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Yesterday, freed American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal returned to U.S soil accompanied by Sarah Shourd who was also held captive in Iran with them until she was freed a year ago.
Both Bauer and Fattal strongly condemned the Iranian regime and said they had been held hostage.
Bauer went on to say that it was ironic they had been taken captive because “Sarah, Josh and I oppose U.S. policies towards Iran which perpetuate this hostility.”
But therein lies the problem. Iran makes no distinction between Americans who attend Berkeley and those who attend Bob Jones University. They make no distinction between Americans who write for The Nation and Americans who write for The American Spectator. They don’t care if you like or dislike President Obama. Nor do they care if you are critical of U.S. foreign policy towards Iran. For that matter, Iran makes no distinction between the Bush Administration who didn’t view them as legitimate and the Obama Administration which sought to curry favor with them. To the Iranian regime, as with al Qaeda, all Americans are infidels. Short of converting to Islam and submitting to their way of life nothing will change that attitude.
If Bauer doesn’t understand that by now then he probably never will.
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Kitty| 9.26.11 @ 10:02AM
They are considered infidels along with the rest of us. You'd think they would have gotten a clue during those 2 years.
Occam's Tool| 9.26.11 @ 2:23PM
They are Liberals. Until they take their medications, they cannot learn.
FastJohnny| 9.26.11 @ 4:47PM
That makes sense to those of us who do not drink the Kool Aid. However, just like in Nazi Germany where there was no distinction between different types of Jews, to Iran we are all infidels and all blasphemers, punishable by imprisonment or death. These people hate the west, whether they are Christian, Jew, black, white, Hispanic or anything else. We are all targets in their eyes and they hate the secular person even more. They make no distinction and like a hateful mob, everyone not like them is fair game. You are either one of them or the enemy.
steve| 9.26.11 @ 10:05AM
sp: Berkeley.
Aaron Goldstein| 9.26.11 @ 11:37AM
Good catch. The Berklee School of Music is here in Boston.
JD522| 9.26.11 @ 11:18AM
This reminds me of Michael Moore's surprise that the terrorists had attacked NY on 9/11 because - after all - NY had voted *against* George W. Bush. This is part of what Tammy Bruce rightly calls the malignant narcissism of the left, the belief that everyone (except a few crazy right-wingers) sees the world through the same skewed prism they do. To their way of thinking their parochial concerns and beliefs are universal laws which everyone else is supposed to e aware of and take into account.
As long as you hold the right opinions, shop at the right stores, read the right publications and boycott the right products, you should be immune to criticism, never mind physical abuse or attack. People like this are *always* surprised when the evil doers they invariably champion turn on them. Nothing astonishes a liberal or socialist more than the moment when he is dragged out of bed by a communist at 3 AM, stood up against a wall and shot.
Regards,
Joe
btims| 9.26.11 @ 12:25PM
I knew something was fishy about this story. "Hikers" huh? Yeah I bet.
They are far left libtard-progressives and probably have Islamic/Persian heritage as well.
I wish they would have never been freed from Iran. Serves them well.
Paul McGrath| 9.26.11 @ 1:41PM
At their news conference yesterday they both spoke of routinely hearing screams throughout the prison as other prisoners were being beaten and tortured. I suspect their two year stay in Iran gave them an educational experience far superior to that which they received in Berkeley.
annewp| 9.26.11 @ 2:23PM
Americans are the ones who torture. Isn't that what we are told?
Occam's Tool| 9.26.11 @ 2:24PM
I wish they had stayed in prison. They needed to be tortured. It is a shame they were not.
PattyMor| 9.26.11 @ 3:59PM
I just knew that these hikers were a bunch of liberals. Who else is stupid enough to go hiking along the Iraq/Iran border. I said that Iran should just keep them for the 8 years as a stupidity charge.
Zeek| 9.26.11 @ 6:51PM
Spot on.
Liberals think that wire-rimmed spectacles and comb-over ponytails will indicate to the Islamic Rage Boy that their heads are to be left joined to their bodies when the Caliphate conquers civilization.
It goes along, I suppose, with the rest of their stupidly deluded world-view.
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