Re: [Marxism] Has Ahmadinejad ever read Kinsey?

["Dayne Goodwin" <daynegoodwin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/24/07, Steffie Brooks <steffie.brooks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
   . . .
> but it would be helpful if marxmailers who have this on the tip of
> their minds would remind the rest of us what Amedinajad has actually
> said, not what's been ascribed to him.
> Thanks.
> Steffie Brooks

President Mahmud Ahmadinejad . . . alleged call for Israel to be
'wiped off the face of the map.'

As most of my readers know, Ahmadinejad did not use that phrase in
Persian. He quoted an old saying of Ayatollah Khomeini calling for
'this occupation regime over Jerusalem" to "vanish from the page of
time.' Calling for a regime to vanish is not the same as calling for
people to be killed. Ahmadinejad has not to my knowledge called for
anyone to be killed. (Wampum has more; as does the American Street).

If Ahmadinejad is a genocidal maniac who just wants to kill Jews, then
why are there 20,000 Jews in Iran with a member of parliament in
Tehran? Couldn't he start at home if that was what he is really about?

I was talking to two otherwise well-informed Israeli historians a
couple of weeks ago, and they expressed the conviction that
Ahmadinejad had threatened to nuke Israel. I was taken aback. First of
all, Iran doesn't have a nuke. Second, there is no proof that Iran
even has a nuclear weapons program. Third, Ahmadinejad has denied
wanting a bomb. Fourth, Ahmadinejad has never threatened any sort of
direct Iranian military action against Israel. In other words, that is
a pretty dramatic fear for educated persons to feel, on the basis of .
. . nothing.

I renew my call to readers to write protest letters to newspapers and
other media every time they hear it alleged that Ahmadinejad (or
"Iran"!) has threatened to "wipe Israel off the map." There is no such
idiom in Persian and it is not what he said, and the mistranslation
gives entirely the wrong impression. . .

full at:  http://www.juancole.com/2007/06/ahmadinejad-i-am-not-anti-semitic.html

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