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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Starring Iran’s Ahmadinejad
Guest Column | By Alan Caruba | September 4, 2008
Mamoud Ahmadinejad, the
president of Iran,
was bouncing off the walls in August. Hardly a day went by without his getting
crazier and crazier about Zionism,
Israel, and
Jews in general. The last guy who talked like this was Adolf Hitler and he
started World War II.
Here’s just a sample of
Ahmadinejad’s ravings:
“About 2,000 organized
Zionists and 7,000 to 8,000 agents of Zionism have dragged the world into
turmoil.” Last time I checked most of the turmoil is being generated by the
likes of the Russians, al Qaeda murderers, Hezbollah, Hamas, and, oh yes, Iran.
I have no idea where Mamoud
came up with his numbers, but it is safe to say that most citizens of Israel can be called Zionist insofar Zionism was
a movement to reestablish Israel.
I know a lot of Christians who proudly call themselves Zionists, so I think
Mamoud is off by a couple of million.
“The era of the
Zionists has come to an end, and I recommend that the leaders of Europe and the
U.S.
not submit to the Zionists. If they help them, they will be harmed.” Whoa!
Anybody hear a threat to nuke Europe and the U.S. in this statement? I do. And I
am thinking, “preemptive strike.”
“We will witness dismantling
of the corrupt regime (Israel)
in a very near future,” said Mamoud during World Mosque Week in August. He went
on to say that Israel
is “the main cause of all corruption and wickedness in the contemporary era.”
He has likewise described Israel
as “a dirty microbe,” “a wild animal,” and “the West’s scarecrow.”
Mamoud is not just talking
about Israel.
He’s really talking about Jews because, like a lot of Muslims, he has absorbed
all the anti-Semitic teachings of the Koran. It’s worth noting that Mohammad
also mocked Christianity and committed all Muslims to impose Islam on the
world.
But Mamoud wasn’t finished.
He went on to advise “writers in the West” to avoid referring to the Holocaust,
the extermination of six million Jews by the Nazi regime, because that would be
“tantamount to backing the identity of the Zionists.” Mamoud doesn’t believe
the Holocaust ever happened or so he says.
“Soon the world will
celebrate the elimination of the oppressing Zionism.”
So much for the wit and
wisdom of Mamoud Ahmadinejad circa August 2008.
What one can swiftly discern
from this selection of comments is that Ahmadinejad is doing a poor job of
hinting that an attack on Israel
is coming. He may just have in mind something similar to the Hezbollah attack
out of Lebanon
in July-August 2006 or a combined attack with Hamas.
Or he may be saying that, as
soon as Iran can put nuclear
warheads on top of missiles, it will not only destroy Israel, but threaten Europe
as well.
I will leave the parsing and
analysis of Ahmadinejad’s ravings to people who do this for a living. I am sure
that August alone gave them cause to send a number of lively intelligence
reports for inclusion in President Bush’s daily briefings.
For my part, though, I’m
thinking the sooner Israel
and/or the United States
blows Iran’s
nuclear facilities off the face of the Earth, the better.
We don’t need to invade Iran or occupy
it. We just need to send a message that we have read the history of World War
II and we don’t want to repeat the errors of the past by not believing what our
enemies are saying.
I have no ill feelings for
the people of Iran.
They are descended from an ancient civilization and they deserve to be
liberated from the insane ayatollahs that hold them captive to their primitive
and barbaric interpretation of Islam.
What the world must rightly
fear is the madness of Ahmadinejad and his cronies. He lives for the return of
the mythical Twelfth Imam and he believes the only way that can be brought
about is with the maximum spilling of blood.
Just because America, Europe,
Israel and a host of other nations may want peace does not mean they will
permitted to have it. When there’s a nut loose in the neighborhood, he needs to
be removed from the streets.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, “Warning Signs”, posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center. His book, “Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy”, is published by Merrill Press.
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Many of the quotes in this article originate from this post on the IRNA website:
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0808203080171319.htm
The IRNA post contains this single quote from Ahmadinejad:
“We will witness dismantling of the corrupt regime in a very near future.”
The rest of what Ahmadinejad said was paraphrased by IRNA. These remarks were made in the sixth conference held on the occasion of “World Mosque Week” in Tehran. Normally, whenever Ahmadinejad gives a speech, BBC Worldwide Monitoring authors a transcript of the entire speech, which can be obtained from Lexis Nexis. There is no transcript of this speech available from the BBC. Lexis Nexis only contains the BBC Monitoring International Reports article titled “Iran President Says ‘Zionist Regime’ to be Dismantled Soon” from 20 Aug, 2008. This BBC article is word for word what you read in the IRNA website above. The only information that exists anywhere about this speech is from this IRNA post.
