Comments on: Understanding Ahmadinejad’s letter to Bush: the context

By: justasking

justasking — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Re: reviewing all the aggressive lines in the
Koran–yes, prudent to do so, just as it is
prudent to review such lines in the Talmud.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Does anyone remember when the fake liberals kept complaining that we should attack Iran, instead of Iraq, because Iran is more of a threat than Iraq? So… where are the fake liberals now about attacking Iran?

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

We have been at war with Iran since 1979. This letter does not change that.

The good news is that we now have forward bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

By: snowonpine

snowonpine — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

As I understand it, this rambling letter contains what is known as a da'wa, an invitation to an Infidel asking him to convert to Islam. The historical record, starting with Mohammad, is that this invitation, if not accepted, leads to attack by the letter's sender. Nothing could be more clear than this.

Yesterday I reviewed a collection of all the aggressive lines in the Koran, many hundreds of them. It then occurred to me that while the Bible and Torah are, in the vast majority of their passages, an attempt to get Christians and Jews to contain and put to good use their aggressive instincts and tendency to dominate others and, in the New Testiment particularly, to have sympathy for their fellow man, the Koran has as its message in the overwhelming number of passages, that Allah commands Muslims to give these aggressive and dominating tendencies free reign in the service of punishing backsliders within Islam and conquering or killing infidels without Islam. I see no admonitions in the Koran to have sympathy for non-mulims, who are described as destined to burn eternally in Hell in innumerable verses, rather such infidels, based on practices flowing directly from the Koran, are given the choices of conversion to Islam, dhimmitude i.e. semi-slavery, or death.

By: SB

SB — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Sounds like a very subtle mind game he's playing with the rest of the world. On the surface it's patently ridiculous, but in context it makes sense.

Question is, are we playing A's game or ours? Or does it matter?

By: camojack

camojack — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

I like Shane’s idea…and definitely Danish.

By: Goesh

Goesh — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

– buying time to bomb Jews, that’s my take on it. This maniac at some conference again declared in affect that Israel would in time cease to exist.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Send him some anthrax littered letters back. No, I’m serious.

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

My first impulse would be to thank him for his letter by sending him a canned ham — Danish, of course. But that would be a waste of a good canned ham.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Hollywood never uses body blows, so I don't think they will ever believe a body blow is possible.

Like the Democrats say, it is very easy to fire up a population with a war, by creating an imagined enemy. They should know, they've done it before in WWII, and their justification is always that the enemy they lied that they would not go to war with, really was an enemy. But their allies and Iranian dictators can still fire up a lot of support with a war, primarily because they can make us their enemies.