Can Iran be talked out of wanting to kill every man, woman and child in Israel?
If Iran were a mental patient, in our psychiatric notes we would have to record the following:
On August 28, 2001, at a rally for Quds (Arabic for Jerusalem) Day, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a Tehran crowd that “the Zionist regime is the axis of unity among all the thieves and criminals of the world.” In 2005, he said, quoting the Imam Khamenei, Israel should be “wiped off the map.”
While the world was busy nit-picking the translation of those words, particularly Israel’s “good friend” Jonathan Steele of The Guardian, arguing Iran’s leader was just referring to a regime change.
Michael Axworthy, Britain’s consular officer in Tehran, testified that slogans draped over missiles in Iran’s military parades stated: “Israel must be wiped off the map.” Ahmadinejad’s own speech was peppered with “Marg bar Esrail” (Death to Israel).
On February 20, 2008, Ahmadinejad called Israel “a black and filthy microbe,” and in 2011 he likened Israel to “a cancer cell that spreads through the body,” stating that “this regime infects any region [and must therefore] be removed.”
As a psychiatrist, we would have to ask the patient: Why, when you have no border with Israel and your citizens are not affected in any way on a daily basis by anything that Israel does, are you filled with enough hatred to want to kill millions of men, women and children, most of whom are the treasured survivors of a nation decimated by mindless atrocities and slaughter only 70 years ago?
Robert R. Reilly probably comes closest to the truth in his book The Closing of the Muslim Mind: “The fuel for the permanent war is the same for Islamism as it was for Marxism-Leninism and Nazism; hatred. Only the object of hatred changes – from race in Nazism and class in Communism, to hatred of Jews and the Infidel in radical Islam.”
As stated in the Koran (60:4) itself (and quoted by Osama bin Laden): “Battle, animosity and hatred – directed from the Muslim to the infidel – is the foundation of our religion.” Or, as Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden’s mentor, put it: “Glory does not build its lofty edifice except with skulls. Honor and respect cannot be established except on a foundation of cripples and corpses. Jihad and the rifle alone, no negotiations, no conferences and no dialogue.” Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme spiritual leader of the present Iranian regime, put it this way: “Whatever good exists is because of the sword and the shadow of the sword.” (C) NAOMI RAGEN (Photo: Copyright Control).
So next time you read some apologist crap about the Death Cult Crew not being understood, or it's our fault, Israel's or the dog only has three legs - the pro Islamic guff that usually can be found in the likes of the NYT, Guardian (UK) or similar - do feel free to quote from their declaration of war, aka the Koran, not that Leftie will listen. Amusingly, they would be among some of the first to hear the unholy cry of ALLAHU AKBAR in their startled ears.
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If Iran were a mental patient, in our psychiatric notes we would have to record the following:
On August 28, 2001, at a rally for Quds (Arabic for Jerusalem) Day, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a Tehran crowd that “the Zionist regime is the axis of unity among all the thieves and criminals of the world.” In 2005, he said, quoting the Imam Khamenei, Israel should be “wiped off the map.”
While the world was busy nit-picking the translation of those words, particularly Israel’s “good friend” Jonathan Steele of The Guardian, arguing Iran’s leader was just referring to a regime change.
Michael Axworthy, Britain’s consular officer in Tehran, testified that slogans draped over missiles in Iran’s military parades stated: “Israel must be wiped off the map.” Ahmadinejad’s own speech was peppered with “Marg bar Esrail” (Death to Israel).
On February 20, 2008, Ahmadinejad called Israel “a black and filthy microbe,” and in 2011 he likened Israel to “a cancer cell that spreads through the body,” stating that “this regime infects any region [and must therefore] be removed.”
As a psychiatrist, we would have to ask the patient: Why, when you have no border with Israel and your citizens are not affected in any way on a daily basis by anything that Israel does, are you filled with enough hatred to want to kill millions of men, women and children, most of whom are the treasured survivors of a nation decimated by mindless atrocities and slaughter only 70 years ago?
Robert R. Reilly probably comes closest to the truth in his book The Closing of the Muslim Mind: “The fuel for the permanent war is the same for Islamism as it was for Marxism-Leninism and Nazism; hatred. Only the object of hatred changes – from race in Nazism and class in Communism, to hatred of Jews and the Infidel in radical Islam.”
As stated in the Koran (60:4) itself (and quoted by Osama bin Laden): “Battle, animosity and hatred – directed from the Muslim to the infidel – is the foundation of our religion.” Or, as Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden’s mentor, put it: “Glory does not build its lofty edifice except with skulls. Honor and respect cannot be established except on a foundation of cripples and corpses. Jihad and the rifle alone, no negotiations, no conferences and no dialogue.” Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme spiritual leader of the present Iranian regime, put it this way: “Whatever good exists is because of the sword and the shadow of the sword.” (C) NAOMI RAGEN (Photo: Copyright Control).
So next time you read some apologist crap about the Death Cult Crew not being understood, or it's our fault, Israel's or the dog only has three legs - the pro Islamic guff that usually can be found in the likes of the NYT, Guardian (UK) or similar - do feel free to quote from their declaration of war, aka the Koran, not that Leftie will listen. Amusingly, they would be among some of the first to hear the unholy cry of ALLAHU AKBAR in their startled ears.
