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| Q5echo |
how dumb is this?
| quote: | | Iran has banned The Economist magazine for describing the Persian Gulf as merely "the Gulf" in a map published in the latest edition, state television reported late Wednesday |
>dumdumdum< |
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| Yoepus |
| Well I wish I could say it was one of the stupidest things Iran has done lately.... :( |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| I call scapegoat. |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
I call scapegoat. |
what? |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
what? |
:rolleyes:
| quote: | | The scapegoat was a goat that was driven off into the wilderness as part of the ceremonies of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in Judaism during the times of the Temple in Jerusalem. The rite is described in Leviticus 16. The word also refers, in modern parlance, to one who is blamed for misfortunes, often as a way of distracting attention from the real causes. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat
Iran's government is obviously using the Gulf thing as a scapegoat for banning Western papers. Now they have a more 'legitimate' constructed reason for doing so, however stupid it sounds. |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
:rolleyes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat
Iran's government is obviously using the Gulf thing as a scapegoat for banning Western papers. Now they have a more 'legitimate' constructed reason for doing so, however stupid it sounds. |
thank you captain obvious! |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
what? |
Well I thought it was obvious too, but then you didn't seem to understand it. |
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| St_Andrew |
Haha, one could wounder if the the Economist did that intentionally or not, wouldn't surprice me if they did :)
I guess it's good though that someone within the Iran administration reads the brilliant magazine that the economist is though :) |
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