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| Why Rouhani loves New York |
| 2014-09-20 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's trip to New York next week will be a welcome relief for the Iranian leader. Finally, he'll be somewhere where he's appreciated, even loved. Ahead of his trip to America, the US media continued its practice of presenting Rouhani as a moderate, and a natural ally for the US. NBC News' Anne Curry interviewed Rouhani in Tehran, focusing her attention on his dim view of Islamic State. Rouhani told Curry, "From the viewpoint of the Islamic tenets and culture, killing an innocent people equals the killing of the whole humanity. And therefore, the killing and beheading of innocent people in fact is a matter of shame for them and it's the matter of concern and sorrow for all the human and all the mankind." The US media and political establishment's willingness to take Rouhani at his word when he says that he's a moderate is one of the reasons that Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz was in such a desolate mood on Wednesday. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 Agreed, Rambler. Although plenty of people in the Middle East manage to acquire guns despite the distinct lack of either a Constitution or any amentdments thereto. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-09-20 23:43 |
| #5 tw, which would be an argument in favor of the 2nd amendment, to my mind. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-09-20 15:39 |
| #4 Isn't being a Muslim a requirement of being considered "innocent" for all Islam? But one has to be the right variety of Muslim, and then pious enough, and the members of the household have to be visibly equally pious... in the end only people like us qualify, where us are the guys holding the guns. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-09-20 13:57 |
| #3 Isn't being a Muslim a requirement of being considered "innocent" for all Islam? There's no such thing as an innocent infidel, right? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-09-20 13:17 |
| #2 He tries to use the distraction to complete Iranian nuke. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-09-20 10:47 |
| #1 Anne Curry tries to re-establish her position--sort of like Dan Rather interviewing Saddam? Rouhani has a dim view of the Islamic State? According to the ONE, they are not Islamic or a State. Rouhani told Curry, “From the viewpoint of the Islamic tenets and culture, killing an innocent people equals the killing of the whole humanity. And therefore, the killing and beheading of innocent people in fact is a matter of shame for them and it’s the matter of concern and sorrow for all the human and all the mankind.” Kumbaya. Probably, too many Shia are being killed. Is he trying to get the evil West to kill off his problem? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-20 10:40 |