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| Iraq |
| Iraqi Speaker Speaks Too Much, Let's Mask Slip |
| 2006-07-13 |
| Iraqi parliament speaker: Jews finance acts of violence in Iraq By The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's parliament speaker Thursday accused "Jews" of financing acts of violence in Iraq in order to discredit Islamists who control the parliament and government so they can install their "agents" in power. -- snip -- "Some people say 'we saw you beheading, kidnappings and killing. In the end we even started kidnapping women who are our honor,"' al-Mashhadani said. "These acts are not the work of Iraqis. I am sure that he who does this is a Jew and the son of a Jew." "I can tell you about these Jewish, Israelis and Zionists who are using Iraqi money and oil to frustrate the Islamic movement in Iraq and come with the agent and cheap project." "No one deserves to rule Iraq other than Islamists," he said. |
| Posted by:Kirk |
| #4 "No one deserves to rule Iraq other than Islamists," WTF? Not "Iraqis" but Islamists! |
| Posted by: GK 2006-07-13 22:25 |
| #3 *cough*not parliament speaker*cough* |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-07-13 21:54 |
| #2 There are still plenty of older Germans who if they get really pissed off, call someone a "Jew". |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-13 21:43 |
| #1 This kind of thinking and speaking is common currency throughout the Arab and Muslim world. The only surprise is that a (possibly novice?) AP reporter wrote about it and sent it out into the great big world. Shoot, accusations of being a Jew or descended from Jews have been thrown about in recent Russian and Polish elections, and (if I remember correctly) in French and English elections as well. The rest of the world shrugs at things they consider Americans to be foolishly hypersensitive about. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-07-13 20:45 |