The prevailing assumption among mainstream analysts in the U.S. and Europe is that the jihad against the West will end once Muslim grievances are redressed, so a combination of concessions and foreign aid will take care of the problem. But here Khatami says, “As long as the enemy exists, jihad will exist too.” This gives the lie to the mainstream analysis. Khatami doesn’t say, “As long as the enemy has a foreign policy to which we object, jihad will exist.” Nor does he say, “As long as the enemy oppresses us, jihad will exist.” He says “As long as the enemy exists, jihad will exist” — i.e., no matter what the enemy does.
“Tehran Friday Sermon: The Iranian President Should Punch Obama in the Mouth when He Talks Nonsense,” MEMRI, April 25, 2014:
During a Friday sermon delivered in Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami criticized the U.S., saying that its “despotic administration” openly conspired against Iran. “If the American president talks nonsense, our president should punch him in the mouth,” he said. The crowds responded to the sermon with chants of “Death to America!”
Following are excerpts from the sermon, which was delivered on April 25, 2014, and broadcast on Iran’s Channel 1:
Ahmad Khatami: The arrogant pharaohs throughout history have always considered themselves superior to everybody everywhere. The actions of the despotic U.S. administration constitute a clear example of this.
Look what they are doing in Ukraine. What is going on there? Who the hell are you to interfere in the affairs of another people? Their vice president went to Ukraine, and a few hours after he left, people were killed there. What is behind these declarations? A cloud of war hangs over that region. This is what is called an “aggressive nature.”
Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran are hundreds of miles away from America. From across the world, they intervene in Afghanistan and Iraq, and conspire against Islamic Iran. That is one thing.
Secondly, the Iranian regime – to use their own words – is a complete democracy of the people. The people went to the ballot, and with a turnout of over 98 percent, voted for the regime, in accordance with all the democratic criteria. Nevertheless, from day one and to this very day, the [Americans] have not ceased to openly conspire against Islamic Iran.
Take for example, the secret spy den [the U.S. embassy] – the Muslim students knew that as long as that spy den remained open, the revolution could not be consolidated. They took over the den, caught the spies, and help America by the throat for 444 days. Well done!
Imam [Khomeini] managed this affair and called it the “Second Revolution.” If countries that waged a revolution, like Egypt, had learned from our experience, they wouldn’t have been in the situation they find themselves in today.
Third, the top U.S. officials without exception – from Carter to Obama – all wanted to topple the Islamic regime. It’s not that they did not want to, but they failed to do so. They keep pouring their venom.
Crowd member: Death to America!
Crowd: Death to America!
Death to America!
Death to America!
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Ahmad Khatami: When our top negotiators enter the room, they should know that when they face the Americans, they face a hostile enemy that cannot be trusted at all. Thank God, our top negotiators have acknowledged this a few times in the past. Just as you confront them during the negotiations, you must confront them on the level of political declarations… If the American president talks nonsense, our president should punch him in the mouth.
[…]
Some people ask us until when we will continue to shout: “Death to America!” They might as well ask until when we will say our prayers and fast. As long as the enemy exists, Jihad will exist too.
Angemon says
“Some people ask us until when we will continue to shout: “Death to America!” They might as well ask until when we will say our prayers and fast. As long as the enemy exists, Jihad will exist too.”
The enemy, eh? I take it that sunni, wahabi and other non shia sects of islam are also among “The enemy”. I, for one, think that after Iran gets the A-bomb they should start by cleaning their own backyard. Maybe after seeing Iran nuking its islamic neighbours back to the stone age western countries finally realize how stupid they were in allowing them to develop it.
john spielman says
the Iranian govt has said that the Sunni/Wahabi are American and Israeli stooges, part of the same conspiracy against Iran.
Diagnosis: mass psychosis among Iranian Shiites. Rx. airdrop massive amounts of the antipsychotic medication haloperidol into the water system
john spielman says
In Christian church services, the pastor preachs a sermon where Christian principles of love peace forgiveness and righteous living in the power of the Holy Spirit (who lives in the followers of Jesus) is extolled.
In Islam, the crowd is whipped into a frenzy and encouraged to lie, kill rape steal and burn -just as one would expect for a Satanic religion of death and darkness and hell where the founder was a demon possessed murderer, liar, thief and PEDOPHILE!
Wellington says
Just to add to your assessment, john spielman, I see Islam as the anti-Christianity and Mohammed as the anti-Jesus. That any Christian would defend Islam and Mohammed is something I’ve found very troubling. The only explanation for doing so has to be a massive ignorance of what Islam and its warped founder have intended for all the world.
Unfortunately, this ignorance can be found at the highest Christian levels, for instance with Pope John Paul II and the current Pope, along with many prominent Protestant Christians like the Archbishop of Canterbury and Rick Warren.
While a devout Christian can understandably show respect for other religions, among them Buddhism, Hinduism and, of course, Judaism, a Christian who manifests respect for Islam, by default, tramples upon his own religion——horribly so.
