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Lorie Byrd notices which part of Ahmadinejad's speech at the United Nations didn't rate a mention in the media coverage.
<<< Ahmadinejad ended his speech by praying for the reappearance of the 12th Imam and the end of this world. Incredibly, most all major American news outlets failed to even include his prayer for the apocalypse as part of their reports. (I am sure that if George Bush had ended his speech by praying for the Rapture and for Christ to return to rule the world, it wouldn’t have rated a mention either, though.) >>>
Meanwhile, Mona Charen proposes some questions that the media and those in the audience where Ahmadinejad could ask him. Here are some suggestions.
<<< 1. On Sept. 5 of this year, you called for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from Iran's universities. How is the campaign to impose religiously acceptable teachers going?
3. You seemed to imply that U.S. intelligence and security services must have had a hand in the September 11 attacks. What do you think happened that day?
4. Human Rights Watch has described your cabinet as "Ministers of Murder." Interior Minister Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi, for example, was reportedly responsible for the extra-judicial killings of opposition figures, political activists and intellectuals. Gholamhussein Mohseni Ezhei, the minister of information, was said to be responsible (in his last post) for prosecutions of reform-minded clerics. He also cracked down on the press, closing at least 100 newspapers in the past six years. He has been implicated in the kidnapping and murder of Pirouz Davani, a critic of the Islamic regime. How do you square this with your claim that you represent a "perfect democracy"?
6. You have dedicated yourself to reviving the spirit of the Islamic Revolution. When Ayatollah Khomeini took power, he reduced the marriageable age for girls from 18, as it had been under the shah, to 9. It was later raised to 13. What age do you consider proper for marriage? >>>
At least Columbia University withdrew its invitation to Ahmadinejad to come speak there. They gave security concerns as their reason, but it seems likely that something could have been arranged if they had really wanted to carry through with the invitation. There had been an uproar at the school about the propriety of inviting a man who has advocated the end of Israel coming to speak on the eve of Rosh Hashana at a university that is already defending itself against the charges that some of their professors were openly anti-Semitic.
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