It was the perfect merging of world politics and the gossip column: leading anti-Semite, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is really, secretly Jewish.
That claim has been deflated like a three-day-old balloon (see “‘Ahmadinejad is Jewish’ accusation may be political tactic by opposition”), but it was fun while it lasted.
The last laugh goes to David Knowles, who reports that “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also revealed to be gay, American.” As Knowles put it:
One day after it was learned that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—a virulent anti-Semite and holocaust denier—has Jewish ancestry, it was also learned that the controversial leader is also a homosexual, holds a secret distaste of nuclear technology, and is, most shockingly, an American citizen.
“That is one confused dude,” says David Knowles, amateur taxidermist and the creator of the Paradigms Lost blog.
So ends the media frenzy. (Although I’d still like to see a photoshopped Ahmadinejad in a Chassidic outfit, with Chassidic earlocks, hoisting a bottle of Manischevitz.) Back to serious matters.
CORRECTION to “‘Ahmadinejad is Jewish’ accusation may be political tactic by opposition”: Persian-Jewish human rights activist Farhad Nikbakht points out that Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hosseini Mousavi is not himself a cleric, although he has been prime minister in the Iranian mullocracy. Also, Nikbakht clarifies that while most “Iranian Greens” (i.e., supporters of the current opposition movement in Iran) in the U.S. are pro-Mousavi, the majority of Iranians in America are opposed to the Islamic Republic altogether.
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