Nima Yamini
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I'm anti-Semitic.
My dad's side of the family, they were Muslims.
My father was, he was an atheist, my father.
But his family, my cousin Shireen Abida is from my father's side.
And she was a Nobel laureate that won the Nobel Peace Prize for women's rights, human rights.
She's not Jewish.
The Jewish part of me comes from my mother.
My mother's grandmother, my mother's grandmother's mother, from there.
I could have.
I mean, I could have also winded up as a Christian.
My wife's an evangelical Christian.
We have a German Bible in our home.
People are upset with me because I didn't marry a Jewish woman, you know.
Look, I can't make everybody happy.
Yeah, I mean, the thing is, is that in the 1970s, when you had the far leftists, like commies, basically, line up with the terrorists, the extreme religious fanatics, and the way they penetrated Iran in the late 1970s, we're talking about capturing the schools, the media,
politics, just entering more and more into the mainstream, then all of a sudden you can have like a sudden revolution.
And to the people in England, here in the UK,
It seems like you guys are getting more and more isolated.
You're surrendering more and more, even without necessarily noticing.
Like in England, it looks like the water, this is how it looks like to me.