{"id":141,"date":"2008-12-27T07:16:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T13:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob-ak.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2008-12-27T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T13:17:09","slug":"ahmadinejads-xmas-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Ahmadinejad&#8217;s Xmas Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot of hype surrounding the Christmas speech made by Iran&#8217;s president on UK TV&#8217;s Channel 4.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Iih1aEj2vgI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Iih1aEj2vgI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get to see it on the day but spent a little time searching the Internet and found a few useful links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seismicshock.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/26\/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-dr-anthony-mcroy-%E2%80%93-the-islamic-extremist-and-the-christian-academic\/\">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad &amp; Dr Anthony McRoy \u2013 The Islamic extremist and the Christian academic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/dec\/27\/iran-ahmadinejad\">The double-hype of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I personally think it&#8217;s a great idea to give people who don&#8217;t normally feature in main stream media, a chance to voice their opinion, specially if they&#8217;re misunderstood. But, to let Mr Ahmadinejad, a president who allows injustice and numerous killings go on in his own back yard, may be questionable.<\/p>\n<p>To Ahmadinejad&#8217;s defence, here are some links that show he was misquoted by the big media heads:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article14733.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article14733.htm<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article12790.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article12790.htm<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article18471.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article18471.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope things get better in Iran and whether this man gets elected the next time or not, I wish him better understanding of human values (Islamic or not).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot of hype surrounding the Christmas speech made by Iran&#8217;s president on UK TV&#8217;s Channel 4. I didn&#8217;t get to see it on the day but spent a little time searching the Internet and found a few useful links: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad &amp; Dr Anthony McRoy \u2013 The Islamic extremist and the Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}