Amahdinejad is super!

That’s summarizing the comments you’ll find in the New York newspapers. Yay Amahdinejad, boo-sucks to Columbia U. President Bollinger. If you have been in a cave under a rock for the last week, Columbia University President (and renowned/chastened first amendment scholar) Bollinger hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Amahdinejad. Introducing Amahdinejad, Bollinger said:

“Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator… You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated….It’s well-documented that Iran was a state sponsor of terrorism….I doubt that you will have the intellectual courage to answer these questions.”

Here is the response:

From the New York Sun:

In contrast to the ill mannered behavior of the American people in inviting a guest and then insulting him in public, Mr Ahmadnejad has earned my respect (and the respect of millions of others) for responding with graciousness that reflects the culture of a great people.

Lets be humble,apologize for the last 6 years and hope we can maintain the few frnds we have left…

I am glad that Bollinger gave a chance to President Ahmedinijad to show his statesmanship and tolerance and intelligence.

[Bollinger] failed miserably, which is highly disappointing, considering he is not only an academic, but also president of a good university. Then again, given the impression I have of Americans – based on their antics on the world stage – perhaps not so surprising.

From the Letters page of the New York Times:

Lee C. Bollinger’s speech before President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s showing at Columbia was another display of America’s foreign policy of late: If we don’t like your policies or your president, we insult, we bully and, just maybe, we bomb.

Lee C. Bollinger’s “introduction” of the president of Iran was outrageous. There’s a lot to be said about Mideast politics and the Iranian and United States entanglements there.

The emotional, irrational and hateful reaction of certain aspects of the American media, as well as the public, particularly in New York and at one of its esteemed academic institutions, against the visiting Iranian president is a sad reminder of the forces of intolerance in the bosom of American civil society.

The emotional, irrational and hateful reaction of certain aspects of the American media, as well as the public, particularly in New York and at one of its esteemed academic institutions, against the visiting Iranian president is a sad reminder of the forces of intolerance in the bosom of American civil society.

Yom Kippur Greetings From Dilbert

“Interesting” blog post on Dilbert author, Scott Adams’ blog today. Re Amahdinejad’s calling the holocaust a ‘myth’:

Aren’t there any Iranian words for saying a set of historical facts has achieved an unhealthy level of influence on a specific set of decisions in the present?

What would be a healthy level of influence for the holocaust to have on current affairs? I’d say it doesn’t have enough influence, just look at Darfur, or the Western Sahara. But anyway, you have to question the motives of anyone who appears to be kvetching about Jewish influence. I won’t call him an Anti-Semite, because that would be poor form, but I would just ask – based on that comment above, what else could he be?

FYI – Dilbert on 9-11:

Chavez and Ahmadinejad get it on

‘It’ as in yet another trade and investment deal to bring their countries closer together and expand Iranian influence in Latin America and Venezuelan influence in the Middle East.

Anyhow, a question: Iran supplies the weapons that kill Canadians in Afghanistan, and Venezuela and Iran share “brotherly ties”, so what should we make of our fellow Canadians who support Hugo Chavez and seemingly by proxy, support the killers of Canadian troops?For example, this fellow, Jack Layton:

Some of what has happened in Venezuela, such as the fact that they have a publicly-owned oil company, are things we’ve advocated … They’ve been frankly smarter about it than we have.

Oh! and one other thing, an interesting bit of news from his trip:

Mr Chavez, on his third trip to Iran since Mr Ahmadinejad took office in 2005, promised to ‘unite the Persian Gulf and the Caribbean’ and launched a fresh verbal attack on the United States and Europe, calling them ‘barbarians’.

He referred to the ‘barbarians who threw an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and attacked Iraq’ and ‘European barbarians who came to Latin America and ruined our deeply-rooted civilisation’.

Chavez is referring to pre-Colombian civilization.

A correction

A correction to those on the left who talk about how Iran is a democracy.

From the New York Times by way of Michelle Malkin.com

Young men wearing T-shirts deemed too tight or haircuts seen as too Western have been paraded bleeding through Tehran’s streets by uniformed police officers who force them to suck on plastic jerrycans, a toilet item Iranians use to wash their bottoms. In case anyone misses the point, it is the official news agency Fars distributing the pictures of what it calls “riffraff.” Far bloodier photographs are circulating on blogs and on the Internet.

The country’s police chief boasted that 150,000 people — a number far larger than usual — were detained in the annual spring sweep against any clothing considered not Islamic. More than 30 women’s rights advocates were arrested in one day in March, according to Human Rights Watch, five of whom have since been sentenced to prison terms of up to four years. They were charged with endangering national security for organizing an Internet campaign to collect more than a million signatures supporting the removal of all laws that discriminate against women.

More on Michelle Malkin.com

Do you want to fight back? Pressure your government to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq from the list of terrorist organizations. The Mujahedin-e Kahlq is the menace of the Iranian regime. Terrorists with the nerve to kill Iran’s leaders on the steps of their homes.  It’s true that the enemy of my enemy is not my friend, but slipping him a few bucks to cut the throats of the cops in these pictures? If nothing else it’s cathartic.