I have been unable to post on this site since yesterday (Tuesday) at about four p. m. Nor have readers been able to post comments. According to my hosting company, Phpwebhosting, this may be the work of “comment spammers.” Personally, I blame Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad who could well be concerned that I am the screenwriter of a film about the supposed Holocaust, which he deems to be a “myth”.
I wish he were a “myth.”
UPDATE – The Merkel Connection: What the Mullahcracy may not have banked on is the recent “regime change” in Germany. Angela Merkel is not the same person as the compliant Gerhard Schroeder. According to Expatica, the new German Chancellor…
“has described the denial of the Holocaust by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as incredible, her spokesman said on Wednesday in Berlin.
She robustly rejected the previous day’s anti-Semitic remarks by the Iranian leader. Thomas Steg, the deputy government spokesman in Berlin, added that the cabinet had discussed the topic and there had not been any doubt that Ahmadinejad had made “shocking remarks”.
Merkel would seek a joint European rejection of the remarks when she met E.U. leaders Thursday and Friday in Brussels for a European summit. Germany was also likely to seek a strong rejection by the international community by way of the United Nations.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier had previously said Wednesday that the Ahmadinejad remarks were “shocking and utterly unacceptable”, denying as they did not only the right of Israel to exist but also the Holocaust.
“I cannot avoid saying that this damages bilateral relations and puts a strain on the negotiations over the Iranian nuclear programme,” he told the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs Wednesday.
Let’s hope it’s a big strain. Also, Der Spiegel has an interesting interview with Iran expert Ali Ansari. Here’s a key bit:
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Internationally, the only times we hear from Ahmadinejad are when he talks about Israel. What do people in Iran think about him otherwise?
Ansari: I think where he really crossed the line where the domestic audience is concerned is when he said a green aura was coming out of his head during his speech to the United Nations. This conversation got filmed, and people can watch it on DVD. Ahmadinejad came home from his speech and told an ayatollah that everyone at the General Assembly — all these world leaders — didn’t even blink for thirty minutes (out of awe). Lots of people have seen this in Iran, and it makes him seem a bit too superstitious.
Ya think?
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1. David Thomson:ìNor have readers been able to post comments. According to my hosting company, Phpwebhosting, this may be the work of “ícomment spammers.í”
Oh gosh, I think that I know what happened. Someone associated with Harvard University was enraged by my scathingly accurate comments. These people are not to be trifled with. Yup, thatís it.
Dec 14, 2005 - 8:55 am 2. Lola:Green aura? What green aura? This certainly puts him in with the “moonbats and tinfoil hats” crowd. How anyone can take himm seriously, I don’t understand. And he seems determined to continue putting his big foot in his mouth.
Somehow, something tells me Merkel is going to be a formidable force to reckon with.
Dec 14, 2005 - 10:49 am 3. jane m:“a bit too superstitious” ? Nah…a bit of a cretin, more like.
Dec 14, 2005 - 10:49 am 4. ras:… when he said a green aura was coming out of his head
Sounds like a runny nose.
Dec 14, 2005 - 10:52 am 5. Mike_Nargizian:‘Hyper’ Ironically -
GERMAN ARMY KNEW – New Book Reveals
DAILY SCORECARD REPORTS -
Dec 14, 2005 - 10:57 am 6. Curmudgeon:I trace the start of the pushback to when he changed his call from wiping Israel off the map to moving it to Europe.
Destroy the Jews? Fine, whatever. Put them back here? No way, Jose!
Dec 14, 2005 - 11:08 am 7. Terrye:Let’s see, who is crazier?
Mugabe? Chavez? or this fruitcake?
I say the mullah is.
But it is so hard to choose.
Dec 14, 2005 - 11:28 am 8. chris_m:The ‘Green Aura’ was from his recently enriched uranium (which he doesn’t have).
But in all fairness, if I witnessed someone projecting a green aura, I would have watched in awe as well.
Dec 14, 2005 - 12:08 pm 9. chris_m:The ‘Green Aura’ was from his recently enriched uranium (which he doesn’t have).
But in all fairness, if I witnessed someone projecting a green aura, I would have watched in awe as well.
Dec 14, 2005 - 12:11 pm 10. Mark Poling:When does an unhealthily enflated ego cross over into active megalomania? Now we know….
Seriously, just imagine this guy with his finger on the launch button. Brrrr.
Dec 14, 2005 - 12:36 pm 11. flenser:… when he said a green aura was coming out of his head
Halitosis?
Dec 14, 2005 - 1:12 pm 12. flenser:Typekey doth make fools of us all.
Dec 14, 2005 - 1:13 pm 13. Steven:He’s denying the Holocaust so that he can claim credit for thinking up the idea himself when Iran commits its own Holocaust. It’s not that he’s against the idea of a Holocaust; he just doesn’t want to be accused of plagiarism.
Dec 14, 2005 - 1:17 pm 14. markus:Criminalizing holocaust denial (as is done in Europe), or marginalizing it (as in the US, where historians often refuse to debate deniers for fear of granting them legitimacy) is ineffective, and actually affords the deniers a certain cache. Historians ought to address their claim directly and forthrightly. Nizkor seems to do a good job in this regard:
http://nizkor.com/
Dec 14, 2005 - 1:52 pm 15. Ron Wrght:Rift Now Opening within Iran’s Ruling Megalomaniacs
Re the Iranian Situation
See my two cents here in another thread. See how you can help before this guy gets his nukes!
