Ahmadinejad showing family papers, March 2008 (Telegraph)
As the Telegraph reported yesterday:
A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.
A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.
So what to make of it? Does it matter that Ahmadinejad, who wants to destroy the last major Jewish enclave in the Eastern Hemisphere in the name of his Shi’ite messianism, was born a Jew?
In my opinion – not at all.
It isn’t Ahmadinejad’s possible hidden Jewish past that matters, but the fact that he must hide it. It isn’t the father’s alleged abandonment of Judaism that matters, but the son’s plan to murder the rest of them. If Ahmadinejad is Jewish, the significance is not his personal psycho-drama, but the baggage that the word “Jew” carries in his world and in large swaths of the Muslim world generally.
A day after the Telegraph report on Ahmadinejad, Pakistan Daily, an English-language Pakistani paper, published another Muslim-who-is-really-Jewish story about the Saudi royal family. The paper blames Saudi oppression on the secret history of the Saudi family, which it claims descended from a murderous, cheating Jew who usurped the legitimate tribal leaders of the Arabian peninsula through lies. Wahhabism itself, the paper claims, is a Jewish invention.
Give it a read. It’s a real hoot:
Their hideous Jewish family has, in fact, done all that kind of atrocities in the name of their false religious sect (the Wahabi), which has actually been invented by a Jew so as to sow the seeds of terror in the hearts if people in towns and villages. This Jewish Dynasty has been committing such brutal atrocities ever since 1163 A.H. They have named the whole Arabian Peninsula after their family name (Saudi Arabia) as if the whole region is their own personal real estate, and that all other inhabitants are their mere servants or slaves, toiling day and night for the pleasure of their masters (The Saudi Family.)
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That was and still is the system of this regime of the Jewish family) (Saudi Family). All its goals are: plundering the wealth of the country, robbing, falsifying, and committing all kinds of atrocity, iniquity, and blasphemy-all are executed in compliance with their self invented Wahabi Sect which legalizes the chopping of the heads of their opposing subjects.
