Iranian Woman Gives Birth to Frog
On June 24, the editor of an Iranian daily published a stunning revelation: the true perpetrators of the hostage decapitations were the Americans themselves.
Here, Hossein Shari’atmadari offers a closely-reasoned, highly persuasive argument for why they would do such a thing:
“Why did the Americans slaughter their citizens and the citizens of America’s allies [so] horrifyingly and terribly…? [Why] do they construct ridiculous scenery and attribute the slaughter of the hostages to Muslims when their ugly and repulsive faces are exposed as a result of the crimes they committed and the massacre of innocent civilians and the barbaric tortures of the detainees and captives?
“The answer to this question is too clear for us to explain and analyze in depth… With these terrible crimes, the Americans aspire to attain the following goals:
1. “To present a hate-inspiring image of Islam and of the Muslims and to justify barbaric military attacks on them — that is, exactly the same goals as when they established the Taliban and the Al-Qa’ida group…
2. “To respond to public opinion, particularly that of the U.S. and England, which sees the invasion of Iraq as unjustified, aggressive, and entangling and demands that the occupiers leave Iraq. In this way, America seeks to justify the continuation of the occupation of Iraq and the attack on the rest of the Muslim peoples. America is doing it under the cover of a struggle against peoples — which, it claims, know no humanity and commit various types of crimes.
3. “Some of the countries that sent forces to Iraq, such as South Korea, are facing harsh protests by their peoples. By slaughtering hostages and attributing it to Muslims, America sows the seed of hatred and loathing of Muslims in the hearts of these peoples, and encourages their governments to continue cooperating with it.
4. “Among the Americans’ main goals in organizing the ridiculous and certainly terrible performance of the slaughters is the distracting of public opinion from America’s and England’s barbaric crimes against the Abu Ghureib detainees.”
And if you’re wondering about the frog, go read the rest of the article at MEMRI.
