Ahmadinejad has been kicked out!

Started by .Fenris October 5th, 2009 3:43 AM
  • 724 views
  • 4 replies

.Fenris

Just a bystander, don't shoot!

Male
Castelia City
Seen June 28th, 2012
Posted September 11th, 2011
291 posts
14.1 Years
You heard it here, folks...
Spoiler:
I wasn't really sure we could top last week's list of disclosures about celebrities and politicians. To recap: David Letterman is a philanderer. John Edwards is an (alleged) serial philanderer. And if there were any remaining doubts, Roman Polanksi really is a child rapist. But here's one secret I'm quite certain none of us saw coming: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is . . . wait for it . . . Jewish. Wow.

This guy has had one helluva summer: Electoral fraud. Torture allegations. Oh, yes and that pesky little nuclear facility he's been building. Now it turns out he's Jewish to boot? Say it ain't so, Mahmoud.

But apparently it is. According to a story that broke over the weekend in London's Daily Telegraph, a photograph of the President holding up his national identity card during the recent Iranian elections provides evidence that he is Jewish.

That document reveals that his original last name -- Sabourjian -- is a well-known Jewish surname in Iran, one that even connotes that his family was once observant. A note scribbled on the card also shows that his parents changed their last name to "Ahmadinejad" after they converted to Islam when he was born. Although Ahmadinejad has never denied that his name was changed, he has never offered an explanation.

To be fair, he's not the first famous person to be "discovered" to be Jewish. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is probably the most prominent American in recent times. (If you haven't read Michael Kinsley's send-up of this phenomenon in Slate, it's a must.)

But Ahmadinejad is in a category all by himself. While Albright -- improbably, perhaps -- claims that she really didn't know she was Jewish, Ahmadinejad did. As The Daily Telegraph speculates, this fact goes a long way towards explaining why he's been at such pains over the years . . . well, basically to hate Jews. And not just hate them in some sort of mild way, hate them in the most vile and despicable fashion: by denying the Holocaust ever occurred. He needed desperately to do so in order to shore up his cred in radical Shia circles.

Hey, I'm a big believer in unlocking family secrets as a way to cleanse yourself and move forward. And I do now feel that I have some insight into this guy that had heretofore been lacking.

I'm also a big believer in tolerance and making room for as many people as possible under any given umbrella. As someone married to a Jewish man for 11 years with two kids we'd like to raise as Jewish, I'm all for inclusiveness when it comes to broadening the definition of "who counts" as a Jew.

But on this one I have to say, sorry, pal. You're on your own. This is a club where we don't want you.


Follow Delia on Twitter.

Delia Lloyd



Well, well, ain't this a nice little fustercluck for him?


C'mon people, talk to me. I don't bite... not hard, anyway...

Ivysaur

Grass dinosaur extraordinaire

Age 32
He/him
Madrid, Europe
Seen 1 Day Ago
Posted April 5th, 2023
21,076 posts
16.2 Years
Tsk, you made me believe he had really been kicked off :(

Okay, so his family was once Jewish... and he changed his faith, name and now wants to nuke Israel. I don't think many people would consider him a Jew nowadays, and, even if they did, I think that electoral fraud, torture, etc, are much worse crimes than having ex-jewish parents.

So yeah, it's not that horrible as they claim :( After all, he'll close/ban from Iran any newspaper, TV station or webpage announcing that information, as he did during the electoral fraud month.

.little monster

Age 30
Male
Ohio
Seen June 6th, 2017
Posted March 23rd, 2015
4,291 posts
13.9 Years
It says no where in there that Ahmadinejad has been kicked out. More than likely he wont be because Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Religious Leader who can kick him out will more than likely see it as his family seeing "the right way" in religious terms. Some people might praise him for that as well. So I don't know why you think it will happen. Also, the only source even hinting towards this being true is Twitter. I could get on now and say Canadians caused 9/11, which is false.

I put "the right way" in quotations because different people have different views.

.Fenris

Just a bystander, don't shoot!

Male
Castelia City
Seen June 28th, 2012
Posted September 11th, 2011
291 posts
14.1 Years
Yeeeahhh, I just realized that someone said something like that and in a fit of ecstasy I used that as a title...

Sooooo yeah.... It wouldn't hurt if a mod would change the title or lock it please...


C'mon people, talk to me. I don't bite... not hard, anyway...