Ahmadinejad's Christmas Broadcast

Each year Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II makes a speech on Christmas Day to Her subjects and the world at large. The tradition began in 1932 with a radio broadcast by George V on the BBC Empire Service. This message is usually one of Christmas cheer and spirit. It has been used to bind wound between peoples, to lift up a nation in the deepest dark days of World War I and II, and to bring a message of Christianity to the world.

Since 1993,Channel 4 has broadcast an "Alternative Christmas message" featuring a contemporary, often controversial celebrity, delivering a message in the manner of Her Majesty. This tradition started by accident when, running a series of programs on 'Christmas in New York', the channel invited Quentin Crisp to give an Alternative message - playing on the pejorative term 'Queen' meaning a male homosexual. In contrast to the Queen's message, the alternative lasts only 3 to 5 minutes.

Some of these celebrities have been: Bridget Bardot (1995), Sharon Osbourne (2002), and Marge Simpson (2004). Last year it was Major Andrew Stockton, a British soldier who lost his arm fighting in Afghanistan. This year it is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I joke you not! I wonder what type of message he would send?

Merry Christmas, "bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers."

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will deliver a Christmas Day broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 television, occupying a slot used to provide an often controversial counterpoint to Queen Elizabeth II's traditional annual message, the station said Wednesday.

In his recorded message, Ahmadinejad offers seasonal greetings to Christians and says he believes that if Jesus was alive, he would "stand with the people in opposition to bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers," an apparent reference to the United States and its allies.

According to a transcript of the broadcast released in advance, Ahmadinejad says most of the world's problems stem from leaders have turned against religion. He doesn't refer to rival nations or leaders by name or raise the issue of Israel, despite his previous calls for the removal of the Jewish state.

"If Christ was on earth today undoubtedly he would hoist the banner of justice and love for humanity to oppose warmongers, occupiers, terrorists and bullies the world over," Ahmadinejad said, according to the text.

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Sorry to disappoint you Mahmoud, but if Christ was on Earth today he would have served his tour of duty in the IDF, and probably would have been called up each year for mandatory 3 weeks of reserve duty. After all, you keep forgetting one big thing Mahmoud, Jesus was Jewish.
This will be a first, who do you think they will have on next year? I think someone should suggest a safer choice next time. Someone like Robert Mugabe, Butcher President of Zimbabwe.