Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas
At 10:17 PM -0400 3/10/09, Bryan Atinsky wrote:
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6256173/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-revealed-to-have-Jewish-past.html
>
>A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card
>during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish
>roots.
>
>A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as
>Sabourjian - a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.
>
>The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its
>name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his
>birth.
>
>The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad's
>birthplace, and the name derives from "weaver of the Sabour", the
>name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the
>list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry
>of the Interior.
>
>
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