Western delegates walk out of Ahmadinejad speech at summit
Written by Adam Dubbin
Monday, 20 April 2009
Amidst accusations by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against Israel of running a "cruel and racist regime," according to CBC, many Western delegates walked out of his speech at a United Nations-sponsored summit in Geneva. Ahmadinejad also accused the United States and Europe of trying to destabilize the world.
One can only smirk at the irony of the Iranian president's word in contrast to his prior rhetoric on the Jews, Israel and the Holocaust, not to mention the less-than stellar reputation his nation has for civil rights. For those who may have forgotten, he has engaged in traditional anti-Semitism, has declared that Israel be completely destroyed and denies that the Holocaust ever happened; back home, people are still stoned to death for what often amount in Western society to petty crimes. I guess it takes one to know one.
[CBC]
Adam Dubbin, TheSequitur.com's assistant managing editor, is a second year doctoral student in audiology at the University of South Florida.
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