{"id":7478,"date":"2006-10-25T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2006-10-25T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T01:00:00","slug":"al-quds-day-vs-halloween-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7478","title":{"rendered":"Al-Quds Day vs Halloween [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Captain Ed <\/a>points us to this story <\/a>about the Al-Quds day celebration thrown by Iran and its President Ahmablahblahblah:\n<\/p>\n

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The celebrations included proclamations by the country’s leaders and activities for university students and artists.\n<\/p>\n

\nIsfahan University’s Mechanical Energy College took first place in a Quds Day competition for its design of a pilotless plane that can be used for “suicide attacks.” The director of the Iranian Broadcasting Organization of Music Production, Mohammad Mirzamani, composed a symphony dedicated to “the victory over the Zionist regime,” and the country’s religious Web logs were told to report on all the festivities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nI know that they’re kind of vague on the idea of suicide, but . . .\n<\/p>\n

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Iranian press outlets featured hundreds of photographs from the celebrations in Tehran. Among the notable scenes captured were children in Condoleezza Rice costumes; effigies of President Bush, Prime Minister Olmert, and Prime Minister Blair being lit on fire and dragged through the streets; the burning of American and Israeli flags; and hundreds of posters of Sheik Hassan Nasrallah featuring the caption “I swear to Allah that Israel is weaker than [a] spider house.” The posters called for a boycott of such “Israeli” goods as McDonald’s, Kit Kat bars, Intel, L’Oreal, Nestl\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9, Disney, and Marlboro.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nGive me a break, give me a break . . .\n<\/p>\n

\nGod talks to me, Bush is the devil . . . we’ve covered that.\n<\/p>\n

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\nOh, wait.  Those are their brothers in Venezuela.\n<\/p>\n

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Mr. Ahmadinejad delivered his Quds Day speech under a banner that read, “Israel must be wiped off the face of the world.” He described the holiday as “a day for confrontation between the Islamic faith with the global arrogance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In another speech, he said Israel was “doomed” and promised that the Israeli “regime will be gone, definitely.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The words “the Zionist regime is a cancerous gland that needs to be uprooted” were written in a communiqu\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9 from the Iranian Foreign Ministry in honor of the holiday. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki held a meeting for other Islamic countries’ ambassadors to Iran and told them that Israel’s existence would be shattered and that death bells were tolling for the Zionists. At the meeting, the Palestinian Arab ambassador to Tehran, Salah Zawawi, said, “The day for the liberation of Quds Day is close at hand.”\n<\/p>\n

\nA who’s who of the Iranian leadership marched in the main Quds Day parade before crowds chanting “death to Israel” and “death to America.” The marchers included a former Iranian president, Mohammed Khatemi, and a spokesman for the parliament presidency board, Mohsen Kouhkan, who predicted a quick “final and total defeat of America and the Zionist regime.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nIran is a patch of Quds-Zoo that needs to be uprooted.\n<\/p>\n

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“The world arrogance and Zionism today are shivering from Muslim vigilance and are on the threshold of annihilation,” he added.\n<\/p>\n

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Information Minister Hholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei explained that the holiday “is a proper occasion for people to declare their hatred of America and Israel,” while a representative of the Islamic Consulate Assembly, Ahmad Pish-bin, promised that the “final defeat for world arrogance” is coming.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe chairman of the Expediency Council and a former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who led Friday prayers, said Quds Day is an important factor “between Islam and unbelief and the stage for Muslims’ jihad.” He added, “The world’s 1.5 billion Muslims back this jihad.”\n<\/p>\n

\nMr. Rafsanjani also led Quds Day prayers on December 14, 2001. Then, he warned of a coming confrontation between the “pious and martyrdom-seeking forces” and the “highest forces of colonialism,” which “might inflame a third World War.”\n<\/p>\n

\nSadly, Mr. Rafsanjani is considered one of Iran’s more moderate leaders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nSadly, if your child tries to to to school dressed as Ahmablahblahblah or even Jaffar, they’ll be asked to remove your costume.  For centuries, the citizens of the UK have been burning old Guy Fawkes in effigy, but they’ll be arrested if they attempt to burn an ayatollah effigy, I reckon.\n<\/p>\n

\nStill, at private gatherings it’s possible to burn these numbskulls in effigy, or to wear outfits mocking them, so I propose that this Halloween, if you haven’t already invested heavily in your costume, we send a reciprocal message.  Please take photos.  Cartoons and photoshops are also welcome.\n<\/p>\n

\nOh, and buy Kit Kats.
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Captain Ed points us to this story about the Al-Quds day celebration thrown by Iran and its President Ahmablahblahblah: The celebrations included proclamations by the country’s leaders and activities for university students and artists. Isfahan University’s Mechanical Energy College took first place in a Quds Day competition for its design of a pilotless plane that can be used for “suicide attacks.” The director of the Iranian Broadcasting Organization of Music<\/p>\n

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