Iran Leader's Christmas Broadcast to UK Denounced
Iranian President Ahmadinejad is offering season's greetings to Christians in a British TV address and suggesting that if Jesus were alive he would oppose the United States and its allies.
Ahmadinejad's Christmas Day broadcast will be delivered on Britain's Channel 4 television, occupying a slot that provides a counterpoint to Queen Elizabeth II's traditional annual [Christmas] message.
Israeli Ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor said: "That [Channel 4] should give an unchallenged platform to the president of a regime which denies the Holocaust, advocates the destruction of the sovereign state of Israel, funds and encourages terrorism, executes children, and hangs gay people is a disgrace."
Iranian President Ahmadinejad is offering season's greetings to Christians in a British TV address and suggesting that if Jesus were alive he would oppose the United States and its allies.
Ahmadinejad's Christmas Day broadcast will be delivered on Britain's Channel 4 television, occupying a slot that provides a counterpoint to Queen Elizabeth II's traditional annual [Christmas] message.
Israeli Ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor said: "That [Channel 4] should give an unchallenged platform to the president of a regime which denies the Holocaust, advocates the destruction of the sovereign state of Israel, funds and encourages terrorism, executes children, and hangs gay people is a disgrace."
(AP/Washington Post)
2 comments:
True. While I think the leader of a country deserves his forum at the UN, it does not mean he cannot be rebuked there for his positions as well. As for any other forum, especially on the public airwaves of a western nation where he would use the freedoms granted to the local populace, yet never grant such freedoms to his own people, it seems unnecessary and wrong. No people owe him any respect while he calls for the destruction of another nation and while human rights in Iran are extended to only those found acceptable by a few political and religious leaders.
We're in agreement.
Just one of those earrings would send my kids to college...and back.
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