Ahmadinejad on the Cartoon Controversy

For Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad it’s all about Israel. The cartoons were not an act of freedom, they were a desperate act of hostages. This week Ahmadinejad used the cartoon controversy to blame the United States and Europe for “being hostages of the Zionists.” He then criticized the double-standard of the freedom to insult the prophet while imposing criminal sanctions on those who deny the Holocaust.

“I ask everybody in the world not to let a group of Zionists who failed in Palestine … to insult the prophet. Now in the West insulting the prophet is allowed, but questioning the Holocaust is considered a crime … We ask, why do you insult the prophet? The response is that it is a matter of freedom, while in fact they (who insult the founder of Islam) are hostages of the Zionists. And the people of the US and Europe should pay a heavy price for becoming hostages to Zionists.” (Link).

Punish the Zionist hostages, stop insulting the prophet, and don’t complain when I deny the Holocaust. Why am I not surprised?