Nuclear Communist Islamofascism

'Winter Landscape with Church' by Caspar David Friedrich 1811, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund

 

'Nuclear Communist Islamofascism' -- you think I am joking, just wait...

During his recent trip to Iran, the German head of the opposition Green party faction, Fritz Kuhn, confirmed how the leading thugs of the Mullahcracy had been caught by surprise after Russia and China supported UNSC Resolution 1737.

On the contrary, they had hoped to isolate the U.S. by splitting away Russia and China, and, with a bit of luck, even most of Europe. What they didn't expect, was the unanimous vote against them.

I don't share many convictions with Fritz Kuhn of the Green party -- bloody champagne communists, the lot of them, if you ask me -- but because the Mullahs know the Green party to be thoroughbred appeasers, because they trust them not to interfere, they'll drop their guard on occasions lower, thus revealing more, than intended. And the likes of Kuhn, or John-America-is-a-"pariah"-Kerry, never seem to disappoint. Kuhn goes out of his way to explain to his Iranian counterparts, all that is needed is to tone down the rhetoric; that they should understand, eventually Israel will connect such rhetoric with the 'Atomfrage' ('atomic question' - some question, yeah right...), "...you know, what would happen, if someone who talks so aggressively, has the atomic bomb at his disposal...That's the thing, you guys in Iran have to understand, that there is a connection...". Wow, really? Now that you are telling me.... My word!

On the other hand, we have the Supreme Thug-In-Chief Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei blinding us with breathtaking logic: American forces plant the bombs in order to create the appearance of sectarian violence. "They are well familiar with the secrets of their seditious job. They know how to provoke Sunnis against Shiites and how to incite Shiites against Sunnis. After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran the colonialists intensified their efforts."

It has to be so, because, wherever 'security matters' are in American hands, violence reigns; "But in other areas, where American troops are small in number or have no presence, and the security matters are in the hands of Iraqi forces, there is more security. Thus, the US-led occupiers are the source of insecurity in Iraq."

But, I am getting ahead of myself; read for yourself:

In the recent years, because the Islamic Republic of Iran was able to achieve a major goal and had the honour to awaken the conscience of the Islamic World, Global Arrogance has stepped up its seditious plots and subversive attempts to divide Muslims. Therefore you see they are doing everything in their power to achieve their sinister goal.

Today in Iraq they want to pit Sunnis against Shi’ites. In Pakistan they are doing the same; as well as in Afghanistan. They will not hesitate to do so in Iran if they had the chance. We have been informed that their mercenaries and agents have even gone to Lebanon and are working and plotting to create divisions between Shi’ites and Sunnis.  

These agents who are sowing the seeds of discord are neither Sunnis nor Shi’ites. They neither have faith in the beliefs of the Shiites nor do they have faith in the beliefs of the Sunnis. Not long ago US President George W. Bush in his speech referred to the bombing of the holy Askarayn Shrine in the northwestern Iraqi city of Samarra and tried to hold Salafi extremists responsible for the explosion with the aim of whipping up the sentiments of the Shi’ites.

The Americans have named al-Qa’eda and the Salafis as the terrorists of Iraq, in spite of the fact that they themselves are the instigators and the main perpetrators of such acts (of terrorism). The US and the Zionist intelligence services are encouraging the remnants of the Ba’th minority regime in Iraq to plant bombs in any part of Iraq. Currently the most insecure cities of Iraq are the places where the US occupation troops are present, that is, Baghdad and certain other cities where all security matters are in the hands of the Americans. But in other areas, where American troops are small in number or have no presence, and the security matters are in the hands of Iraqi forces, there is more security. Thus, the US-led occupiers are the source of insecurity in Iraq.

With the victory of the Islamic Revolution they devised new plans so as to depict the Islamic Revolution as a Shi’ite revolution despite the fact the Revolution in Iran is an entirely Islamic Revolution. It is the revolution of the holy Qur’an. It is the revolution that unfurled the banner of Islam. The Islamic Revolution is proud of having Islamic values and spirituality and in introducing Islamic values to the world. It has succeeded in this regard. We achieved success in the face of the plots of all our enmities. The Islamic Revolution revived the spirit of Islamic pride, honour and dignity among Muslims worldwide. They (the colonialists) are afraid of this. But if our revolution was a Shi’ite revolution – as they allege – we should have separated from the Islamic world. In such a case they (the colonialists) would not have anything to fear from us and they would not have practiced hostility against the revolution. But since they know that this Revolution is an Islamic Revolution they bear enmity towards us.

The best for last: "If the Islamic Ummah finds its real weight, then it will be an excellent support for Muslim governments. Governments of Muslim states will not be seeking help from the UK or the US because the Islamic Ummah is behind them."

