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(BBC) Hero An Iranian diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris died in poverty and obscurity thirty years ago. Finally his story is being told. "There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever"   (bbc.co.uk) divider line 57
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2011-12-21 09:28:39 AM
Iranian?!?! Must be a raghead.......Right? I mean, they all are.
 
2011-12-21 09:28:59 AM
He'd never win the GOP nomination with that attitude.
 
2011-12-21 09:29:17 AM
And yet he just stood by as religious maniacs overthrew the Iranian government and installed a theocracy.

Thanks, Habib.
 
2011-12-21 09:32:51 AM
Hell of a man. Wonder if all the screaming 'all mosslims are ebil' idiots will be forced to re-examine their attitude...sorry, went a little screwy there, what WAS I thinking? Rationality from intolerant ignorant types...sigh.


/ all fundamentalists are freaky scary.
// all.
 
2011-12-21 09:34:04 AM
AverageAmericanGuy: And yet he just stood by as religious maniacs overthrew the Iranian government and installed a theocracy.

Thanks, Habib.


You don't know your history very well, do you?

/Troll? Can't tell, no coffee yet.
 
2011-12-21 09:35:07 AM
I'll see you and raise you an Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
 
2011-12-21 09:36:16 AM
"There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever"


Well, said. Religion is pretty pointless, isn't it? Derp.
 
2011-12-21 09:36:28 AM
Don't be taken in by it. This is obviously just a terrorist plot that has not come to fruition yet.
 
2011-12-21 09:37:10 AM
What an idiot, he deserved to die in poverty. The Nazis were paying a bounty on Jews, sharing the loot stolen from them. If this man had been a quality Republican free market type, he would have driven all those Jews straight over to SS headquarters and gotten paid. That's what Rush Limbaugh would have done.
 
2011-12-21 09:39:20 AM
Best Persian friend to the Jews since Cyrus the Great.
 
2011-12-21 09:40:43 AM
Reverend J: AverageAmericanGuy: And yet he just stood by as religious maniacs overthrew the Iranian government and installed a theocracy.

Thanks, Habib.

You don't know your history very well, do you?

/Troll? Can't tell, no coffee yet.


Troll.

Sardari never sought recognition for his work during his lifetime, insisting he had only been doing his duty. He died a lonely death in a bedsit in Croydon, south London, in 1981, after losing his ambassador's pension and Tehran properties in the Iranian revolution.

/back to the bridge, you
 
2011-12-21 09:41:59 AM
HE IS OLE, YOU ARE SVEN
 
2011-12-21 09:42:38 AM
Major Plagge agrees.

upload.wikimedia.org
 
2011-12-21 09:42:44 AM
Fissile: What an idiot, he deserved to die in poverty. The Nazis were paying a bounty on Jews, sharing the loot stolen from them. If this man had been a quality Republican free market type, he would have driven all those Jews straight over to SS headquarters and gotten paid. That's what Rush Limbaugh would have done.

"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."

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2011-12-21 09:42:52 AM
StreetlightInTheGhetto: Reverend J: AverageAmericanGuy: And yet he just stood by as religious maniacs overthrew the Iranian government and installed a theocracy.

Thanks, Habib.

You don't know your history very well, do you?

/Troll? Can't tell, no coffee yet.

Troll.

Sardari never sought recognition for his work during his lifetime, insisting he had only been doing his duty. He died a lonely death in a bedsit in Croydon, south London, in 1981, after losing his ambassador's pension and Tehran properties in the Iranian revolution.

/back to the bridge, you


I see. And he did *what* exactly to prevent the fall of the Shah?
 
2011-12-21 09:46:42 AM
Herr Rabe.....he only saved Chinese.

upload.wikimedia.org
 
2011-12-21 09:48:37 AM
AverageAmericanGuy: I see. And he did *what* exactly to prevent the fall of the Shah?

Probably shook his cane at him some. But then again, we don't usually expect much in the ways of political activism from people in their late 70s. My question is, what did you do to prevent the fall of the Shah?

A bit early for shiat trolling. Go back to sleep.
 
2011-12-21 09:50:26 AM
GungFu: "There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever"


Well, said. Religion is pretty pointless, isn't it? Derp.


Yes, religion is poison, now if you'll excuse me I have 59 million people to kill.
upload.wikimedia.org
 
2011-12-21 09:55:07 AM
WellBelowAverage: GungFu: "There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever"


Well, said. Religion is pretty pointless, isn't it? Derp.

Yes, religion is poison, now if you'll excuse me I have 59 million people to kill.
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FAIL.

