In Israel, Muslims are waging war against Jews. In Nigeria and elsewhere, Muslims are waging war against Christians. In Kashmir, Muslims are waging war against Hindus. In Azerbaijan also, Muslims are waging war against Christian Armenians. Yet the entire world fails to note the common element in all these conflicts, and the reasons why that […]
Azerbaijan = Corrupt + Terrorist + Evil
There may be no regime more loathsome and deserving of U.S. and European condemnation and punitive sanctions than that of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his crew of criminals and monsters. Corrupt to the Core The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), an international crime and corruption watchdog, named Aliyev its 2012 Organized Crime […]
Azerbaijan announces it will erase Armenian inscriptions on religious sites in territory it claimed in 2020 war
This kind of erasure of history has gone on all over the Islamic world. In India there was the wholesale destruction of Hindu temples, as discussed in The History of Jihad. In Afghanistan, virtually all traces of the Hindu and Buddhist presence have been effaced. In North Africa, there is hardly any sign of the […]
Iran alarmed by Turkey-Azerbaijan-Pakistan axis, holds military drills on Azerbaijan border
Iran is “increasingly alarmed by the Turkey-Azerbaijan-Pakistan axis,” and held military drills on the border with Azerbaijan. So now a row has ensued between the two countries. Iran and Azerbaijan have had a volatile diplomatic relationship since Azerbaijan gained independence two decades ago. Iran sided with Armenia in the recent Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict. Adding to Iran’s […]
Blunders of an Intelligent Man
The Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) is the Harvard of Russia. It’s the alma mater of the largest number of Russian Forbes magazine list members and representatives of the Russian political elite. Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister; Irina Bekova, ex-director-general of UNESCO; and historian Sergo Mikoyan are graduates of MGIMO. So is President […]
French pol: “Islam is a religion of peace and solidarity”
Authorities the world over, from Pope Francis to John Kerry to Ilham Aliyev and Jean-Francois Mancel, have to keep reminding us of this precisely because it is so contrary to what we see in every day’s headlines: jihad terror attacks and plots engineered by people who point to the texts and teachings of Islam to […]