An incredibly depressing article in the Weekly Standard about Iran’s Jew-hatred. Ahmadinejad is just the latest in a long line of Hamans.
Just as Hitler sought to “liberate” humanity by murdering the Jews, so Ahmadinejad believes he can “liberate” humanity by eradicating Israel. The deniers’ conference as an instrument for propagating this project is intimately linked to the nuclear program as an instrument for realizing it. Five years ago, in December 2001, former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani first boasted that “the use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything,” whereas the damage to the Islamic world of a potential retaliatory nuclear attack could be limited: “It is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality.” While the Islamic world could sacrifice hundreds of thousands of “martyrs” in an Israeli retaliatory strike without disappearing–so goes Rafsanjani’s argument–Israel would be history after the first bomb.
It is precisely this suicidal outlook that distinguishes the Iranian nuclear weapons program from those of all other countries and makes it uniquely dangerous. As long ago as 1980, Khomeini put it this way: “We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.”
Anyone inclined to dismiss the significance of such statements might want to consider the proclamation made by Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who stands even higher in the Iranian hierarchy than Ahmadinejad. A few months ago, on November 16, 2006, Rahimian explained: “The Jew”–not the Zionist, note, but the Jew–“is the most obstinate enemy of the devout. And the main war will determine the destiny of mankind. . . . The reappearance of the Twelfth Imam will lead to a war between Israel and the Shia.” The country that has been the first to make Holocaust denial a principle of its foreign policy is likewise the first openly to threaten another U.N. member state with, not invasion or annexation, but annihilation.
Read in full recommendation.
Khomenei was rather overoptimistic to think that it would be only Iran burning and that Islam, whatever he meant by that (Sunnis? Saddam Hussien?), would come out triumphant. No doubt most of the world will be unmoved if these scum destroy Israel, maybe even breathe a sigh of relief. But then the realization will set in that they are next. As I’ve said before, continuation of this jihad stupidity will convince the world’s five billion non-Muslims that the “The problem is Muslims; no more Muslims, no more problem.” I have been afraid for years that the imbecile Muslims supporting these jihadis will provoke their own genocide. At that point there will be no stomach for Americans to interfere to protect any of them, as we did in Bosnia and Kossovo.
I’d call the jihadis and the idiots who support them swine, but that would be an inaccurate and gratuitous insult to pigs.