I AM GOD! Well, maybe the next best thing.

From YAHOO News, 10/25/05 AP release

"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also denounced attempts to recognize
Israel or normalize relations with it.

"There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will
wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world,"
Ahmadinejad told students Wednesday during a Tehran conference called
"The World without Zionism."

"Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic
nation's fury, (while) any (Islamic leader) who recognizes the Zionist
regime means he is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the
Islamic world," Ahmadinejad said."

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Isn't this so typical of man, the new god of the universe.
Give people a choice, an "either/or" choice with no way out, except
the way the proclaimer wants! There is no middle ground here, no hope
of reconciliation, no living in peace. You accept his way or no way!
YOU WILL DIE! But even worse, you will die AN INFIDEL!
INFIDEL (in this case): anyone who doesn't do what I say. I AM
THE LIGHT, THE WAY! I and I alone will lead you to ......? fade out

This man reminds me of a character in the movie "Kingdom
of Heaven."
His retort was something like, "I am the king. I am Jerusalem."

Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems to be attempting to blur the line
between being a mere mortal coping with the world he lives in and
himself being the Islamic world.