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drdon326 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 05:45 AM
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President invokes new Islamic wave
IRAN’S ultra-conservative President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, threw down a challenge to the West yesterday by declaring that his election victory marked the dawn of a new Islamic revolution that would spread around the world.

“Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world,” he said. “The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.”

His fiery language shows that he has not lost the revolutionary ardour that propelled him into politics as a young Basij Islamic militia volunteer who had fought in the Iran-Iraq war. It is also reminiscent of the rhetoric of Ayatollah Khomenei, the architect of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and is likely to sound alarm bells in the West, afraid that his victory could signal a return to post-revolutionary fundamentalism.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-1674547,00.html

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Sounds like a great guy.
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 05:49 AM
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1. And Bush said he was spreading democracy....
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kiki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 06:56 AM
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2. Sounds like all George's Christmases have come at once.
If you want eternal war, you gotta keep churning out those dastardly, walking stereotype bad guys.
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Englander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-30-05 07:09 AM
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3. Spooky.
You know,this story is at the top of the page over
at lgf.

Of course,I'm not suggesting that you ripped this story
from lgf,that would be wrong,& I don't beleive you did,
but it is curious that this exact same article appears over
there.

Call it a coincidence.



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