Ok, let's use your logic, or lack of. If Mao was religious, he would have killed much more than 59 million. Derp.
 
2011-12-21 09:57:24 AM
WellBelowAverage: GungFu: "There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever"


Well, said. Religion is pretty pointless, isn't it? Derp.

Yes, religion is poison, now if you'll excuse me I have 59 million people to kill.
[upload.wikimedia.org image 431x510]


You're pathetic.
 
2011-12-21 09:57:51 AM
So he saved thousands of Jews? What about the other 6 million he just let die?
 
2011-12-21 09:58:35 AM
This was before the American Puppet Dictator was thrown out by the Heroes of the Revolution, so we're allowed to cheer him. Now Iran is evil country with a different Dictator so we have to have our 2 minutes hate to make sure we remember how all of the evil things in the history of the world were done by them.
 
2011-12-21 09:59:44 AM
WellBelowAverage: GungFu: "There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever"


Well, said. Religion is pretty pointless, isn't it? Derp.

Yes, religion is poison, now if you'll excuse me I have 59 million people to kill.
[upload.wikimedia.org image 431x510]


I can't tell if this is idiocy or just more ham-fisted trolling.

It seems equally difficult to accept that this could be a sincere response, or even sincere trolling. Or are you trying to be ironic?

Where's my coffee?
 
2011-12-21 10:00:33 AM
Impasse: Fissile: What an idiot, he deserved to die in poverty. The Nazis were paying a bounty on Jews, sharing the loot stolen from them. If this man had been a quality Republican free market type, he would have driven all those Jews straight over to SS headquarters and gotten paid. That's what Rush Limbaugh would have done.

"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."

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Ayn Rand's true name: Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum I would have hauled her ass down to SS Headquarters for FREE. That's altruism for ya.
 
2011-12-21 10:03:28 AM
GhostFish: WellBelowAverage: GungFu: "There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever"


Well, said. Religion is pretty pointless, isn't it? Derp.

Yes, religion is poison, now if you'll excuse me I have 59 million people to kill.
[upload.wikimedia.org image 431x510]

I can't tell if this is idiocy or just more ham-fisted trolling.

It seems equally difficult to accept that this could be a sincere response, or even sincere trolling. Or are you trying to be ironic?

Where's my coffee?


mmmm ham......
 
2011-12-21 10:05:36 AM
Arkanaut: Best Persian friend to the Jews since Cyrus the Great.

This.
 
2011-12-21 10:06:20 AM
he would have driven all those Jews straight over to SS headquarters and gotten paid

Pretty much what the so-called "neutral" Swiss did. The Swiss turned Jews and other "undesirables" seeking refuge in their country over to the SS on the border as part of the deal they made with Hitler.
 
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2011-12-21 10:07:36 AM
AverageAmericanGuy: And yet he just stood by as religious maniacs overthrew the Iranian government and installed a theocracy.

Thanks, Habib.


Yeah, why didn't he fight for the oppressive regime of the CIA installed Shah? He was such a nice guy.
 
2011-12-21 10:14:55 AM
What a good person.
 
2011-12-21 10:18:38 AM
GungFu: WellBelowAverage: GungFu: "There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever"


Well, said. Religion is pretty pointless, isn't it? Derp.

Yes, religion is poison, now if you'll excuse me I have 59 million people to kill.
[upload.wikimedia.org image 431x510]


FAIL.

Ok, let's use your logic, or lack of. If Mao was religious, he would have killed much more than 59 million. Derp.


Yes....that is clearly what follows....Religion ALWAYS means more death, right?

You and the rest of the tard army should do some reading of history and look at the facts.

Start Here (new window)

Sorry, there are no pictures, just lots of numbers and I'll understand if your lips move while you are trying to sound out some of the big words.
 
2011-12-21 10:26:04 AM
WellBelowAverage: Yes, religion is poison, now derp.
 
2011-12-21 10:27:13 AM
GreatBunzinni: I'll see you and raise you an Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

While a hero, it is a bit more impressive for a Muslim to do it, in Nazi controlled France.
 
2011-12-21 10:29:20 AM
Bag of Hammers: So he saved thousands of Jews? What about the other 6 million he just let die?

This is Iran. There was not Holocaust because 1) the numbers are wrong, and 2) this man saved all the thousands that otherwise might have died. So, Iran...best friend of the evil Zionist Israel Jew nation...evar!!!

Also, this is a cool story. Not one I knew.
 
