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Posted on 05/02/2006 8:22:59 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
In some ways, the continuing row over his call for the complete destruction of Israel must baffle Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. All he did, after all, was to turn up at a routine anti-Zionist event and repeat the standard line—laid down by the Ayatollah Khomeini and thus considered by some to be beyond repeal—that the state of Israel is illegitimate and must be obliterated. There's nothing new in that. In the early '90s, I can remember seeing, in the areas around Baalbek in Lebanon that were dominated by Hezbollah and Amal, large posters of the by-then-late Khomeini embellished (in English) with the slogan, "Israel Must Be Completely Destroyed!" And I have twice been to Friday prayers in Tehran itself, addressed by leading mullahs and by former President Rafsanjani, where the more terse version (Marg bar Esrail—"Death to Israel") is chanted as a matter of routine; sometimes as an applause line to an especially deft clerical thrust.
No, what worries me more about Ahmadinejad is his devout belief in the return of the "occulted" or 12th imam and his related belief that, when he himself spoke recently at the United Nations, the whole scene was suffused with a sublime green light that held all his audience in a state of suspended animation. This uncultured jerk is, of course, only a puppet figure with no real power, but this choice of puppet by the theocracy is unsettling in itself. So is Iran's complete lack of embarrassment at being caught, time and again, with nuclear enrichment facilities that have never been declared to the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Ouch Hitch, sharp blade quick thrust.
Much more justifiable and amusing than the hatchet on Mother Teresa.
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Why spend so much time debunking a leftist Muslim apologist like Juan Cole. The last paragraph was enough to destroy Cole's absurd assertions:
"One might have thought that, if the map-wiping charge were to have been inaccurate or unfair, Ahmadinejad would have denied it. But he presumably knew what he had said and had meant to say."
I don't know what was responsible for Hitchen's awakening that his former travelers were idiots with little interest in true liberalism, but I doubt his epiphany came about because of a close parsing of Farsi. Attack Cole's defense of the homicidal Ahmadinejad. Get to the issues.
;-)
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
Christopher Hitchens is in a slugfest with Juan Cole. Andrew Sullivan has a good scorecard (though he does seem to be oddly surprised that Cole would make personal attacks or change the subject from where he was wrong). Bet on Hitch.
From Cole's blog:
"But then he [Hitchens] should behave like a journalist, not like a hired gun for the far Right"
Hitchens on the "far Right??" Shows just how off the map leftist Cole is.
For the record, Cole's creds as a scholar and expert on Shiism was destroyed by the bloggers Iraq the Model a couple of years ago. He knows sh** about Shiite.
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