The Observer has the story:
Senior politicians, Jewish groups and a prominent German TV host will join a demonstration today in Nuremberg hours before Iran play their opening match of the tournament against Mexico in the city. They are furious that Ahmadinejad’s deputy, Mohammad Aliabadi, has been allowed into the country after the Iranian President called the Holocaust ‘a fairytale’ and called for the destruction of Israel.
I’m actually hoping Iran does well. If they do Ahmadinejad may travel to Germany and all hell could break loose.
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June 11th, 2006 at 6:33 am
[...] World Cup: Iranian Soccer Team to Face ProtestsSenior politicians, Jewish groups and a prominent German TV host will join a demonstration today in Nuremberg hours before Iran play their opening match of the tournament against Mexico in the city. They are furious that Ahmadinejad?s … [...]
June 11th, 2006 at 6:34 am
[...] World Cup: Iranian Soccer Team to Face ProtestsSenior politicians, Jewish groups and a prominent German TV host will join a demonstration today in Nuremberg hours before Iran play their opening match of the tournament against Mexico in the city. They are furious that Ahmadinejad?s … [...]
June 11th, 2006 at 9:52 am
It’s time to take decissions (without fariseism) in the world arena: the country that doesn’t respect and accepts the rules accepted by the rest of the countries, should be dismissed from the international organisations and leave alone.
The governants makes the international organisations incredible due the silent acceptance of countries which sistematically ignore or even act against the international laws.
The are basically four ways to act:
first, you still allow the country in the organisations, and in that case you are in a certain way responsable of the ignominious acts made by that country;
second, you expell the country from international organisations and leave it alone, boycotting his external relations and aislating it, which usually affects more the population then the corrupt politicians, boycott that on the other hand is systematically violated by our own companies who search inmoral benefits;
third, you intervene and try to change the ‘status quo’, trying to establish your own view of democracy, and applying usually methods which are similar to thus critized and which where the allegations for the occupation and/or invasion;
fourth, the international diplomatic activity carried out to get enough international pressure on the rebel country to bow its tendence, whicj usually leds to a frustrating delay that offten don’t get the expected and awaited results.
There is no formula which could be put in practice automatically in every case.
But there is a simple rule: whatever you do, it will have consequences -offten unexpected-, and sometimes even against yourself.
Thats the reason why you should really consider doing anything. At least, each person and each society and each country they have their own luck, their own karma, their own future, even through a way of suffering, and remember that the western and ‘so called’ civilized world also went through a painful and barbarian pat some centuries ago.
So, think about critizising something which our predecessors did some time before in a similar manner and with identical purposes.
And, finally, leave the religion for yourself, don’t use it for civil, social or political purposes, it’s a private matter of each person, and no one has the right to impose it to others. No one is on the real pat of salvation, because all religions and spiritual pats are valid ways for the practitioner -even the one who don’t practize and has no way-.
So, please, don’t kill and make terror in the name of any religion (as well as for any specific political or social system).