If you read the media accounts, the Green Revolution is over and the Iranian regime has won. Time Magazine asks, “Where was the opposition?” The Daily Mail in the U.K. quotes one protestor as declaring the day a victory for the regime because only hundreds of demonstrators assembled against thousands of regime supporters.
The regime has [...]
The Sunni/Shi’ite Jihad that we have seen on the upswing lately in Iraq now appears again in Pakistan. “Blasts hit Shiite Muslims in Pakistan; 22 killed (3rd Lead),” from DPA, February 5 (thanks to Twostellas): Islamabad – Two successive blasts targeting Shiite Muslims killed at least 22 people in Pakistan’s…
Feel the love. Sunni/Shi’ite Jihad Update: “23 Shia pilgrims die in Karbala suicide attack,” from AFP, February 3 (thanks to Twostellas): A suicide attacker ploughed a bomb-laden vehicle yesterday into Shia pilgrims in central Iraq, killing 23 of them, including women and children, the second deadly assault on devotees this…
A human rights group is calling on Iran to free protesters detained after the disputed June 12 presidential election, calling the government’s crackdown on its critics a “human rights disaster.” A report released Sunday by New York-based Human Rights Watch details alleged abuses by members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Basij militia and police following widespread [...]
Political dissident Amir Fakhravar discusses his brother’s arrest by the Iranian regime and the democratic uprising that threatens its rule.
Sunni-Shi’ite Jihad Update. “Pakistan: Riots erupt in Karachi after deadly bomb attack,” from AdnKronos International, December 28: Karachi, 28 Dec. (AKI) – By Syed Saleem Shahzad – Riots erupted in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Monday when a suicide attack killed at least 20 people and injured another…
The death of dissident cleric Ayatollah Montazeri energizes the democratic opposition.
Daring Iranians continue to take to the streets.
Yazid was the killer of Hussein, the son of Ali, whose death the Shi’ites lament on Ashura. That the Iranian crowds would be chanting this suggests that this is a Shi’ite vs. Shi’ite affair — Sharia adherents battling other Sharia adherents and jockeying for the mantle of Islamic purity. Given…
My Human Events column today chronicles an unmerry Christmas in Iraq and other Muslim countries: Christians in the Iraqi city have opted not to celebrate Christmas this year, since Ashura, a major Shi’ite day of mourning, falls on the same day. So out of “respect” for the local Shi’ites, Chaldean…
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