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Che Guevara, man of God.

Abdul Alhazred

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An example of the principle that having fanatical religion in your "united front" is like having the Mafia for a business partner. At one time I would have said that about Communism.

Tehran's price for solidarity (NY Post)

October 12, 2007 -- ANXIOUS to create what they call "a global progressive front," Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela are sponsoring projects to underline "the ideological kinship of the left and revolutionary Islam."

The theme - hammered in by Ahmadinejad during his recent visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia - inspired a four-day seminar organized by his supporters at Tehran University last week (partly financed by Chavez).

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Setting the stage.


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Things went pear-shape thanks to one keynote speakers, Hajj Saeed Qassemi, whose title is "coordinator of the Association of Volunteers for Suicide-Martyrdom." Praising the late "Che" as "a true revolutionary who made the American Great Satan tremble," he "revealed" that Guevara had been "a truly religious man who believed in God and hated communism and the Soviet Union."

"Today, communism has been consigned to the garbage can of history as foreseen by Imam Khomeini," Qassemi said. "Thus progressists everywhere must accept the leadership of our religious, pro-justice movement."

Demanding the right to respond, Aleida Guevara told the conference that Qassemi's claim might be based on a bad translation: "My father never mentioned God," she said as the hall sighed in chagrined disbelief. "He never met God."

The remarks caused a commotion amid which Aleida and her brother were whisked away, led into a car and driven to their hotel under escort.

A few hours after the incident, the Guevara siblings attended another meeting, this time organized at Amir-Kabir University by a group called the Mobilization of the Downtrodden Militia. Camilo Guevara confirmed his sister's earlier remarks but insisted that "progressists everywhere" focus on fighting America rather than probing each other's personal beliefs.

By the end of the day, the two Guevaras had become nonpersons. The state-controlled media, which had given them VIP billing, suddenly forgot their existence. The anniversary of Guevara's death was mentioned in passing with no reference to his Marxism.

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Who controls the present controls the past.


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The Islamic Republic bans all non-Khomeinist ideologies, but two are specifically punishable by imprisonment or death: socialism and liberal democracy.

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Socialism punishable by death. Got that?


Folks seem to forget that the Iranian regime murdered their Communist comrades right after overthrowing the Shah with their help.

That's not in the article, but I thought I'd mention it.
 
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Are we supposed to care that one bunch of murderous thugs insulted the legacy of another murderous thug?
 
ImaginalDisc said:
Are we supposed to care that one bunch of murderous thugs insulted the legacy of another murderous thug?
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Not care in the sense of shedding any tears for them, but it's a good cautionary tale considering that there's more going on than just insults.
 
You guys want to hear something ironic?

Last year, on "Culture Day" on my old Navy base, they were selling Che shirts.
 
Well, if your old Navy base is in Guantánamo, it shouldn't be much of a surprise, I guess.
 
No, it was in Great Lakes, IL, across the street from bootcamp.
 
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