Middle East Focus: Iranians Revive Vidkun Quisling: Joining Hitler and Goering and Ahmadinejad in America…………

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Iranians Revive Vidkun Quisling: Joining Hitler and Goering and Ahmadinejad in America…………

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“According to reports, the court ruling was based on testimony provided by people who falsely presented themselves as defectors from Iran’s intelligence services. Hamid Reza Zakeri Kouchaksarayi, one of the false witnesses, claimed that he drove Saad bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s oldest son, to a meeting with Iranian officials on May 4, 2001. Interestingly, Zakeri is a prominent member of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) and the director of the Information and Security Committee of the National Council of Resistance. Both groups are on the U.S. government’s list of terrorist organizations........ However, the third false witness, Abolghasem Mesbahi, is an interesting case. Identified as Witness C by the court, Mesbahi is known in Iran and many other countries as a traitor who earns a living by providing false information to courts and intelligence agencies. He is, by no exaggeration, Iran’s Quisling. The son of a Church of Norway pastor, Vidkun Quisling was put on trial during the post-war legal purge in Norway and found guilty of high treason, among many other charges. For aligning with Hitler during the German occupation of Norway, he was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress, Oslo, on October 24, 1945. During World War II, quisling became a synonym for traitor. The term was coined by the British newspaper The Times in its leader of April 15, 1940, entitled “Quislings everywhere”. ……….” Mehr News Agency (Iran)

Hitler has been alive and well for decades, long after the Soviets (allegedly) spirited away his remains to Moscow. Every Western leader who wants to demonize some leader in the Middle East, preferably someone Arab or Muslim, throws the ‘Hitler” epithet at him. Admittedly a cheap shot, but it sticks in the minds of the harried busy good folks at home. It lays the seed for a casus belli later on. Nasser of Egypt was Hitler in American and (especially) British media. Saddam Hussein, former WMD-using ally and useful Western tool, became a Hitler as soon as his war against Iran wound down. As soon as his usefulness to the West and the Saudi oligarchs expired.
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been called Hitler more often than Barack Obama has been called a secret Kenyan Muslim Marxist, and mostly by the same people. Funny how nobody calls anyone a Goering or a Goebbels, although the media, even in the West, has plenty of Goebbels. Nobody calls anybody else a Mussolini or a Stalin or a Mao either.

Anyway, back to Ahmadinejad: he has been the Hitler du jour, Hitler of the Zeit, ever since he was elected in 2005. No doubt he will continue to be so until he leaves office next year. Funny: Hitler never left office voluntarily, not until Russian tanks were staring up his nose. The Israelis are in a close race with American politicians to see who can out-Hitler the other as far as Ahmadinejad is concerned. I suspect American politicians use the term “Hitler” much more often than the Israelis, if only because it is much easier for someone who hasn’t personally experienced a horror to overuse it for political ends, to cheapen it.

Now the Iranians have revived, dusted up, another epithet of WWII. The Norwegian Vidkin Quisling, a Nazi stooge. He is allegedly a member of the Mujhideen-e-Khalq terrorist organization, and allegedly a darling of the American right wing (of the Republican Party)- at least of its Fox News chapter. They claim he is the witness who convinced impressionable Federal Judge George Daniels (New York) that the Iranians, not Saddam Hussein or al-Qaeda or the Saudis or KGB or Dick Cheey or the Mexican cartel or European socialist atheists, were behind the September 11 attacks.

I believe it is time for the UN Security Council, at least the General Assembly, to establish a moratorium on these epithets, especially the “Hitler” one. It will still be okay to use and abuse Goering and Goebbels (and to revive Quisling).
Cheers
mhg

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