hehehe....
>Presiden Iran Ahmadinejad menghadiri undangan diskusi
>di Columbia University.
>Dari sini kita bisa melihat betapa primitif dan
>kampungannya orang-orang AS. Presiden George W Bush
>tidak setuju takut orang2 AS terpengaruh. Sementara
>Profesor Lee Bollinger yang mengundang mengeluarkan
>kata-kata hinaan yang tak sesuai etika seperti
>menghina Ahmadinejad sebagai picik dan kejam.
>Saya sendiri pernah berdebat dengan beberapa orang2 AS
>di internet. Pertama mereka menuliskan kata2 kebon
>binatang. Begitu saya menulis dengan tenang sambil
>menyindir, wah bagus sekali attitude dan manner anda,
>apakah ibu anda yang mengajari?
>Baru mereka sadar dan menanggapi argumen saya dengan
>serius.
>Dalam stereotipe sebagian besar orang2 AS, orang Islam
>itu adalah teroris, biadab, bodoh, dsb. Jadi jika ada
>orang Islam yang tenang yang dengan mudah mematahkan
>argumen-argumen mereka, mereka jadi bingung sendiri.
>Kok ternyata tidak seperti itu ya. Barangkali itu
>pikir mereka...:)
>Ketika dikatakan bahwa Iran menghukum mati orang2
>homoseksual, Ahmadinejad menanggapi dengan santai.
>"Siapa yang mengatakan itu? Di negara kami tidak ada
>orang2 homo seperti di negara anda. Jadi tidak ada
>kejadian itu". Begitu jawab Ahmadinejad yang disambut
>gerr oleh para peserta diskusi.
>Salam
><http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_re_us/iran_us>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_re_us/iran_us
>Ahmadinejad questions 9/11, Holocaust
>By NAHAL TOOSI, Associated Press Writer 29 minutes ago
>NEW YORK - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
>defended Holocaust revisionists and raised questions
>about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense
>showdown Monday at Columbia University, where the
>school's head introduced the hard-line leader by
>calling him a "petty and cruel dictator."
>Ahmadinejad portrayed himself as an intellectual and
>argued that his administration respected reason and
>science. But the former engineering professor,
>appearing shaken and irate over he called "insults"
>from his host, soon found himself drawn into the type
>of rhetoric that has alienated American audiences in
>the past.
>He provoked derisive laughter by responding to a
>question about Iran's execution of homosexuals by
>saying: "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in
>your country ... I don't know who's told you that we
>have this."
>Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger, set the combative
>tone in his introduction of Ahmadinejad: "Mr.
>President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and
>cruel dictator."
>Ahmadinejad retorted that Bollinger's opening was "an
>insult to information and the knowledge of the
>audience here."
>"There were insults and claims that were incorrect,
>regretfully," Ahmadinejad said, accusing Bollinger of
>falling under the influence of the hostile U.S. press
>and politicians.
>Ahmadinejad drew audience applause at times, such as
>when he bemoaned the plight of the Palestinians. But
>he often declined to offer the simple answers the
>audience sought, responding instead with his own
>questions or long statements about history and
>justice.
>Ahmadinejad has in the past called for Israel's
>elimination. But his exact remarks have been disputed.
>Some translators say he called for Israel to be "wiped
>off the map," but others say that would be better
>translated as "vanish from the pages of time" —
>implying Israel would disappear on its own rather than
>be destroyed.
>Asked by an audience member if Iran sought the
>destruction of Israel, Ahmadinejad did not answer
>directly.
>"We are friends of all the nations," he said. "We are
>friends with the Jewish people. There are many Jews in
>Iran living peacefully with security."
>He also said Palestinians must determine their own
>future.
>Ahmadinejad's past statements about the Holocaust also
>have raised hackles in the West, and were soundly
>attacked by Bollinger.
>"In a December 2005 state television broadcast, you
>described the Holocaust as the fabricated legend,"
>Bollinger told Ahmadinejad said in his opening
>remarks. "One year later, you held a two-day
>conference of Holocaust deniers."
>Bollinger said that might fool the illiterate and
>ignorant.
>"When you come to a place like this, it makes you
>simply ridiculous. The truth is that the Holocaust is
>the most documented event in human history," he said.
