What will the nations of the world do? Will they meet this threat head on and treat Iran as the terrorist rogue it is or will they stand by as they did the last time a maniac threatened the Jews with annihilation? Or, will the different rules that the world holds Islamic nations to win out as they always have before? Consider, if you will, what the consequences would have been if Sharon would have said he wanted to wipe out the Palestinians.
A few have expressed the disgust and anger that should have been the immediate reaction to an outrageous hate speech such as this.
Tony Blair said, he had a "real sense of revulsion" over President Ahmadinejad's comments, describing them as a "disgrace".
Blair said: "These sentiments are completely and totally unacceptable.
"I have never come across a situation of the president of a country saying they want to wipe out - not that they have got a problem with or an issue with - but want to wipe out another country.
"This is unacceptable and their attitude towards Israel, their attitude towards terrorism, their attitude on the nuclear weapons issue isn't acceptable."
Blair is absolutely on the mark. The French, on the other hand, summoned the Iranian ambassador in France to explain his President’s comments. What's to explain? Do they not have the ability to translate Farsi into French?
And Kofi Annan expressed "dismay", probably because he can't figure out how to make an extra buck on this crisis yet.
The Iranian president spoke his heart and the hearts of millions of others. These wild eyed fanatics are still caught up in a world that for everyone else ended centuries ago. Despite some backpedaling on the part of a few minor officials what you have, clearly stated, is the goal not only of the Iranian government but that of many Arab governments as well.
The civilized world can ill afford to continue ignoring this threat that will not go away. It didn't work for Neville Chamberlain and it isn't going to work for us.
What follows is some of the continuing rhetoric still seeping up from that Islamic pig sty.
Tehran, 27 Oct. (AKI) - In a gesture of support for Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Islamic Revolutionary guards on Thursday joined his recent and controversial call for Israel to be "wiped off the map". "If this cancer (Israel) is not removed from the Islamic world, Muslims will sustain immense harm," said their spokesman, Seyyed Massoud Jazayeri. Ahmadinejad made his remarks at a Palestinian solidarity conference in Tehran on Wednesday, provoking angry condemnation from Western nations.
"This wound was opened more than half a century ago and has still not been healed, because in the Islamic world, some leaders and regimes, which have not been democratically elected by their own people, continue to rule, with the help of Western imperialism," Jazayeri continued.
"A world without Zionism, and the obliteration of Israel from the face of the earth, is not only the objective of Iran, but of the whole Muslim world," he added, pointing out that these goals had been underlined by the country's revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, more than 20 years ago.
"At the time, many thought they were just propaganda slogans, but by reiterating them now, president Ahmadinejad has reminded us that they involve a strategy shared by most of the Islamic world," Jazayeri noted.
Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki has sent a circular to the country's diplomats - many of who have beeen summoned by the Western nations to provide explanation for Ahmadinejad's comments - to "go on the offensive".
"You should present yourselves to the authorities in the countries where you live, to strongly protest against the indifference shown by Western nations to the suffering of the Palestinian people and urge Europe's condemnation of Israel," the circular read.
Thanks to Iran Focus.
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