Not everybody has fallen under Harry Potter's spell. Boooooooooo...Mahmoud, I'm under your bed...BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
A short Iranian documentary recently translated by the Middle East Media Research Institue and published on the Jerusalem Post's website claims that the teen wizard hero of J.K. Rowlings best-selling books and movies is being used to promote Zionist propaganda.
The five-minute segment (video below), which aired on Iranian news channel IRINN on December 15, shows clips from 2002's "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" while several commentators offer their explanations of the symbolism in the series. "Now more than ever," the Iranian film's narrator says, "this tool serves to spread the dark and evil essence of Zionism and its goals."
The commentators point to several different elements of the story as evidence of a Zionist agenda - pointing to the themes of witchcraft and wizardry, which the documentary ties to Kabbalah, the study of Jewish mysticism. "[The Zionists] are trying to convince viewers that because there is no easy way to distance oneself from witchraft, Satan and the like they are saying indirectly, 'Join us,'" says Ali Asghar Saadati, billed as an Iranian expert on religious cinema. Join us! Jooooooooin us!!!
The IRINN piece also looks to the battle over "pure" wizarding blood as evidence of a Zionist subtext. "Propaganda for purity of blood and race, one of the principles of global Zionism, is openly portrayed and emphasized in the second Harry Potter film," the documentary's narrator says, alluding to the films' villains' obsessions with blood purity. "If we add this [film] to the other pieces of the puzzle the beliefs depicted in the other propaganda and political products of the Ziono-Hollywoodists, the Satanic features of this inhumane movement will become more evident." Ziono-Hollywoodists? That's a new one...
Iranian film critic Sa'id Mostaghasi, meanwhile, sees Harry raised up as a Messianic figure, and his final battle with the Dark Lord Voldemort as being akin to the End of Days. "[The Zionists] support Harry Potter because he is the promised Messiah," Mostaghasi says. "As you can see, he has the same traits and wants to defeat a dark force, which in this film is depicted as Voldemort. In the sixth episode, there is even mention of the War of Armageddon. Boooooooooooo...He's gonna cement up the well so the 12th Imam can't get out...BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Surprisingly, nobody in the documentary latched on to the half-Jewish background of actor Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the titular wizard. Reza! Stop the presses!!
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the sixth film in the series, is scheduled to arrive in theaters on July 17, with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" set for a two-part release in 2010 and 2011. "Hary Potter and the Loony Iranians"... Continued on Page 47
(Xinhua) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his country is willing to conduct dialogue with the United States without any preconditions, the official SANA news agency reported Tuesday.
Assad made the remarks in an interview with Lebanon's al-Manar TV, the mouthpiece of the Shiite Hezbollah movement.
"If there are preconditions, there won't be dialogue, they know this thing," Assad was quoted as saying, adding that "but I think dialogue has started many weeks ago seriously through figures close to the U.S. administration."
"As for dialogue, we have no preconditions, but in regards to reaching an approach through this dialogue, the only provision is to consider the Syrian interests," said the Syrian leader.
Syria was under continuous isolation during the Bush administration, which demanded Damascus to stop support for Palestinian militant groups and the Lebanese Hezbollah, sever its ties with Iran, control its borders with Iraq and stem anti-U.S. infiltrations from crossing into Iraq.
Assad also expressed cautious hope that U.S. President Barack Obama could bring peace settlement to the region instead of wars.
"We hope for settlements, not wars after the departure of an administration which adopted primitive war as a policy," said Assad, noting that the Obama administration rejects this principle and talks about its inclination to peace which he said "are more positive."
As for the indirect peace talks with Israel, the president said there was no prospects for an immediate resumption of such talks, which were suspended after Israel launched military offensive against the Gaza Strip late last month.
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