[lit-ideas] Foot in Mouth Disease Spreads
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:39:28 -0500
I wonder what you have to do to become a cleric?
Maybe it involves head injury? -Eric
Top Iranian cleric defends Holocaust remarks
LONDON, December 17 (IranMania) - A top Iranian
cleric defended President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from
heated international criticism after he made a
slew of anti-Israeli remarks that included denying
the Holocaust, AFP reported.
Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, who heads the Assembly of
Experts, told worshippers at Friday prayers in the
clerical epicentre of Qom that the slaughter of
mlns of Jews in World War II was a "false rumour".
"The president's statements ... are completely
rational and come from all Iranian hearts. The
European countries reacted because they cannot
bear to hear the president's rational comments,"
the IRNA agency quoted him as saying.
"After World War II the Jews and Zionists spread a
false rumour that Hitler, Austria and Germany had
burned more than six mln Jews in the furnaces,"
said Meshkini, who heads the body that selects and
supervises Iran's supreme leader.
http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=38819&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs
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