"Israel Should Be Wiped Off the Map."

Submitted by Barbara (United States), Nov 30, 2005 at 15:56

In December 2001, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president and still powerful political figure, laid the groundwork for an exchange of nuclear weapons with Israel: "If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave anything in Israel but the same thing would just produce minor damages in the Muslim world."

In like spirit, a Shahab-3 ballistic missile (capable of reaching Israel) paraded in Tehran last month bore the slogan "Israel Should Be Wiped Off the Map."

Islamophobia?
I read this stuff and know there is no Islamophobia but a real fear that is justified when the mob rules in the name of Allah with a book like the koran for back up.
It's only going to get worse. But as with all mad dogs they will turn on each other.

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