Posted on 11/26/2009 8:35:37 AM PST by nuconvert
Less than a year after authorities stormed the offices of Iranian human-rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, taking sensitive documents and her computer, unidentified authorities have now allegedly taken the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma from Ebadi's bank safety deposit box, said officials in Norway, which administers the prize.
Outraged officials in Oslo say the incident is unprecedented and has sent shock waves through the Norwegian foreign ministry.
“This is the first time a Nobel Peace Prize has been confiscated by national authorities," Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Store said in a statement posted to his agency's website. "The medal and the diploma have been removed from Dr. Ebadi’s bank box, together with other personal items. Such an act leaves us feeling shock and disbelief.”
Ebadi was awarded the prestigious prize in 2003 for her many years of legal work advocating on behalf of Iranian political activists, religious and ethnic minorities, women and children. She was the first Iranian to win the prize.
But intimidation and harassment from Iranian authorities have become a part of everyday life for Ebadi. She has had her home vandalized, apparently by members of hard-line political groups close to the government, had her office raided and shut down by police, and has received scores of death threats.
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I wish the Iranians would do this to Al Gore... How funny is it to watch these Norwegians protest. Once upon a time the Scandinavians were a proud and strong race. What happened?
well, they didn’t steal all that much.
Or was the medal solid gold?
When Norwegian officials visit the United States, we should send them home on a milk run that has a stop over and plane change in Tehran, Iran.
The Nobel Isnt a peace prize, It’s a liberal political statement and should be referred to as such.
Maybe the latest recipient, Barack Hussein Obama, will speak out and scold these Muslim fanatics for their bad behavior.
“Shame on them,” He might say. “I f*rt in their general direction!”
Thank you.
You have no
idea
Uhhh
How much I
uhhh
deserve this award
even though I
uhhh
only spent
thirty days in
office to
uhhhh
be eligible to receive it. I uhhhh know I should have it.
And will he donate the cash award to the Debt. . . or buy Michelle 2-3 more sets of her Designer Sneakers, and some Certified Organic Tuscan Kale ??
Iranian government is IDIOT.
Nobel Peace Prize is nothing. It’s a shame to receive such an award.
>”He might say. “I f*rt in their general direction!”
Lol. Obama doesn’t need to, they already smell bad enough, including Shirin Ebadi.
For the record, Jimmy Carter too won a Nobel (noble) Peace Prize .... Those clever Norwegians!
Ah, the (Ig)Nobel Piss Prize...awarded to such luminaries as Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Barack Hussein Obama. Maybe he could import some Cracker Jacks and get another one.
You forgot Yassir Arafat. And, yes, he's still dead.
DOH! (_8:(|)
Aren't you the same dumbsh|ts who are only days away from presenting a Nobel prize to Obama: a world "leader" who, just a few months before you selected him, refused to take the side, even with "just words," of Iranian democracy activists shot dead in the streets, beaten, and thousands hauled off to political imprisonment and torture? (Real torture; not that filing your sinuses with water for 15 seconds stuff.)
And now you're shocked and amazed that the very same perpetrators have disrespected a medal?
Really?!
You tacitly approve ignoring murder, and siding with murderers and oppressors against democratic protesters, and you're flabbergasted when the murderers commit -- gasp! -- petty theft!?
I mean, REALLY!?!
Zero will use the prize money to start a non-profit organization, entitled, The Barack Obama Birth Certificate Defense Fund.
PING
I’ve noticed a corollary speech pattern in Obama: it seemed he wasn’t using the “uhhhhhhhhh.....” all that much, or maybe I just didn’t notice because the other “stalling for time” measure seemed so much more obvious: instead of “uhhhhhhhh” I’d hear him drag out a full word, whether it was “aaaaaaaannnnnnnd” or any other word, usually another conjunction, midway into a sentence.Listen closely next time. “Uhhhhhhhh”s and “aaaaaannnnnnnnnd”s and “buuuuuuuttttttt”s, but select nouns also get equal time.
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