I’m sure it was totally out of context. He didn’t mean it. The mullah’s actually love Jews.  It must be a mistranslation by some evil Zionist. Because deep down, they really, really want peace:

Iran’s supreme leader vows to “defend Palestinians due to their heartfelt beliefs.”

JPost.com

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday the destruction of Israel was assured, while pledging to “defend Palestinians due to their heartfelt beliefs.”

”Israel is going downhill toward decline and fall and God willing its obliteration is certain,” Khamenei said during a meeting with Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, according to the Teheran Times.

“Today Palestine is the symbol of life, determination, faithfulness, diligence, and dignity,” Khamenei explained, adding that the Palestinians had proved that they were “spiritually more powerful than Zionists,” which is why the IDF has been unable “defeat them.”

“Palestinians’ faith is the main factor in their resistance,” he said.

Khamenei went on to call Israel “a symbol of atrocity, viciousness, and ugliness,” and said the West’s “support for the Zionist regime is ineffective.”

In other news, Carl has this:

Cambridge University’s Israel Society canceled a talk by historian Benny Morris last week after being threatened by the school’s Islamic Society.  Read the whole thing.

Russia’s dirty little games:

Continuing to play off Iran against the West, Russia has invited Iranian proxyKhaled Meshaal to come to Russia this week.

Iran’s mullah’s blame da Joozzz:

No great surprise here: The Ahmadinejad regime is blaming the Jooos for the existence of the opposition Green movement in its country.

• What will these devious Chinese come up with next?

Police arrest importers and seize jeans seen as disrespectful by devout Muslims

From the Guardian (of Muslims) Robert Tait:

A Chinese clothing manufacturer probably thought it was on to a winner by exporting jeans bearing the Islamic expression “In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful” to Iran. But an otherwise sound marketing ploy was undone by one embarrassing flaw: the phrase (Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim in Arabic), which graces each of the Qur’an’s 114 chapters, was prominently displayed on the pockets of the jeans’ backsides, something likely to be seen as disrespectful by devout Muslims.

Incredible Blasphemy Laws stifle free speech in EUrabia:

Germany has taken it to a new low. A German man was arrested and convicted to 1 year in jail (suspended) and 300 hours of community service prison for breaking a law that bans insulting religion. Specifically, he printed the word KORAN on toilet paper and began selling it, on-line, to mosques and other interested parties. According to our information, the quality  was excellent…

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The perceived slight, first reported in the Iranian media, prompted a firm response from the police who announced they had seized the garments and arrested three businessmen said to have imported them.

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