Be very, well… attentive

Sep 20 2006

The closing of the speech given by the “president” of Iran to the United Nations a couple of days ago:

Whether we like it or not, justice, peace and virtue will sooner or later prevail in the world with the will of Almighty God. It is imperative, and also desirable, that we, too, contribute to the promotion of justice and virtue.

“The Almighty and Merciful God, who is the Creator of the Universe, is also its Lord and Ruler. Justice is His command. He commands His creatures to support one another in Good, virtue and piety, and not in decadence and corruption.

“He commands His creatures to enjoin one another to righteousness and virtue and not to sin and transgression. All Divine prophets from the Prophet Adam (peace be upon him) to the Prophet Moses (peace be upon him), to the Prophet Jesus Christ (peace be upon him), to the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him), have all called humanity to monotheism, justice, brotherhood, love and compassion. Is it not possible to build a better world based on monotheism, justice, love and respect for the rights of human beings, and thereby transform animosities into friendship?
“I emphatically declare that today’s world, more than ever before, longs for just and righteous people with love for all humanity; and above all longs for the perfect righteous human being and the real savior who has been promised to all peoples and who will establish justice, peace and brotherhood on the planet.

“O, Almighty God, all men and women are your creatures and you have ordained their guidance and salvation. Bestow upon humanity that thirsts for justice, the perfect human being promised to all by you, and make us among his followers and among those who strive for his return and his cause.

Hmm…

You can’t really get all the flavor of this unless you read the entire speech. There is hardly a sentence that is not an overt lie, or is not based on another lie.
The last bit of the speech makes no sense if you’re not familiar with the “twelfth imam” prophecies of Islam. (Oh, the irony of that phrase… “makes no sense”.) Try to imagine that George Bush lectured the UN on Rapture prophecy, with a nice dose of Tribulation and Millenial teaching, and you’ll get the idea.
This is the man who has said Israel should be wiped from the face of the earth, and who is known to be working to get nuclear weapons to do it. Iran is the pre-eminent sponsor of terrorism in the world, a fact accepted even by the American and European left. This man is known to have murdered thousands of Iranian dissidents, hundreds literally in person, in prisons… many college students, according to reports from Iranian immigrants who managed to flee Iran. He means what he says.
It’s a mistake to believe deterrence will work in this situation. It worked for the Soviet Union, because they were atheists who thought this life was all they had, and so they valued it. An opponent with a deadly weapon who practically welcomes death herself is another thing all together.
We are not to live in a spirit of fear… but we should be more than a little nervous… and very attentive. Think NAZI Germany in 1935… or even 1938.
Sadly, the UN, for all its pretended outrage, will probably do nothing.
It seems likely that it will be America Alone that will… if Israel doesn’t get there first, which, absent some serious spine stiffening or a government change, is seeming (inexplicably) less and less likely.
Tick.

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4 responses so far

  1. aly hawkins
    on 21 Sep 2006 at 8:30 am

    Do you believe Ahmadinejad thinks he’s the Mahdi?

  2. harmonicminer
    on 21 Sep 2006 at 3:17 pm

    Heck if I know. We do know that Ahmadinejad (man, that’s hard to type) is not the most powerful person in Iran. He is widely believed to act in concert with the wishes of the mullahs behind him.

    If they are orchestrating some kind of appearance, they may be using him in a manner analogous to John the Baptist making way for Jesus.

    Holy cow.

    Anyway, it’s impossible to tell if he’s serious in all of this, or just cynically using it to sway others who are into line with his political objectives. Either way it’s very bad news…. i suspect he means it, to the extent that “words meaning things” is a shared value. However, participants in scholarly Muslim/Western dialogs have repeatedly observed that the very way words are used to create meaning by Muslims is very, very different than the Roman/Greek tradition of rhetoric.

    A book:

    http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Other-Faiths-Responsibility-Perspective/dp/0830833048/sr=8-1/qid=1158876866/ref=sr_1_1/104-7298517-3411143?ie=UTF8&s=books

    If he thinks he’s the Mahdi, then he’s Mad.

  3. Melody
    on 22 Sep 2006 at 6:14 am

    “Bestow upon humanity that thirsts for justice, the perfect human being promised to all by you, and make us among his followers and among those who strive for his return and his cause.”

    Sounds like a call to bring on the antichrist.

  4. at Addison Road
    on 25 Sep 2006 at 9:31 pm

    [...] After last week’s UN speech by President of Iran Ahmadinejad, I remain stunned at how little coverage was given to the “prayerful” ending to the speech. [...]

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