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Like Hansel and Gretel hoping to follow their bread crumbs out of the forest, the FBI sifted through customer data collected by San Francisco-area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006, hoping that sales records of Middle Eastern food would lead to Iranian terrorists.
CQ Homeland Security (11/02/2007)
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1 Comments:
First of all, falafel is not a Persian food, never was. It is found in Israeli deli/bistros and of course, Arabic cafes. There are no similarities between Arabs and Iranians other than the fact their nation is plunked in the Middle East. Their style of cooking is closer to Asian (in particular,Mongolian) than any other.
The name IRAN is a Greek word for ARYAN ~ for the obvious reasons.
Linking Arabs to Iranians is as ignorant as saying Chinese and Russians are the same simply because they are on the same continent. Just the fact the FBI even thinks Israeli/Arabic food sales will lead them to Iranians is some of the scariest news in years, so much for “protecting America”.
Secondly, the Iranian’s have not attacked anyone in FIVE CENTURIES, even though Western nations have occupied and pillaged theirs repeatedly. Even when Bush the First blew up one of their civilian planes in Iranian airspace in 1988 — the Iranians still did not retaliate/attack anyone.
Thirdly: if you want to find the Iranians, try Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Ave, Mercedes and BMW dealerships spending their hard earned money via being a highly educated valued work force around the world and here in the US.
Just perhaps, to protect America... it’s time to reinstate all the gay translators they fired and have a sit down chat with Condi’s own "party boy" adviser who stayed in Iran and writes about Iranian culture instead of stalking Orthodox Jews in Israeli bistros to manufacture “bomb Iran bogey man” memes for the White House cabal?
November 7, 2007 11:30 AM
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