Tehran May Name Street After Muhammad Ali, Once Quoted Calling Iran ‘The Greatest’ Country

Cybercast News Service ^ | June 6, 2016 | 4:24 AM EDT | Patrick Goodenough

[Olog-hai]

As fans around the world remembered Muhammad Ali at the weekend, a member of Tehran’s city council suggested that a street in the Iranian capital be named after the American boxing legend, a convert to Islam who during a 1993 trip to Iran was quoted as calling the Islamic republic “the greatest.”

Addressing a meeting of the city council, Eqbal Shakeri described Ali as a “symbol of resistance to racism and U.S. imperialistic policies in the Vietnam War,” the IRNA state news agency reported — a reference to Ali’s refusal to be conscripted into the military in the 1960s in opposition to the war. …

[Olog-hai]

Sorry for another Ali thread, but this one is particularly vile if true. The quote comes from INRA, though.

[Bullish]

We should just chuck his body over there then.

[Enchante]

yeah, a symbol of resistance, and if someone tries anything similar in Iran against the Mullahs and their expansionist policies the person ends up dead....

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

In that region, the name Muhammad Ali is the equivalent of John Smith.

[Celerity]

Up until the Shah was deposed, Iran wasn’t a shithole.

Then the Ayatollah Assahola came around and the whole place turned into House Harkonnen over night.

... I kid, I kid. I actually have a shred of respect for the Harkonnens.

[Olog-hai]

Well, given the Islamic terminology of “Dune”, it’s not inappropriate.

[ErikJohnsky]

also, the original Muhammed Ali was a Muslim warlord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Ali_(disambiguation)#Politics or well, many Islam warlords

[exnavy]

Not sure why so many call this man great. He was a very good boxer, a draft dodger, and moslem. To me that means he was on the wrong side, nothing to celebrate.

[mkjessup]

I hope Ali was able to get right with Jesus before he died.

Jesus said "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, NO one cometh unto the Father except by Me". That is irrefutable.

Islam teaches that Jesus was NOT the Son of the Living God, that God HAS no son, that Jesus was only a minor prophet who died a natural death like any man and was certainly not resurrected, let alone crucified.

And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
~1 John 4:3

In order to become a Muslim or to remain a Muslim, one must DENY the Divinity of Jesus Christ, and that means that each and every practicing Muslim (and yes, that means Ali as well) that denies or denied Christ is most assuredly bound for Hellfire and eternal torment.

Is it cruel to say that?

Truth sometimes IS cruel. But it remains the Truth.

That child molesting, murdering savage named Mohammed isn't going to get ANYONE into Heaven, he and every dedicated follower of that death cult will be lost eternally.

"You only get one Eternal Life, choose wisely".

[central_va]

Wasn’t Mo a Sunni?

[Jack Hammer]

Is it just me, or have their been more hagiographic posts referencing Cassius Clay than Mother Theresa...?

[JudyinCanada]

It’s not just you. I’m sick of hearing about this guy. For the love of Pete, he was just a stupid boxer. Big whoop.

[Vermont Lt]

Some guy on a city council makes a statement that creates world wide news?

This crap is just noise.

[CGASMIA68]

Coming to a Sanctuary City near you too!

[GOPJ]

“The spice had glowed radiant blue in the dim silver light. And the smell - bitter cinnamon, unmistakable...”

[Buckeye McFrog]

Ali Alley?

[Olog-hai]

There was no Sunni-Shi’a divide in his day, because there was just him; the sects came about over the “controversy” of who should succeed Mahomet in leading Islam, the Sunnis favoring the people choosing this leader whereas the Shi’ites believed it had to be a member of Mahomet’s family. (Of course, none of the Ayatollahs are descended from Mahomet, but they await their fictitious Mahdi.)