Memri saw this IRNA post and wrote a “Media Blog” about it:
thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/9297.htm
The Memri blog quotes the source of their blog article as “IRNA, Iran, August 20, 2008,” which is the IRNA post I gave above. Much of what was said in the Memri blog can be found in the IRNA post, which is to be expected, since that is the source. (This thread tends to put paraphrased remarks in quotes, which is wrong). However, the Memri blog also quotes Ahmadinejad as saying this:
“The era of the Zionists has come to its end, and I recommend that the leaders of Europe and the U.S. not submit to the Zionists. If they help them, they will be harmed. Also among the leaders of Europe and the U.S. there is serious doubt regarding the existence of Zionism, and soon we will witness the disappearance of this corrupt germ from the region.”
This quote was used on this thread. Can someone please help me and find this quote in the IRNA article? Know what? It is not there! Why? Because it is fabricated.
The AP had a slightly different fabrication. They also had an article regarding the “comments [that] were posted Wednesday on his presidential website”:
ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3585488,00.html
The AP claims that Ahmadinejad called Israel a “germ of corruption.” I really can’t find that word “germ” in the IRNA website. Weird.
I have access to Lexis Nexis. I have researched countless Ahmadinejad quotes, and most are fabricated.
There is this quote from the thread above:
“Soon the world will celebrate the elimination of the oppressing Zionism.”
This quote comes from the Memri Media Blog as well:
thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/9551.htm
This quote is from a speech given in Arak. The entire text of the speech in Arak can be found here:
BBC Monitoring International Reports
August 23, 2008 Saturday
Iran President Warns “Powers” to “Reign in Zionists”
I will put the actual quote side by side with the Memri version:
BBC:
“The global hegemonic powers, its margins and its agents, like malevolent, illegal and criminal Zionist regime are in decay.”
Memri:
“Soon the world will celebrate the elimination of the oppressing Zionism.”
This is where those outrageous quotes come from.
BTW, Ahmadinejad never said that he wanted Israel “wiped of the map,” and he never said that the Holocaust never happened.
Better learn how to spell his name first,its Mahmoud not Mamoud!
September 5 at 12:28 am | #1 | Link
Many of the quotes in this article originate from this post on the IRNA website:
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0808203080171319.htm
The IRNA post contains this single quote from Ahmadinejad:
“We will witness dismantling of the corrupt regime in a very near future.”
The rest of what Ahmadinejad said was paraphrased by IRNA. These remarks were made in the sixth conference held on the occasion of “World Mosque Week” in Tehran. Normally, whenever Ahmadinejad gives a speech, BBC Worldwide Monitoring authors a transcript of the entire speech, which can be obtained from Lexis Nexis. There is no transcript of this speech available from the BBC. Lexis Nexis only contains the BBC Monitoring International Reports article titled “Iran President Says ‘Zionist Regime’ to be Dismantled Soon” from 20 Aug, 2008. This BBC article is word for word what you read in the IRNA website above. The only information that exists anywhere about this speech is from this IRNA post.
Memri saw this IRNA post and wrote a “Media Blog” about it:
http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/9297.htm
The Memri blog quotes the source of their blog article as “IRNA, Iran, August 20, 2008,” which is the IRNA post I gave above. Much of what was said in the Memri blog can be found in the IRNA post, which is to be expected, since that is the source. (This thread tens to put paraphrased remarks in quotes, which is wrong). However, the Memri blog also quotes Ahmadinejad as saying this:
“The era of the Zionists has come to its end, and I recommend that the leaders of Europe and the U.S. not submit to the Zionists. If they help them, they will be harmed. Also among the leaders of Europe and the U.S. there is serious doubt regarding the existence of Zionism, and soon we will witness the disappearance of this corrupt germ from the region.”
This quote was used on this thread. Can someone please help me and find this quote in the IRNA article? Know what? It is not there! Why? Because it is fabricated.
The AP had a slightly different fabrication. They also had an article regarding the “comments [that] were posted Wednesday on his presidential website”:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3585488,00.html
The AP claims that Ahmadinejad called Israel a “germ of corruption.” I really can’t find that word “germ” in the IRNA website. Weird.
I have access to Lexis Nexis. I have researched countless Ahmadinejad quotes, and most are fabricated.
There is this quote from the thread above:
“Soon the world will celebrate the elimination of the oppressing Zionism.”
This quote comes from the Memri Media Blog as well:
http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/9551.htm
This quote is from a speech given in Arak. The entire text of the speech in Arak can be found here:
BBC Monitoring International Reports
August 23, 2008 Saturday
Iran President Warns “Powers” to “Reign in Zionists”
I will put the actual quote side by side with the Memri version:
BBC:
“The global hegemonic powers, its margins and its agents, like malevolent, illegal and criminal Zionist regime are in decay.”
Memri:
“Soon the world will celebrate the elimination of the oppressing Zionism.”
This is where those outrageous quotes come from.
BTW, Ahmadinejad never said that he wanted Israel “wiped of the map,” and he never said that the Holocaust never happened.