Too good to check: British paper claims Ahmadinejad … has Jewish roots
posted at 11:36 am on October 3, 2009 by Allahpundit
Dude, if you thought the Eli Cohen operation was good, just wait. Best. Mossad infiltration. Evah.
A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.
A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.
The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.
The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad’s birthplace, and the name derives from “weaver of the Sabour”, the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran’s Ministry of the Interior…
Experts last night suggested Mr Ahmadinejad’s track record for hate-filled attacks on Jews could be an overcompensation to hide his past…
The Iranian leader has not denied his name was changed when his family moved to Tehran in the 1950s. But he has never revealed what it was change from or directly addressed the reason for the switch.
Interestingly, rather than flatly deny the charge when asked about it, the Iranian embassy in London simply refused to comment. This is actually old news, sort of: The Guardian reported on the name change all the way back in 2005, shortly after Dinnerjacket became president, but there’s nothing in their account about the Jewish roots of the name “Sabourjian.” The closest they get is an oblique acknowledgment that the name was changed “for a mixture of religious and economic reasons, relatives say.” (For what it’s worth, an unnamed cousin is quoted as saying Ahmadinejad was into the Koran even as a small child, which means if he had a Jewish upbringing, it must have been awfully brief.) From what I can tell, not until earlier this year when one of his political opponents made hay about it did the Jewish resonance of the name became a public issue. How can that be, I wonder. The world’s most notorious Holocaust-denier comes from a Jewish family, and the evidence of it was published in a major western newspaper almost five years ago — and no one’s brought up it until now? How’d that happen?
Update: I tweaked the headline slightly because the Telegraph piece doesn’t actually claim that he was “born Jewish,” merely that the family was Jewish at one point. Presumably they converted before he was born and didn’t get around to changing their name until later. Which raises an interesting question for further investigation: How long ago did the Sabourjian clan make the switch to Islam?
Update: No, wait — it says right there in the blockquote that they didn’t convert until after he was born. Hmm.
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Ahmadin isn’t a JEW-Jew, so whatever.
Bishop on October 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM
??
Isn’t that what Whoopi said ?
cableguy615 on October 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Ding!
baldilocks on October 3, 2009 at 2:46 PM
After Dinner Jew
faraway on October 3, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Same thing with Hitler. His father, Alois Shickelgruber supposedly was the illegitimate son of a Jewish businessman and his Christian housekeeper. No real proof exists, but after the Anschluss (Germany’s unification with Austria), Hitler had the small town where his father and grandfather lived evacuated and then turned over for use by the German army as an artillery range. There was nothing left as you can well imagine.
Technically, Hitler would have had to have had this on his mother’s side since Judaism recognizes the religion of the mother as being significant. Still, in his twisted mind, Jewish blood from either side of the family was a curse.
J.J. Sefton on October 3, 2009 at 3:06 PM
LOL’ed for like 20 minutes man.
It can’t get any better.
My sides are still cramped from laughing so long and hard.
Sapwolf on October 3, 2009 at 3:09 PM
The vast majority of Spain’s population has Jewish blood. The so-called “conversos” who were forced to convert to Catholicism or die during the Inquisition.
Explains why that country is probably the most openly anti-Semitic in Western Europe. To coin a phrase, they can’t handle the truth.
J.J. Sefton on October 3, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Makes little difference as he hates Jews as the Koran dictates. There are plenty of anti-Jew Jews on the left in and around the planet.
larvcom on October 3, 2009 at 3:27 PM
maybe because of that Moorish blood, JJ , no ?
runner on October 3, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Are you implying they’re all like half-eggplant too, or somethin’?
J.J. Sefton on October 3, 2009 at 3:51 PM
I recall reading somewhere that Hitler had a Jewish grandma or something like that as well. Overcompensation, indeed.
commenter on October 3, 2009 at 3:55 PM
hitler’s “jewish roots” rumors were debunked, many times over
not a vegetable expert
runner on October 3, 2009 at 4:04 PM
That was a reference to Dennis Hopper’s last words to Chris Walken in True Romance. He referred to Sicilians as “half-eggplant.” (eggplant being a pejorative reference to black people by Italians).
I didn’t think the reference was that esoteric. Eh, what the hell do I know?
J.J. Sefton on October 3, 2009 at 4:35 PM
The ultimate self-hating Jew.
Why do muslims hate Jews? Read the freakin’ koran one time. It’s a manual of war. When to lie. When to arrange a truce and for how long. Mostly, kill the Jews…all of them. then get to work on every one else…
Three choices under islam. Convert, submit and pay the jizya or die. That’s it. Choose one or be prepared to defend yourself and your loved ones from imposition of the last “choice”.
islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.
Army Brat on October 3, 2009 at 4:35 PM
What? No, Iran is nothing like Nazi Germany. They love Jews and just want to live in peace. It’s just easier to love them when all the Jewish names are identified.
RadClown on October 3, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ), the ‘security service’ of the SS, was said to have had “Jewish ancestry” and “looked Jewish”–and ended up in charge of crafting the Final Solution.
