Different Gods? Different Miracles? Same Prayers…

From Iranian Terrorist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,

Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that he hoped Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was dead and wished the same for the rest of the Jewish state’s leaders, the ISNA student news agency reported.

According to Pat Robertson,

Television evangelist Pat Robertson has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

“He was dividing God’s land,” Robertson told TV viewers, “and I would say, ‘Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the (European Union), the United Nations or the United States of America.

“God says, ‘This land belongs to me, and you’d better leave it alone,’” he said.

From some Palestinians,

Celebrations reportedly are underway in the Gaza Strip, with families distributing sweets and gunmen shooting into the air.

“I personally am waiting to celebrate. I have my fingers crossed,” Abu Abir said. “Sharon was one of our biggest enemies.”

From a fellow Israeli,

I’m not going to lie. I’m not upset that Sharon is in the hospital, dying. I have often wished him a slow and painful death. Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for.

“You’re amazing!” said one of my friends a few weeks ago, right after Sharon’s first stroke. At dinner a few nights before, I was telling him that I wished that Sharon would just drop dead. Maybe then we would stand a chance at self-defense and self-respect. Maybe then I wouldn’t have to witness anymore expulsions.

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Speak for yourself. I’m not praying for his recovery. This is not difficult for me. I still want him to die, a natural death, of course but a death nevertheless.

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But what I do see is that this is not a man who is loved. This is not a man whose illness upsets people because he has been a moral, inspiring guide.

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And the people, in their desperation for someone to control their lives, are scared sick that they might have to think for themselves about their own fate, instead of tying up their decisions into the hands of one powerful man. They don’t care for Sharon the person.

So these prayers, these hopes that this man will still live are not for the sake of the positive, shining virtues of Sharon, but for his vices — his iron-fisted control over the nation, his consolidation of power, his desperate policies to dismantle Israel. My only fear is that, to prove how great they are without Sharon, the members of the next government will carry on his legacy of cruelty with even more vigor.

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