Dana, Dana, Dana ...... there are no "Moolahs" in Iran.

[Stinky The Clown]

You DUMB fuck.

Rohrbacher

Iran has Ayatollahs, not "Moolahs"

They're Persian, there, not Arabs.

Shut your fucking mouth you RIGHT WING MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE.

(context: Ed Show)

[tridim]

1. Contrary to his denial he did say it's Obama's fault that the protesters are being shot.

IMO he should be kicked off the foreign relations cmte for what he just said.

[malaise]

2. Bat shit crazy stuff

Wow!

[malaise]

3. Tancredo said the same thing

:puke:

[ProgressiveFool]

4. *sniffle* thought this was about Perino... I miss her /nt

[Hepburn]

5. If someone donated 20 IQ points to Dana...

...he would still be at -10.

What a stupid RW asshole.

[SeattleGirl]

6. Well, you know, all of "those people" all look alike anyway.

:eyes:

[Stinky The Clown]

7. For people like Tancredo and Rohrbacher ...... yup.

They don't do nuance.

And where Tancredo comes off as just nutty, Rohrbacher strikes me as a guy who gets drunk and breaks bar stools in fights.

[SeattleGirl]

8. Yeah, Rohrbacher has that kind of scary edge to him.

[Shrek]

9. There are mullahs in Iran

CNN

In a blatant act of defiance, a group of Mullahs took to the streets of Tehran, to protest election results that returned incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.

Whether these clerics voted for Ahmadinejad or one of the opposition candidates is unknown. What is important here, is the decision to march against the will of Iran's supreme leader who called the results final and declared demonstrations illegal.

In the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mullahs rule supreme. They are the country's conservative clerics; the guardians of the Islamic revolution and its ideologies. They're loyal only to God and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

[spanone]

10. why oh why ed do you bring on mindless fucks like tancredo and rohrbacher?

they do not debate, they mock and dismiss. i turn the channel as soon as they appear.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Technically, there are mullahs in Iran. But Rohrbacher is still wrong

because a mullah is just a low-level cleric or mosque leader, while ayatollahs are the major religious leaders. It would be like referring to an archbishop as a mere priest.

Mullah (Persian) is a Muslim man, educated in Islamic theology and sacred law. The title, given to some Islamic clergy, is derived from the Arabic word mawla, meaning both "vicar" and "guardian". In large parts of the Muslim world, particularly Iran, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, it is the name commonly given to local Islamic clerics or mosque leaders....

The term is most often applied to Shi'ite clerics, as Shi'a Islam is the predominant tradition in Iran. However, the term is very common in Urdu, spoken throughout Pakistan, and it is used throughout the Indian subcontinent for any Muslim clergy, Sunni or Shi'a. Muslim clergy in Russia and other former Soviet Republics are also referred to as mullahs, regardless of whether they are Sunni or Shi'a.

The term is seldom used in Arabic-speaking areas, where its nearest equivalent is shaykh (implying formal Islamic training), imam (prayer leader; not to be confused with the Imams of the Shiite world), or `ālim (plural `ūlamā') (scholar; see ulema). In the Sunni world, the concept of "cleric" is of limited usefulness, as authority in the religious system is relatively decentralized.

The term is frequently used in English, although English-speaking Muslim clergy rarely call themselves mullahs. It was adopted from Urdu by the British rulers of India and subsequently came into more widespread use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullah