Sunday, May 01, 2005

Ummmm -- Yes, Mr. Khamenei

That would be correct:
Tehran, 27 April (AKI) - The Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that “human rights, are a weapon in the hands of our enemies to fight Islam.”

Speaking at the Conference for the Unity of Islam which opened in Tehran yesterday, Khamenei said: “The awakening of Muslims, had weakened the plot by America, by international Zionism and by other hidden forces on the planet implicated in a universal strategy which has the objective of fighting Islamic nations, which are a force of one and a half billion believers and with the large natural reserves.”

To a mixed audience of Iranians, Arabs and other foreigners at the conference, Ayatollah Khamenei said that it was “only through the unity of all Muslims, can they confront these diabolical attempts.”

Khamenei also explained how Iran is viewed globally in the role that it plays within the context of Islam. As the supreme leader of the Islamic republic, he said, that the “country has contributed to the awakening of Muslims and our enemies are trying to compensate for their poverty of thought, and so they have raised the banner of terrorism and are armed with human rights in order to defeat Islam and Muslims.”
Yes. That would be all that "poverty of thought" contained in the Magna Carta, the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution and modern science. You know, all that stuff that the Islamists are too busy chopping off heads to read up on.

Anyone who can't understand the Iranian Islamists as the brutal paranoid thugs that they are from comments like this -- not to mention their actions -- is quite simply insensate.

Or worse...