Never thought I'd ever praise the Iranian leader but this was a class act:President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been accused of "indecency" after he publicly embraced and kissed on the hand an elderly woman who used to be his schoolteacher.
At a ceremony ahead of Iranian teachers' day, Mr Ahmadinejad was photographed and filmed by state media stooping to kiss the woman's hand and then clasping her arms in a warm embrace.
"The Muslim Iranian people have no recollection of such acts contrary to sharia law during Islamic rule," since the 1979 revolution, seethed the ultra-conservative Hezbollah newspaper on its front page.
Now, if Ahmadinejad could do more veneration of this sort and less sabre-rattling, well who knows? Perhaps some sort of peace can come to a troubled part of the world.
I'm convinced pieces will come to that part of the world, long before peace arrives. In order to bring this theocracy to fruition, human rights are denied to all but the ruling class: the Islamic Thuggery.
ReplyDeletePoverty and drug usage are huge problems in the Orwellian nightmare the citizens there live under... pity.
WM