September 25, 2009
By Arsalan Iftikhar
Special to CNN
Editor’s Note: Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, founder of TheMuslimGuy.com and contributing editor for Islamica magazine in Washington.
(CNN) The United Nations this week hosted two of the world’s most notorious dictatorial clowns.
The world body gave a prominent forum to Col. Moammar Gadhafi of Libya and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who preside over repressive regimes dominating the nearly 73 million helpless people of Libya and Iran.
In his rambling and nonsensical 96-minute tirade at the podium of the General Assembly, Gadhafi deemed it wise to use this opportunity to call the H1N1 flu virus a “military tool,” refer to the U.N. Security Council as the “terrorist council” and spew other absurdly ridiculous conspiracy theories.
Not to be outdone, Ahmadinejad stuck to his usual ridiculous script of railing against the United States and Israel for all of the world’s woes during his U.N. speech that shed no new light on the Iranian state’s nuclear strategy.
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