IARC has reported 64% of Iranian-Americans will again support President Bush in 2004.
Posted on 09/04/2004 6:17:36 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
Scoff.
Maybe there is a reality disconnect in the Middle Eastern genetic coding... Maybe it extends to the entire South Asia...
And liberals carry that gene too...
I bet the French have a similar gene too.
CNN has to find SOME sign of hope for the Democrats. A person can't live without hope. Not even a liberal.
The really nutty thing is, they think Democrats of a Muslim persuasion are going to help the party.
Odd that the murder of 3,000 of their fellow citizens does not seem to motivate them to fight the enemy of radical Islamist terrorists.
It's the only way for Allah to rule the world - elect John Kerry.
Islam comes before country.
I deduce
one is muslim first
muslim internationalist second
muslim-American third
and proud American dead last.
This guy is no American. Nevr has been despite being here for 27 years. Yeah just what we need people loyal to Bin Laden in politics.
God bless those loyal to President Bush. Speaking of Iranian emigres, I always enjoy reading Amir Taheri. He's the only person that allows me to think that there might just be a ray of hope for the future in the benighted Middle East.
An Iranian customer says his countrymen love America but the lunatics took over and ruined the country. He makes a very strong statement against Islam, noting that most Iranians seem more tolerant of Mazda than Allah. Don't know if his assessment is entirely correct but its food for thought. If true, it seems to add weight to the poll that Iranian-Americans strongly support Bush.
I was doing a little research. Iranians seem to be cut from a different cloth.
There are 22 Arab countries in the Middle East.
Iranians are the lone ethnically Persian country and of indo-European origin.
There's a stark difference between the two. I've attached an article from Business Metro you'll enjoy.
http://www.ocmetro.com/metro070804/Cover070804.html
But as any Iranian-American will tell you, Persians are not Arabs, any more than Koreans are Japanese.
“Meaning no disrespect to Arab-Americans,” they tell everyone who will listen. “We are very proud of our own culture, our own language, cuisine and history.”
In fact, relations between Iran, or Persia, as the country was traditionally called, and the Arab world have been tense for many centuries (see sidebar, “The Tragic Pageant of Persian History”). And nothing annoys Iranian-Americans more than being mistaken for Arabs their accent and appearance is very different.
Furthermore, most Iranian-Americans consider themselves to be secular refugees from theocratic tyranny. They have no connection, whatsoever, with the current government of Iran, which they contemptuously dismiss as the “mullah regime.” In fact, many Iranian-Americans are not Muslim at all, but Jews, Bahais, Christians and even followers of the Zoroastrian religion of the ancient Persian Empire.
Persian or Iranian?
They’re both, actually. Persia, or Fars, is the ancient term for the country. The people and their language are called Farsi.
And as all Persians are quick to point out, their language is not related to Arabic in any way. Like English, Italian, Russian, Urdu and Hindi, Persian is a member of the Indo-European family of languages and shares a number of grammatical ties. Some words, such as the Persian “lab” for the English “lip,” haven’t changed since the first Indo-European tribes went their separate ways perhaps 5,000 years ago.
Most ethnic minorities in the country speak a dialect of Farsi or a related language, such as Kurdish. Azaris in the northwest, however, speak a dialect of Turkish, and there are many Arabs living in the region bordering Iraq.
The term Iran is derived from Aryan, the name historians and anthropologists gave to a wave of tribes that migrated out of the Caucacus Mountains, traveling south and east into Persia and India.
Reza Shah adopted the current official name, Iran, in 1935, and the current regime has never changed it back. OCM
The Tragic Pageant of Persian History
Persia suddenly burst into the West after King Cyrus, known as Kurosh in Persian, united the Medes and the Persians in the 6th century B.C., founding the Achaemenid Dynasty.
One of history’s truly remarkable rulers, Cyrus is the great liberator of the Bible who freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity. His successors tried to conquer Greece, but were beaten back in such epic battles as Marathon and Salamis.
Alexander the Great conquered the Achaemenids in 331 B.C. and burned their capital, Persepolis, whose ruins remain hauntingly beautiful today.
Three hundred years later, Parthian rulers held off repeated Roman attacks on the country. In the late 6th century A.D., the great Persian King Khosro conquered most of the eastern Mediterranean but was stopped at the gates of Constantinople by the Byzantine Emperor Heracleas.
In the year 637, invaders professing the new religion of Islam suddenly burst out of the Arabian Desert. In a few short years, these Arabs conquered all of Persia, imposing their own language and alphabet, all but destroying native Persian culture. It took the country 300 years to regain its independence.
This invasion, and its brutal aftermath, was the single, most-searing event in Persian history. If there is 1 thing that unites all Persians, even those who support the current regime, it is a resentment of that invasion and subsequent Arabic cultural influences.
Persia eventually adopted the Shiah strain of Islam, which reveres Ali, the son-in-law of Mohammed, and his descend-ants, while Sunni Islam prevailed in most of the Arab world.
Arab rulers were followed by a succession of dynasties, most of them of Turkish origin, until 1925, when Reza Shah founded the last Pahlavi dynasty, and tried to restore Persian national pride and power.
Although the country still retains the new name he gave it in 1935, Reza Shah largely failed to force the major powers to recognize Iran’s sovereignty. The reason was geography: The Russians, both tsarist and Communist, saw Persian territory as an outlet to the warm water of the Persian Gulf, while the British saw Russian ambitions as a threat to their oil supply.
Although neutral in both world wars, Iran became a battleground in both. During World War I, Turkish and Russian forces fought each other in the north. During World War II, Soviet and British forces partitioned the country into “spheres of influence” in order to secure a supply route from the United States to the Russian Front.
The rise of the Cold War caused the Soviets to try to maintain its sphere, attempting to detach much of northern Iran into a “People’s Republic of Azerbaijan.” A few years later, a nationalist prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, allied himself with the pro-Soviet Tudeh party, which caused the United States to help engineer his downfall.
The last shah, Reza Pahlavi, was overthrown in 1979 by religious theocrats who created the “Islamic Republic” so detested by Iranian-Americans.
It was that upheaval that drove many of Orange County’s Persian immigrants out of their ancestral land. OCM
The man is prepared.
He should be on the next camel enroute to his allah minus the 72 gutter sluts.
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