'Real Weight' to me sounds a lot like, 'once we are wielding the nuclear bomb'...

Now let me repeat, it's the Islamic Revolution worldwide -- that's what these thugs are after. But as long as Green party clown Fritz Kuhn dutifully points out that its all about dialogue and negotiation, as long as he dismisses religion altogether as any sort of serious motivator, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will always appear as the regional scapegoat. Creating a State of Palestine will always be heralded as the solution to bring peace to the Middle East -- much like Alexander the Great was cutting the Gordian knot.

Poppycock of course -- as so often, Amir Taheri helps to put the record straight:

In fact, far from being the root cause of instability and war in the wider Middle East, one could argue that the Arab-Israeli conflict is rather peripheral, and that the region’s deeper and much more intractable problems lie elsewhere. And one would be right. In the last years we have all become acquainted with televised images of the brutal carnage that Shiites and Sunni are capable of inflicting on each other in Iraq, the ghastly work of Baathist death squads, the steady rhythm of political assassinations, and the laying waste of civilian life. And that is just within one country. For our purposes here, however, it may be more instructive to look at the Middle East at the regional level, and to examine in particular the huge number of inter-state conflicts that have bedeviled this area in the modern era—conflicts that have nothing whatsoever to do with the struggle between Israel and the Palestinians.

It's another must-read.

May I just leave you with these sad words of a European icon of note, Jean-Paul Sartre: "I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati." One of the two or three foremost Islamic thinkers of the last century, Shariati's radical blend of Islam and Marxism electrified a whole generation of Iranian revolutionaries like Ahmadinejad.

Oh please, spare me... I thought we were over this. I mean, can you believe it, now it's not only bloody communism, it's communism spiced with radical Islam. Oy wey, what's next, nuclear communist Islamofascism!!! Say godbye to the good ol' days of MAD - Mutual assured destruction. What else could you expect from the children of doom:

...One must also come to terms with the fact that supremacist puritanism in contemporary Islam is dismissive of all moral norms or ethical values, regardless of the identity of their origins or foundations. The prime and nearly singular concern is power and its symbols. Somehow, all other values are made subservient.

Comments

[Mike Windt]

I totally agree with the fact that American forces need to stay out of, well what would be referred to as, the Third World Countries. Many of the insurgencies of US forces do cause nothing more but trouble. I agree with the comment that Americans are aware of the troubles that they cause, being more of an insecurity to Iraqi "spaces" in fact, majority of the deaths this year have come solely of the American insurgence into the East and we spend no time tallying these deaths nor even mourning the innocent souls who endure such great and heart-aching pain on a daily basis.

[darthcrUSAderworldtour2007]

Thank God for President Harry Truman's decision to save Marine Corps lives in WW II by dropping the two big 'HEATERS' on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945 - that MADE Japan surrender. President Nixon did the same with Linebacker I and II B-52 'arc-light' bombing operations over Hanoi that finally got our American POW's back!
The political scumbags in Washington D.C. have been described by Mark Twain so eloquently, for Mark Twain said the French were governed by prostitutes, and no doubt the greatest superpower in the 21-st millenium is now governed by pimps and prostitutes, and treasonous pacifistic 'Rules of Engagement' Benedict Arnolds. Our troops have to fight by a set of rules - where Al-Qaeda does not!

[Bilbo Buckley]

Finally recalled the last place I heard this vibe, this All Things Militarist meme. It was sophomore year, ROTC, all the pedantic high-stepping knob-gobblers and their victory-in-Viet-Nam tailored marching drills on the quad, while the real heroes were already in-country, fighting and dying to get the hell out of that national lunacy. But those five-time draft-dodging ROTC sophomores were so beautifully WF Buckleyian!

[darthcrUSAderworldtour2007]

Patriots All. I read today that Russia's President Vlad 'KGB' Putin declared that the USA is the 'real' threat in the world! Once a KGB agent - ALWAYS a KGB agent! Some of my USAF missions took us into the Soviet Union during the Cold War and afterwards, when the WALL came down in Berlin in 1989. The Soviet Union and Russia are still the SAME, and Vlad Putin is STILL a heartless and ruthless KGB agent who is the leader of a nation! Bottom line - It's DEATH TO AMERICA reality from the Arab, Russian, European-Union, and Latin American
nations. And only a few of US really see this and care. You have a great website! Yes - The Cold War is back and WW III has already begun.

