One of the biggest ongoing problems of U.S. foreign policy is a failure to understand what we’re really up against. This problem goes back decades. In Theodore H. White’s America In Search of Itself, there is this telling passage about the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979:
Of the negotiating effort, the most biting summary was that later made by Captain Gary Sick of U.S. Naval Intelligence. “Nobody knew what kind of person Khomeini was,” said Sick…”In every day of this early crisis,” he said, “and right through until this day, there’s been this American inability to understand the true fanaticism of this man, not moved by any sense of compassion, by any concern for law, by any understanding of international tradition. We’d been dealing with people like Kim Il-Sung, Mao Tse-tung, and other dictators. So it was difficult for us to grasp the total, unyielding, unwillingness of this man to consider any other factor outside of his own limited view of the world. Khomeini was beyond the experience, if not the imagination, of anyone in the United States government. We made that mistake repeatedly — of trying to deal with Khomeini as if he were a government.”
Khomeini’s Islamic regime was a government, but not in any sense that American diplomats were used to dealing with. What set Khomeini and his regime apart from the likes of Kim and Mao was Islam, and few, if any, foreign service professionals in the State Department understood that or knew how to deal with it.
This willful ignorance persists and his gotten worse, with the Bush/Obama policies of denying that the jihad terror threat has anything to do with Islam. The wrong diagnosis of the problem leads to the wrong solutions being applied. This is true of the Israeli/”Palestinian” conflict, the incursions into Iraq and Afghanistan, the immigration issue, and more.
That’s why I wrote The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, the first and only comprehensive one-volume treatment of jihad activity from the beginning of Islam, around the world from Spain to India and elsewhere, told in the words of eyewitnesses and chroniclers who were close to the events. This is the history that most Americans don’t know, and that American policymakers need to know. If Jimmy Carter’s State Department had known what is in the book when they were deal with the Iranian hostage crisis, the world would likely be very different, and calmer, today. If American Presidents and policymakers had known what was in this book when trying to broker peace between Israel and the “Palestinians,” and trying to establish Western-style republics in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of lives and trillions of dollars would not have been wasted.
The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS reveals what American policymakers didn’t understand in 1979, and still don’t now, to our catastrophic detriment. Give a copy to the State Department official you love! Preorder your copy here.
gravenimage says
US response to 1979 Iran hostage crisis was hampered by an “American inability to understand” Khomeini
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This is true. At least we isiolated the Islamic Republic of Iran after 1979–until Obama decided to appease the Mullahs and enable their nuclear arms program, that is…
Elisha says
I disagree. The evil left knew EXACTLY what was going on and who they were dealing with but chose to use the muzzies to help dismantle the West. The Byzantines played the same foolish game and lost.
WESTPAC Spy says
No, Jimmy Carter was President then. He really was an idiot. Still is.
Khomeini sent Carter a letter to convince Carter to withdraw support from the Shah. Khomeini convinced Carter that since they were both religious men they understood each other. The US had nothing to fear from an Islamic Republic. After all one religious man would NEVER lie to another religious man, would he?
Carter actually bought this.
gravenimage says
Why do you think isolating Iran was a bad thing? I think it made the most sense.
Terry Gain says
As human beings we have had 1396 years to learn about Islam. Not radical or extremist Islam, but Islam.
Islam purports to be a religion but what kind of God would command believers to kill unbelievers and would promise a carnal paradise with ever virgins and perpetual erections for the killers?
What kind of God would chose a sociopath as His prophet?
We have a choice. We can start telling the truth about Islam or we can sit back and not watch as Islam destroys the civilization we have created.
Islam is a maniacal ideology of conquest. It is imperialist, totalitarian, supremacist, ridiculously backward, filled with hate, xenophobic, intolerant, misogynist, homophobic, violent and deceitful. It is easily the worst human invention.
Our children need to be taught the truth about Islam. The truth – 632, 732, 1090, 1290, 1453, 1683, 1979, 1993, 2001, 2008 June 2009 in Cairo, and the invasions of 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. And not the bs about radical Islam. The most dangerous Muslims in America are those who put a happy face on this evil ideology.
Stevan Arnold says
Right on…The problem in the West, as well as the United States, is far too many are Easter Sunday Christians or worse atheists or agnostics. The fact that there are millions of people who are devout religious followers willing to do whatever is commanded of them no matter how specious, just doesn’t register as believable. I guess they look upon The Old Testament as just another fictitious biblical tale.
gravenimage says
There *are* Agnostics and Atheists who understand the threat of Islam, including Hugh Fitzgerald and many posters here.
Aussie Infidel says
Here we go again! Stevan Arnold claims those evil atheists are the cause of it all. What utter bullshit! I’m an atheist and have been across this issue for over 50 years – much longer than most people. While I will admit there are many ignorant atheists, there are just as many ignorant – and wilfully complicit – Christians and Jews. I was heavily involved in politics and for decades I lobbied politicians from all parties, and was disgusted that most of them simply didn’t want to know. They believed naively that Islam was just another religion like Christianity. Often they would comment, “But they both worship the one God. Don’t they?” They reasoned that if they buried their heads in the sand for long enough, the problem would go away. But as long time bloggers at JW know, that simply won’t happen.
As Robert points out: “This wilful ignorance persists and has gotten worse, with the Bush/Obama policies of denying that the jihad terror threat has anything to do with Islam. The wrong diagnosis of the problem leads to the wrong solutions being applied.” The same applies here in Australia and other countries who followed President GW Bush’s fallacious comments after ‘9/11’, that it couldn’t be Islam, “Islam is peace!” And so he waged his ridiculous ‘War on Terror’.
In our part of the world, we had the Indonesian incursion into West Papua, while Australia and other countries – including the US (when JFK was President) – did nothing to stop it. Only a handful of us ever mounted protests, which got no coverage on TV news. And few churches made any objection either. For the first time in human history, the Melanesian people of WP had Islam imposed on them by force. They still suffer today with their children being sent away to madrassas in Java, to indoctrinate them with this violent alien creed. We’ve also had the Bali bombings in 2002 and 2005, which killed about 200 people, but now they also have been largely forgotten.
