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UK continues the slow flush down the toilet at the hands of 7th century islamo-cockroaches. islam is eventually going to cross a line where governments take away everyone's 1st amendment rights in order to eradicate the islamists.
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When i was young i was not taught to hate other religions can we say the same in Islamic countries?.These kids are only repeating what they hear from their Parents/Mosque Imans!
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ION DAILY TIMES.PK > NOTHERN IRISH MILITANT GROUP DUMPS ARMS [publicly before "independent witnesses"]. The N. IRISH "INLA" GROUP [Irish National Liberation Front], does not apologize for its role or actions in the Northern Ireland struggle, + whom proclaims that there now exist other non-Viol avenues [read, POLITICAL ACTIVISM-ELECTORATE] by which their agenda can be achieved.
HMMMM, HMMMMM, first HAMAS doesn't apologize for its role or actions, now the INLA.
ALL MERITS OR CONTROVERSY ASIDE, IS IT JUST ME OR IS ANYONE ELSE GETTING A "GUT FEELING" THAT IRELAND, INCL. BUT NOT LIMITED TO ITS RADICAL GROUPS, MAY BE MAKING A SEVERE MISTAKE IFF IT HOPES IT CAN REGAIN NORTHEN IRELAND VIA RADICAL ISLAMISM'S MILTERR DEFEAT OF BRITAIN AND CREATION OF FUTURE "EURABIA"???
"STAND ALONE" NATIONAL SCENARIO > I gotta wonder what makes Ireland think they will be safe from Islamist takeover [2030-2100] iff Britain + EURO-ZONE do indeed go down for the Camel-count.
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we need to be as strict as USA and Australia going forward.No more benefit seekers/wannabe terrorist as we have plenty already in the Pakistan/Somalian communities!
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Paul2, I am not entirely sure that strict would be the word I'd use in the US context. Don't know much about Oz.
In order for a foreigner to immigrate Australia without a job offer, you have to amass so many "points", which are accumulated based on your age, your command of English, and the type of skills you have.
I, a native speaker of English in my late 30s with a PhD in physics, did not have enough points to get in. (But I had a job offer and wasn't intending to stay, so that didn't apply.)
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Better late than never. The West should have done more to build universities in the Middle East and Africa (that taught more than religious studies), which would promote education in those areas far better than bringing a handful of students to the west to learn.
Sweden's unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands with a woman.
A Stockholm court Monday ordered the Public Employment Service to pay 50,000 kronor ($6,700) in damages to an immigrant from Bosnia who lost his jobless benefits when he was kicked out of the program.
Citing his faith, the man had refused to shake hands with a woman when he was interviewing for an internship. The agency said his behavior was part of the reason he didn't get the position, and decided to exclude him from the program.
The court ruled that the man was discriminated against because of his religion. It wasn't immediately clear whether the ruling would be appealed.
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Insane, other Muslims manage to shake hands with women. And what happens when he doesn't get jobs because he won't shake hands, or won't work with women? Permanent welfare.
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This is one case where I would actually agree with the court.
Expressing common courtesy is one thing, but there are many people who, for a myriad of reasons, abhor physical contact, even to the point of not wanting to shake hands. And unless such contact is part of their job description, such as being a masseuse, it does not mean they cannot perform their job.
This can be a little odd. I remember a substitute teacher who was told by the other teachers to absolutely refuse to shake the hands of students when offered, because the students were trying to screw up the superior-inferior relationship of teacher to student.
If he was to make the mistake of shaking hands with the students, they would take him for a sucker, and turn his day into a living hell. He later noted that the half dozen who offered their hands were already on the list as troublemakers.
There are also a lot of non-Muslim religious people who equate such handshakes as sexual flirting, and would never touch someone of the opposite sex they were not related or married to.
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(AsiaNews) - Because of the threats posed by the powerful Lahore Bar Association an umbrella organization of city lawyers - no Christian or Muslim lawyer is ready to take on the defence in the murder of 12 year-old Shazia Bashir, it was reported yesterday by The Pakistani Christian association that deals with legal assistance.
The girl, of Christian faith, died on Jan. 23 as a result of violence - even sexual at the hands of her employer, a wealthy and powerful Muslim lawyer in Lahore. The alleged murderess, Chaudhry Mohammad Naeem, is a former president of the Lahore High Court Bar Association. The girl, just 12 years old, had worked as a maid in the home of Naeem in the last six months.
