Posted on 09/23/2007 11:29:50 PM PDT by james500
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a flinty populist in a zip-up jacket whose scathing rhetoric and defiance of Washington are often caricatured in the Western media, has transcended national and religious divides to become a folk hero across the Middle East.
The diminutive, at times inscrutable, president is a wellspring of stinging sound-bites and swagger for Muslims who complain that their leaders are too beholden to or frightened of the Bush administration. Ahmadinejad, who arrived in New York Sunday ahead of a U.N. General Assembly meeting, is an easily marketable commodity:a streetwise politician with nuclear ambitions and an open microphone.
"I like him a lot," said Mahmoud Ali, a medical student in Cairo. "He's trying to protect himself and his nation from the dangers around him. He makes me feel proud. He's a symbol of Islam. He seems the only person capable of taking a stand against Israel and the West. Unfortunately, Egypt has gotten too comfortable with Washington."
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"He's a brave man," said Tayseer Ibrahim, an employee of the Egyptian Education Ministry, who was hurrying toward the subway the other day. "He's standing up to the U.S. He could have been intimidated after what happened to Saddam Hussein in Iraq, but he's not. The Iranian people must love him a lot. Hopefully, our Arab leaders will see that you can defy the West and nothing will happen to you."
Munther Farrah, who sells nuts and chocolates in Amman, the Jordanian capital, said he and other Sunnis are troubled by Iran's Shiite theocracy. "But Ahmadinejad is still liked," he said. "We are with him as long as he's against Israel and the U.S."
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Let him enjoy it while it lasts. I expect he’ll be gone from this earthly realm within the year.
Heh. Stick around. Let's find out.
Okay, they probably would have.
Last time I checked he was at the wrong end of a noose courtesy of Uncle Sam.
This little SOB is going to wish he was that lucky.
The same can be said about Jesse Jackson, “protecting” “African, ex-American slaves” from “the man”. Meanwhile those “black Americans” who have adopted American values have prospered.
Hilarious. In the first sentence he points to a defiant Saddam's death at the hands of the U.S. and in the very next sentence claims that defiance aganst the West goes unpunished, as proved by Ahmadinejad still breathing. Islamologic for ya.
The title seems wacky. Ahmadinejad is Persian, not Arab ... and the article states several times that he is a hero to Muslims, not Arabs.
“Ahmadinejad a hero for Arabs”
How about:
“Ahmadinejad a hero for Academic Liberals.”
Yeah right. He may as well be the hidden Imam. Bush is bending over backwards to kiss his @ass, and the RATS and their leftist lunatic followers are throwing down rose petals for him to walk on.
He's already proved that "the great Satan" is powerless against him and he can walk freely in the great Satan's lair without fear.
Now we will have Jihadists running like mad trying to get into Mohammad's heavenly whore house in numbers we never thought possible.
Arabs are mostly Sunni and they hate the guy.
Will someone please tell the LAtimes that all Mid-easterners are not alike.
Moomound Amadjihadist is an Arab.
Anyone who follows Islam is called a Muslim, regardless of race; Persian, Arab, Semite, African, Turk or otherwise. "muslim" is not a race.
Iranians used to be "Persians", true, but Islam destroyed their culture centuries ago, and through the Mohammad example of slavery and large amounts of female sex slaves, bred the Persian out of them.
The Persian "sun god" culture is long gone.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a criminal and should be indicted for his envolvement in the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Absolutely. Anyone who mocks the USA, it's freedom and the constitution which grants it is a hero for Liberals/ Marxist/ communist/ triators
Oh, don't worry, they will, and then we'll really be in trouble.
I know what newspaper / Internet headline I would like to read in the morning....
Ask the Isrealis the same thing lets see what they will do in the course of a year’s time.
These folks are idiots. President Nutjob is Persian, not Arab. The latter cannot stand the former.
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