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September 11, 2006
US: Khatami Praises Hezbollah, Practices Taqqiyah
So, the former president of the Islamic Republic of Iran got his Harvard speech. The visit of Khatami, which occurred after President Bush personally allowed it, predictable became a propaganda success for the Islamic Regime: Khatami Slams 'Imperial' U.S.
Encouraging an end to the "cycle of violence" and a development of democracy in the East, former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called on the United States to allow countries to develop their own model of modernity in a speech at Harvard last night.
Pointless platitudes. What he really means is that the United States should stop disrupting Shia Islam's violent expansionism. Cloaking the message in cliches such as "stopping the cycle of violence" doesn't change that fact.
In his 30-minute address under heavy security, the Muslim cleric also defended the militant Lebanese group Hezbollah as a legitimate resistance movement fighting for the "territorial integrity" of Lebanon.
Just like a lion defends the "territorial integrity" of a gazelle, until it finishes eating it.
Khatami, who was president of Iran from 1997 to 2004, was met by angry protestors who called on him to apologize for human rights abuses committed by the government under his watch. Police estimated that 200 protestors gathered outside the Kennedy School of Government.But inside the forum, Khatami faced a relatively polite audience, a marked contrast to previous controversial visitors.
The "controversial visitors" the Crimson refer to are conservative, or even "conservative" spekers, whose speeches are disrupted, and sometimes are even themselves attacked in Harvard. Nothing like that happenned to the ex-president of a mass-murdering regime: he hates the United States after all.
Read the whole, depressing thing.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at September 11, 2006 5:16 PM
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