The Center for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) denounces that access to the courtroom where the court hearings were held against the accused was denied, because a group of Muslim lawyers (pictured) 'prevented' entry. The association is fighting - for free - for the rights of the poorest and marginalized groups has been threatened by thousands of lawyers - friends of the murderer - that promise to burn alive anyone who wants to represent the victim in court. "
M. Joseph Francis, director of Claas, asked members of civil society, political and religious leaders to rise up and take steps to "condemn this new form of terrorism" by lawyers who "should ensure justice." The Pakistani newspaper The News reported that on Feb. 4, the police conducted the accused to the courts amid "tight security. And, as usual, officials prevented journalists and relatives of victims to come into the hall for "security reasons".
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from the wording it seems no one is willing to defend the perpetrator, however, from the tone of the article it seems either no one is willing to give evidence against the perp or no one is willing to defend the rights of witnesses
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At least Iran have a decent progressive population Pakistan and their idols the Saudis on the otherhand..........!
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > JuD MILITANT GROUP [LeT faction] VOS TO TAKE BACK KASHMIR BY FORCE [Jihad]. Threatens "rivers of blood" will flow across all INDJUH.
HAFIZ SAEED > Iff the US has been defeated by Islamic Mujahideen in Afghanistan [failing to stop = defeat Afghan insurgency + 2011-2017 Obama US Mil withdrawal timetable], THEN HOW CAN INDIA ENDURE, STAY ON AS PER KASHMIR IN THE FACE OF EFFEC OR SUCCESSFUL ISLAMIC JIHAD.
* SAME > PAKISTAN: RELIGIOUS PARTIES TERM US "CENTRE OF EVIL" [throughout Nation + Region].
The sources did not provide the exact ultimate destination of the missile boats. However, Egyptian maritime sources quoted in the Arab media estimated that both ships were headed to the Persian Gulf and may reach it within four days. The veracity of these estimates is unclear.
The sail through the Suez Canal was coordinated with Egyptian authorities, which reportedly adopted strict security arrangements to ensure the safe passage of the two Israeli ships. According to Arab media, Egyptian forces prevented any vessels from passing through the Canal and also stopped the vehicular traffic on the road leading to it.
According to the reports, one Israeli missile boat already passed through the Suez Canal in June and July of last year. In one case, the Israeli ship was said to have been accompanied by an Israeli submarine.
Last week, Egyptian newspaper al-Shuruq reported that the US has been holding extensive maneuvers in the Persian Gulf, including some across Iran's shores. The report was based on information provided by senior Egyptian sources.
In addition, the newspaper reported that Israeli vessels have been mapping the Persian Gulf's waters in the past six months in cooperation with American forces belonging to the Fifth Fleet. However, it appears the report regarding Israel was baseless, and that it was leaked in an attempt to gauge Jerusalem's response.
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No, I gather just the last bit, about mapping. This would be their version of "take it with a grain of salt". That is, part of the information is likely true, but they can't help but editorialize, like most of the MSM here.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Egypt is to close its sea border to the Gaza-bound supplies as it reinforces the restrictions against the passage of sustenance into the strip.
Cairo has ordered a port to be built at its maritime border with the Gaza Strip, a security official was quoted by AFP as saying. The security boats there would then "prevent all future attempts to smuggle Palestinian contraband," he added.
The surveillance multiplies the restrictions Cairo has placed along the terrestrial border at a time when the coastal sliver of 1.5-million population continues to suffer from an all-out Israeli-imposed blockade which has deprived it of its basic necessities for almost three years.
Egypt has kept shut the Rafah border crossing -- the sliver's only border that bypasses Israel -- claiming that the border post is an Egyptian-Israeli crossing and should not be used without Tel Aviv's permission.
The Egyptian government is additionally building a steel wall along the Gaza border to prevent the trafficking of any goods into the strip.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said late last month that "fortifications along our eastern border are a work of Egyptian sovereignty, and we refuse to enter into a debate with anyone [about them]."
Egypt has also banned all relief convoys from using its territory to enter Gaza after causing numerous complications for the high-profile Viva Palestina convoy, which had departed for the enclave headed by British member of parliament George Galloway.
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[Ma'an] Ibrahim Ramadan, a Palestinian Authority Preventative Security official, denied on Sunday that Israel and Palestinian security forces coordinated the arrest of an Al-Qaeda cell in the West Bank.
