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April 26, 2006
Iranian Terrorist Massoumeh Ebtekar Gets U.N. Award
As reported on NRO, the U.N. Environment Programme has given out its 2006 Champion of the Earth awards, which honor people "for their creativity, vision and leadership, and the potential of their work and ideas for replication across the globe." Among the winners was Massoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President of Iran and formerly head of its Department of the Environment. Her accomplishments also include a prominent role in the 1979 embassy crisis, during which Iranians stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held hostages for well over a year, until the glorious day Dhimmi Carter was dislodged from the White House.
Ebtekar became the mouthpiece of the Islamist kidnappers because she spoke fluent English with an American accent, having lived in the USA. As The Atlantic Monthly reports:
Known as "Mother Mary" and "Screaming Mary," she was especially disliked by many of the hostages, in part because her accent made her seem like a turncoat, a "Tokyo Rose," in part because of her endless propagandizing. She would saunter through the captured embassy with a camera crew in tow, urging the hostages to describe their ordeal in upbeat terms. "You have been treated well, haven't you?" was her constant refrain. During one such filming session, in the final days of captivity, Army Sergeant Regis Regan got so fed up with Ebtekar that he let loose with a stream of invective and was dragged into a hallway for a beating. Another former hostage, Michael Metrinko, one of the embassy's political officers, summed up his feelings about Ebtekar this way: "If she were on fire on the street, I wouldn't piss on her to put it out."
Ebtekar is on the record as being willing to shoot hostages herself, and as having no regrets about the embassy seizure.
In short, Massoumeh Ebtekar is exactly the sort of character that would be granted an award by the perverted fools who run the U.N. Unsurprisingly, she used her acceptance speech as an opportunity to propagandize on behalf of Iran's psychotic theocracy.
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" is the one and only reasonable argument I have ever heard in favor of the USA remaining in the United Nations. But as for why we should continue to bankroll this vile organization — there could be no reasonable arguments.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 26, 2006 1:32 PM
Comments
You know, I can't help but think that if Hitler were alive today left in the US, and the 'international community', would consider him a great man and foward-thinking visionary.
These people can't seem to identify what evil actually is.
Posted by: Jason at April 26, 2006 2:04 PM
"...the potential of their work and ideas for replication across the globe."
Okay folks, let's go storm the Iranian Embassy, murder a few people, and hold them hostage for hundreds of days. Chant Jesus Rules! a few thousand times, pump your fists in the air for the TV camera and claim that we "will wipe Islam off the face of the earth."
Looks like you'll get a UN award in the end.
Posted by: Doug at April 26, 2006 2:38 PM
Jason, if you read Hitler's policies and what he did in Germany prior to the start of WW2 you'd be surprised at how "progressive" the man actually was. Environmentalism, alternative fuel sources (though naturally this was because he couldn't get enough oil), banning privately owned weapons, promoting the idea of state control and regulation to prevent "unfairness", a distrust of bankers and - something we're seeing repeated today on the left - an overwhelming admiration for Islam and the Islamic peoples. Oh, and he hated jews as well.
All in all he would fit in very well on the New York cocktail circuit...
Posted by: Archonix at April 27, 2006 9:51 AM
UN IS GOOD AS LONG AS IT GOES ALONG WITH OUR POLICIES. IT IS A VILE ORGANIZATION IF IT DOESN'T. SO UN SHOULD AGREE TO EVERY US POLICY SINCE WE PAY MORE MONEY TO IT.
US ECONOMY IS 12 TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD PAY THE SAME AS A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY THAT HAS 40 BILLION DOLLAR ECONOMY.
DO WE WANT A UN THAT IS INDEPENDENT OR DO WE WANT A PUPPET ORGANIZATION TO JUSTIFY OUR POLICIES. WE SHOULD LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES REGARDLESS OF WHO GETS WHAT KIND OF AN AWARD FROM WHAT ORGANIZATION.
Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2006 12:41 PM
WHAT IS IT WITH FROTHING BRAINWASHED MOONBATS? DO THEY ALL BUY THEIR COMPUTERS WITH PERMANENT CAPS LOCKS?
Posted by: Doug at April 27, 2006 3:32 PM
