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From:	Tom ZeCat (z-cat.vegsource.com)
Subject:	very bigoted response
Date:	October 30, 2007 at 8:48 am PST

In Reply to: Send him back to from where he came, then posted by soooright on October 30, 2007 at 8:22 am:

So according to you, he deserves the ad hominem attacks simply because he's a foreigner or because he's a Muslim? If he's in the country legally, he has just as much right to be here as you do. His arguments won't be any more or less valid if he makes them from Iran than if he makes them here.

Be clear about exactly what it is you're proposing here. Are you for not having a Farsi expert evaluate Ahmadinejad's remarks? (That's a yes or no question.) Do you want to simply trust Bush's take on it? If we want a Farsi expert to interpret the original remarks, we need someone from Iran.

I speak German quite well. I studied the language for 4 years and spent a year on exchange in Germany. I'm pretty good at German. However, a native speaker is still better than I am at it. A native Farsi speaker is the best possible person to evaluate Ahmadinejad's original quote. You haven't offered any counter expert to show any reason to think this person's interpretation of the remarks aren't valid. All you've done is demand that he be thrown out of the country for no good reason other than bigotry. Then we can just trust that Bush is telling us the truth. Look where trusting Bush has gotten us.

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