His comments follow reports in Israeli media that both the PA and Israeli security forces recently arrested members of radical Islamist groups with links to Al-Qaida and global jihadists in various parts of the West Bank.
According to the Israeli daily Haaretz the largest arrests were made in the town of Qabatiya near Jenin, where six people were detained.
"Those detained were unarmed and were arrested before they could carry out any attacks," the daily reported, having quoted a PA security source.
Ramadan said that a Preventative Security spokesman would imminently comment on the media reports.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Human Rights Watch said on Sunday that Israel has failed to properly investigate alleged crimes committed during last winter's devastating Gaza war as demanded by the United Nations.
"Israel claims it is conducting credible and impartial investigations, but it has so far failed to make that case," said Joe Stork, HRW's New York-based group's deputy director for the Middle East.
"An independent investigation is crucial to understand why so many civilians died and to bring justice for the victims of unlawful attacks," Stork said in a statement.
About 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the 22-day onslaught launched by Israel on Dec. 27, 2008, aimed at halting rocket attacks from the Islamist Hamas-ruled enclave. Thirteen Israelis were killed in the fighting.
The U.N. General Assembly in November called on Israel and Palestinian armed groups to investigate alleged war crimes detailed in a UN report by the respected former international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone.
But U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that he had not yet determined whether both sides had adequately probed the accusations.
Last Friday, the U.N. chief received a 46-page report from Israel in which it denied violating international law but admitted "tragic results" due to the "complexity and scale" of fighting in heavily populated areas.
In his report, Ban highlighted Israel's assertion that two of its senior officers -- a brigadier general and a colonel -- were disciplined for the firing of white phosphorous shells toward a U.N. compound during the war.
Also on Friday, the U.N. secretary general was handed a preliminary report from the Palestinian side in which it said a commission had been set up to look into allegations that Palestinian militants committed war crimes.
Hamas also carried out an investigation into the conflict, and has previously absolved its fighters of any wrongdoing, saying they did not deliberately target civilians.
HRW has rejected Hamas's claims, saying that most of the rockets fired during the war hit civilian areas. "Civilians were the target," the group said, and "deliberately targeting civilians is a war crime."
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Human Rights [abuse] Watch is just doing its job of equalating the deliberate targeting and murder of civilians by Hamass with the unavoidable casualties of Human Shields / Civilian Terrorists by Israel.
Classic propaganda technique - claim the 'other side' is doing it too so as to dilute or avoid blame.
The fact remains that Israel did everything in its power to avoid civilian casualties - even to the point of dropping leaflets and 'knocking on the roof' prior to an attack - that is a well known and documented fact. While on the other hand Hamas did (and has been for 10 years) all in its power to deliberately target and murder as many civilians as it possibly can and during the war hid behind 'human shields' - which, in many cases, were effective since Israel was trying her upmost to avoid civilian deaths.
Human shields who either Hamas forced into harms way or who were, in truth, terrorists or actively-participating terrorist supporters.
Human Rights Watch, and the U.N. General Assembly, and Ki-Moon, know this. They are just attempting to give the terrorist organization 'cover'.
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When you lose you lose. So everybody is "failing" to examine Israeli "warcrimes"? That's because wars tend to favor the sorts who win them. Hamas lost the war, so they whine it wasnt "fair".
Wars are murder, sanctioned and legal and that's what you do. And usually you pay lip service to how its done BUT the truth is you dont really care how they get so cold...as long as they do.
You gang up on them. You come at them while they are asleep or sitting on the toilet with their pants down. You say honey I'm home while you pour gasoline in their breakfast. Sometimes you use atomics and you film it so that future generations can clap at the movies. There IS no nice way.
You close the door when the captain isnt there and check their wounded who are gonna die "anyway". You push it as far as it will go and use a knife so there isnt any noise.
And then you write the history books and you were all heroes. And that's the kind of men you want at three in the morning. Honor is a relative thing at best. Good intentions are usually better left for bandleaders. You dont tell your mother the truth, you tell her what she needs to hear.
Soldiers are not shoe-salesmen. Dont lie to yourself. And living to be old is its own reward.
SOMEBODY is going to lose, make sure it isnt you.
Hamas can whine all they like...smile at 'em.