[gringoman]

{Note: With your leave, this is a renovation of message posted above, for the sake of greater clarity and context, dealing with the burning Iran question in view of equally burning Iraq issue (does anyone besides liberals and Upper West Siders think they are not inexorably connected?) Still, gV will not bother even to address the "ëxpert folly" of a Democrat one-man think tank, such as Zgniew Brezinski (of Jimmuh Carter fame) who now assures us that the fanaticism that penetrated the U.S. heartland in a way that Hitler and even Stalin never managed, is hardly more than a mosquito-strength danger manufactured by Bush fear-mongers. Who needs to talk such "ëxperts"? Be humane. Leave them to their cells padded with the Sunday "Pinch"Sulzberger Times" and fotos of visits to the Saudi-funded Carter Memorial Library.

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In a surprising move recently, MilitaryCorruption.com, while lashing out at Dems too, more or less adopts their call for admitting defeat in Iraq and getting out in "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH."

This is not insignificant, as MCC, while attacking corruption and malfeasance in the military and having known combat in Vietnam, proudly flies the Stars & Stripes, setting it well apart from your typical peacenik, puffnik and cocktail mediacrities.

MCC calls for a phased withdrawal from Iraq, seeing this as not the Democrat desire for "cut and run." While gringoVision can understand the lashing out against and frustration with Bush and his ex-SecDef Donald Rumsfeld (besides critiques over the years, we also, after all, posted here not long ago TWO FLY GUYS, a ruminating look at both Bush and Rumsfeld in context of historical war leadership) our Strategy Klatsch is not yet ready to echo MCC's call.

Yes, gV has grave doubts about how effective the Bush "surge" in Baghdad can be,(we have, in fact, no great expectations for it, as the assassins obviously can slink away, fade and hunker down and wait out the feminized, poll-driven U.S.A., a nation now clearly a captive of its own lawyer-driven bread-and-circus, or pizza- and- DVD, democracy).

Still, gV does not see "cut and run by increments" as either a wise or expedient response to the Muddle East. But wise choices here can happen only by accident, or amazing luck. With invaluable MSM assistance, the party hacks and drones of defeatism can smell success in the media-drenched air. They know that George Bush, the Great Non-Communicator, was an excellent jet pilot in the National Guard, but subsequently, as President, a politically correct warrior who will let the lawyers have at his military, while restraining them from dealing proper justice to enemy-abetting leaks or to a Sandy Burglar who steals state documents to cover Clintinoid ass in the War against the Islamic Fanatic. And like the Democrats, Bush knowingly aids and abets law-breaking and dis-respect of U.S. borders. They all know it and they know how to play on George Bush. In other words, they understand that "compassionate conservative" Bush is no match for their own media-driven cliches and pieties.

This is why, while gringoVision clucks at their well-orchestrated ground-swell of sanctimony (which also includes legitimate critiques of Iraq corruption, possibly as large and dismal as what occurred under the pious Democrats in Vietnam, which they hope you'll forget if you ever knew) ), it also concedes that weaselhood and starry-eyed wimps may in fact succeed.

If Vietnam and The Killing Fields and the rise of the Mad Mullahs in the ashes of US defeat, withdrawal, retrenchment and humiliation did not teach a profound lesson thirty years ago, a study of history is perhaps useless, at least for Americans. A great nation that can't get mission accomplished, and waits for inevitable mistakes and then feeds on them, whines about "neo-cons" etc. etc who lead the Leader by the nose, and hopes, pathetically, that "dialogue" with the Islamic fanatic will stop creation of the Mullah Bomb in Iran (without a shred of evidence or hard logic on how) is what? It's only questionably "great," and is unquestionably not the nation that in 1945, after universal sacrifice that is mocked or unknown in today's crass action lawyerdom, stood proud in victory over mighty despots and menace.

[Ghost Dansing]

 Here's a few notes on Human Rights for women in Iran:

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Public Statement

AI Index: MDE 13/066/2006 (Public)
News Service No: 153
15 June 2006

Iran: Women’s rights demonstrators beaten and arrested

Amnesty International condemns the Iranian security forces' violent disruption of a peaceful demonstration on 12 June by women and men advocating an end to legal discrimination against women in Iran. The demonstrators had gathered in the Seventh of Tir Square in Tehran to call, among other things, for changes in the law to give a woman's testimony in court equal value to that of a man and for married women to be allowed to choose their employment and to travel freely without obtaining the prior permission of their husband.

Link

Iran: Women are terrorized

Feature, 12/29/2004

by Ina Tin, editor of AmnestyNytt, AI Norway’s magazine (translated by Laila Belle)

Shirin Ebadi is fighting for a new interpretation of Islamic Shari'a laws. In the opinion of the Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, the interpretation of the Shari'a permitting discrimination of women is incorrect. She emphasises that women are protesting against these laws. As a lawyer and a human rights defender in Iran, she is giving priority to working towards changing this interpretation of Islam.

