Iran Supreme Leader Uses Twitter To Blast U.S. And Says #BlackLivesMatter

[Purveyor]

Ed Pilkington in New York and Kelly Golnoush Niknejad

Sunday 28 December 2014 16.04 EST
me leader has stepped into the debate over police violence and race in America, likening police shootings of black people in Ferguson and elsewhere to the Palestinian struggle in Gaza in a series of tweets using the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter.

In a stream of comments on his English-language Twitter feed, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday returned to a theme he has repeatedly struck since Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson in Missouri on 9 August. In his latest outpouring, Khamenei seeks to highlight what he sees as the hypocrisy of the US at Christmastime by suggesting a link between Jesus suffering for the oppressed and official oppression of protesters in Ferguson.

“#Jesus endured sufferings to oppose tyrants who had put humans in hell in this world& the hereafter while he backed the oppressed. #Ferguson” he tweeted.

In another post, from Christmas Eve, the ayatollah wrote: “If #Jesus were among us today he wouldn’t spare a second to fight the arrogants&support the oppressed.#Ferguson #Gaza”

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/28/ayatollah-ali-khamenei-twitter-michael-brown-shooting

[Katashi_itto]

1. Go Supreme Leader!

Bushie flushed our high moral ground, the cops are just followups

[FreakinDJ]

5. He has his own thugs to enforce his will

Lest we forget all the sniper shootings during the protest

[MADem]

2. Most people do not realize that Iran has a not-insignificant Afro-Persian community.

But...before you get up on any high horse and smite the west for not being aware of this fact...

MOST PERSIANS don't realize this!!!

It kind of ruins the fiction that Persians were the original Aryans which is why this fact doesn't get much play, and the people who live in Afro-Persian communities don't travel much.

Fact is, many of the Afro-Persian population ended up in Iran as a consequence of slavery (which was only ended in the late 1920s in that country). It's still a rough road for them, as they are a very distinct minority clustered in a few southern provinces.

I think the Ayatullah might want to take note of that little rubric about "He who is without sin..." and maybe, just maybe, eschew the stone-throwing altogether in favor of addressing the problem instead of making accusations and casting blame.

FWIW, people who are wondering why in hell the Ayatullah is going on and on about Jesus (Isa), that's because Jesus (Isa) is regarded as a prophet in Islam, he's just not "THE" Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him, and all...

[lancer78]

4. He was not "THE" prophet

but he was the only prophet able to perform miracles. This can all be found in the Quran. He is also conceived immaculately in the Quran as well.

[tblue37]

6. Mary's conception was "Immaculate." IOW, *she* was conceived without the

taint of Original Sin, so she would be a sufficiently worthy vessel to bear the incarnated god. Many people confuse the Immaculate Conception with the Incarnation and the Virgin Birth, but they are not the same.

(I am an atheist, but I am interested in religion as a historical and anthropological subject.)

[MADem]

7. Well, I should think that Muhamad's ability to ride a horse great distances through the air might

also be classified as a miracle of sorts, but this could be parsed. Going from Mecca to Jerusalem and back again in a night is quite the trick, though the credit could go to the magic horse himself, Al Buraq!

He also did his version of loaves and fishes, and water for the thirsty, casting out demons and healing the sick....so he was a member of the "miracle" club as well, by all measures, I should think.

http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/152/

[msongs]

3. one oppressor bad mouthing another lol nt