Castro Has a Message for Ahmadinejad About the Jews

[luomo]

Imagine your typical Atlantic reader - new model neocons like Ross Douthat or tender-hearted brownstoners like Jonathan Safran Foer, right? You probably didn't picture Fidel Castro. Well, okay, maybe you saw the headline. But Castro does read it. In fact, after Mr. Ex-Jefe caught Jeffrey Goldberg's article "Point of No Return" about Iran and

Comments

[jslayeruk]

I wonder what he actually said, because perhaps this is translated from Spanish?

[fenris_lorsrai]

This was my thought as well.

[bellichka]

No one blames the Muslims for anything

knee-jerk reaction: wat.

[corleones]

No one blames the Muslims for anything.

No. Of course they don't. facepalm

[firerosearien]

My head kind of exploded when I read that. Like, wait what?

[luomo]

ok , i think "No one blames the Muslims for anything" is a sort of poorly-worded statement that out of a larger context is obviously problematic. but i don't think it should be the take-away statement from castro.

[sizequeen]

I think he means that Muslims don't carry a burden like "The Jews killed Christ" stuff.

[luomo]

yeah, or like blood libel, exactly.