Tuesday, April 05, 2011

News at Eleven: In the poem, recited in a government

cultural institution in the western city of Hamedan, [Mostafa] Badkoobei said, "Take me to the depths of the underworld, you Arab god, provided that I don't find any Arabs there."

He added, to the applause of the audience, that he does not need the heaven promised to Arabs then addresses God and asks, "Didn't you yourself say that Arabs are the most hypocritical? Why then do the imbeciles praise Arabs?"

from Al Arabiya News Channel: Poem reflect anti-Arabism in Iran: expert Iranian poet insults Arabs, derides Islam

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