Western Press Ignores Iran’s Hate-Filled Quds Day
It is disturbing when the entire leadership of one nation, along with hundreds of thousands of its citizens, comes out with celebrations and parades every year that call for the annihilation of another country.
This is another case of some news that’s “not fit to print” according to the NY Slimes.
Their activities are nothing if not diverse in their expression of enmity:
Iranian press outlets featured hundreds of photographs from the celebrations in Tehran. Among the notable scenes captured were children in Condoleezza Rice costumes; effigies of President Bush, Prime Minister Olmert, and Prime Minister Blair being lit on fire and dragged through the streets; the burning of American and Israeli flags; and hundreds of posters of Sheik Hassan Nasrallah featuring the caption “I swear to Allah that Israel is weaker than [a] spider house.” The posters called for a boycott of such “Israeli” goods as McDonald’s, Kit Kat bars, Intel, L’Oreal, Nestlé, Disney, and Marlboro.
Ahm-mad-on-a-jihad Ahmadinejad observed the festivities by stating his almost endorsement of the position of Venezuelan wanna-be dictator Chavez:
President Ahmadinejad gave a series of speeches leading up to and on Quds Day. At an Iftar address on October 14, he discussed his “connection with God” and said: “The president of America is like us. That is, he too is inspired … but [his] inspiration is of the satanic kind. Satan gives inspiration to the president of America.”
And then there’s this note:
A who’s who of the Iranian leadership marched in the main Quds Day parade before crowds chanting “death to Israel” and “death to America.” The marchers included a former Iranian president, Mohammed Khatemi, and a spokesman for the parliament presidency board, Mohsen Kouhkan, who predicted a quick “final and total defeat of America and the Zionist regime.”
Wait a minute! Khatemi…wasn’t he the Iranian alleged “moderate” who was not so long ago an honored guest at Harvard? Does he only support moderate death to us, or what? Speaking of moderation…this piece also takes cognizance of the degree of moderation of Iranian former President Rafsanjani who also got in on the fun:
The chairman of the Expediency Council and a former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who led Friday prayers, said Quds Day is an important factor “between Islam and unbelief and the stage for Muslims’ jihad.” He added, “The world’s 1.5 billion Muslims back this jihad.”
Mr. Rafsanjani also led Quds Day prayers on December 14, 2001. Then, he warned of a coming confrontation between the “pious and martyrdom-seeking forces” and the “highest forces of colonialism,” which “might inflame a third World War.”
Sadly, Mr. Rafsanjani is considered one of Iran’s more moderate leaders.
So what else could be expected. Enemy Islamofascists will be…enemy Islamofascists.