Iran – Blogger Who Claimed Ahmadinejad is Jewish Arrested

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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.

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    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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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    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!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Should we call him REB Achmadinijad???

    harav shach tzodaik
    harav shach tzodaik
    14 years ago

    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.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    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.

    thekvetcher
    thekvetcher
    14 years ago

    When the nine rabbis from neturei karta davened he was the tenth man.