Salah says
Well said, Wellington. Islam is indeed anti-Christianity. As for Muhammad, I wouldn’t give such a credit. He was nothing more than an average criminal manipulated by the real anti-Jesus: Satan.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/10/muhammad-and-satan_24.html
weavo2 says
Simple correction:
Iranian ayatollah: “As long as Islam exists, jihad will exist, too”
There that is better 🙂
dumbledoresarmy says
And the corollary of *that*, is this: “Got Muslims? Got Jihad”.
Where there are Muslims, there *is* or sooner or later will be Jihad, whether it be the sly and falsely-smiling or crocodile-tear-weeping promulgation of lies and half-truths to conceal the ghastly reality of doctrinal and historic Islam from unwary Infidels, or whether it be bombs detonated at the finish line of a marathon or on buses and trains or in churches (All Saints’, Peshawar, Pakistan), or armed ghazi raiders engaging in mass murder in railway stations and hotels and shopping centres.
Which is why all majority non-Muslim lands, if so be they are currently allowing Muslim immigration or entry of Muslims for any other ‘reason’ whatsoever, need to be pressed by their Islamo-aware citizens to STOP. Now.
And why – once Islam, the Ummah, is seen for what it is by a sufficient number of people – deportation of identifiable Muslims is going to have to be on the agenda for *all* majority non-Muslim countries everywhere – Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia, Asia – if they wish to survive longterm.
weavo2 says
“And why – once Islam, the Ummah, is seen for what it is by a sufficient number of people”
Great comments and completely agree. Islam is educating the world each day regarding the insanity involved with their cult.
The behavior of Muslims world over is like a child that never matures.
Free nations will one day, as you point out, stop the immigration of Muslims and deport out of necessity.
Their is no peace in Islam. Imagine a world without Muslims or Islam.
We would all be in heaven literally.
gravenimage says
Iranian ayatollah: “As long as the enemy exists, jihad will exist, too”
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And who is “the enemy” for this fine Ayatollah? The United States, the West, any Infidels, any non-Shi’ite Muslims, and any same-sect Muslims ware are deemed “insufficiently Islamic”.
This last category is especially flexible—in Somalia, you have Sunni Jihadists *killing each other* for not being Islamic enough.
So, pious Muslims will *always* wage violent Jihad.
More:
Secondly, the Iranian regime – to use their own words – is a complete democracy of the people. The people went to the ballot, and with a turnout of over 98 percent, voted for the regime, in accordance with all the democratic criteria.
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Grimly hilarious—what American in any position of authority has *ever* referred to the tyrannical “Islamic Republic of Iran” as “a complete democracy of the people”? Even the dhimmis in office would balk at that kind of appeasement.
And in what *actual* democracy would you find *98%* of the electorate voting *for anything*? This isn’t the case even in instances where some candidate is running unopposed—you always get a lot of write-ins.
Don’t these cretins realize that claiming 98% of the populace voted for the regime is actually terribly damning? But why should they care? Islam has never been “democratic”, and it is not here, either.
More:
If the American president talks nonsense, our president should punch him in the mouth.
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This is just the same sort of “diplomacy” Iran practiced when they invaded our embassy and took the staff hostage *for 444 days*.
Clearly, they are still very proud of this—there’s this tool’s gloating, and Iran has just named one of the kidnappers ambassador to the UN, and expect us to let him into the country as a “diplomat”.
That we are now playing footsie with these Muslim supremacists *is madness*. They haven’t even bothered to *pretend* that they are any more civilized.
And why should they? Obama and Kerry have made it quite clear that we are going to appease them regardless. Insanity.
gravenimage says
“Ware” should be “who”. I should proofread more carefully before pressing the “Post Comment” button.
dumbledoresarmy says
It is the *existence* of all of us dirty Infidels – whether we be atheist or agnostic, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Zoroastrian, animist, shamanist, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, Shinto, Taoist, Confucian – that constitutes a standing “casus belli” for the Mohammedan Mob, the Empire of Islam, the Allah Gang.
Our *existence* offends them. They cannot endure that we continue to exist, doing all our horrible wicked non-Islamic things, such as…monogamous marriage of consenting adults (rather than, as in the dar al Islam, terrified girl-children being raped by men three times their age), adults having consensual sex without being stoned to death or flogged, women going about freely in public with their faces, hair, ears, necks, arms and part or all of their legs visible (!!!), men and women walking hand in hand in the street, people making music, singing, dancing, ringing church bells and striking gongs and blowing the shofar, walking pet dogs in the park, people drinking wine or beer or kava or sake or any other alcoholic beverage, people sculpting or painting likenesses of living beings, thinking, laughing, **living** and **being happy**.
All this wickedness is **not allowed**!!!! How dare we!! How dare we even think of living by our own laws; how dare we reject their mad warlord, Mohammed, and prefer our own god or gods and our own political and legal and religious systems!!!
And so, to remove the affront that our so-horribly-unislamic existence presents to their delicate sensibilities, they intend to drag us all down into the Void where they already exist…a void full of suspicion and aggression, hatred and fear, lust and fury, where the strong prey on the weak without mercy and the weak sulk and scheme and bide their time to strike from ambush.
dumbledoresarmy says
From the Ayatollah’s rant – “When our top negotiators enter the room, they should know that when they face the Americans, they face a hostile enemy that cannot be trusted at all.”
