The Ayatollah’s Funeral

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Thu Jun 12, 2003 at 9:43 pm PDT • Views: 1,683

Several readers pointed out the similarity between today’s Palestinian car swarming scenes and the 1989 funeral of Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, at which mobs of millions (yes, millions) of Iranians stormed the funeral bier and tore Khomeini’s corpse apart in a frenzy to obtain magical relics—i.e., body parts.

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