Ahmadinejad's new blog post.

November 24, 2007 1:40 AM

To read or to write, that is the question! Ahmadinejad explains why he hasn’t been updating his blog. He ‎stated he would update it more often.‎
posted by persia (12 comments total)

Oh, come clean, Mahmoud. You've been wasting all your web time here.
posted by maryh at 1:53 AM on November 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

Great now I've wasted 30 minutes looking at pictures of kittens.
posted by PostIronyIsNotaMyth at 2:39 AM on November 24, 2007

And now we're all on a list.
posted by Roman Graves at 3:01 AM on November 24, 2007 [2 favorites]

Self link? (I kid, I kid.)
posted by Zonker at 3:36 AM on November 24, 2007

In the Name of Almighty God-the All-Knowing, the Most Lovingly ‎Compassionate

You lost me right there, Mahmoud.
posted by Reggie Digest at 3:56 AM on November 24, 2007

Roman Graves: "And now we're all on a list."

Are you on the list?
posted by ZachsMind at 5:39 AM on November 24, 2007

The site has two RSS feeds, both in Arabic. Mrph.
posted by scalefree at 6:32 AM on November 24, 2007

Also some of my trusted students have shortened the long messages for me ‎and have prepared a statistical report regarding all of the messages which I have read ‎and studied those too.

a)Shortening the messages

Mr President,

I do not agree with the demonisation of Iran but strongly disagree with your antisemitism, failure to acknowledge human rights like freedom of speech, right to sexual orientation (though it's great you fund sex change ops) and mistreatment of women. Not too crazy about the authoritarian entanglement of Church and State and a big-ass Amnesty International file on your practices.

Joe Smith

b) Preparing statistic report:

Western Yes[x] No[ ]
Likes Mahmoud? Yes[x] No[ ]
posted by ersatz at 6:39 AM on November 24, 2007 [2 favorites]

In the Name of Almighty God-the All-Knowing, the Most Lovingly ‎Compassionate

The first time one of our practice teaching students said this it kind of blew my mind. Imagine an ESL lesson, a bunch of Afghan teens. The students have spent the last few minutes interviewing their partners about daily habits.

"Ok, Haroon, could you tell us what you learned about Meena?"

Haroon stands. "In the name of Allah, I asked Mina what time she go to school, and Mina go to school at seven o'clock and come home at one thirty."

And then the touchy issue comes up, should I try to discourage this, or just leave it be? In English, even for Muslims who speak English, we just don't talk like this. But in the end I just decided to leave it alone.
posted by Meatbomb at 7:56 AM on November 24, 2007

This feed is in English.
posted by steveminutillo at 9:24 AM on November 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

I just get weirded out when people write Mohammed (pbuh). The first time I encountered it on USENET I thought it was a variation of Important Innocuous Person (spit).

Anyway, I don't know why Fred Armisen is keeping the blog running. Does he think it helps his career, or what?
posted by dhartung at 1:32 PM on November 24, 2007

The site has two RSS feeds, both in Arabic. Mrph.

So long as they're not Atom feeds.
posted by TrashyRambo at 5:33 PM on November 24, 2007 [1 favorite]