A Playpen for Ahmadinejad
No wonder he thinks the fact of the Shoa is a theory needing more research ! He also believes there are no homosexuals in Iran and that women have equal rights when there are some responsibilities they are "relieved" from, since men only must take care of them out of respect for the gender "god made kindly and beautiful". He is likewise unable to answer a yes-no question, or indeed any at all on the question of Israel's existence, instead resorting to a reference to the necessity for a referendum about the state in Palestine (which is probably an indication that Israel is for him not a state at all).
But hooray for my alma mater Columbia University for having him speak and posing him the rough questions. Hooray for the clear introductory remarks of Columbia's president Bollinger. Just letting the man speak and hearing him dodge questions makes clear what is going on. It also points up the stupidity of the playpen and its bushbaby for not being able to deal with this character in diplomatic fora!
The New York Times
Ahmadinejad, at Columbia, Parries and Puzzles
By HELENE COOPER
Published: September 25, 2007
The New York PostBy HELENE COOPER
Published: September 25, 2007
In a hostile environment at Columbia University, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran meandered from science and religion to politics. [...]He said that there were no homosexuals in Iran — not one — and that the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews should not be treated as fact, but theory, and therefore open to debate and more research.
Ahmadinejad Questions 9/11, Holocaust
By NAHAL TOOSI Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended Holocaust revisionists and raised questions about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense showdown Monday at Columbia University, where the school's head introduced the hard-line leader by calling him a "petty and cruel dictator." [...]He provoked derisive laughter by responding to a question about Iran's execution of homosexuals by saying: "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country ... I don't know who's told you that we have this."
The Guardian
As protesters jeer, Ahmadinejad denies Iran wants nuclear weapons
· President claims country has no gay population
· Bad-tempered exchanges as leader visits US college
Julian Borger in New York and Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Tuesday September 25, 2007
"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, told Americans yesterday his country had no nuclear weapons programme, but then called his own credibility into question by insisting it had no gay people either."
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