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The ultimate convergence of America-bashers and capitalism-haters: The Iranian regime, apparently curious about this thing called “Occupy Wall Street” and the odds that it might succeed in toppling the capitalist system, invited several American — or should I say anti-American — professors and “experts” to discuss this glorious new political movement and what it means for Iran.
Although the conference happened two months ago, word of it is just leaking out now thanks to the diligent work of the nonprofit MEMRI, which monitors Middle Eastern television stations round-the-clock and preserves noteworthy broadcasts for posterity. Luckily, “Press TV,” the propaganda wing of the Iranian regime, did various reports about the conference, at which the American feminist/leftist academics were more than willing to wear hijabs to show their anti-western bona fides. MEMRI recorded the broadcasts and uploaded them to both their own site and to YouTube, so the rest of the world can see these American Occupy sympathizers consorting with rank anti-Semites and Islamists, who seem pleased that this new revolution may soon topple our democratic system of government.
Three videos tell the story. Here’s the first:
Here’s a partial transcript:
Imam Abdul Alim Musa, Masjid al-Islam, Washington DC: “The people of [Occupy] Wall Street are not anti-Iranian, anti-Iraqi, anti-Islam: They’re pro-humanity. They feel that all of us are part of the 99%. Right? They are against one government [referring to Israel] killing scientists, engineers, peaceful people, right? So they are naturally against Zionism.”
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“And I believe that [Occupy] Wall Street is fighting the monster of the day. The monster is not the Shah, the monster today is global Zionism. You’re using riba [usury] and interest — the tool that they use to control the world, to control each state and each area of the world, is debt.”
Among the academics and experts at the conference, described as “Three American activists from the Occupy Wall Street movement,” were:
• Alex Vitale, of Brooklyn College
• Heather Gautney, of Fordham University
• John Hammond, of City University of New York
(A quick Googling of these three will reveal their far-left anti-capitalist beliefs.)
Joining them were three American religious figures representing the conspiracy-theory wings of the three monotheistic religions:
• Imam Abdul Alim Musa, of Masjid al-Islam, Washington DC (and an infamous anti-Semite)
• Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, of Jews United Against Zionism (and spokesman for Neturei Karta)
• Hank Hanegraaf, of the Christian Research Institute (and who promotes the notion of literal Biblical inerrancy)
Playing host to them (and possibly others not mentioned in the report) were various Iranian Islamist academics.
This additional video features a completely different set of interviews:
The reporter at the end of the clip makes this hopeful prognostication:
Press TV reporter: “Experts here say that the Wall Street movement is putting pressure on the politicians to make policy changes in favor of the movement, and in the long run it can lead to the collapse of the government.”
By “collapse of the government” they don’t mean the ouster of the Obama administration specficially but rather the collapse of the American system of government.
This final video is a shorter compilation of interviews that appear in the first two clips:
Strip them of their citizenship and make them stay in Iran. I’m sure the women will enjoy the Niqba and the beatings and rapes.
Hank Hanegraff? The Bible Answer Man? He has his own Bible out, was he there as an apologist, or does he support this conference and conferees? If he did support it, he is definitely off my christmas list.
Yes, that same Hank Hanegraff.
From my agnostic point of view, the guy is pretty kooky, insisting as he does on the absolute factual inerrancy of every word of the Bible. And his relentless Mormon-bashing is unseemly. As is his young-earth creationism. Consorting with this motley crew is the cherry on top.
From my evangelical Christian point of view, he’s pretty kooky, too.
obama will secretly encourage tehran to hold them hostage
obama will send in seal team 6 to rescue them
obama will parley into massive re-election victory
Nice scenario…except that the conference was held back at the end of February. They’re already back here. It just took this long for MEMRI to get the videos online.
One can only wonder how stupid one must feel before considering yourself, with 400 million people in the middle east, outnumbered and threatened by 6 million Jews.
They probably said to these Leftist Americans – “Save us, save us from the Jews. And, could you open this door to the conference room for me? It has one of those new-fangled door knobs. Heh, heh.”
“Down with the USA.”
“Yes, down with the USA.”
“After you my lady. Doorknob. Normally it’s gentleman first.”
A new kind of “homo sovieticus”: the useless idiot.
They should be taken for a long holiday in Sderot.
– they can persuade the remnant of the OWS-S.F. branch to start wearing those square cardboard masks the anti-Shah protestors wore before 1979 in front of the White House while shouting through megaphones.
Let us hope that all of Iran’s offensive weapons, political, intellectual, economic, and military, are ths awesome.
Why are they, and others who do similar, not prosecuted for treason?
Wouldn’t have been cheaper for them to just go to Cuba?
I just don’t get why lefties think they have an ally in Islam. Why don’t liberals realize they would be the first group to go against the wall when Muslims take over a society? There is no place for liberals, gays, atheists in a Muslim society.