Hitler isn’t DinnerJacket’s hero; Heydrich is
You don’t negotiate with such people, because they’re insane with anger and some twisted desire to purge themselves of what they see as a deformity.
Janos Hunyadi on October 3, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Then everyone must be afraid of him. It’s already clear that the media are pussies and criminal adoring brown-nosers.
It’s not surprising at all to find a convert to radical Islam more zealous than usual. And if a traitor to one’s own genetic heritage, all the more reason to deny the entire heritage and the history of that heritage. To prohibit any mention of his relationship to it, go for broke and deny that the Holocaust ever happened. Then the public attention is on the statement rather than the speaker’s personal history. Therein, we see how Dinnerjacket thinks and plays his cards.
I was disappointed but not surprised that the spoiled CA boy who converted to radical jihad Islam hated America and denied that the US Constitution contained anything of virtue worth saving, and fought to destroy the USA.
maverick muse on October 3, 2009 at 4:40 PM
France is warning Obama not to make any deals with Tehran to undercut the so-called impact of the international embargo against Iran.
It’s been industries in France and Germany all along who’ve been selling the WMD goods to Hussein’s Iraqi regime as well as to Tehran.
So French, German and Russian industries sell Tehran everything they need to destroy the world. Then, after the sales, time for embargo while Iran figures how to put it together and return it with force.
Meanwhile, Obama refuses to honor our deal with Poland to protect Europe from Iran.
And Obama et.al. cut funding for national defense as the enemies gear up for their major offensive attacks.
Iranian forces are killing US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Obama won’t permit pursuit of the enemy into Iran.
This while Obama STILL prevents our soldiers to fully defend themselves, requiring that they wait until they are fired upon before responding, even as Afghan soldiers sabotage US military quarters, murdering our troops in their sleep.
WWPD: what would Patton do? WIN!
maverick muse on October 3, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Of course they didn’t. Had to wait until after the bris. It’s a cleanliness thing, don’cha know.
mrt721 on October 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM
So, he must be on suicide watch since all Jooos must die.
faol on October 3, 2009 at 6:11 PM
A few people have already made, and some tried to debunk, the ‘Hitler may have been part Jewish’ aspect. I think it is appropriate to take it a little further and say that Ahmadinejad is looking more and more like Hitler.
BermanPost on October 3, 2009 at 7:14 PM
One of the most conservative Catholic bishops today was a Jew who converted to Christianity at 13 during WW2. He was born Jewish, but is now more Christian Catholic than most Catholics themselves. And that despite him being 13 when he converted – when his Jewish identity was already slightly formed. Now, dinnerjacket converted much earlier (was converted actually), and was raised in a really anti-Semitic and revolutionary environment. There is nothing Jewish about him. It’s like saying Obama is Muslim, which is ridiculous.
AlexB on October 3, 2009 at 8:03 PM
That’s funny, he doesn’t look Jewish!
ndulik on October 3, 2009 at 8:05 PM
The problem is, you can’t use this as negative propaganda as both the Jews and the Liberals would say, “Well, what’s wrong with being a Jew?”
Dr. ZhivBlago on October 3, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Could he just self-destruct in 5 seconds and be done with it?
Philly on October 3, 2009 at 8:11 PM
J.J.Sefton
From what I remember of Spain and Italy,s early days when the Moors plundered only the towns along the coast hence the darker skinned and black haired, in the interior you have the blond blue eyed castillions. As it still is to-day.
Been a while since my history classes.
concernedsenior on October 3, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Well thats terrific,so was some guy who loved huge outdoor
rallies,I hope,history isn’t going to repeat itself!!
If I’mWearingADinnerJacketCrazyNutJob is erasing all his
family roots that he might of been Jewish,just like NutJob
from 1939, that might be a hint!!
canopfor on October 3, 2009 at 9:56 PM
WWPD: what would Patton do? WIN!
maverick muse on October 3, 2009 at 4:58 PM
maverick muse: Patton would;
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http://www.pattonhq.com/speech.html
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“Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight. When you, here, everyone of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players. Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.”
———————————————————-
On Cowards,Anti-War Types,and Liberals like John Kerry,who
after returning from VN,does a 180 degree turn,and blames
the US Military!
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We don’t want yellow cowards in this Army
=============
Patton paused, took a deep breath, and continued, “Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don’t want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, “Fixing the wire, Sir”. I asked, “Isn’t that a little unhealthy right about now?” He answered, “Yes Sir, but the Goddamned wire has to be fixed”. I asked, “Don’t those planes strafing the road bother you?” And he answered, “No, Sir, but you sure as hell do!” Now, there was a real man. A real soldier. There was a man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty might appear at the time, no matter how great the odds. And you should have seen those trucks on the road to Tunisia. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they rolled over those son-of-a-bitching roads, never stopping, never faltering from their course, with shells bursting all around them all of the time. We got through on good old American guts. Many of those men drove for over forty consecutive hours. These men weren’t combat men, but they were soldiers with a job to do. They did it, and in one hell of a way they did it. They were part of a team. Without team effort, without them, the fight would have been lost. All of the links in the chain pulled together and the chain became unbreakable.”
canopfor on October 3, 2009 at 10:11 PM
“Guess who’s coming to dinner”[jacket]? ;-)
IrishEyes on October 3, 2009 at 10:32 PM
I don’t see this as a story whatsoever.