You know, when I heard we tortured Khalid after we shot him four times( we did, you know)...and waterboarded him while we drove him nuts throwing him up against the wall and leaving him in a freezing little box with his leg behind his ear and playing AC/DC with a sonic booster while he was spreadeagled in chains....(we did , you know)...I didnt feel an ounce of pity. I ate my breakfast and kept smiling.
We intend to win this thing. We dont care about how we win ( lie to me and I will smile back at you) and honor and justice and the "American Way" can go toot on a penny whistle.
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And I don't really care how we win, just make sure we do before the clueless ones start bemoaning how we did it so they can assuage their cluelessly "guilty" conscience.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday that Damascus would stand by Beirut, should Israel launch another war on Lebanon.
"Syria will stand alongside the government and people of Lebanon against any possible Israeli aggression launched on Lebanon," Assad said Sunday in a meeting with visiting Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Damascus, AFP reported.
Assad and Berri discussed "repeated Israeli threats on countries in the region and Israeli extremism which can kill chances for peace and bring war to the region," official Syrian Arab News Agency reported.
Officials in Tel Aviv recently reiterated threats of war against both countries, which still have parts of their territories occupied by Israel.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has recently said that Syria should clinch a peace deal with Israel or find itself in a "full-fledged war" with Tel Aviv. A few days later hawkish Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened Assad with another war in which "his family will lose power" on top of a military defeat for the country.
Late last month, an Israeli minister predicted a third attack on Lebanon, which has already suffered deadly Israeli raids in 2000 and 2006.
The head of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) Walid Jumblatt recently said they would stand by Syria in the face of what he called 'a frenzied Israeli attitude.'
The Leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has also expressed his support for Syria's anti-Israeli stance.
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Iran is the new Eastern Europe during the last phase of the Cold War. Like Poland during the heady days of Solidarity in the early 1980s, the protestors are enlightened, technologically savvy multitudes crying out for universal values of democracy and human rights. As such, they have captured the imagination of liberal intellectuals in the West. Even as the United States is tied down with 200,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran promises to be the signal issue of our time.
Given that the regime could last another month or another decade, what is President Barack Obama to do? Throughout his first year in office, he's attempted the Nixonian détente approach: talk, work back channels, get the two governments to negotiate on the basis of naked national interests. That approach seems to have failed. That leaves us with the Reaganite approach: be open to far-reaching talks, as President Ronald Reagan was with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, but do nothing to legitimize the Iranian system. And, throughout any discussions, adopt the rhetoric of democracy. Make it clear that Washington is on the same side of history as the demonstrators, but also make it clear that the door is open to negotiations with those in power.
And to avoid the risk of undermining the demonstrators by overt American support of them (thus catering to regime's basest conspiracy theories), Obama should talk about democracy only in general, albeit pointed, terms, without directly referring to Iran. That is, he should get the language of universal values out over Iranian air waves as much as possible: encouraging the demonstrators without specifically backing them.
We are not in control. But something wonderful has begun: nothing less than the most positive development in the Middle East since President Anwar Sadat went to Jerusalem. And while that daring gesture led only to a cold bilateral peace between Egypt and Israel, the Green Revolution in Iran carries the potential to unleash a true Islamic Reformation.
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stressed that the Zionist regime is moving on a precipice towards demise and it will soon experience annihilation.
"I am very optimistic about the future of Palestine and believe that Israel is moving on the precipice of wane and demise, and God willing its annihilation is for sure," Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement Ramadan Abdullah Shallah here in Tehran.
He also called the Zionist regime's inability to dominate Gaza a miracle, and added, "Despite all its financial and political aids and after laying siege (on Gaza) for more than two years, the Zionist regime could not defeat the resistance of Palestinian people."
Elsewhere, Ayatollah Khamenei referred to the attempts made by certain Arab governments to help the Zionist regime, and said these attempts are certainly doomed to failure as the Muslim nations always support the Palestinian cause.
Abdullah, for his part, admired the Iranian nation's vigilance against enemies' plots, and said, "Today the Islamic Republic of Iran is experiencing its best conditions and is in its strongest position."
"Everyone honors the righteous positions of Iran," he reiterated.
"Certainly the right will be victorious," he added.
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Christ, I hope the Israelis are running Geiger counters over every freighter within forty miles of their coasts, and every tractor-trailer at their border checkpoints. The Iranian mullahs strike me as the sorts to maybe do their atom-bomb tests on enemy soil.
