Remember when Yasser Arafat died of Aids because he loved the young Jihadis who worked for him? Muslim propagandists were quick to deny the cause of death, even though they all wore gloves in close proximity to the slimy terrorist. Islam, you see, does not allow homosexuality, they said. Under Shariah, sodomy is punishable by instant death. Or is it? Apparently it depends on who is being sodomized and why.

A highly influential Shi’a religious leader, with whom Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regularly consults, apparently told followers last month that coercion by means of rape, torture and drugs is acceptable against all opponents of the Islamic regime.

Asked if a confession obtained “by applying psychological, emotional and physical pressure” was “valid and considered credible according to Islam,” Mesbah-Yazdi replied: “Getting a confession from any person who is against the Velayat-e Faqih (“Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists”, or the regime of Iran’s mullahs) is permissible under any condition.” The ayatollah gave the identical answer when asked about confessions obtained through drugging the prisoner with opiates or addictive substances.

“Can an interrogator rape the prisoner in order to obtain a confession?” was the follow-up question posed to the Islamic cleric. Read more >

Prime Minister Moussavi and the First Supreme Leader Khomeni

We haven’t written about events in Iran because we could not understand what the fuss was all about. The Butcher of Beirut vs. the Hitler of Our Time, and we are supposed to choose sides?

In all the excitement, highly respected Conservative bloggers lost their bearings. Stars like Michelle Malkin started posting in support of the “green revolution” led by Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who in the 80s arranged the attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut and is widely known to be the founder of Hezbollah.

Bloggers pined for Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the first Ayatollah to come out in favor of nuking the Jews, to tip the scales in favor of the Butcher and his minions in their struggle to wrestle control from Hitler and his thugs. How one group of militant Shia Islamists would be better than another group of militant Shia Islamists is beyond us.

Of course, when the enemy has to expend energy suppressing uprisings in the rear it is a good thing by definition. Hopefully, fighting  each other will keep the Ayatollahs busy. So here is to chaos in the Islamic Republic of Iran! May the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leader wannabe both suffer the fate they so richly deserve, in hell. What color should we display for that? Red?

Debbie Schlussel got it right and has been posting furiously on the subject. Read more >

Steven Plaut Wants You!

Urgent – Take Action – Ben Gurion University “Academic” Serving as Accomplice for Tehran Holocaust Deniers.

Sorry to bother you in the middle of Chometz cleaning, but there is an urgent matter. If you cannot spare a few minutes for this before Passover, please help out during Chol Hamoed:

Ben Gurion University “Academic” Serving as Accomplice for Tehran Holocaust Deniers

Neve Gordon is the anti-Semitic lecturer in political science, the democracy hater who suppresses freedom of speech of his students, who attempted to suppress my own freedom of speech when I pointed out that he is a groupie of Holocaust Denier Norman Finkelstein (and he failed), the pseudo-academic who built a career at Ben Gurion University mainly by turning out anti-Israel hate propaganda, the columnist for anti-Semitic media from the Neo-Nazi Counterpunch magazine to Aljazeera.com (for report see here).

Gordon’s “academic record” strongly resembles that of his guru Norman Finkelstein.  Gordon is so openly anti-Semitic that his materials are published by Neo-Nazi and Holocaust Denial web sites.

That same Neve Gordon has a new job – bashing Israel as a columnist for the Tehran Times.  Yes, Gordon is openly the accomplice of the Holocaust Denying mullahs of Iran threatening Israel with nuclear annihilation.
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We frequently hear both Liberals and Conservatives recoil from the idea of going to war. They’ll say things like “Iran posses the most significant strategic threat to the West” or “A nuclear Islamic state of Iran would be a mortal threat to Israel” or “We can never let the world’s leading terrorist state acquire weapons of mass destruction.” Yet, when pressed on whether they would bomb Iran now, they philosophize.

In response to the question “would you bomb Iran now to save the Jewish state?” Obama takes the military option off the table outright. McCain starts with a clear statement that the US would never let Iran destroy Israel and then reverts to talking about tougher sanctions, allies and whatnot. The only leader we heard respond clearly with “sure, I would bomb them now” was John Bolton. And he subsequently disappeared from our TV screens. Read more >

The mad mullahs are pleased. Muhammad Alirezaei pulled out of the breaststroke competition to avoid facing an Israeli swimmer in a qualifying heat. Muhammad is the first Iranian to have qualified for an Olympic swim event without using a wild card. Of course, his boycott in itself is not big news. During the 2004 Athens Olympics, judo world champion Arash Miresmaeili, one of Iran’s best hopes for a medal, refused to compete against Ehud Vaks of Israel in the first round out of hate of Jews. Read more >

Let’s see. We are under attack by an enemy whose stated goal is to kill us or assimilate us into his “superior” civilization. Should he be successful, our civilization, the freest and most prosperous the world has ever seen, will come to an end. This enemy is not the hapless dreamer he is made out to be by Liberal academic, media and political classes. Other civilizations crossed his path in the past with devastating consequences. Are there many Assyrians or Zoroastrians in your neighborhood?

From a thriving empire, the Assyrians have been reduced to a tiny persecuted minority in their homelands. They have endured much hardship throughout their recent history as a result of religious and ethnic persecution by Muslim majorities – Arabs, Persians and Turks. Estimates of the total number of Syriac Christians alive today vary greatly, between one and three million.
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By now, everybody has seen the Photos of the Iranian missile exercise. One of the missiles did not fire and the mullahs Photoshopped it. You can’t really blame them. Everything is fair in love and war. If you can win a war using Photoshop, all the power to you! Unfortunately, Big Satan and Little Satan have great Photoshop defense.

A friend sent us this Photoshop of Iran’s ultimate weapon.