New in PJ Media:
Those of us who are of a certain age will remember Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As president of Iran from 2005 to 2013 (one of the only presidents of the Islamic Republic of Iran not to be a Muslim cleric), he shocked and enraged the world by setting the Islamic Republic on a path to acquiring nuclear weapons and repeatedly predicting the imminent demise of the state of Israel.
As it turns out, Mad Mahmoud was ahead of his time: nowadays, he’d be endorsing ten-billion-dollar checks from Old Joe Biden and getting praise from the UN and the international media for his support of the Palestinians. And sure enough, he wants to come back. But his exorcist doesn’t think that would be a good idea.
Yes, you read that right. Iran International reported Sunday that an Iranian cleric named Abbas Amirifar, whom it identified matter-of-factly as “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s former exorcist,” has revealed that the gadfly former president’s behind-closed-doors campaign is in full swing, with Ahmadinejad holding regular “secret meetings with his new team in preparation for the 2025 presidential election.”
Iran International does not, however, explain why exactly Ahmadinejad has, or had, an exorcist at all, or what exactly Amirifar did for the former president, other than noting laconically that he was “tasked with protecting him from evil spirits.” Come to think of it, equipping the president with someone to protect him from evil spirits trying to take over his soul and influence public policy is a terrific idea. Maybe if Old Joe Biden had a federal exorcist, we wouldn’t be in this fix, but the poor exorcist might die from exhaustion or quit in frustration over being saddled with such a herculean task.
Nevertheless, questions multiply. Was Ahmadinejad possessed by evil spirits or at the very least harried by them when he urged Iranians to “raise the flag of martyrs over the White House,” that is, kill Americans and be killed in the process, in accord with the Qur’an’s promise of paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111)? Was Old Scratch whispering in his ear when, in a deft encapsulation of the leftist/Islamic alliance, Ahmadinejad confidently predicted that the Twelfth Imam, Shi’ite Islam’s savior figure, would return in the company of none other than the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez?
What about when he called for the erasure of Israel from the map or when he declared at the UN that there were no homosexuals in Iran (which may have been close to true, since he had had so many of them put to death)?
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rbla says
He got into trouble with the Mullahs when he uncharacteristically allowed a spark of humanity to show by hugging Chavez’ aged mother at the funeral. Uh oh, very un-Islamic.
Ray Jarman says
Since the Mullahs rule the country, it really makes little difference as to who claims to be president.
tunde says
I was crying laughing reading this. Robert Spencer is hilarious.
Bull Herman says
Another confused questioning gay at heart Muslim.
A suicide vest is in his future.
Hopefully sooner than later.
And may it go off unexpectedly as soon as his helpers get it fastened.
Johnny Jihad says
He has to act radical because he looks anything but radical.
He literally could pass for a Western leader with that suit and tie, lack of beard, mustache, and glasses that say college educated.