The mainstream media was abuzz with the information that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the time to write George Bush a letter. 

The news reports all noted the letter was "the first direct communication from an Iranian head of state to a U.S. president since Washington broke off relations after the 1979 Islamic revolution," -- but failed the grasp the significance of what the letter said -- and what it didn't say. 

Some mainstream media accounts described certain parts of the letter as an Iranian attempt at creating an 'interfaith dialogue' between the US and Iran. 

In his letter, the Iranian leader asks Bush: "Do you not think that if all of us come to believe in and abide by these principles, that is, monotheism, worship of God, justice, respect for the dignity of man, belief in the Last Day, we can overcome the present problems of the world ...?" 

That sounds nice, even conciliatory. However, in traditional Islamic belief, only Islam guarantees 'monotheism, worship of God, justice, respect for the dignity of man, belief in the Last Day.' According to Islam, Christianity is polytheistic, worshipping three distinct Deities. Judaism is really an apostate form of Islam that worships Satan. 

In his letter, Ahmadinejad made nine references to Jesus and eleven references to Christ. He suggested that George Bush 'return to Christian teachings' which the AP interpreted as an "insight into a man seeking to build on a shared faith in God."

The AP's interpretation provides a bit of insight into the mindset of the AP, if nothing else. Islam's god is not Jesus. The Koran emphatically claims, "God has no Son."

To Islam, Jesus (Isa) is no more than a prophet, one of lesser rank than Mohammed. Islam's Jesus did not die on the cross for the sins of man, and he has no power to save or redeem.

Ahmadinejad's references to Jesus were highlighted in every news account I've read since the letter's contents were released. Noted the Los Angeles Times, "the Iranian leader also suggests that U.S. policies are inconsistent with Bush's personal expressions of Christian faith." 

Out of 18 pages, the Times' editors chose to editorialize that single aspect of the letter in its second lead paragraph! Letting Ahmadinejad make their agenda points for them, the next area of the letter the Times' chose to cover was the Iraq War.

Notes the Times' in the fifth paragraph, "Referring to the Iraq war, he writes, "On the pretext of the existence of WMDs, this great tragedy came to engulf both the peoples of the occupied and the occupying country." 

The mainstream media took a pass on informing, instead carefully lifting selected quotes that just so happen to echo their own political view.

That's not informing. That's indoctrination.

Writes the prophet Hosea, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. . ." 

Assessment: 

Rather than offering to come to a religious reconciliation with the West, as the mainstream media appears to be reading it, Ahmadinejad's letter was an invitation to George Bush to embrace Islam as a way of reconciling the US to the Islamic world.

The French wire service AFP quoted Iran's hard-line Siasat-e Rooz daily as saying of the letter: "We expect the government to make the enemy understand that it should change its hostile positions, as the future belongs to Islam."

"It has been the prophet's way to invite the infidel leaders to the right way," it said. 

Writing in the Persian Journal on Monday, Iranian international law consultant Bahman Aghai Diba said the tradition in Islam of writing missives to heads of states was established by Mohammed, who sent letters to the king of Iran and the emperor of Rome. 

"They did not take the letters as serious and they paid dearly for this inattention."

Ahmadinejad's letter contained a long laundry list of grievances against the United States, including CIA-manipulated coup that installed the Shah in 1953, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, support of Israel, involvement in a coup plot to overthrow Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and even a conspiratorial suggestion that American intelligence agencies must have been complicit in the Al Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11. 

In conclusion, Ahmadinejad lays out his case in clear, unmistakable terms. Indeed, those terms were so stark that the mainstream media looked right past them, choosing instead to focus on Bush the hypocrite and Bush the liar who got us into the Iraq war over non-existent WMDs. 

Submit to Islam or else.

Ahmadinejad's letter concludes that "liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity" and "have failed." Instead, he says, the world's peoples are turning to the teachings of Islam. 

"My question for you is: Do you not want to join them?" 

*In Hitler's Mein Kampf, Hitler outlines, in detail, his plan to subjugate the world, indoctrinate it into Nazi ideology, kill those who resisted, and to destroy world Jewry. 

He wrote it in 1923. Twenty-five years later, as Europe still smoldered in ruin, historians were already beginning to ask why nobody saw it coming until it was too late? 

Sixty years later, it is conventional historical wisdom that the world should have known. History judges Neville Chamberlain and Eduard Deladrier harshly for believing diplomacy was the key to peace. 

On the other hand, history views 1930's 'war-monger' Winston Churchill as the man who saved England. 

Ahmadinejad's letter lays out his agenda as clearly as did "Mein Kampf'. His goal, like Hitler's, is to subjugate the world, convert it to Islam, kill those who resist, and destroy world Jewry. 

"My question for you is: Do you not want to join them?"

SOURCE: Omegaletter