Hopefully, some of our politicians and bureaucrats will read Robert’s new book and wake up to the fact that Islam – that’s ORDINARY ORTHODOX ISLAM – declared war on all non-Muslims some 1,400 years ago. What we are witnessing today, is just the latest phase of the Islamic Jihad – but this time, it’s against the West.
Caro says
What was the religion of the Marxists-Leninists? Mao’s China? The Western countries in the European Union? Pol Pot’s regime? There’s a really bad pattern there you are overlooking.
“When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing but worships everything.” G.K. Chesterton.
gravenimage says
All true, Aussie Infidel.
Stacy Girl says
The problem is the phony, foolish Christian who is told he worships the same God as Muslims-“Allah means God!” He’s in an echo chamber with his pastor/priest/pope. Learning about islam’s savagery is met with “the Bible peaches violence, Crusades, Inquisition, etc.” The only Church that evangelizes are the born again Christians who know it means torture and death. The Catholic and mainstream Protestant churches are no longer missionary oriented. Who’s to convert? There are no absolutes, only shades of “we are all my Muslim,” you hateful, clear thinking bastards.
gerard says
There are many catholics very aware of the threat form islam. Not so much the clergy… Also remember catholic Poland. Historically catholics have resisted Islam. Remember Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski?
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Quite right gerad: Very hard for some to deal with historical facts, needless to say it was secularist as it is today, that supplied the weaponry to Mohammad minions.
It was with interest that I read this piece. If it were the Pope: Atheist and secularist would be advising Catholics to abandon Jesus.
Spot the hypocrisy.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/david-silverman-atheist-fired-sexual-misconduct?utm_term=.xv7d04Rly#.ja3PYONx5
Stacy Girl says
Gerard, I live in a large metro and after attending 11 parishes I found the pastors and flocks are dhimmis. There are exceptions but this is the rule. My first born was the only graduate of a prestigious Catholic prep who publicly stated Islam was a heresy in a debate, and asked to rescind the remark. The pope, the EU, the world is in lockstep with Satan. It’s coming.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
By the way I admire your child that she stood up. Always stay in the battle never retreat.
St. John Damascene A.D. 749 would agree.
gravenimage says
So sorry to hear that, StacyGirl. What fools at that school.
WESTPAC Spy says
StacyGirl, imagine how many heads would have exploded if in addition to correctly stating that Islam is a heresy your first born had added that Muhammad is the anti-Christ. Imagine the furious demands to take that comment back, no doubt with further demands to make a public apology as the only “Christian” thing to do.
Your firstborn could have asked, since when is rejecting the First Epistle of John the Christian thing to do? And are there other parts of the Bible they’d abandon in order to serve mammon?
I John 2:
“22Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son. 23No one who denies the Son can have the Father; whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.…”
In addition to denying that Jesus died on the cross for the redemption of our sins and His resurrection, the prophet of Islam denied the deity of Jesus Christ.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
If you had modicum of Catholic teaching, the heretic is Mohammad, we do not deem those of his followers in the same light. as the are not the originators of the belief, some follow in good faith of their founder. Others do not follow at all Yeahhhhhhhhhhh.
mortimer says
No, Terry, the most DANGEROUS Muslims are like KHOMEINI and his successor KHAMEINI… they are preparing to start WWIII !!!
Terry Gain says
Mortimer
With respect, you are wrong. The soft jihad is much more dangerous. And the fact that you, a very knowledgeable counter-jihadist, don’t recognize this is proof of what I say. If Muslims were smart they would shut down the terrorists. If they did they couldn’t help but succeed.
thesailor says
If Moslems were smart they wouldn’t be Moslems. I believe they all get essentially the same orders from the Imams in their mosques, but carry them out in different ways, just like the various component parts of any collective organism do. In a beehive some are nurses, some housekeepers and some guards, but all are integral, inseparable parts of the colony, and all are programmed to blindly serve that colony to the absolute exclusion of all else..
Having said which, I think you are right about the danger of the soft jihad. In even the most democratic of nations, when Moslems have been elected or appointed – by those too stupid to understand the implications – to sufficient numbers of positions of authority, the country will, de facto, be Islamic, as Islam is the only authority the brainwashed Moslems recognise. The terrorists do, however, perform the useful function of frightening many infidels into keeping their heads down, especially when they are so rabidly supported by the witless Left.
It is a very dangerous situation – almost identical to cancer in a human body -, and not one that can be resolved by civilised, democratic means. It will take a hard man indeed to make the hard decisions that are necessary to rid us of this pestilence.
Bindon Blood says
You are forgetting that the only guarantee of Islamic heaven with its carnal pleasures, is to kill and be killed in the way of Allah . This ,unbelievable as it sounds ,is a strong incentive. Such a Muslim can also intercede with Allah for family left behind . Every Muslim , as you know ,is commanded to fight in a literal sense for Allah. Only physical or mental impairment excuses them from fighting.
vlparker says
Gotta agree with you. The greatest danger to the West comes from the so-called ‘moderate muslim’ who never engages in violent jihad. Instead they get on school boards, county boards, police departments, the military and federal, state and local bureaucracies to change the culture.
All over western Europe muslim jihadis who do not blow up concert goers or stab infidels in the neck are taking down Western civilization. It is islam itself that is the problem.
mortimer says
Terry, OK … now you read the following and change your mind:
The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq, beginning on 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, and ending on 20 August 1988, when Iran accepted the UN-brokered ceasefire.
IRAN-IRAQ WAR
1. TRUCE IN 1988- NO WINNER
2. 1 MILLION DIED
3. BOTH SIDES IN DEBT OUTCOMES
gravenimage says
Terry, I see both working in tandem–what Hugh Fizgerald calls the “Slow Jihad” (stealth Jihad, “lawfare”, infiltrating our schools and other institutions) and the “Fast Jihad” (violent Jihad and open calls for the impositon of brutal Shari’ah law).