>Ahmadinejad denied he had questioned whether the
>Holocaust occurred.
>"Granted this happened, what does it have to do with
>the Palestinian people?" he said.
>But Ahmadinejad went on to say that he was defending
>the rights of European academics imprisoned for
>"questioning certain aspects" of the Holocaust, an
>apparent reference to a small number who have been
>prosecuted under national laws for denying or
>minimizing the genocide.
>"There's nothing known as absolute," Ahmadinejad said.
>He said the Holocaust has been abused as a
>justification for Israeli mistreatment of the
>Palestinians.
>"Why is it that the Palestinian people are paying the
>price for an event they had nothing to do with?" he
>asked.
>Asked why he had asked to visit the World Trade Center
>site — a request denied by New York authorities —
>Ahmadinejad said he wanted to express sympathy for the
>victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
>Then he appeared to question whether al-Qaida was
>responsible, saying more research was needed.
>"If the root causes of 9/11 are examined properly —
>why it happened, what caused it, what were the
>conditions that led to it, who truly was involved, who
>was really involved — and put it all together to
>understand how to prevent the crisis in Iraq, fix the
>problem in Afghanistan and Iraq combined," Ahmadinejad
>said.
>Bollinger drew strong criticism for inviting
>Ahmadinejad to Columbia and had promised tough
>questions in his introduction. But the stridency of
>his attack on the Iranian leader took many by
>surprise.
>"You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly
>uneducated," Bollinger told Ahmadinejad about the
>leader's Holocaust denial. "Will you cease this
>outrage?"
>Bollinger's introduction was "very harsh," said Hamid
>Dabashi, a professor of Iranian studies at Columbia
>University.
>"Inviting him and then turning around and alienating
>and insulting an entire nation whose representative
>this man happens to be is simply inappropriate," said
>Dabashi, who also criticized Ahmadinejad.
>Instead of addressing most of Bollinger's accusations
>directly, Ahmadinejad offered quotes from the Quran
>and criticism of the Bush administration and past
>American governments, from warrant-less wiretapping to
>the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
>Japan.
>He closed his prepared remarks with a terse smile, to
>applause and boos, before taking questions from the
>audience.
>In Iran, Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia could be
>seen on Arabic satellite channels and state
>television's Arabic-language service, but it did not
>appear on channels that broadcast in Farsi, the
>language of Iran.
>Asked about his country's nuclear intentions,
>Ahmadinejad insisted the program is peaceful, legal
>and entirely within Iran's rights, despite attempts by
>"monopolistic," "selfish" powers to derail it. "How
>come is it that you have that right, and we can't have
>it?" he added.
>President Bush said Ahmadinejad's appearance at
>Columbia "speaks volumes about, really, the greatness
>of America."
>He told Fox News Channel that if Bollinger considered
>Ahmadinejad's visit an educational experience for
>Columbia students, "I guess it's OK with me."
>But conservatives on Capitol Hill were critical. Sen.
>Joseph Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut,
>said he thought the invitation to Ahmadinejad was a
>mistake "because he comes literally with blood on his
>hands."
>Thousands of people jammed two blocks of 47th Street
>across from the United Nations to protest
>Ahmadinejad's visit to New York for the opening of the
>U.N. General Assembly session. Organizers claimed a
>turnout of tens of thousands. Police did not
>immediately have a crowd estimate.
>The speakers, most of them politicians and officials
>from Jewish organizations, proclaimed their support
>for Israel and criticized the Iranian leader for his
>remarks questioning the Holocaust.
>"We're here today to send a message that there is
>never a reason to give a hatemonger an open stage,"
>New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said.
>Hundreds of protesters also assembled at Columbia.
>Dozens stood near the lecture hall where Ahmadinejad
>was scheduled to speak, linking arms and singing
>traditional Jewish folk songs about peace and
>brotherhood. A two-person band nearby played "You Are
>My Sunshine."
>Signs in the crowd displayed a range of messages,
>including one reading: "We refuse to choose between
>Islamic fundamentalism and American imperialism."
>___
>Associated Press writers Karen Matthews and Aaron
>Clark contributed to this report.
>===
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