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As Israel keeps threatening the regional countries with war, Egyptian maritime sources say the Israeli navy has deployed two missile ships to the Persian Gulf.
Citing the sources, Yediot Ahronot reported Saturday that two Israeli missile ships passed through the Suez Canal en rout to the Red Sea on Thursday morning. The sources said the ships are expected to reach the Persian Gulf within the next four days. Just in time for the 11th ...
According to the report, Cairo adopted tight security measures to ensure the safe passage of the Israeli ships through the canal.
The waterway, which had not previously been used by Israeli vessels for intelligence reasons, was traversed for the first time in June 2009 when a Dolphin-class submarine (a nuclear German-made submarine) reportedly sailed from the Mediterranean to reach military exercises in the Red Sea. Diesel-electric, you idiots, not nuclear.
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it could be carrying something nucular, Dr. Steve :-)
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran will tell the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Monday of its plans to enrich uranium to 20 percent, atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi told state television on Sunday, adding that the process will begin on Tuesday.
"We will inform the IAEA in a letter tomorrow (Monday) of our intention to enrich uranium to 20 percent," Salehi told the Arabic-language Al-Alam television, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
"The higher enrichment will begin at the Natanz plant from the day after tomorrow (Tuesday)," he added. Natanz is in the central province of Isfahan.
Salehi's remarks came hours after hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered him to begin higher uranium enrichment, raising the stakes in a dispute with the West days after seeming to accept a U.N. drafted nuclear deal.
Iranian officials have repeatedly said the Islamic Republic can make fuel enriched to 20 percent itself if there is no agreement on obtaining the material from abroad.
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Because of upheaval in the country they are desperate for war to get the people behind them!
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OTOH PAKISTANI DEFECE FORUM POSTER > opines that, as per Thread sources, Iran already has approxi 135 NUCLEAR WEAPONS [500KT-2MT yield] as purchased from an Iran-friendly foreign country?
versus
* SAME > HINDU EXTREMIST GROUPS RING ALARM BELLS AROUND THE GLOBE. ARTIC > certain Hindu groups are NOT above being like Radicalist MUSLIM Groups + forcing local CHRISTIANS, OTHER TO CONVERT TO THEIR -ISM UPON PAIN OF VIOL, NEVER-ENDING PERSECUTION ANDOR DEATH.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday the destruction of Israel was "imminent," and called for continued resistance against the Jewish state, state media reported.
"I am very optimistic about the future of Palestine and believe Israel is on the steep path of decline and deterioration," Khamenei told Ramadan Abdullah, the secretary general of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.
"God willing, its destruction will be imminent," the Islamic republic's all-powerful leader said. "Continued resistance and hope for victory should be taken into consideration."
Iran does not recognize Israel, and is a staunch backer of Palestinian Islamist militants.
Tensions have soared between Iran and Israel over the past five years since hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power.
Ahmadinejad has drawn international condemnation by repeatedly predicting that Israel is doomed to disappear and dismissing the Holocaust as a "myth."
Israel, the sole if undeclared nuclear power in the Middle East, has called for tougher action against Tehran over its controversial atomic program and accuses it of seeking nuclear weapons, a charge Iran denies.
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LOL, if this is code language for 'we're gonna nuke Israel as soon as we are able,' I think he is forgetting about the rain of nukes that will fall on him in response.
More likely, just more saber rattling to try to distract the increasingly unruly masses.
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This is probably more to do with shiite eschatology, the return of the whatever iman, etc, rather than a threat to actually do something.
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What say you UN about a member country saying that about another member country? Oh, youre still busy writing Anti-Semitic graffiti at the moment and cant answer?
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#2 This is probably more to do with shiite eschatology, the return of the whatever iman, etc, rather than a threat to actually do something.
Posted by: phil_b 2010-02-08 01:14
Glen Beck had an interesting segment on his program one day last week (I forget which day) on this subject, and explained how Ahmadinejad is a "12th'r". Someone who believes in the return on the "12th iman" as a precursor of the triumph of the world wide caliphate. Kinda' like the "end times" believers in Christianity, except 12th'r will go to any means to accelerate the 12th imans' return.
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We can build an Avitar... we have the technology... unfortunately... He is ugly... But he will say and do what we want him to say and do...
-Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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