Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealing his identity papers (Photo: London Telegraph)
Posted on 10/03/2009 11:47:06 PM PDT by kellynla
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has exasperated the world with incensed condemnations of Israel and his insistence that the Holocaust is a hoax, but could there be another reason behind his seeming hatred for the Jews?
According to a London Telegraph report, his ferocity may be overcompensation … for his own Jewish roots.
Examining a photo of the Iranian president holding aloft his identity card during the nation's 2008 elections, the newspaper discovered Ahmadinejad's original family name – prior to their conversion to Islam – was Sabourjian, a Jewish name meaning "cloth weaver."
Ahmadinejad has not denied that his name was changed when his family moved to Tehran in the 1950s, but he has also never confirmed what that original name was.
A note on his identification papers, when magnified from the photo, however, suggests the man from Aradan, Iran, carried a common Jewish name from the region of his birth. "Sabourjian," the Telegraph reports, is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior.
"This aspect of Mr. Ahmadinejad's background explains a lot about him," commented Ali Nourizadeh of the Centre for Arab and Iranian Studies. "Every family that converts into a different religion takes a new identity by condemning their old faith."
Nouizadeh told the Telegraph, "By making anti-Israeli statements, he is trying to shed any suspicions about his Jewish connections. He feels vulnerable in a radical Shia society."
Ahmadinejad, the fourth of seven children to a man who worked as an ironworker, grocer, barber and blacksmith, moved with his family to Tehran was he was a small child. Reportedly, the family moved to seek better economic fortunes, but also took on the new, Islamic name.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Some of the most insidious hatred against Israel comes from the Brit publications—especially on Saturdays, when Jewish people don’t write public comments on the Net.
There’s also a common neo-Nazi canard about Hitler having had a Jewish mother.
They’ve been doing this crap for years..
[Ahmadinejad responded, speaking of the Jewish people, “They have no boundaries, limits or taboos when it comes to killing human beings. Who are they? Where did they come from? Are they human beings? ‘They are like cattle, nay, more misguided.’ A bunch of bloodthirsty barbarians. Next to them, all the criminals of the world seem righteous.”]
If he keeps this up, Obama is going take him on as his next “Diversity Czar”.
To be sure... there certainly isn’t a lack of Jews (or rather Jews in name only) who are viciously self-hating, antisemitic and anti-Israel. Just look at George Soros, Noam Chomsky and a lot of the bunch of leftist Jews in the USA.
It is a fact that Ahmadinejads family got a name change. Their previous name was either Saborjian or Sabrian (etc. there are different versions making rounds). But there is no doubt that they changed it.
Since Islam recognizes converts as fully Muslim, it would not surprise me the slightest if indeed Ahmadinejad was born into an ex-Jewish family.
If this is true, so is the old saying “truth is stranger than fiction”. Who would have thought?
If he wanted to hide his family's past, he was unable to get his passport altered? I don't think so.
Most Muslims don't have a racial/ethnic bias against Jews. It's purely religious. Converts from Judaism (or Christianity, FTM) to Islam are welcomed.
This is similar to the situation in Middle Ages Europe. Prior to the development of the Spanish obsession with limpieza, Christians welcomed Jewish converts with open arms. They often had kings or popes as their sponsors and reached high positions in the Church.
Yep. You said it.
All he has had recently is a name change ~ else people'd quickly identify him as a typical Persian hillbilly.
There are millions of Moslems in the Middle-East who will tell you in an instant that their ancestors were Jews ~ MILLIONS! The ruling elite in Yemen ALL have that tradition.
Doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean it's false, but they believe it.
BTW, in case you missed the news Jesus was Jewish too!
‘Sabourjian, a Jewish name meaning “cloth weaver.”
Actually it means, “weaver of men’s underpants.”
Karl Marx was a self-hating Jew who once wrote, “the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism”.
There have been many of a similar mindset. There have always been powerful, wicked forces working against the Jews. So powerful that many Jews reject their faith and get swept up into it.
The suggestion that it’s somehow antisemitic to point that out is nonsense. Many Christians do the same thing with socialism, which is also inherently anti-Christianity.
You mean when very devout Jewish people don't don’t write public comments on the Net. I doubt the majority would so limit themselves.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.