Mercnbeth
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Wondering how many watched the Communications for Barbarians Service broadcast of 60 Minutes and the interview by the self loathing Mike Wallace. First we had a few years back Mr. Wallace and Saddam Hussein asking the hard hitting; “How do you feel?”, instead of the more appropriate, “How do you think your opponents feel when they are lowered slowly into an industrial paper shredder?” Mr. Wallace asked some similar very “hard hitting” questions of President Ahmadinejad. (Note: Previous sentence was sarcasm.)
He asked; “What do you think about Mr. Bush?” Note he did not refer to him as President Bush, however throughout the entire interview he referred to Ahmadinejad as president. He referred to President Bush as the leader of the “’so called’ Free World”. President Ahmadinejad agreed and answered by making the point that the “so called” reference was more important than any answer.
He did ask; “Israel, you have said time and again, Israel must be wiped off the map. Please explain why. And what is Iran doing about that?” But only once, and when it was never answered never again, yet he solicited President Ahmadinejad’s advise regarding the US Prison system and the state of US Health care. I guess when you just kill your opposition you have less in prison. Source: http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/2006/07/democide-galore-iran-says-kill-them.html
If you get your hand cut off for protesting against or accused of an "armed uprising against the Islamic regime" you can at least take consolation that your medical cost is covered. Points that I would have made if given Mr. Wallace’s opportunity.
Interesting to note that the crime wasn’t against Iran, it was against an “Islamic regime”. The four men were arrested in Shiraz, southwestern Iran, on 23 June 2002. Reza Nazaarit and Mohammaad Safaavi were reportedly held in solitary confinement for 45 days prior to their trial. On 9 August 2002, a Revolutionary Court in Shiraz sentenced the four men to the amputation of the right hand and left foot on charges of "armed uprising against the Islamic regime" and theft. Is anyone in doubt or confused that the Islamic “religion” is not part of the problem but is the problem?
Never once did he refer to Jewish people. It should be noted the Mike Wallace was born Jewish, ergo the “self loathing” extends not only to the US, but to his ancestry.
Link to the 60 Minutes story site: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/09/60minutes/main1879867.shtml
If not arrested for the these references I would have gone on to ask about these:
Those who what a “real” slave may look to Iran for the opportunity:
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A measure of the success of Islamists in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women. In Iran for 25 years, the ruling Islamists have enforced humiliating rules and punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system of segregation, forced veiling, second class status, lashing and stoning to death. Source: http://www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/2/3485
Sex predators also have a friendly environment to work in Iran:
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A teenage girl and two young men in Iran have been sentenced to lashes for having sex. The court dismissed the girl's claim that she was raped. It said she had sex of her own free will, the official Iran Daily newspaper reported. The girl was sentenced to 100 lashes because her accusations of rape and kidnap could have landed her partners a death penalty, the Tehran judge said. Sex outside marriage is illegal in Iran and capital punishment can be imposed.
The young men in the case were sentenced to 30 and 40 lashes each.
Source: http://www.natashatynes.com/newswire/2005/02/_iran_girl_gets.html
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Ashraf Kolhari, a mother of four children between the ages of nine and nineteen, is at imminent risk of execution by stoning for adultery. She has been held in Tehran’s Evin prison for five years, and should by law serve the remaining ten years of her prison sentence before she is executed. Source: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE130832006?open&of=ENG-392
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Two youths, aged eighteen and nineteen, were put to death on July 19 after they were found guilty of sexually assaulting a thirteen-year-old boy some fourteen months earlier. One of the youths was seventeen at the time of the offense. Before the two youths were put to death, each also received 228 lashes for theft, disturbing public order, and consuming alcohol. Source: http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/07/27/iran11486.htm
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Earlier this year, they upheld a sentence of death on 16-year-old Atefeh Rajabi. Atefeh had also been convicted of "acts incompatible with chastity". In her defense, she said she had been sexually assaulted by an older man. The judges did not care. So, on August 16, at 6am, Atefeh was taken from her cell and hanged from a crane in the main square of the town of Neka. Witnesses report that she begged for her life as she was dragged kicking and screaming to the makeshift gallows. She shouted "repentance" over and over again – a gesture which, according to Islamic law, is supposed to grant the accused the right to an immediate stay of execution while an appeal is heard.
Atefeh's cries were in vain. Haji Rezaie, the judge who presided over her trial, put the noose around her neck himself. He said he was pleased to do it. "Society has to be kept safe from acts against public morality," he insisted. He ordered that her body be left hanging from the crane for several hours so people could see what happened to teenagers who "committed acts incompatible with chastity".
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=OMEZ2KKA3301DQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2004/12/19/wiran19.xml
How nice that Mr. Wallace shared a pleasant dinner and interview with the man who runs the country where these activities took place and where they are still taking place, without comment. I imagine that journalism schools throughout the US will use Mr. Wallace’s example as a how propaganda is spread by a complicit news service.
Compare and contrast:
When the terror of the Abu Ghraib was reported it appeared in the NY Times for 35 straight days. When it was found a Koran was “defiled” because it was in a bathroom in a Guantanamo Cuba prison, it was a news story for months. Both initiated Congressional hearings. 2.5 Million have dies so far under Muslim hands in Darfur. Hundreds of thousands die every year under Chinese rule of Tibet. I challenge you to find one story on either topic on 60 Minutes over the last year. It would be just as difficult to find a story from any national US news source.
Yet, we in the US are part of the “free world” that is defined by the quotes around it. Mike Wallace says so. Why not challenge the “religion of peace” with a story next week on Muslim responsibility for what is occurring in Darfur.
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