2011-12-21 10:32:49 AM
People who do these things don't do them for public admiration. They do these things because, unlike the vast majority of the civilized world, they are decent, thoughtful, loving people.

I'm going to go watch videos of a Kardashian taking it up the butt. She deserves public accolades.
 
2011-12-21 10:41:31 AM
WellBelowAverage: GungFu: WellBelowAverage: GungFu: "There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever"


Well, said. Religion is pretty pointless, isn't it? Derp.

Yes, religion is poison, now if you'll excuse me I have 59 million people to kill.
[upload.wikimedia.org image 431x510]


FAIL.

Ok, let's use your logic, or lack of. If Mao was religious, he would have killed much more than 59 million. Derp.

Yes....that is clearly what follows....Religion ALWAYS means more death, right?

You and the rest of the tard army should do some reading of history and look at the facts.

Start Here (new window)

Sorry, there are no pictures, just lots of numbers and I'll understand if your lips move while you are trying to sound out some of the big words.


So it's absolute power kills absolutely then. Not so much about religion but who has the power (religious or not). right?
 
2011-12-21 10:42:47 AM
Ten miles of hot sand...
 
2011-12-21 10:47:56 AM
Very good article, thanks subby.

Fissile: Ayn Rand's true name: Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum I would have hauled her ass down to SS Headquarters for FREE. That's altruism for ya.

If you ever find yourself in a bar in the greater Baltimore area, please tell everyone you see that you posted this. That way if I happen to be there I can buy you a drink.
 
2011-12-21 10:49:00 AM
Methadone Girls: So it's absolute power kills absolutely then. Not so much about religion but who has the power (religious or not). right?

You can have my absolute power when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
 
2011-12-21 10:58:11 AM
Hitler, The Great Uniter.
 
2011-12-21 11:01:06 AM
If only more Jews, Muslims, and Christians thought as this man did. It's not the religion but the culture around it.
 
2011-12-21 11:24:32 AM

SharkTrager: While a hero, it is a bit more impressive for a Muslim to do it, in Nazi controlled France.

More impressive than a single man putting himself directly in harm's way by thumbing his nose at three bloodthirsty dictators? Aristides de Sousa Mendes even went personally to a checkpoint and defied armed guards and other diplomats just to help war refugees cross the border to freedom. Both may be heroes which should be praised, but some really did stuck their neck out for this.
 
2011-12-21 11:36:46 AM
AverageAmericanGuy: And yet he just stood by as religious maniacs the CIA overthrew the Iranian government and installed a theocracy.

Thanks, Habib.


There ya go.
 
2011-12-21 11:42:31 AM
What a tremendous story. This is the kind of person I would like to sit down with and pick his brain for a good long chat. He trained as a lawyer, had wealth, did he consider himself a devout Muslim doing charitable acts? Did he hate the Nazis for perverting the law, and then decide to screw around with them with his story of a non-Jewish sect of Iranians? Or did he have a Jewish "friend" that was targeted by the Nazis? Man, I have about a million questions that will never get answered.

Not that I have any connections, other than here at Fark, but I hope if I ever had make a choice of this magnitude, I would choose wisely.
 
2011-12-21 11:46:34 AM
An Iranian, saving Iranians? Unpossible.

My favorite part is how he got exemptions by arguing no blood relation between Persian Jews and Ashkenazis, lmao, there's a ball o wax. And he seems to have won at least some of those exemptions, from the most anti-semitic government ever. I wonder why?
 
2011-12-21 11:50:00 AM
GungFu: WellBelowAverage: GungFu: "There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever"


Well, said. Religion is pretty pointless, isn't it? Derp.

Yes, religion is poison, now if you'll excuse me I have 59 million people to kill.
[upload.wikimedia.org image 431x510]


FAIL.

Ok, let's use your logic, or lack of. If Mao was religious, he would have killed much more than 59 million. Derp.


1.bp.blogspot.com
 
2011-12-21 11:50:13 AM
Wonderful story about a man who risked everything to save innocent lives without seeking any recognition and the thread turns into political/troll derp in the first two posts and goes downhill from there.

*sigh*... Welcome to Fark
 
2011-12-21 12:03:28 PM
Wonderful! Based on this one story, your countless acts of terror and murder are forgiven, Muslims.
 
2011-12-21 12:24:45 PM
Now this is what the hero tag is supposed to be for.
 
2011-12-21 12:33:52 PM
^ Err, ftfy.
 
2011-12-21 12:59:47 PM
Surely you don't think he's a True Iranian, do you?

/Think about the region variations on No True Scotsman we could have.
 
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