Typical projection, turnspeak and reversal of reality.
So, let’s turn it around and see what it looks like, then.
“When the Israeli/ Indian/ Filipino/ Thai [insert other non-Muslim entity’s name here, as applicable] negotiators enter the room, they should know that when they face the Muslims, they face a hostile enemy that cannot be trusted at all”.
Hmmm. Much more like the truth.
Beth says
As long as the Koran exists (without being placed upon the table of a worldwide universal inspection – for all to see) – there will continue to be bloody attacks in the name of Islam. The so called “extremists” or “fundamentalists” (those who adhere to the very core of said beliefs) will continue to carry out their deeds – according to their Koran.
And the corrupt leaders (who have appointed themselves) will continue with the false line – that they’re the humanitarians of this world.
Be your own judge:
Koran (chapter and verse given for proof)
047.004 – Beheadings
033.052 – Gang Rape of female ‘infidels’
005.033 – Crucifixions
008.067 – Treason
033.061 – Genocide “without mercy”
005.041 – Racism….
005.041 O Messenger! let not those grieve thee, who race each other into unbelief: whether it be among those who say “We believe” with their lips but whose hearts have no faith; or it be among the Jews,- men who will listen to any lie [[This is Racism – It is hate speech]]
if you support Islam – then this is what you are. A thug. The supreme authority of Islam (the koran) – says so.
dumbledoresarmy says
To this Iranian ayatollah one may oppose the words of William Gladstone, the great 19th century Prime Minister of the UK, who called the Koran an “accursed book”; he once held it up in the House of Commons, during a session of Parliament, and stated that “so long as there is this book, there will be no peace in the world”.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/01/so-long-as-there-is-this-book-there-will-be-no-peace-in-the-world
Quaere: is there, in the wake of Paul Weston’s recent admirable effort at consciousness-raising, *any* British non-Muslim politician currently serving, whether a Peer or a member of the House of Commons, who is brave enough to step up to the plate and do as Gladstone did? Given the existence of Hansard, it should not be difficult to find out exactly when and under what circumstances he did it, and the rest of what he said at the time.
Perhaps one of the hereditary or life Peers might give it a go, since *they* don’t have to worry about Votes.
Malcolm Lord Pearson, Earl of Rannoch…are you listening? You invited Geert Wilders to the UK to speak. Are you brave enough to up the ante and, hot on the heels of Weston’s quoting of Churchill in public in Alfred’s city of Winchester, stand up in the House of Lords with a Koran in hand and recite, verbatim, the words of *another* great British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, he who famously – and with searing moral lucidity – denounced the Turkish Muslim atrocities that had been perpetrated upon the Bulgarian Christians?
Mirren10 says
”Malcolm Lord Pearson, Earl of Rannoch…are you listening? You invited Geert Wilders to the UK to speak. Are you brave enough to up the ante and, hot on the heels of Weston’s quoting of Churchill in public in Alfred’s city of Winchester, stand up in the House of Lords with a Koran in hand and recite, verbatim, the words of *another* great British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, he who famously – and with searing moral lucidity – denounced the Turkish Muslim atrocities that had been perpetrated upon the Bulgarian Christians”
dda, sometimes I think you’re psychic !
I sent an email to Lady Cox at shariawatch, suggesting almost that very same thing ! I shall now send one, and a proper letter, to Lord Rannoch !
jewdog says
Sung to the tune of “We Don’t Smoke Marijuana in Muskogee”:
We don’t drink no booze in Teheran;
We don’t take no trips to Tel Aviv
We don’t sell no pork down on Main Street;
We’re just livin’ like simple slaves of Allah.
Pay your jizya or I’ll punch you in the mouth!
I’m proud to be a jihadi from Teheran;
A place where even pedophiles can have a ball.
We still hang queers down by the courthouse,
And burning US flags is the biggest thrill of all.
Pay your jizya or I’ll punch you in the mouth!
We don’t have no Zionists down in Teheran
We’re still at war with the Crusaders,
And beating wives is the biggest thrill of all.
Pay your jizya or I’ll punch you in the mouth!
No Fear says
LOL
gravenimage says
Good stuff, Jewdog.
duh_swami says
The Ayatollah knows what you do not know, or you do but it has not yet dawned on you. Islam does not want peace. If all the enemies were gone and jihad ceased what would happen?…The Dept of the Virgins would close up shop. Dying by the jihad of killing the enemy, or trying to, is the only way to get into the ‘pleasure chamber’ and those virgins.
The only way to keep the gates of ‘pleasure’ open is perpetual warfare.
Islam must always have an enemy. That’s what the Ayatollah knows, but he didn’t say.
duh_swami says
It’s interesting that Ayatollahs, Imams and high up Mahoundians, will never get the 72 virgins, because they do not engage in actual fighting.
Big Mike says
The term “jihad” is used for violence by Arab/Sunni Muslims, not so for Shia/Iranian Muslims. Israel and US are allies with the violent Arab/Sunni Muslims. Israel, along with its despotic Arab allies are full of hatred towards Iran/Shia Muslims. Both demonize Iran.