Hitler claimed Aryan superiority and Jewish inferiority on a racial level. So the rumors that have circulated forever concerning Hitler’s Jewish roots would be quite explosive if true.
That’s not the case with Dinnerjacket. To my knowledge – he subscribes to the notion of Islamic Superiority – which has nothing to do with racial superiority.
Put simply – if Netanyahu convincingly converted to Shia Islam …
He could move to Tehran and be hailed as “one of the boys”.
This is the genius of radical Islam over Nazism. With Nazism – if you didn’t have blond hair and blue eyes – you were down in the sub-human realm. With radical Islam – everyone has a chance to redeem themselves through conversion and ebraceing Allah.
Which is why this isn’t a story at all. So his family was Jewish? That’s not going to negatively impact him at all.
HondaV65 on October 3, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I just want to also add – if Dinnerjacket thought his Jewish roots were a big deal – then why didn’t he attempt to hide his family’s real name?
The fact that he’s been nonchalant about it pretty much indicates it’s not a factor.
HondaV65 on October 3, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Great. Just what we need — another Schicklgruber.
Fact or no fact, the paranoia and worry about this potential possibility was supported by eyewitness testimony, wasn’t it?
IMHO it’s not relevant what he actually was; what’s relevant is what he thought, or what he thought could or might be.
+1000
RD on October 3, 2009 at 10:50 PM
So the theory goes. Scholars in the Robert Spencer mold have found, however, a lot of ethnic supremacy tied in with Islam, at least in who gets to rule it (Mecca, Medina, al-Azhar, Qom, etc.), as well as who is “more equal than others” in practice.
I don’t know the chapter and verse on this however; the folks at JihadWatch know more about this.
Nevertheless, I definitely agree that one is more able to extricate oneself from the (on paper, at least) “conditional” death sentence of the Islamists than the automatic death sentence of the Nazis.
RD on October 3, 2009 at 10:58 PM
In the early days, Mohamed actually like Jews. But when a bunch of them refused to see his prophetness, and some even turned against his tribe of bandits, Mohamed got mad and started
ranting againstreceiving revelations from Allah that were anti-Semitic.Johnny 100 Pesos on October 4, 2009 at 12:55 AM
“Hitler was enlisted, but that didn’t keep him out of the officer’s club”, Hawkeye Pierce, M*A*S*H
Mangy Scot on October 4, 2009 at 9:25 AM
So what?
Ahmajinidad always says his beef is with Zionism not someone’s specific hebrew race.. There is a BIG HUGE difference even though some less than clear thinking people fail to understand this.
To hate someone because they were born a specific race(even though they may be ideologically Christian or Muslim) is one thing:Racism. And is absolutely wrong.
To hate a specific ideology is another story and is NOT racism.
That is no different than a conservative ideologue opposing liberal ideology or a Christian opposing islam,hinduism,judaism or atheism and is NOT racism whatsoever.
The dull headed people who try to equate opposing an ideology with racism are no different than the dishonest liberals who claim that anyone opposing Obama is simply a KKK racist.
MaximusConfessor on October 4, 2009 at 12:41 PM
MaximusIdiotus, if you bothered to read Mein Kampf, or to hear Hitler’s speeches – you’d notice Hitler hated Jews because he believed in a conspiracy theory where most Jews had a secretive, subversive ideology. Your Ahmadinijad apologism could easily be spinned to Hitler apologism.
Both Hitler and A-jad are not stupid. Evil, insane, genocidal – yes. But not stupid. However, you are damn stupid indeed. And snot nosed imbeciles such as yourself, are the ones who enable the horrors of the above, then and now.
Aristotle on October 4, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Pathetic.
And all those people who oppose Obama are just racist inbred rednecks who want to kill or deport all black people right?
Moron.
MaximusConfessor on October 4, 2009 at 1:15 PM
So if Ahmadinijad wanted to “kill all jews because of their race” according to you..he would then kill himself too?
MaximusConfessor on October 4, 2009 at 1:18 PM
If by “Obama” you mean “Country which is home to a specific religion-nation which those people wish to wipe from the map” – yes.
Now you may continue licking Ron Paul’s hairy balls while surfing Stormfront for nordic gnome porn.
Aristotle on October 4, 2009 at 1:25 PM
Lol!
Ok.
And at what point does Ahmajinidad then kill himself because he is of hebrew blood?
MaximusConfessor on October 4, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Whenever Ron Paul hangs himself by the balls upon discovering his true identity of an evil Zionist mongering neocon, who had a Total Recall style memory transplant of a cartoonish neo-nazi loon.
Aristotle on October 4, 2009 at 2:13 PM
This makes things a little weirder …
J_Crater on October 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Thanks, you saved me the trouble. The verse of the sword and the religion of peace, my a$$.
FREEDOM!
Blacksmith8 on October 5, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Too good to check: British paper claims Ahmadinejad noted terrorist and kidnapper… has Jewish roots
FIFY
Blacksmith8 on October 5, 2009 at 10:04 AM
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