Against much pressure from US-British Jewish Lobby – British TV Channel Four has announced to deliver Iranian President Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Christmas message (pre-recorded in Farsi – with its English translation aired on 1915 GMT on Christmas day) – along with Queen Elizabeth II’s traditional annual Christmas message.
Dorothy Byrne, the broadcaster’s head of news, defended her decision against Jewish Lobby pressure – “As the leader of one of the most powerful states in the Middle East, President Ahmadinejad’s views are enormously influential. As we approach a critical time in international relations, we are offering our viewers an insight into an alternative world view.”
Following is President Ahmadinejad’s pre-recorded message:
“If Christ (as) was on earth today undoubtedly he would stand with the people in opposition to bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers.
If Christ was on earth today undoubtedly he would hoist the banner of justice and love for humanity to oppose warmongers, occupiers, terrorists and bullies the world over.
If Christ was on earth today undoubtedly he would fight against the tyrannical policies of prevailing global economic and political systems, as he did in his lifetime.
Fortunately, today as crises and despair multiply, a wave of hope is gathering momentum. Hope for a brighter future, hope for the establishment of justice, hope for real peace, hope for finding virtuous and pious rulers who love the people and want to serve them – and this is what the Almighty Allah has promised.
We (Muslims) believe, Jesus Christ (as) will return, together with one of the children of revered messenger of Islam (Al-Mahdi) and would lead the world to a rightful point; to a world of love, brotherhood and justice. The responsibility of all followers of Christ and followers of Abrahamic faiths is to move towards that and to prepare the way for the fulfilment of this divine promise and the arrival of that joyful, shining and wonderful age. I hope that the collective will of nations will unite in the not too distant future and with the grace of the Almighty Allah, that shining age will come to rule the earth.
Once again, I congratulate one and all on the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ (as) and I pray for the New Year to be a year of happiness, prosperity peace and brotherhood for humanity. I wish you every success.”
Israel’s stooges in the UK wasted no time orchestrating a tidal wave of protest against Channel 4 TV’s showing of a Christmas message by Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The MP Philip Davies, a Friend of Israel, said that the address was “completely unacceptable on every level”
Israel’s ambassador, Ron Prosor, complained that Ahmadinejad’s government “leads Christ’s followers to the gallows”. Channel 4’s decision to broadcast the message was a “sick and twisted irony” and a “scandal and a national embarrassment” because the Iranian president “denies the Holocaust, advocates the destruction of the sovereign State of Israel, funds and encourages terrorism, executes children and hangs gay people.”
Even the TaxPayers’ Alliance had to stick its oar in. They were upset because Channel 4 receives a bit of state funding and taxpayers’ money was being used “to give a platform to a regime that despises democracy, oppresses women and gay people and has made clear its dislike for everything Britain stands for”.
The Foreign Office, which many feel is infected with pro-Israel bias, also issued a ticking off. “President Ahmadinejad has during his time in office made a series of appalling anti-Semitic statements,” announced a spokeswoman, presumably referring to the famous remark where he quoted the late Ayatollah Khomeini as saying that “this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time”, a proposition that many people agree with. Israeli propaganda twisted it to read “Israel must be wiped off the map”.
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