Don't expect the any Western media outlet to ask these questions of Ahmadinejad any time too soon.
Greetings Jim,And, Iranian-American Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi sends the latest from Iran--- A FATWA ON BOLLINGER:
I have been very surprised that no one is putting some hard question to Ahmadinejad like the following:
** Who is Imam Almehdi?
** What has to happen before Almehdi returns?
** What is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doing for the return of Almehdi?
** When is Armageddon coming and what is he doing to prepare his country for it?
** What has happened to Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeni Boroujerdi and his followers...(Boroujerdi advocates separating religion from politics and government as do many Shia Muslims in Nejaf, Iraq).
** What does he think of Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeni Boroujerdi ideas regarding religion and politics?
** What is the power of the supreme leader and supreme council, who elects them and how do they get on the ballot?
Why does the supreme council have to approve all who go on a ballot for elections?
And on and on...
His answers to a few of these questions and others like them will reveal how out of touch he is with ordinary Muslim and Shiite beliefs. The questions will also show the danger of his belief and what a farce the claim is of democracy in Iran.
I just heard from Iran...one of the big timeThe Iranian Republic News Agency also lashed out at Bollinger:
Ahmadinejad supporters, member of the Majles has attacked Bollinger and has
called for the Mullahs to put a fatwa on him and the various heads of
Columbia for insulting Ahmadinejad!
"It is a shame for an academic center that such hateful and impolite words are uttered by its president. It is regretful that the media owners easily elicit what they want the president of a reputable university to say in his lecture," they said in the letter.Yes- We must really study if the Holocaust was an actual event.
"Your statement about Iran was full of undocumented charges brought by the media and some of which were the outcome of misunderstanding which needs dialogue and closer study," it said.
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And, another member of the Iranian Parliament lashed out at Bollinger, via IRNA:
Member of Parliament (Majlis) Abdolmajid Shoja said on Tuesday that the offensive behavior of Columbia University chancellor towards President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad betrayed the US administration's weakness in facing Iran.Also... South Africa-Iran-Tutu Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu criticized the American government yesterday.
Shoja also told IRNA that all nations worldwide respect their guests, but he (chancellor of Colombia University) insulted the high-ranking Iranian official (president) in a country which claims to be cradle of democracy, culture and civilization.
They had better raise their critics and viewpoints in form of questions, he said, adding that the US academic could have spoken to Ahmadinejad more politely.
He said that the US tries to wage a propaganda campaign to suffocate Iran's voice, adding that Iran is the symbol of rightness in the world, therefore, the US does not want its voice heard by other nations.
More... Persian Sockpuppets?
UPDATE: Jules writes on The Mission of A'Jad
I would add to the list:
ReplyDeleteInstead of investigating holocaust, how about investigating Khomeini's crimes against humanity where he issued a fatwa of the massacre of 1987-1988 of political prisoner and dumping them in various mass graves. This only happened 19 years ago. Khomeini is dead but many who implemented his actually committed those executions are still alive and well and in various high ranking official positions.
To this date, there are no actual graves. Here is a incomplete list of their names:
http://asre-nou.net/1385/mehr/12/koshtar/m-moghadamehEN.html
HOw about investigating the hideous murder of Daryoosh and Parvaneh Forouhar in the middle of their living room in front of their daughter?
See their daughter's (Parastou Forouhar) website:
http://www.parastou-forouhar.de/english/Works/
on the Slain scholars:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dariush_Forouhar
How about investigating the prosecutor of Tehran,Mr. Mortazavi, who was implicated in murdere of Zahara Kazemi?
How about investigating thousands of other crimes by the Islamic Republic?
http://fleetingperusal.blogspot.com/2007/03/commemorating-massacre-of-political.html
http://www.abfiran.org/english/memorial-browse-1.php
http://www.islamicrepublicscrimes.blogspot.com/
How about investigating Khomeini's needless extension of the Iran-Iraq war by 6 years and killing millions of Iranians and Iraqis for his demented obsession of returning Jerusalem via Karbala its "rightful owners", the muslim ummah?
P.S. This list is not an exhaustive one in any way.
Dear Jim: Please forgive my typos and feel free to edit my comment...this happens to me a lot because I'm often outraged and my blood pressure skyrockets when I write rebuttles...LOL
ReplyDeleteNo problem- Serendip.
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ReplyDeleteSerendip @ 11:26 AM quick links:
To this date, there are no actual graves.
Here is a incomplete list of their names:
See their daughter's (Parastou Forouhar) website:
on the Slain scholars:
How about investigating thousands of
other crimes by the Islamic Republic?
link one
link two
link three
ps: Serendip @ 11:36 AM
re: high bp.. i totally understand what you're going through!! :D i used to be the same way.. then i reminded myself that i am on the side of good vs evil, and try not to let the idiotic or outrageous get to me.. now i not only laugh a lot more at the insanity, but take pride in my more successful calm, cool & collected rebuttals by focusing on the issue at hand, not what the morons have to say.. :)
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Thank you bg. I will take heed. I promise. Thank you for doing those links.
