If Ahmadinejad was not Iranian…
By Kamangir • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Humour, Islamic Republic, Picture of the Day
What would Ahmadinejad look like if he was not born in Iran? I used this online tool to see the Chinese Ahmadinejad, as well as the White Ahmadinejad. There is also the Ape Ahmadinejad, in case you are interested to see. Find all the pictures at this address, or watch this video.
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Ya know, Arash, that Mahmoud is a buddy of mine…
And one of these images looks very similar to, him being a dog. Despite all of our differences, despite his being so wrong, leading the great Iranian people down a bad pathway, I’ve never equated him with a dog. Gorilla yes; a dog, no!
You and I share similar hostilities toward the Muslim theocracy in Tehran, my good friend- that will always be true. But please, kindly, do not belittle Mahmoud or yourself, by this cheap laugh. Doggies have feelings, too.
Mahmoud is worthy of many bad names, this is true; but this video wherein he transforms into an ugly dog, is an insult to doggies worldwide, and to Mahmoud as well.
I hope you can see your way through this masquerade of mine, realizing I am joking with you, all the while in total agreement with your sane and thoughtful beliefs concerning Iran… But please do not harass my dog, OK?
Ha ha, and with love, respect!~~ don’t let him bite me!!
the Local Malcontent
Kaman Jon: Off topic
Israel’s Tehran Connection?
Israel’s Tehran connectionIsrael, while supposedly observing an ironclad boycott of all things Iranian, is happily buying Iranian oil
Richard Silverstein, Guardian
April 4, 2008
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/richard_silverstein/2008/04/israels_tehran_connection.html
Regarding previous thread on discrimination:
http://fleetingperusal.blogspot.com/2007/01/islamic-republics-vile-racism-in.html
On streotyping in Iran:
Sure, I understand that they consider you all to be apostates, but the vile attitudes in the West and violent attitudes in Iran, I have never comprehended. What I have witnesse in my lifetime is that some in the I-A comunity of the U.S. do not practice what they preach. One the one hand, they want to be respected as individuals by “whitey,” but they wish to deny that very same respect to some in their very own community. Instead of trying to live their lives in a Godly way, they take it upon themselves to tell others what to believe in and how to worship Khoda.
While they want “whitey” to respect their rights as Muslims, they want to withhold the Bahais right to worship as they choose. They can’t have their cake and eat it, too! Either it needs to be all one way or all they other. Many years ago, before Iran’s revolution, my wife, a Muslim by birth, introduced me to a beautiful and charming Bahai girl. We socialized with her quite often and she always had such a generous and accepting attitude toward us, unlike the cool reception that we regularly received from some young Iranians, especially the boys. Once the revolution came along, my wife got caught up in the fervor raging in America among many young and patriotic Iranians. She turned her back on the Bahai girl and did not defend her when others savagely attacked her verbally.
When we discovered that the girl, who could not return home to Iran, committed suicide alone in her apartment, my wife cried and cried. Cruelly, I told her to stop crying and stop being a hypocrite. The dead girl no longer needed her tears or remorse. I was disgusted then, and even now, many years later, I feel a wave of revulsion come over my mind when I think of it. From the sad death of that beautiful young spirit, came my wife’s redemption. She has not turned her face away from the cries of any more of her Bahai countrymen since that tragedy. She does not now and hasn’t in many years engaged in or abided others who engaged in anti-Bahai rhetoric. She is aware that there are probably many Bahais that she would not like if she met them, but she would not like them as individuals, not as Bahais. Regrettably, it took the death of a young woman to open my wife’s eyes, but she no longer has it within her to hate for religion’s sake.
You may or may not be aware that my wife and I lost our only child some months back; I have written of him before. In his lifetime, he taught his sweet mother and me so much about tolerance for others. At different times in his life, he was called a camel jock and a sand nigger in America because of who his mother was and at other times, he got the same kind of treatment from some people in Iran.
Some in the I-A community like to think that only “whitey” has the capacity to hate, but my son learned when was ten years old that everyone, everywhere can hate. While on a trip with his mother to Tehran, our son was denied entrance to an indoor swimming pool when the management learned that his father was an American. There attitude was that the nut never falls far from the tree. It didn’t matter that he was half-Persian and spoke the language fluently…as far as the manager was concerned, he was American since I was. His mother’s nationality, Iranian, counted for nothing. My son’s baba borzorg was so ashamed of the people at the swimming pool that said his grandson could not swim in the same pool as the other boys; he was an American after all, the inference being the other children could not be contaminated with my son’s filth.
Our son, in his short, but remarkable life got to experience the best and the worst of both of his cultures. He never got angry though. He seemed to understand and take in stride that hate sometimes comes not only from people who are very different from you, but from those who are just like you. Regardless of this sometimes painful reality in his life, he alway knew that his parents loved him and one another and that their were many good Americans and good Iranians that rejected prejudice and racism in all its forms. If my boy was man enough to forgive those who may have hurt his feelings, then I will try to fill his very big shoes, and shout to the world that prejudice is a form of spritial pollution and we much stop it, even if people think I am a wacko for being too idealistic.
Find the above comment below:
http://www.iranian.com/main/2008/looking-down-others
Serendip
There is a difference between buying oil on the open market and the signing of contract for X numbers of dollars to buy Z cu m of gas during Y number of years.
I also think that buying gas is a little different from buying oil, that’s why US and others were against Swiss contract.
As one of the commentators wrote “Had Richard Silverstein bothered to check, he might have discovered that oil imports from Iran are not on the US or UN sanctions list. This list includes a ban on the supply of nuclear-related technology and materials and a freeze on the bank accounts of individuals and companies. As others have pointed out, oil from all over the world arrives at Rotterdam’s huge port where it is sold and bought by probably every country dependent on oil on the ‘Spot Market.’ The Energianews report quotes ’sources close to Haifa Oil Refinery as confirming the information and that all deals are legal and above-board.’”
Thanks Ella. That was very informative.