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Iran - The blogger who claimed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has Jewish roots is being detained by the authorities after he was arrested along with 150 university students.
Dr. Mehdi Khazali, who reportedly participated in several recent opposition demonstrations, was reportedly summoned to a special court convened for religious figures, detained and transferred to an unknown location.
The son of a prominent, conservative pro-Ahmadinejad ayatollah, Khazali wrote on his Web site earlier this year that the president - a Holocaust denier and relentless critic of Israel - was of partially Jewish origin, asserting that Ahmadinejad had changed his family name from Saburjian, and calling for the origins of the Saburjian family in the town of Aradan to be investigated.
The assertion featured in the bitter presidential election campaign, when rival reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi challenged Ahmadinejad in a live TV debate, reportedly stating: "My full name is Mehdi Karroubi. What is your full name?"
Ahmadinejad gave his full name, according to an Al-Arabiya TV report, but left out one surname which is said to indicate Jewish ancestry.
The "Jewish Ahmadinejad" dispute even spread beyond Iran, when Bahrain's oldest newspaper, Akhbar al-Khaleej, was briefly shut down by the governing authorities two weeks ago after it published an article recycling the claim.
Khazali, director of the Hayyan Cultural Institute in Teheran, has argued that while religion occupies an essential place in political life, too much intervention of religion in political matters is potentially dangerous for modern societies.
He recently posted a blog addressed to defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi quoting a verse from the Koran: "I am ready to give my blood, but I warn you, if you breach the trust of the nation by keeping silent, you will be held responsible..."
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Jul 02, 2009 at 09:17 PM Anonymous Says:
for someone to be arrested for saying achminijad is jewish is insane, unless there is some truth. unfortunately, in jewish history, the biggest anti semites were those who werer jewish. so i guess the blogger may know something that everyone else may not know!
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Jul 02, 2009 at 09:59 PM Anonymous Says:
Should we call him REB Achmadinijad???
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Jul 02, 2009 at 10:49 PM harav shach tzodaik Says:
“ for someone to be arrested for saying achminijad is jewish is insane, unless there is some truth. unfortunately, in jewish history, the biggest anti semites were those who werer jewish. so i guess the blogger may know something that everyone else may not know! ”
The greatest anti-Semites in history were Jewish? I never knew that.
I you'll be kind enough to elaborate and provide a few examples.
Thanks
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Jul 03, 2009 at 06:26 AM harav shach tzodaik Says:
Oh, great. Now that he is Jewish if he nukes 'sonaihem she'll yisrael' c"v VIN will be overloaded by the dun lekaf zechus crowd.
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Jul 03, 2009 at 11:57 AM Anonymous Says:
Whether Ahmadinejad has some Jewish ancestors is not known, but it might provide psychological motivations for his 'self' hatred. [Obviously, Hashem decides what world leaders do, so this would just be speculation.]
There is, however, a long list of self-hating Jews of partial or full Jewish heritage. Consider the former yeshiva students who made up the virulently anti-religious "Jewish section" of the Soviet secret police.
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Jul 03, 2009 at 03:15 PM thekvetcher Says:
When the nine rabbis from neturei karta davened he was the tenth man.