Ahmadinejad’s Holy Saliva
Posted by KamangirJan 7
When I was writing the post “Do Ayatollahs Fart?” I had no idea how wrong I was.
Today, Ahmadinejad went to the parliament to present the budget for the next year (the Persian new year is approaching). This was the first time many MPs saw him since his return from the Hajj pilgrimage. Aftab continues [Persian],
A large group of MPs were lined up in order to greet him. Some of the MPs who had not seen him since his return would touch his cloths [because they considered them blessed]. One MP went as far as drinking the remaining water in a glass Ahmadinejad had used. He then splashed the water on his clothes.
Now, you tell me. When Ahmadinejad’s saliva is so blessed, is it not totally silly to question the “holification” of the couch the Grand Ayatollah used to sit on?
Is this gesture (drinking the remainder of the water, etc) genuinely motivated by piety or is it just a form of self-ingratiation?
Kamangir: I would say a mixture of both.
*gives Kaman a desk*
It’s your country, so *you* headdesk. I’ll just cry a little, m’kay? This is just insane.
Kamangir: ?
When encountering extreme frustrating idiocy with which you may have some association with, it is customary to express said frustration by hitting your head on the desk, at least in a virtual sense. It’s usually encountered in web chats where the person you speak with is about as helpful as a brick, but I think it applies just as well with what you posted about.
Me, I just find it stupid, but not personally frustrating enough to warrant headdesking.
Kamangir: I see…
To clarify a little more, what I meant was that this whole saliva business is idiotic, especially when the person in question is supposed to help manage your home country. Such people should not be allowed anywhere near such a position.
This reminds me of Rasputin. He was considered so holy by some people, that thet would drink his bath water. Yuck!
Kamangir:
One of my readers says This story is a fake. Do you know anything about it?
Kamangir: No I don’t. Send more information and we blow it in their face, if it is fake.
Nuke
Oh gosh, that can’t be true, the Columbia University professors can not be such an idiots.
If it is true I think they should all move to IRI and experience from the bottom up the delights of living under Ahmadinejad. Then they could do what they really like to do …………..praise IRI, its system and its president and condemn USA, its system and its president.