It turns out that Ahmadinejad, the virulently anti-Semetic Iranian president, comes from a Jewish family ! They converted to Islam !
He is holding up an identity card that shows his birth name.
A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.
A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.
The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.
The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad’s birthplace, and the name derives from “weaver of the Sabour”, the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran’s Ministry of the Interior.
Experts last night suggested Mr Ahmadinejad’s track record for hate-filled attacks on Jews could be an overcompensation to hide his past.
Ali Nourizadeh, of the Centre for Arab and Iranian Studies, said: “This aspect of Mr Ahmadinejad’s background explains a lot about him.
Boy, those Jews can sure be mysterious.
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Wouldn’t Sabourjian be an Armenian name? I always thought any surname ending in “ian” or “yan” was pretty much guaranteed to be.
Not saying an Armenian can’t be Jewish too, of course…
Luke, the Guardian has a story disputing the Jewish roots story. I think it may have been a hoax, a bit like the old “Hitler was a housepainter” story. Still, it was amusing.
I just saw the Guardian story; was wondering if you had. It doesn’t mention Armenia either, but says “-jian” is a common Muslim suffix. Maybe my assumption only holds generally true in L.A.
I did have an Iranian-Jewish doctor once whose last name was Akhavan.
Perhaps he is Jewish and so with the nuke, Next year in Jerusalem.
He strikes me as too dumb to be Jewish.