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. . . lets force our governmental leaders to “fight the fight” instead of postering for the 08 Election. This only endangers our troops on the ground. The stakes are just too high!
Yes, there is a rift brewing between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ultra fascist wing and the clerics they used to come to power.
The clerics are beginning to realize that their days are numbered. Ahmadinejhad has been purging the political and governmental ranks of the more moderate thinkers. At some point those opposed will resist. This was seen recently in the rejection of Ahadinejhad’s choice for oil minister.
We need to exploit this rift so this house of cards will tumble in on itself and save the world from Armageddon (HT LGF).
Iran has been pursuing the old game of Mao, “talk talk tan tan [fight].” It’s been working well for them with our EU allies. Why stop now with a change in their strategic nuclear policy? Could it be they know something we don’t? Perhaps Ahadinejad’s wing is on the verge of having small tactical nukes? The strategic consequences of this are unimaginable.
BTW stop by Dr. Zin’s site Regime Change Iran and drop a few bucks in his jar. This is a cheap way to win this war of information.
http://regimechangeiran.com/
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Dec 14, 2005 - 4:05 pm 16. Prairiepundit:One of the myths of Islamist is that there was no holcaust. I have a post on this myth at http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2005/12/muslim-myths-one-of-myths-in-muslim.html
It fits in with other myths that attempt to deny legitimacy to the Jews claim to Israel.
Dec 14, 2005 - 4:38 pm 17. miguelj:Roger, I think I see what’s happening here. Ahmadinajad is being set up for a a hit by his own people. For real.
After his next few outrageously maniacal threats against Israel they will have him assassinated in a way that can credibly be blamed on the Mossad.
Mahmoud, I hope you are reading this, because you are about to become a casus belli for your colleagues–their own walking, talking Reichstag Fire.
Dec 14, 2005 - 4:59 pm 18. Jeff M:Amadinejad went a good deal further than bragging about his “green aura”. He prattled on endlessly about the return of the “Mahdi” (the Twelfth Imam), which probably accounts for the reaction of the assembled luminaries:
“He said when you began with the words ‘in the name of God,’ I saw that you became surrounded by a light until the end [of the speech],” Ahmadinejad appears to say in the video. “I felt it myself, too. I felt that all of a sudden the atmosphere changed there, and for 27-28 minutes all the leaders did not blink.”
He said that he is preparing the way for the return of the Mahdi, and may indeed believe that he is the Mahdi. Amadinejad was put in place by Khamenei, heir to Khomenei. Both Kurt Weldon and Richard Miniter recount that the Mahdi has appeared to Khamenei in a vision and instructed him to destroy the Statue of Liberty and attack America.
I don’t think that the Mahdi had in mind an attack using pop-bottle rockets, or for that matter jet-airliners.
Imagine if Sharon spoke to the UN and went on and on about the impending coming of the Messiah, or GW spoke there and included in his speech endless comments on the immanent Second Coming of Christ. The MSM would be apoplectic.
More here:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2005/iran-051129-rferl01.htm
Dec 14, 2005 - 6:06 pm 19. Sally-O:Well, according the “science” aura reading, here’s what this means:
Light Green shades indicate the onset or potential for injury and the subject should be cautious for the next few weeks.
Darker Green shades generally indicate the injury has already occurred and is in the process of healing.
So either the man is hurt or he’s about to be. Considering what he’s saying about Israel and Israel’s likely response, it does seem likely.
Dec 14, 2005 - 6:28 pm 20. Always right:everyone at the General Assembly — all these world leaders — didn’t even blink for thirty minutes (out of awe).
You fool, those are paper masks the world leaders were wearing. They had been snoring behind the masks.
Tell me, Ahmad, do those masks look like Dick Vitale or John Madden?
Dec 14, 2005 - 6:46 pm 21. jedrury:“Always right” is very funny. The world leaders wearing paper masks – a real end of evening gasser.
Thanks for the laugh.
Dec 14, 2005 - 7:02 pm 22. Gary Rosen:You know, I might have actually believed markus was making a sincere defense of free speech if he hadn’t compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
Dec 14, 2005 - 11:41 pm 23. Mark Razak:Miguelj,
A very interesting theory. When Ahmadinejad becomes too much of a liability, the mullahs get rid of a loose cannon while gaining a casus belli against Israel. Interesting.
Dec 15, 2005 - 6:36 am 24. Knucklehead:…he said a green aura was coming out of his head during his speech to the United Nations… and told an ayatollah that everyone at the General Assembly — all these world leaders — didn’t even blink for thirty minutes (out of awe).
Has anyone seen this meglomaniacal, apocalyptic nutball and Al Gore in the same place at the same time? Just askin’.
Dec 15, 2005 - 8:39 am 25. markus:Gary — if you can, ignore who made the point and consider its merits or lack thereof.
David Irving and Ernest Zundel claim that there were no gas chambers in the death camps, while claiming that a million Jews were shot by the SS, though without Hitler’s knowledge (at least Irving claims this). Rather than throwing them in jail, while their books get spread to the Middle East via the Internet, I would offer them money to go on a speaking tour with one of these people: http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/i/irving-david/reviews/
Dec 15, 2005 - 9:37 am 26. Bravo Romeo Delta:He is going to be so pissed when he discovers that I am the Mahdi (the 12th Imam).
Dec 15, 2005 - 10:18 am