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ReplyDeleteyou're welcome Serendip.. :)
HT : Iraqi Mojo
Bollinger / Ahmadinejad speeches at Columbia
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ReplyDeleteColumbia University's Selective First Amendment Affinity
By David Limbaugh
excerpts:
[Self-congratulatory liberals, like Columbia's President Lee Bollinger, actually see the university's hosting of Ahmadinejad as a cause to celebrate -- advancing free speech and diverse viewpoints -- as opposed to something that must be reluctantly tolerated.
What will it take to wake people up to the reality that this tyrant is every bit as pernicious as Osama bin Laden? Then again, many would probably jump to offer bin Laden a forum, as well. After all, they believe both have legitimate grievances against U.S. policy.
Columbia history professor Kenneth T. Jackson said New York has more than a legal duty to accommodate controversial figures from abroad. "It's a moral obligation as a great city," said Jackson. "New York's record is one of toleration of difference."]
[We have no legal duty to accommodate the despot behind many, perhaps most, of the improvised explosive devices killing our soldiers in Iraq. The U.S. Constitution is not a global guarantor of civil rights. It does not protect the speech of foreign dictators. It was not written to safeguard al Qaeda's rights or its sensibilities.
Even if the First Amendment did apply, it wouldn't oblige us to provide rhetorical weapons, ammunition and delivery systems to our sworn ideological enemies in this deadly war of ideas. Ideas have consequences, and the promotion of deadly ones can have deadly consequences.]
[ Nor do we have a "moral obligation" to enable terrorists to kill us, destroy our nation and promote a worldwide caliphate. There's no ethical requirement that we prop up a sadistic egomaniac who has threatened to dispatch 40,000 suicide bombers throughout the civilized world and who is rattling his saber against this country amid chants from his indoctrinated, crazed subjects calling for "death to America."]
[He is not here to debate or be persuaded. He doesn't seek dialogue or a give- and-take of ideas -- unless you want to humor him with an openness to his suggestion that 9/11 was an inside government job. He is not here to argue his case for Iran's nuclear proliferation, which he denies with the chutzpah and finesse of a Goebbels or Stalin.]
[ Why else would comment posters on the liberal Daily Kos blog say they have a crush on this dictator? Why else would the mainstream media have marveled at his rambling, incoherent insulting letters to President Bush -- giving them and his warped ideas a shameful degree of credence?
If Columbia were serious about its openness to all ideas, it wouldn't have revoked its speaking invitation to the Minuteman Project's Jim Gilchrest.
Sadly, liberal academia's simulated love affair with the First Amendment and so-called tolerance for diverse viewpoints just goes one way.]
sorry for posting so much of the
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ReplyDeletebelieve GP covered this angle, but
this also hit some nails head on..
Intolerance in the name of tolerance
By Cal Thomas
excerpts:
[I would not be as bothered by Columbia University's decision to host Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if Columbia and other universities had a consistent policy toward those they invite to speak and the rules applied equally to conservatives and liberals; to totalitarian dictators and to advocates for freedom and tolerance.]
[Former U.S. News and World Report columnist John Leo has been among the chroniclers of the demise of free speech on many college campuses. Writing in last winter's issue of the publication City Journal, Leo noted that Columbia University officials prevented a large crowd from hearing Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist who is now an anti-jihadist. The reason given was security, which as Leo pointed out is a frequent excuse for restricting speech. Had Shoebat remained a PLO terrorist, Columbia might have allowed the students in, because anti-Jewish rhetoric of the kind Ahmadinejad delivers always seems welcome on too many campuses. Only Columbia students and 20 guests were allowed to hear Shoebat speak.
Why would Columbia expect Ahmadinejad to answer what they promised in advance would be "tough" questions? Have they not seen him interviewed by America's best reporters? He doesn't answer questions. He uses the interviews to lecture America and make his propaganda points. The exercise is useless, except to him because he scores points at home for "standing up to Œthe Great Satan,' or whatever the preferred term du jour for the United States is at the moment.
Last October at Columbia, a mob of students stormed a stage, curtailing speeches by two members of the anti-illegal immigration group known as the Minutemen. The students shouted "They have no right to speak," which was revealing, given the "academic freedom" argument that is used to defend liberal professors and their frequent anti-American rants when conservatives attempt to shut them up.
As John Leo wrote, "Campus opponents of (Rep.) Tom Tancredo, an illegal immigration foe, set off fire alarms at Georgetown to disrupt his planned speech, and their counterparts at Michigan State roughed up his student backers. Conservative activist David Horowitz, black conservative Star Parker, and Daniel Pipes, an outspoken critic of Islamism, frequently find themselves shouted down or disrupted on campus." The number of instances involving censorship of conservatives on college campuses and denial of honorary degrees to people who don't toe the liberal line could fill a book.
There is something else about Columbia's decision to admit Ahmadinejad and that is the notion that by exposing a tyrant and religious fanatic to a liberal arts campus - a man who believes he has been "called" to usher in Armageddon - might make him less genocidal and students and the rest of us more understanding. We understand he and his legion of murdering thugs wish to kill us and are contributing to the death of Americans in Iraq. What part of mass murder do they not understand at Columbia, or don't they have time to study history these days?]
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