By Andrew L. Jaffee

As if I need to point this out, but Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is in dire need of a history lesson (and removal from power). Today, he educated us: The Pope’s elucidation that Islam has a problem with violence is… the Jews’ fault. He’s straightened us out: The Jews and Crusaders are one and the same (even though the Jews were targets of the Crusaders). From AFP:

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has blamed a US-Israeli conspiracy aiming to sow conflict between religions for remarks by the Pope Benedict XVI on Islam and violence that unleashed a wave of anger across the Muslim world.

Khamenei said the comments were part of the same conspiracy that started with the US invasion of Iraq and has been hatched by great powers intent on creating crises between religions to “pursue their evil objectives”.

“Leaders of the arrogant imperialists have already defined the links of the chain in this US-Zionist project by attacking Iraq,” Khamenei said in comments broadcast on state television.

“The issue of the insulting cartoons and remarks of some politicians about Islam are different links in the conspiracy of the Crusaders, and the pope’s remarks are the latest links in this,” he added.

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Related: Israel, United States, Iran, War Against Islamo-fascism, Anti-Semitism

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