International Iranian Insanity

Iran has been kicking it up a notch lately. Just days after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's latest call to destroy Israel, he's at it again, this time at Iran's warm and fuzzy Holocaust Denial Convention.

After calling the annihilation of six million Jews a "myth," he again called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

"Thanks to people's wishes and God's will the trend for the existence of the Zionist regime is downwards and this is what God has promised and what all nations want," he said.

"Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out," he added.

Uh-huh. Except I suspect that unlike the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Israel will actually have a hot nuke launched on them.

Ahmadinejad continues, saying that countries where Holocaust denial is illegal do not respect free speech...

"Iran is your home and is the home of all freedom seekers of the world," Ahmadinejad said. "Here you can express your views and exchange opinions in a friendly, brotherly and free atmosphere."

Oh, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This, from a country where women and girls are routinely left dangling from cranes for daring to show their faces, and where human rights organizations classify Iran as one of the worst violators of free speech on the planet.

Does "State-run media" mean anything to you, Momo? How many journalists and bloggers do you have in jail right now?

The head of the Holocaust denial convention claimed that they would form a "fact-finding" committee to study the Holocaust, and said it's members were "not racist or opposed to any particular group."

Yeah, except Jews and women, and Americans, and non-Muslims.

Of course, being a new Muslim territory, France had her share of scholars present. Robert Faurisson, a French so-called scholar, called the Holocaust a "historical lie."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Photoshop hadn't been invented in the 40's, right?




Other countries such as the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, and Austria had people present, and if I were those governments, I'd bar their re-entry into my country. There were even some self-hating, anti-Israel Jews there.

All of this Iranian guff of course drew criticism from sane members of the world. The Vatican called the Holocaust an "immense tragedy," and German Chancellor Merkel said the Iranian Holocaust denial convention "shows the danger of the situation Israel is in and in particular the threat that Israel lives under."

AMEN, Merkel!

Even the EU Commissioner crawled out from underneath Eurabia's dhimmi fog to express "shock and indignation." Franco Frattini added, "Anti-Semitism has no place in Europe; nor should it in any other part of the world.

Anyone care to place bets on how quickly Ahmadinejad will threaten the Jewish state again? I'll bet you a dozen doughnuts that it'll be before this Friday!