Iranians hold shoe-throwing contest in capital's university

[denem]

Source: Novesti: Russian News and Information Agency

TEHRAN, December 26 (RIA Novosti) - A shoe-throwing competition using a portrait of George Bush as the target took place on Friday in Iran's capital, Tehran, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

Iranians in the capital were invited to throw their shoes at a poster of U.S. President George Bush after the country's traditional Friday Muslim prayers were over. The event was held at Tehran University.

Once there were enough direct hits and the portrait became shabby, the crowd tore the poster down and ripped it to pieces.

The event organizers said it was an "expression of solidarity for the respected Iraqi journalist." Muntazer Muntazer al-Zaidi, a correspondent for the Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya TV channel, threw his shoes at George Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in mid-December and shouted in Arabic: "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, dog." Bush managed to duck the shoes., a correspondent for the Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya TV channel, threw his shoes at George Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in mid-December and shouted in Arabic: "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, dog." Bush managed to duck the shoes.

Read more: http://en.rian.ru/world/20081226/119186920.html

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Want the news these days? Read Pravda . Muntazer al-Zaidi should be freed, and congratulated for bringing this fine, traditional, (relatively) non violent expression of opposition and contempt to the world's attention, IMO.

[ohio2007]

1. Wonder how many shoes are going to be tossed at the Iranian president

I don't think the students can pull it off without a public hanging

[acmavm]

2. You totally missed the point, didn't you?

[ohio2007]

7. Sorry to see that it just went over your head

Didn't it ?


Iran: Nine people hanged for murder in Tehran
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.2849232424

[snake in the grass]

5. The problem with your comparison is...

...Ahmadinejad is not the one running Iran and to date has done nothing that even comes close to what our dear leader has permitted himself. Furthermore, Bush's actions have fused the Iranians together, whereby a few years ago there would have been room for change. Some may argue that W. isn't running the U.S. but technically the buck should stop with him. Therefore, Bush is ultimately responsible for all the crimes committed during his term. Sadly, the shoe throwing incident was the closest the Boy King will ever come to experiencing justice.

[bushmeister0]

3. Funny how Ahmadinejad and W. share similar views on empiricism,

acedemia, science, all those "stupid facts," as Reagan called them.

Shoe throwing contests is what universities are really for! Now that's what I call learning!

W. spent his whole presiduncy planting his ideological commisars in all the agencies concerned with science to make sure they got "the science right" before those eggheads did something crazy like try and regulate the poluters and Ahmadinejad made sure to purge the universities of any non-right thinking professors or students.

Pop quiz:Ahmadinejad or Bush?

"There has been an effort to promote a secular system and thoughts in society. To change it is difficult. We have to do it together, but things have started."

(Major cockups, much editing to do)

[scytherius]

4. Nicely said. They are really two peas in a pod. n/t

nt

[Kurska]

6. Hangs gays, silences dissent brutally and saber rattles with a nuclear armed power

But don't worry guys, he HATES bush.

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[scytherius]

9. Probably just as much as we hate the extreme right wing.

Maybe not.

[ohio2007]

10. ( lame ) video of "the realy big shoe" on campus

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=64c_1230330713

not a very accurate representation of what I expected the student body to look like.