Stop Mahdi Talk, Iran Scholars Tell Ahmadinejad May 7, 2008
Posted by Michael in News.trackback
This is rich. Iranian clerics are telling President Ahmadouchebag to knock off the crazy talk.
Why? Well, this week he was going on about the Magical Mystery Mahdi again.
In a speech to theology students broadcast by state television on Monday, Ahmadinejad went further than ever before in emphasizing his belief that the Mahdi is playing a critical role in Iran’s day-to-day politics.
“The Imam Mahdi is in charge of the world and we see his hand directing all the affairs of the country,” he said in the speech, which appears to date from last month but has only now been broadcast.
“We must solve Iran’s internal problems as quickly as possible. Time is lacking. A movement has started for us to occupy ourselves with our global responsibilities, which are arriving with great speed.”
Finally, Iranian clerics are telling him to shut up and attend to business. His weird shit about the ‘hidden imam” is not fooling anyone. He’s just trying to distract attention from embarrassing failures, like, say, just for example — the frickin’ inflation rate.
Two leading scholars retorted that Ahmadinejad would be better off concentrating on Iran’s social problems — most notably its double-digit inflation — than indulging in such mystical rhetoric.
“If Ahmadinejad wants to say that the hidden imam is supporting the decisions of the government, it is not true,” said Gholam Reza Mesbahi Moghadam, the spokesman of the pro-reform Association of Combatant Clerics.
“For sure, the hidden imam does not approve of inflation of 20 percent, the high cost of living and numerous other errors,” he said, according to the Kargozaran daily.
Even better, this got reported in Al Arabiya: Stop Mahdi talk, Iran scholars tell Ahmadinejad
For those of you who do not understand the theology surrounding the Hidden Imam, here is an explanation:
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*slams the door*
*realizes she’s still in the room*
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