Aussie Infidel says
Mortimer, The mad ayatollahs are certainly dangerous, but they just provide the ‘terror’ to condition the people for the stealth jihadis, who infiltrate our countries and civil institutions, with little or no opposition. We can do without either of these miserable excuses for human beings.
vlparker says
The most affable muslim in the room is the most dangerous muslim in the room.
Caro says
I totally disagree. The most dangerous Muslims are those practicing the “Grand Jihad,” using taqiya with the infidel while slowly conquering us from within, capitalizing on our willful blindness, laziness, and submission, oblivious to what we’re losing.
mortimer says
Caro, ALL Muslims are using taqiyya by lying and dissembling about the meaning, motive and methods of jihad.
THE MOST DANGEROUS MUSLIMS HAVE BOMBS and MISSILES.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO TERRY — You nailed the essence of Islam. so I award a +10 on the JW truth ladder. “What kind of God would choose a sociopath as His prophet ?” In posting here at Robert’s blog for 7 years, I have asked the same question many times.
For newbies to Jihad Watch, or others not yet aware of Muhammad’s severely disturbed mind, consider this passage from the holiest book for Muslims — Qur’an 9-111:
“Surely Allah has bought of the believers their persons and their properties for this: that they shall have the Garden. They fight in Allah’s way, so they slay and are slain.”
Therefore, if Muslims kill Infidels, Paradise is assured. Promised by Muhammad — who could not get more than 150 converts in Mecca after 10 years of effort. That guarantee was obviously a desperate tactical way toward assembling enough allies for conquest of Jews and Pagans.
These are COUNTER-JIHAD INTERNET RESOURCES: www [dot] inquiryintoislam [dot] com / www [dot] citizenwarrior [dot] com / www [dot] thereligionofpeace [dot] com / www [dot] politicalislam [dot] com / www [dot] barenakedislam [dot] com / www [dot] gellerreport [dot] com.
PLEASE — Pass those web resources to your clueless family, friends, rabbis, pastors, priests, local+state senators and congresspersons, media TV stations in your city. Remind them that Europe is already drowning in migrant crime. We in the U.S. are fortunate to have several more years to BECOME AWARE OF REALITY.
However, if the persons you contact DO NOTHING or are in denial about Jihad EVENTUALLY they will be up to their knees in allowing attacks by devout orhodox fully faithful worshippers of Allah.
Debra Jamieson says
Section 8 USC 1324 ENFORCE THIS
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Terry Gain
In agreement with most of you say; The concept of God differs between say Islam and Christianity.
The moral standing of what Islamism believes, is rooted in Mohammad, to what he said and what he did.
In Christianity the moral compass is in the prophets and finally what Jesus said and done.
Atheism moral compass is the same as Islam: in the human individual. I will list just 10 Atheist some you might recognize. Some one might argue. However I could add much more, among these have caused immense damage comparable to Islam.
Alfred Kinsey
Napoleon Bonaparte
Than Shwe
Kim Jong Il
Jeffrey Dahmer
Jim Jones
Benito Mussolini
Mao Zedong
Pol Pot
Joseph Stalin
gravenimage says
There are lots of ethical Atheists. Are you saying that Jihad Watch’s Hugh Fitzgerald is ethically no different from Pol Pot?
Carolina says
I resent that. I am an Atheist. Maybe the problem is people doing nothing and waiting for some mythological pie in the sky when they die to rescue them.
My knowledge of Islam is as least as great as yours but I do not await a mystical rescue by a being who is imaginary. What is more, South Africa has nothing to brag about in the morals department.
We will defeat Islam only by putting aside religious bigotry and knowing that our help comes from inside ourselves. While some such as you might be awaiting divine rescue, sensible people will fight on.
Ed Lee says
Jimmy Carter did not understand Islam at all. He thought that his Baptist/Christian goodwill would influence Khomeini in a positive way and lead to successful negotiations. Based on his naive ignorance of Islam’s enmity for Christians and all other non-Muslims, Carter terminated 25% of the people in the State Department who were knowledgeable about Islam, thinking they were unnecessary. It is obvious that expertise has not been restored.
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Westman says
It may be that Iran has become an intolerable pariah for the Sunni nations, particularly Saudi Arabia. Some seem willing to support Israel’s defense over Iran’s aggression and it doesn’t seem likely that any Sunnis relish, or will accept, the idea of Iran in control of Mekka.
It’s only when, not if, Iran is at war with Sunni nation(s), with the West backing the Sunnis as happened in the 8 years war. Russia will not participate directly and might even give up on proxy support.
The recent Russian ship pullout before the Syrian chem factory bombings should have given the Iranian Mullahs second thoughts about how alone they might actually be if they start abusing their “body guard” by purposefully creating conflicts. But then again, can the Mullahs actually think outside their Islam mind prison or see past the Quran Filter?
Indiana Tom says
The problem with dealing with Iran was Jimmy Carter and Hussein Obama. They are identical twins.
mortimer says
Carter knew much less about Islam than Obama… and Obama knew more than he let on.
Obama truly thought that Islam could give up WORLD CONQUEST through JIHAD… it cannot without ceasing to be Islam.
Obama thought there could be a modernized Islam.
Terry Gain says
Mortimer
I do not think Obama is as stupid about Islam as he pretended to be.
vlparker says
I’m not sure that it would have made a difference if Carter was an Islamic scholar. The leftist brain has a deep disdain for the principles of individual liberty and unalienable rights that this country was founded upon. Their socialist tendencies control their thought processes and if ever there was a socialist ideology it is islam. Islam is basically total control of the people’s lives. In islam there is no individual liberty, which is the ultimate goal of leftists.
Caro says
Don’t forget Clinton’s war against the Serbs, fighting Bosnian Muslims for centuries, while he strolls in and bombs those uppity Christians to smithereens, earning the him the dhimmi of the decade award.
Stacy Girl says
Jimmy Carter is determined to go to his grave being 100% wrong about everything.
Terry Gain says
Carter, GHWB, GWB, BO.
Everyone of them betrayed America.
Indiana Tom says
They are all brothers.
Caro says
And Clinton.
Ray Jarman says
The entire problem could have been averted by the peanut farmer simply adhering to the policy that had been in place since President Harry Truman, which was to support the Shah of Iran. Instead, that miserable little man pulled the rug from underneath the Shah and supported the tyrannical mullahs that had been living in their debauchery life style in Paris. He paved the way for what America and the rest of the world is experiencing today.
In the instances that Mr. Spencer mentions, Mao and Kim, both had the will to live and as Eisenhower proved by sending John Foster Dulles to Peking to apprise him that if he did not remove his forces from Korea, America would use nuclear weapons against him to which the Chinese forces were pulled out within weeks and the truce was brought about. Had this been one of the mullahs, Eisenhower would have been forced to drop a nuclear weapon on him and millions of Chinese would have been slaughtered. One can never reason with a fanatic who believes as the Shia members of the clan who believe in their version of the day of judgement. Absolutely nothing has changed in the mindset of the mullahs in Tehran.
I have said before and will continue to espouse that had the Shah remained on the thrown, the Middle East would not be at war and certainly 9/11 would not have happened. The Soviets witnessed the wimp in the White House and understood that invading Afghanistan would pose no threat from Washington and they were correct.
Sooner or later, the mullahs will have to be ousted as they continue to threaten Israel and every nation within the range of their soon to be nuclearized armed missiles. The very missiles that Hussein told Kerry not to forbid in a treaty that was reduced to an “deal” since Congress would not provide consent to such a farce and one I bet that President Trump will not certify again.
Walter Sieruk says
Yes, indeed, that 1979 US citizen hostage crisis and the folly of the handling of it was the outcome of the American inability to understand the insidious lying power of that sly, insidious and scheming Muslim cleric Ayatollah. That fiendish Muslim cleric, Khomeini, was underestimated by many US government officials who didn’t actually understand or comprehend how evil and powerful and dangerous that Islamic villain actually was and the awful lawless harm he was able to instigate.
Furthermore, this Islamic dictatorship of Iran founded of the lying deception of the Iranian people by the demonic Muslim fiend Ayatollah Khomeini For This Islamic regime was based in the foundation of false and empty promises. As well as lying words. After the fiendish Muslim clerics obtained total power in Iran they showed their true colors by having their Islamic state police who are called the “Revolutionary Guards truest the people on Iran in many heinously brutal and ruthless ways. As, for example, their brutal, callous misogyny against both girls and women. This statement is explained, in some detail, by the following. This tyrannical Islamic regime in Iran that so falsely and inappropriately has the word “republic” in its title. It should be made known that this called the “Iranian Revolution” turned out to be a hoax. Ayatollah Khomeini before achieving power in Iran in his lying and deceptions presented himself to the Iranian people as if he was someone who would be in power would give freedom to the people of Iran with any tyranny. The reality turned out to be just the opposite. As explained by a former Muslim as well as a man who took part in this Islamic “revolution “ ,who is now a Christian informs the reader of his book that “Prior to the Revolution no one ever imagined that other political parties would be suppressed under the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini. He had promised that all groups would have freedom to run their own campaigns after the Revolution. He even stated that governing system would be based on the decision of the people via a referendum. He never spoke of a system that would be governed by Islam. He even made clear that mullahs would not take part in any political activities, and that they would only be allowed to teach spirituality… Immediately after the Revolution, mullahs rushed into government offices to occupy the most important political l positions, making it difficult for the interim secular government to function … The mullah’s occupation of position was exactly the opposite to what the Ayatollah Khomeini had promised before the Revolution.”. [1] In other words, the insincere, disingenuous and outright lying Ayatollah Khomeini made many bogus promise he really had no intention of keeping. His lying deception worked, for he achieved great power in Iran.
Furthermore, of the many heinously evils outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls. As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and how now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [2] This is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be. This, very much, reflects the wisdom found in POOR RICHARDS’ Almanack IN WHICH Benjamin Franklin printed “Those who are feared are also hated.”
[1] ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND by Daniel Shayesteh . Pages 90, 91
[2] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
mr spencer, do you mean the policymakers then should not have allowed Iran to retrieve the stolen Iranian assets kept by American stooge shah in the armed robber evil united states as it is now the case where Idiot Arab monarchs have stashed stolen assets there ? Remember the hegemonic control over international community being enjoyed by armed robber evil united states is now lost and as such international bringandage is no longer possible.
gravenimage says
This money did not belong to the Mullahs.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
It belongs to whom, satan(holy spirit) worshiper? Inquire properly from treasury Deparment and other Regulatory agencies If a single dollar of American taxpayer’s money was dashed to Iran.
gravenimage says
What?
Stacy Girl says
ibby, you are correct in that Iran’s mullahs were never properly reimbursed. We could arrange a delivery from 30,000 ft. And next time it won’t be pallets of cash.
Terry Gain says
Yo Itace MuhamMAD
I missed your apology for the Armenian Holocaust. And for adherents of your deranged ideology for denying the Jewish Holocaust. Furthermore, why do you support pedohilia, FGM and Honor Killing.
Indiana Tom says
Just wait until we get to the beastiality.
gravenimage says
He *does* support pedophilia, FGM, and wife beating. He has said so specifically.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Terry Gain, you have not addressed the issue that has the satan (holy spirit) inspired mithraist christians to retain stolen wealths from other countries as armed robber evil united states has been doing ,and when they ask for it they should be bombed?
Terry Gain says
Yo MuhamMad
There are some very good Psychotropic drugs. But none good enough to help you.
The European says
To Ibrahim Itace,
Calm down, Ibrahim. Read a book! Here is another piece of world literature written by the great Ayatollah. You might have a lot of fun with it.
In “Tahrirolvasyleh,” a two-volume book on Islamic law, Khomeini writes:
-A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate vaginally, but sodomising the child is accepted.
-A man can have sex with with animals such as sheep, cows, camel and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm.
-If a man sodomises the son, brother, or father of his wife after their marriage, the marriage remains valid.
-It is not illegal for an adult to “thigh” or enjoy a young girl who is still in the age of weaning; meaning to place his penis between her thighs, and to kiss her ( this one is from Khomeiini’s “Little green book”)
Khomeini even issued a decree ordering that girl prisoners who are virgin must be raped before execution, After the execution, the family of the dead girl must receive a gift: a box of chocolates.
Tell me Ibrahim, which civilisation is more satanic: Western civilisation which has outlawed and fought child rape, sodomy and pedophilia or Islam where all these abominations are legal?
Caro says
Ibby: Do you also hold the mullah’s to account for their mismanagement of Iran’s oil profits and support of worldwide terrorism, begetting sanctions from other nations against Iran? What about all that wealth not reaching the people?
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” Mathew 7:3
gravenimage says
The European, Ibrahim itace muhammed has said that there is *no* minimum age for a Muslim to “marry” a child. Damn pedophile.
Kepha says
And Islam should not be allowed to keep the plundered lands and heritage of the Middle East, North Africa, Anatolia, etc….
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
NET WORTH OF SUPREME LEADER KHAMEINI $95 BILLION
Iran’s supreme leader Sayed Ali khamenei’s wealth & Bank Account Info in foreign countries:
Bank Accounts
Aside from the 22 billion dollars cash, 10 billion dollars out of the 36 billion is in the following bank accounts:
1 billion dollars in Russia
1 bilion dollars in Syria
1 bilion dollars in China
1 bilion dollars in Venezuela
2 billion dollars in South Africa
2 billion dollars in London
2 billion dollars in other countries
Aside from 22 billion dollars cash and 10 billion in foreign accounts, his other assets are:
4 billion dollars as described below:
2 billion dollars in stocks in world markets
1 billion dollars in South Africa
500 million dollars in Syria
500 million dollars in Venezuela
Where did these billions come from?
30 billion dollars out of commission on sale of oil
2 billion dollars in land dealings
6 billion dollars in arms dealings
10 billion dollars has been directly paid to Khamenei by Ahmadinejad’s government
Ali Khamenei’s and his family’s total wealth: much more than 100 Billion Dollars
Ali Khamenei’s wealth: 95 Billion Dollars
His family’s wealth: 6 Bilion Dollars
Cash:
22 Billion dollars out of the 95 Billion dollars was in Iran as cash but in the aftermath of Iran’s presidential election unrest it was decided that this money needed to be sent to Syria through Turkey. This money was exposed en route from Turkey to Syria and was confiscated in Turkey. Khamenei’s worry was that in case of the downfall of the regime this money would be trapped in Iran. Iran’s government is trying to get this money back from Turkey. There is no doubt that this money has been confiscated in Turkey but the question remains as to why this money was not directly transported to Syria on a plane? Maybe they were scared that the plane would be identified and downed!
The rest of the cash: 3.5 Billion Dollars of which 1.5 Billion dollars is in the form of diamonds and one billion dollars is in the form of gold. There is also a billion dollars in US cash currency.
Khamenei’s important business affairs:
Sugar and rice imports, car imports (BMWs), production of sugar and sugar cubes under the name of Astaan Ghods Razavi, investments in Dubai, Germany, Iraq, South Africa, Venezuela, Lebanon and China.
But his bigger business dealings are related to oil and gas and purchase of military equipment from China and Russia.
Khamenei, in order to control his business, keeps people in some positions for a long time. For example Majid Hedayat-zadeh has been the person responsible for sale of Iran’s oil for the past 30 years (he was changed last year because Nourizadeh exposed his name).
Mr. Souri is responsible for the transport of Iran’s oil and he has been on the job for 30 years.
Mr. Khamenei had appointed these two people in 1980. At one point Rafsanjani, Khatami and Ahmadinejad each had tried to change them but Khamenei did not approve of the change. This is how these two people worked with Khamenei’s office: Hedaya-zadeh would sell the oil and Souri would transport them and the commission for this transaction would go into Khamenei’s account. In the past 30 years Iran has sold about 700 Billion dollars worth of oil and the commission for the sale and transport for this has gone into Khamenei’s account. The third person who entered the oil ministry for this affair is his brother Hassan Khamenei who was at previously appointed as the minister of Islamic Guidance (vezarat Ershad) and he was in charge of censorship. He later entered the petroleum ministry to control Khamenei’s interests.
Khamenei’s Palaces:
Khamenei’s palaces include:
1. Lavasanat castles that belong to Khamenei, Mojtaba and Mohammadi-Golpaygani
2. Jamshidieh Palace: (formerly belonging to Ardeshir Zahedi) is his place of mountain trotting.
3. Fish-Ghola Palace in the north of Iran
4. Niavaran Palace
5. Latian dam palaces (formerly belonging to the Shah)
Khamenei’s wealth:
Khamenei became the president in 1980. In 1981 Mr. Hedayat and Mr. Souri were appointed to head the sale of Iran’s oil and they remained in that position until 2007. In 1982 Mohsen Rafighdoust was appointed to purchase arms.
In 1989 Khamenei discovered the value of land and through the operations units of “Emam’s Orders” organization and Mostazafan Foundation he eyed Iran’s lands. Starting from 1982, in the oil ministry Hasan Khamenei was appointed to oversee Mr. Hedayat and Souri.
Mr. Mohammadi-Golpaygani in Defense Ministry was appointed to control Rafighdoust and Heidari.
Mr. Lolachian was appointed in land affairs and he later married into Khamenei’s family.
In 1999 he gave permission to his children to enter business.
Since 2005 he quit his business dealings and was paid directly by the government. This is the same money that would be “lost” when the country’s budget was published. This is the same money that during presidential debates Mr. Karroubi asked Ahmadinejad about!
Jay says
That $95 billion estimate for Khamenei’s wealth was in 2013, it could be higher today. Bashar Al-Assad’s wealth in comparison is only estimated to be $1.5 billion.
Indeed Khamenei would be the second wealthiest man in the world after Jeff Bezos.
Keys says
itace –
How does that sit with you, Ibrahim itace Mohammed ?
He, Khamenei, must have worked really hard to take all that wealth from Iran, but he is no hypocrite. /sarc off
You still think he is on the side of righteous ?
On the other hand, he is not taking the 20% Mohammad required for war booty. Maybe he’s a mithraist, hunh ?
mortimer says
Robert Spencer has identified the chief problem of the State Department (but the foreign departments of all Western countries as well), namely that “few, if any, foreign service professionals in the State Department understood (Islam) or knew how to deal with it”.
These foreign service FRAUDS and POMPOUS ASSES clearly HAVE NOT READ the primary source texts of Islam, therefore they haven’t a IOTA of understanding that ISLAM IS AN UNCOMPROMISING, INTERNATIONAL GOVERMENT… even a “SUPRANATIONAL” government… and a government that has TWICE the authority for Muslims that the Papacy has for Roman Catholics, since ISLAM IS A POLITICAL PARTY THAT IS ALL-DEMANDING and ALL-INCLUSIVE in its membership.
These foreign service POMPOUS ASSES strut about mouthing pious PLATITUDES about the supposed peaceful, reasonable nature of Islam (pure wishful thinking), but meanwhile, they have NOT READ the primary texts, do not even know the NAMES of those texts and haven’t the foggiest about what doctrines are in Islam’s primary texts.
The foreign service ASSES are 95% absurd, lazy and devoid of curiosity. They are more than USELESS… they are PRESUMPTUOUS, UNPREPARED, INCOMPETENT, UNPROFESSIONAL, INTELLECTUALLY NEGLIGENT, STUBBORN, UNTEACHABLE, WOODEN-HEADED, and SUPERFICIAL.
Rather than learn directly themselves about ISLAM, they rely and TERTIARY informants about Islam … the lazy man’s approach. Such information is 99% taqiyya.
Almost 17 years after 9-11, they STILL HAVEN’T read up on Islam… there is no EXCUSE FOR SUCH LAZINESS and UNPROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE.
Islam is an IDEOLOGY that must be counteracted IDEOLOGICALLY. They have not done so. They have not even PREPARED THEMSELVES to do so.
Stacy Girl says
Mortimer, some education comes from experience. The pompous asses would have their heads on the chopping block before they figured it out. The truth is in front of them. I believe there’s another reason for their willful blindness.
Ren says
Ignorance is the source of all issues. In the case of islam, it has never been more blatant.
Rick says
Everything he ever learned he learned from the Koran
underbed cat says
Approx. 3,000 mosques have been built in the U.S. according to UTT. If mosques teach the Quran….the Quran teaches Islam. Islam calls for spreading the doctrine and slaying non believers, the Quran demands it is forbidden to expose the ties to terror….the public is mostly unconcern and either does not know or is in a state of denial…the U.S. had let in millions, the ME wants the U.S. to stay ignorant and has the skills of deception and money to continue the ignorance we are in deep trouble as far as I can summize. Our President seems to get it…so this article is right on time. In 1979 Islam was already in this country and already had many organization and mosques but was unveiled disconnecting the events to Islam or declaring the riots as civil rights and oil and wanting to take down America.And some fell for it.
Kepha says
Monday morning quarterbacking. The fact of the matter is that a combination of theological modernism among nominal Christians and evolutionary materialists who saw in man nothing but a belly in search of food, shelter, clothing, and a good lay left the whole of the American policy community woefully inadequate to the task of assessing Khomeini. Add to that the prepoccupation with the Cold War and the Carter administration’s pathetic attempts to make nice with the wave of the future (although, in all fairness, Communists looked like winners in the late 1970’s), and we were ripe to be caught with our pants down by a wily operator who was outside any box in what we considered to be a complete, exhaustive set of all possible political boxes at the time.
Khomeini burns in Hell; he preached a false prophet; and all the rest. However, I have a grudging respect for his memory. When push comes to shove, he outfoxed the self-appointed best-and-brightest in the whole wide world. Or, perhaps, this should’ve been a warning to America at the time that we had let ourselves be bamboozled by an elite that was nowhere near as smart as it thought itself.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, the U.S. did not understand Khomeini. That is past history from which we can learn. However, even more importantly for the future is the question of whether or not the people of Iran will remember their pre-Islamic history. As Anni Cyrus presents in this video, the Iranians were once a beautiful culture with beautiful music and beautiful art created by a beautiful people …. a long time ago. Do they know what really took such treasures away from them? But at least one thing has not changed. The people are still beautiful … so why do they allow so much ugliness to rule over their country today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661u9GiB8bQ
Keys says
Enjoyed your post, CES.
What a wonderful country Iran could be without Islam and the ayatollahs.
Bronson says
Add to that is the policy begun under Carter and his security advisor Ziggy Brzezinski to support the jihadists in Afghanistan seeking to overthrow a secularist government because it was Russian backed. Ziggy’s animus against the Soviets (because of what they did to his homeland Poland) meant he didn’t care about the consequences of teaching jihadists such as bin Laden that a super power could be defeated.
Chand says
+1
b.a. freeman says
mea culpa.
i was one of the boobs who thought that islam was just like any other religion, and so supported going into iraq to overthrown saddam hussein. i was fairly certain that we would have to spend 20 or 30 years occupying the place, but i had no idea of its history and ethnic geography, and absolutely *NO* idea of how islam really works. if somebody had told me that islam would be an issue, i would have countered that we managed very nicely in japan, where state-supported shinto drove that nation into war and horrible attacks and oppression, so surely an occupation would work in iraq.
in my defense, i was *totally* uneducated. i did not understand how islam harnesses the most immoral, base instincts of the human race and used them as bait to lure in the ansari criminals, and to keep the current generation of criminals who were brought up in the cult around. i did not understand how love is a virtual unknown in islam, with women and children being the personal property of muslim males, and family life thus being distorted by a lack of love (unless the muslim and his family are muslim “hypocrites”). i did not understand that confrontation is valued above cooperation, so that every male seeks to enhance his position at the expense of his fellow members of the ummah, even when cooperation would improve the position of the ummah. i did not understand that children grow up in a stew of irrational hatred, so that when they reach adulthood, they have an extremely hard time jettisoning the vile beliefs of the cult, which were implanted when they were young and vulnerable. i did not understand that the cult grows by a high birth rate, not by conversions. i did not understand that the unpredictable assaults and vigilante attacks by muslims on non-muslims coerce them to convert rather than to remain in their own religion.
and why didn’t i know any of these things? high school history texts have been a joke for decades, but u.s. colleges and universities have been world-class for a long time. practically all the money spent of the education dollar in the u.s. – about 60% to 70%, IIRC – is spent at that level, with the remainder spent on primary and secondary education. our universities are world-class – or at least, they used to be; i suspect that in many subjects, such is no longer the case. nevertheless, i am an old fart, and i still never saw anything about islam in my undergraduate years. there is nothing complicated about this cult; there is no reason that secondary-school students couldn’t grasp it. i believe that the generation of my parents saw no reason to teach it because it had virtually no effect on the lives of anybody in the nation. only those who specialized in its study would care, so nobody bothered. the experts on islam of those days may not have been at fault, because i suspect that many people in the halls of power *were* aware of the poisonous nature of islam; the cult was at bay in remote parts of the planet, so there was little reason to worry about it, as opposed to communism, which *was* an immediate threat.
thus, when the u.s. embassy was seized, i saw it as a probable communist victory in disguise. i figured that the soviets had allowed the ayatollahs to take power, and because it was just another religion, they would subsequently seize power from that nice old man, khomeini. since i already understood that islam was just a religion like any other, i never bothered to read anything about it. all i had were vague memories of names and dates of muhammed and his “companions” from my freshman-year history text, and i saw no reason to investigate further.
i tried to figure out islam when 9/11 happened, but i didn’t even understand that the quran is supposed to be *only* the words of allah, and that the 6 sunni sahih hadith collections and the sira are the part of islamic scriptures that give the quran context, and spell out most of the 5 pillars of islam (the quran does not). and i saw nothing either online or in the library to correct that misapprehension. the quran makes little sense without any context, so i eventually gave up trying to figure it out. on occasion, i would do googal searches to try to learn something, but had little luck until i stumbled across inquiryIntoIslam dot com and some other sites (perhaps JW was one of them, but i can’t remember for certain). the essay at inquiryintoislam which most impressed me was “what makes islam so successful?,” but i failed to make a note of the site and lost it for a while, finally finding it again late last year. i highly recommend that site, along with JW and theReligionOfPeace dot com.
having finally learned about the pirate cult of islam, i now understand, decades later, the disaster that was the islamic revolution in iran. i spent *decades* in the dark, but because of the bravery of ex-muslims like ali sina, ayaan hirsi ali, et al., and that of non-muslims like pamela geller, robert spencer, david horowitz, and eric allen bell, et al., i learned of the imminent danger presented by the cult, and will do all that i can to oppose it.
as has been noted by others here, it is important to remember that unlike muslims, we non-muslims have learned to cooperate, but that before we can do that, we must agree. this means that we have to educate our fellow citizens, remaining civil all the while. this can be difficult, especially since the left is busy teaching university students to use brownshirt tactics, making the process of education painful and sometimes dangerous, but it *has* to be done. just because somebody is rude, obnoxious, and threatens violence, we should not do the same. for the most part, even the people graduating from the most leftist of schools will not usually physically attack U, and if U remain calm and polite, they may actually listen. admittedly, it happens less often now than it did in the past because of the success of leftist indoctrination, but again, we *must* make the attempt. if nothing else, appeal the the snobbish belief of the leftist in his own superiority, and ask him if it would not be best to be able to quote surah and ayah from the quran, so as to best humiliate we right-wingers. the bottom line is that we must do all that we can to induce our fellow citizens to learn about islam.
gravenimage says
Back in 1979 I knew next to nothing about Islam, myself. I didn’t assume that the Mullahs necessarily really represented Islam at all. I *was* just a teenager, but it would take me years to educate myself about Islam.
Remember911 says
Yes, we have been poorly served by educators. The happy-feelgood school of teaching about Islam has ruined entire generations of our people. I am doing what you suggest, but it is worse than an uphill battle: it’s a rearguard fight. Muslims are gaining ground every day overall, even as we celebrate some small victories.
Chand says
“What set Khomeini and his regime apart from the likes of Kim and Mao was Islam,……………………”
Yes, that’s correct. But what united them was their opposition to the US.
The US was supporting a corrupt, brutal, decadent, self serving, hedonistic dictator Shah Pahlavi, who was splurging on lavish parties while the population struggled. Nothing new here as the US consistently supported and propped up brutal regimes everywhere, in the name of fighting communism or whatever. The impoverished populations naturally revolted and the Iranians tried a socialist/leftist uprising but had not much external support and the Islamists filled up the vacuum there.
America backs all the wrong guys, commits all sorts of mistakes and then cries foul when the brutalized people have no recourse but to seek solace in extreme alternatives, like armed communist or Islamic uprisings. Then the US blames ’14th century Islam’, ‘atheistic communism’ and pretend to be morally superior to those.
CogitoErgoSum says
The Shah was no saint but perhaps he was morally superior to the 14th century Islamic oppression that has come after him. That’s not saying much, I know, but the evidence from 1977 and 1978 points to a man who was heading in a direction more in compliance with President Carter’s human rights agenda at the time. Before his fall the Shah was easing his grip and things were improving but it was not fashionable in those days to acknowledge it. That would seem still to be the fashionable point of view today.
Here is something I found from the Washington Post from March 1980:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1980/03/23/the-shah-as-tyrant-a-look-at-the-record/218c6a8e-dcb7-4168-ac9c-8f23609f888f/?utm_term=.8a54905cb105
After nearly 40 years the people of Iran still struggle and history seems to be trying to repeat itself … this time in Syria. Would it be better for us to work on pointing Assad in a new direction or to replace him altogether with somebody from the 14th century? Look at Iran for help with the answer.
gravenimage says
What a load of vicious tripe from Chand. The idea that the bloody Mullahs were brave little Islamists standing up to the brutality of the Shah is just ludicrous. As authoritarian as he was, that was *nothing* compared to the horror of Iran today.
And the United States would support Jeffersonian democracies in the Muslim world–except there aren’t any, as Chand well knows.
carnama says
Don’t Try and understand
If Try
They will finish you
Learn from Israel
Don’t Understand.
gravenimage says
There’s nothing wrong with understanding your enemy’s motivations. Understanding is not the same as sympathizing with their aims.
Rafael says
Saudí Arabia has launched a program to deintoxicate jihadis…Believe it or not. It is a center that resembles a spa where terrorists that have completed their jail sentences are tought the “true islam” so then can be good Saudi citizens. Some western journalists were invited to visit the premises, but no guest interviews were allowed.
Can it get more naive?
Here the link to a Spanish newspaper that you can easily get translated
http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2018/04/17/5acce6f6ca474166438b4658.html
gravenimage says
Yeah–Jihad Watch has covered several of these ridiculous stories:
“Saudi jihadi rehab program seeks less to give jihadis different view of Islam than to reinforce primacy of Saudi state”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/02/saudi-arabias-jihadi-rehab-program-seeks-less-to-give-jihadis-different-view-of-islam-than-to-reinforce-primacy-of-saudi-state
Jim says
The transcript and description, in a portion of the acticle seems like a perfect match to present day Putin. PUTIN TO A “T”
there’s been this American inability to understand the true fanaticism of this man, not moved by any sense of compassion, by any concern for law, by any understanding of international tradition. We’d been dealing with people like Kim Il-Sung, Mao Tse-tung, and other dictators. So it was difficult for us to grasp the total, unyielding, unwillingness of this man to consider any other factor outside of his own limited view of the world.
Theo Prinse says
People like CIA director Richard Helms understood the first world war diplomat and middle east archaeologist Max von Oppenheim perfectly well when Oppenheim advised Kaiser Wilhelm to use the jihad force against the British ‘colonial oppressoor’. Hitler used muslims in the handschar division. The CIA of Richard Helms ordered the Dutch Prime Minister Joop den Uyl to not interfere with Abdul Qadeer Khan while he was steeling the nuclear secrets from Urenco in the Netherlands to buold the Pakistan nuclear arms. Zbigniew Brzezinski supplied the leftist moslim mujahedeen with stinger rockets. Admiral James lyons got no permission to attack Iran.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Theo, you lied. No single muslim participated In the genocide killings of Jews by Nazis.All Nazi killers were mithraist christians pursuant to obnoxious bibie and they took responsibility
gravenimage says
Of course, Hitler was not a Christian–he, as I have noted, despised Christianity, considering it “weak and flabby”. He certainly admired Islam as a martial creed, though.
And there were–as Theo Prinse has noted–Muslim SS divisions.
“13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Handschar_(1st_Croatian)
Their insignia, instead of the usual SS skull logo, was the Islamic scimitar.
There were two other Muslim SS divisions, as well: 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg and 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama.
And there is *nothing* in the Bible (or the “bibie”) telling Christians to kill Jews.
But there *is* such in the Islamic Hadiths. Ibrahim itace muhammed has said that he wants to personally take part in the genocide of the Jews. So all of this from him is nothing but projection.
Roland Mösl says
Khomeini was only possible through operation AJAX 1953. Khomeini would have no chance against a democratic government, but easy to take over from the dictator Schah.
gravenimage says
Is this another claim that all Jihad is due to the bad old Americans?
Carolyne says
Yes, Carter and Hussein Obama must have been twins separated at birth. Carter double-crossed the Shah by telling him he supported him 1000% and then telling him to leave “temporarily” until things settled down and then arranging for Komeini to come from Paris and take over.
Carter has peanuts for brains. I won’t say what Obama has, but suffice it to say he has what every other Muslim has.
terry says
They knew. But did not care, for they all had other uses for “mercenary” islam, and ALL had much to gain from getting rich off oil and other precious commodities!
Beagle says
Foucault, one of our most celebrated intellectuals to this day, got the ball rolling by utterly failing to understand the first thing about Islamic governance despite personal investigation. It would be tough to get anything more wrong even by trying.
Read this and chuckle:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/007863.html
gravenimage says
Yes; just clueless about Islam.
Hell Awaits says
The handling (or better to say not handling) of hostage crisis was a crucial moment in history which eventually led to the fall of WTC Towers. States should have pounded Iran into a parking lot.
Politicianophobia says
We in the West all need to wake damn quickly, look at Canada, a little Muslim backbencher from Pakistain, Iqra Khalid introduced M-103 and the bloody idiot NDP and Liberals support the blasphemy law. There are 11 elected, Muslim, members of parliament–how could that be if they do not believe in Canadian law. Why are people in Canada told they can not say anything about Islam, yet we have the likes of Imam, Mazim Abdul-Adhim, the head of Hibz ut-Tharir, a worldwide terrorists group calling for a caliphate. I have contacted so many people in this country about all the Imams and what they are saying–“kill the Jews”, I have asked my own member of parliament why are they allowed to call for overthrowing the Canadian government and not one damn person ever replied. Sandra Soloman has been told of threats on her and her family–in Canada–people are allowed to do this, not in my Canada. We the people need to stand up and demand this BS be stopped, members of parliament should be made to step down. Treason, sedition are reasons for deportation. The Muslim Brotherhood should be banned from the West.
Yes, the Shah was no angel but life after the Shaw became pure hell. Jimmy Carter was never thought of as a clever man and that is what happens when we have idiots running things. Trudeau and his Liberal collaborators are traitors and just how much longer it will take people to figure that out is anyone’s guess. Meanwhile Islamist, con men continue to infiltrate Canada and the West.
How much money is Soros spending to bring down Republicans? How much money is the Saudi Prince spending to Islamize the US — Why is the Muslim Brotherhood allowed–can anyone tell me.
p_m_bay says
They want us dead….. Nothing less will appease islam. For 1400 years same crap different clowns
plume says
a true believer-no one want to confront true islam
just like Jerry Brown…in another ‘reality’