Iran..

"...an Israeli nuclear preemption could be expected only: (a) where Israel`s enemies in Iran had acquired nuclear and/or other unconventional weapons judged capable of destroying the Third Temple Commonwealth; (b) where these enemies had made clear that their intentions paralleled their capabilities; (c) where these enemies were believed ready to begin a "countdown to launch"; and (d) where Israel believed that its non-nuclear preemptions could not achieve the needed minimum levels of damage-limitation, i.e., levels consistent with actual preservation of the Jewish state."

by,,
LOUIS RENE BERES (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) lectures and publishes widely on nuclear strategy and nuclear war, especially in relation to Israel and the Middle East. He is Strategic and Military Affairs columnist for The Jewish Press.

Posted by: otterfisher [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 16, 2005 7:34 PM

One wonders what the Galloways, Chiracs and Putins of Europe are thinking? Surely someday they will understand that they are baring the countrymen's throats in the name of money and appeasement.

Posted by: Theway2k [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 16, 2005 7:43 PM

Gee ya think the reason the Swedes cut diplomatic ties with Iran might have something to do with the fact that Sweeden took in thousands of Jewish refugees during WWII and know first hand about the holocaust? Naw?
I can remember when the Ayatollah Kohomaniac
died. Picture this in your mind. About 6 or 8 strong guys with your highnesses coffin on their shoulders were marching down a dirt covered street surrounded by military bodyguards. Thousands of idiots, oops, I mean faithful followers of your dead grand highness surrounded the funeral march and were pressing in as hard as they could so they could get one blessed touch of his holinesses coffin. Well surprise, they pushed so hard the masters coffin was knocked off the shoulders of the bearers.
If that wasnt enough when the coffin hit the ground the exhalted ones body plopped out into the dirt!! E-gads ya think the crowd stood back in shock, heck no, they all rushed in and started to rip shreds of clothe off of their God.
WOW! When I saw that I laughed so hard I fell over. Can you Imagine that happening when President Kennedy was buried? Those people over there are nuts. And Islam is the reason. Period!

Posted by: frodnum [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 17, 2005 12:51 AM

Match his lies !

Westerners refrain from such lunacy but it would be interesting to see a politician or academic claim that mohamed never existed and was an invention of belicose Arabs to gain control of the Levant.
Or perhaps that the Conquistadors were Muslims who devasted and butchered the peoples of South America. they had been converted by force by the inquisition from their Islam and so their barabarity was Islamic not Christian!

any other ideas for matching the Iranian's lies.

Posted by: chevalier de st george [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 17, 2005 1:25 AM

This brain damaged, inbred creature in iran failed to mention that the grand muffin of Jerusalem sided with hitler,

this is great concept of iranian fools..."grand muffin" l about fell over my chair and laughed so hard my dogs jumped up! l am trying to teach one of them to roll over when l say what do Europeans do when confronted with the "gand muffins"...

Posted by: Lulu [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 17, 2005 8:31 AM

forgot to mention they crawl, when l say " what does paul martin's Cdn goverment do when confronted with muslims claiming to be refugess!"
l got to change their attack word to muslim, with my upcoming pups! lol

Posted by: Lulu [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 17, 2005 8:36 AM