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| Axis of Evil |
| Taliban, US are scissors against Islam: Khatami |
| 2002-12-12 |
| President Mohammad Khatami has described the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban as "the two blades of a very dangerous pair of scissors" tarnishing Islam, state news agency IRNA reported Thursday. "God's religion today is lying between the two blades of a very dangerous pair of scissors: one blade is the Islam of the Taliban, while the other is trying to impose war, hatred, animosity and imperialism on the whole world under the pretext of fighting the Islam of the Taliban," Khatami said. "The Islam of the Taliban belongs to those who are portraying God's beautiful religion as ugly, with their repellent views, backward ideology, fossilised habits and rigid-mindeness." Got that part right, I guess... "On the opposite side are those powers that are trying to tarnish the image of God's religion, which has become a source of uprising for independence and freedom ... from hegemonic powers," he added, calling on Muslim artists "to strive to portray the beauty" of Islam. Maybe we need Muslim painters to portray the beauty of amputations, stonings, beheadings, hangings... Iran, while a staunch enemy of the ousted fundamentalist Afghan Taliban, has also spoken out against the widening US "war on terrorism". It's all connected, and as it happens Iran is where a lot of it connects. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |