“One people is dominating another, this is the essence of the problem” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, claimed Israeli Jew Rami Elhanan, co-general manager of Israel’s fringe Parents Circle—Families Forum (PCFF), on March 6 in Washington, DC. He addressed about 30 largely like-minded listeners in the shared offices of the New Israel Fund (NIF) and Americans […]
Georgetown University’s Fake Islamic Pluralism
“The case for pluralism should be relatively easy to make in an Islamic context,” stated Indiana University Professor Asma Afsaruddin on March 5 at Georgetown University’s Copley Formal Lounge. She and other panelists made such unconvincing claims concerning Islam and pluralism during an event hosted by Georgetown’s Saudi-established Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian […]
Christ Subverts Iran’s Islamic Republic
“Christianity is considered an existential threat to the Islamic Republic of Iran,” wrote February 7 the Christian religious freedom advocates Arielle Del Turco and Lela Gilbert. This statement indicates the extreme measures Iran’s theocratic Islamic Republic is willing to implement in order to repress alternative belief systems such as Christianity, and the enormous attendant political […]
Iranians are Losing Their Islamic Religion
“Islam is dead,” the “mosques are empty,” and “no one follows Islam inside of Iran,” an unidentified Iranian church leader stated in the 2019 film Sheep Among Wolves Volume II. The film marks a widely observed trend in recent decades of Iranians abandoning the cruel theocratic faith of Iran’s 1979-established Islamic Republic for Christianity. “God […]
DC panelists on Trump’s peace plan: US officials “have never, ever put out a document this long, this detailed”
“The implications of just publishing” President Donald Trump’s recent Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal “are enormous,” stated former Israeli ambassador to South Africa Alon Liel during a February 13 panel in Washington, DC. His comments, transmitted from abroad via Skype and phone, along with those of his fellow panelists hosted by the Gulf International Forum (GIF), indicated […]
Iran’s Theocrats Mix God and Country
In order “to present the truth of Islam to the world, we should raise the Iranian flag,” stated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, in a 2010 speech that provoked ideological uproar in Iran. His words indicated how Iran’s Islamic Republic, proclaimed as a global Islamic revolution’s vanguard, has delicately tried to […]
Iranian Nationalists Reject Arabia’s Islamic Yoke
The “average Iranian, though he may sympathize with the Palestinians, cannot identify with the Arabs, whom he regards as an ancestral foe,” Iranian expatriate author Amir Taheri has written. As this occasional series has previously explored, such national historical memories underline Iran’s conflicted relationship with Arabs and the Islamic faith that their past imperialism imposed […]
A Cause, Not a Country: Iran’s Islamic Republic
“The Iranian state serves the revolution, not the other way around,” concluded Iran analysts at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (IGC) in a series of 2019 studies four decades after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. As this series has previously indicated, in the name of pursuing an Islamic new world order, the Islamic Republic […]
The Palestinian Delusion documents how jihadists and their allies have weaponized an invented Palestinian identity
“From beginning to end, the conflict with Israel is all about Islam,” writes world-renowned jihad watcher Robert Spencer in his latest superlative book, The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process. He documents in detail how jihadists and their allies worldwide have skillfully weaponized an invented Palestinian Arab identity against the […]
Cyrus the Great’s Ghost Haunts Iran’s Islamic Republic
“There is an underlying tension between the ideology of the Islamic revolution and Iran’s pre-1979 monarchical history,” noted the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change’s (IGC) Iran experts in a 2019 study. This tension is perhaps most vivid in the legacy of Iran’s ancient Achaemenid Empire (559-330 BCE), embodied in its former capital, Persepolis, and […]
Cyrus the Great’s Cylinder Challenges Iran’s Ayatollahs
“Iranians have long been proud of their ancient history and culture,” Iranian journalist and Middle East analyst Saeid Jafari has written. The Achaemenid empire’s (559-330 BCE) founder, Cyrus the Great, looms particularly large in Iranian memory as a proud symbol of enlightened, tolerant rule, notwithstanding the scorn of modern Iran’s theocratic masters. “Cyrus’s reign [559-529 […]
“Iran First” Iranians Protest Islamic Rule
“We are of Aryaee [Aryan] race, we don’t worship Arabs,” chanted Iranians during protests that erupted over economic woes on December 28, 2017, and continued for weeks countrywide. Such slogans during popular upheavals rocking Iran until today indicate that after four crises-filled decades Iran’s theocratic Islamic Republic is losing support in a nation with a […]
Leftist Jews Ally with Suit-Wearing Jihadists in New Group (Part Three)
Jews and Muslims “share so much in common about our dreams of what a just, fair, compassionate, whole world should be for all God’s children,” stated Rabbi David Saperstein at Washington, DC’s Newseum on December 3. These remarks at the previously discussed launch of the Inter Jewish Muslim Alliance (IJMA) ignored historic Jewish subjugation under […]
Leftist Jews Ally with Suit-Wearing Jihadists in New Group (Part Two)
“White supremacy is coming after all of us,” Muslim Brotherhood (MB) apologist Wajahat Ali said of Jews, Muslims, and other minorities at Washington, DC’s Newseum on December 3. Addressing the previously discussed launch of the Inter Jewish Muslim Alliance (IJMA), he whipped up fear of “Islamophobes” contributing to a bigoted, dangerous climate for minorities in […]
Leftist Jews Ally with Suit-Wearing Jihadists in New Group (Part One)
Anwar Khan “has been doing outreach to the Jewish community on behalf of the Muslim community for decades,” stated former American Jewish Committee (AJC) official Robert Silverman at Washington, DC’s Newseum on December 3. His praise for Khan, the director of the Hamas ally Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA), typified the unsettling leftist Jewish ignorance of […]
Social Justice Warriors Attack Israel
“We are being led into an American brand—hear me clearly—of fascism, and most white Christians are supporting it,” ranted the George Soros-supported leftist Jim Wallis at a November 14 Arab Center Washington, DC, event. Amidst such deranged hyperbole and a litany of progressive lamentations, he and his fellow panelists promoted before a small audience of […]
The Ahmadis: The Jihad against Free Speech
“The Western leaders make me laugh by maintaining that they cannot put restrictions on newspapers and freedom of expression,” stated the Ahmadi “caliph,” Hadrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, in London on February 10, 2006. This crackpot demonstrated how the small, caliphate-dreaming Ahmadi cult has joined other Muslims in demanding Islamic censorship — another fact that belies the […]
Profs at Infamous Saudi-Sponsored Academic Center Advocate Iranian Hegemony, Downgrade Saudi-American Ties
Speakers at a September 12 panel at a conference on democracy in the Muslim world reflected Middle East Studies’ prevailing pro-Iran, anti-Saudi bias. That it occurred at the most infamous Saudi-sponsored academic center in America represents an ironic break with past practices that generally ignored Saudi human rights violations. All participants in the panel “Jamal […]
The Ahmadis: The World According to the “Caliphs”
After the 1949 Chinese Communist “revolution took place, there was great progress and change. Honorable Mao Zedong, who was a great leader of your nation, established the foundation for high moral standards.” This outrageous praise for blood-soaked Communist China tyranny appeared in an April 9, 2012 letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao from the Ahmadi […]
Michigan State Prof Claims Islam Is Not the Root of Islamic Terrorism
“If you want to identify people who are okay with suicide bombing, I can give you a list,” including Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Michigan State University Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Muslim Studies Mohammad Hassan Khalil told me at a September Georgetown University lecture. Khalil theorized before an audience of some thirty people at the […]