Tuesday, December 20, 2005
The haters of liberalism
The man in the picture is Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad. He has just banned "western, indecent music" from being broadcast by Iranian State radio.
Ahmadinejad became president of Iran this year, promising to abolish the reforms introduced by his predecessor Mohammad Khatami and to usher in a new "ultraconservative" revolution, taking back Iran to the period just after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Over the past couple of weeks he has also made violent antisemitic declarations, among which that the Holocaust was a "myth" and that Israel should be "erased from the map". ¶ 9:11 AM
The man in the picture is Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad. He has just banned "western, indecent music" from being broadcast by Iranian State radio.
Ahmadinejad became president of Iran this year, promising to abolish the reforms introduced by his predecessor Mohammad Khatami and to usher in a new "ultraconservative" revolution, taking back Iran to the period just after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Over the past couple of weeks he has also made violent antisemitic declarations, among which that the Holocaust was a "myth" and that Israel should be "erased from the map". ¶ 9:11 AM
