Iranian Cleric: Women Must Provide Sex to Men at All Times
BY REZA KAHLILI: A leading Iranian cleric has denounced those women who do not cater sexually to men. Hojatolislam Hossein Dehnavi discussed the duty of women under Islam at a conference on family...
View ArticleTop Iranian Cleric: Nothing Ruled Out Against America
The regime is reportedly unified in this new tactic of showing a moderate face in order to deceive the West into reducing sanctions. BY REZA KAHLILI: The recognition of Israel as illegitimate is one of...
View ArticleFailing to Know Our Enemies
By Clifford D. May: Less than a generation after World War II, in the midst of a cold war whose outcome was far from certain, John F. Kennedy famously proclaimed that Americans would “support any...
View ArticleYou Still Don’t Understand Islamism, Do You?
BY BARRY RUBIN: Around 2007, I gave a lecture at the Defense Department. One of the attendees presented a scenario suggesting that the “problem of Islam” was not political but a problem of verbiage....
View ArticleIslam’s Second Crisis: the troubles to come
Muslims will hold Islam accountable when Islamic revivalists promise utopia but deliver chaos and human rights abuses. By Mark Durie: In What Went Wrong, Bernard Lewis charted the decline of Islam in...
View ArticleThe Secret History of Hezbollah
BY TONY BADRAN: Thirty years ago last month, Hezbollah blew up the barracks of the U.S Marines and French paratroopers stationed at the Beirut airport, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 Frenchmen. It...
View ArticleTom Friedman’s Iran Ignorance
Commentary Magazine, by Michael Rubin, April 14, 2015: Jonathan Tobin highlights well some problems with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s defense of President Barack Obama’s empathy with...
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