Posted on 12/27/2008 11:26:32 AM PST by AJKauf
Channel 4 could easily have picked another Iranian figure for its Christmas message. Iran is not short of brilliant minds and speakers. A far better choice would have been Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel Prize-winning Iranian human rights activist who has just had her office shut down in Tehran by Ahmadinejads government. Her message for human rights and justice, for which she has worked all her life, would have been far more befitting the message of Christmas and the beliefs of the founder of Christianity, Jesus Christ...
By giving Ahmadinejad such a high-profile platform, the people of Iran could be forgiven for thinking that Great Britain supports their president....
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FMCDH(BITS)
Iammadjohn was merely being ironic.
Our esteemed leader the great Comrade Brown allowed this transmission in the name of inter-cultural relations. He is the enlightened one and we all bow to him and Pravda Channel 4.
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