"A dynamic interpretation of Islam will accept women’s rights, democracy and human rights. We are fighting to prove that Islam is not against women. We live in a patriarchal culture that is against women and therefore dominated by an incorrect interpretation of Islam. You know, most men would oppose any feministic interpretation, but that is not important. We have to do our job even if it puts us at risk. We have to take the challenge. It will not be easy, I know, but it is our job.

"Women in Iran are terrorized. We are facing discriminatory laws as well as family violence. These laws represent the biggest problem. If laws were just, violence would diminish. That is why the fight against laws that discriminate is given priority."

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Human Rights Watch Honors Global Rights Defenders Efforts of Iran, Sudan and Uganda Activists Recognized

(London, October 31, 2006) – Human Rights Watch will present its highest honors, the Human Rights Defender Awards, to three courageous human rights activists from Iran, Sudan and Uganda on November 7.

 This year’s three honorees challenged the limits of freedom of expression in the Middle East, the massive “ethnic cleansing” and injustice in Darfur, Sudan, and the treatment of HIV/AIDS affected women in Africa. Human Rights Watch’s global rights defender awardees for 2006 are:  

• Omid Memarian, a journalist and blogger from Iran;  
  
• Salih Mahmoud Osman, a lawyer and human rights activist from Darfur; and  
  
• Beatrice Were, a social worker and advocate for the rights of women and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda.
  

 
“Our 2006 honorees exemplify the highest ideals of the human rights cause – courage, objectivity and an unflinching commitment to justice,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. “They work relentlessly, often in dangerous environments, to bring abuses to light and to fight to preserve human rights in their regions.” 

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 And a little action in America under Modern Republicanism:

Tuesday, February 6, 2006

CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
WilliamG@alipac.us
Tel: (919) 787-6009 Toll Free: (866) 329-3999


Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) has called on activists from all fifty states, to call on Congress to pardon border agents Compean and Ramos and to launch Congressional investigations to determine why the Bush administration is acting more on behalf of human and drug smuggling cartels than the American public.

Border Patrol agent Ramos was severely assaulted in prison by illegal alien gang members on Saturday night, after America's Most Wanted aired a story about him. Agents Ramos and Compean were sent to prison for poor record keeping, after shooting a known illegal alien drug smuggler in the buttocks.

"We need these Border Patrol agents out of prison immediately," said William Gheen of ALIPAC. "Now is the time for America to start investigating which politicians and CEOs need to go to prison for subverting our existing immigration laws, depriving the public of government by the people, and facilitating the costly invasion of America."

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[Michael B]

Re-reading Bhadrakumar's piece (the Asia Times, linked toward the end of the original post), it's a particularly convincing review of Shariati's social/political philosophy and Ahmadinejad's praxis along with the populism it has apparently invoked in Iran. A potentially potent brew, roughly (if only very roughly) reminiscent of the totalitarian, mass movement, formative period of Mussolini's fascism, which initially served as a respectable and even lauded form of governance and only later took on (with Mussolini's explicit and enthusiastic approval) a more malevolent form in Nazism. We live in interesting times.

[Red Violin]

sorry a bit off topic:

March 8, 1979, International Women's Day in Tehran "If you are against death by stoning! If you are against forced veiling! If you are against the prosecution and imprisonment of women! If you are against lashing a woman’s body! If you are against any form of patriarchy! If you are against the medieval laws of Iran’s Islamic Republic of Iran imposing inequality on women! – Join the great walk against anti-women laws in Iran’s Islamic Republic on 8 March 2007 in Holland!" 8mars.com & karzar-zanan.com

Watch the video of Iranian women demonstrating against compulsory veil and hejab in 1979:
Iranian women are shouting: "we didn't have a revolution to go back in time or to regress"--where our freedom and rights are taken away. They are also saying that Khomeini promised us not to take our liberties from us but we all know what happened...

Note : The Iranian women in the video are not wearing veil because prior to 1979, Iranian women had a choice to wear Islamic hejab or not. Khomeini took that choice away from them and implemented other horrendous medieval sharia laws on all Iranian women.

Watch the video:

http://www.iranian.com/Clips/2007/February/women.html

This is an opportunity for the Liberals, the Left and the women's rights activists in the West to show the Iranian people where they stand on fundamental issues of freedom and human rights.Do they back Iranian people's legitimate struggle for human rights and democracy, do they back Iranian women's just cause for equal rights? Or do they only come out of their closets for a bit of US bashing?Imagine what a boost it would be for other Iranian women's rights activists, if suddenly the international community displayed a massive show of solidarity for them. Imagine if the international community, instead of debating whether they should give in to the rulers of the Islamic Republic or preparing for a military attack, or begging the Iranian officials for talks...

[Jeremayakovka]

Holy cow! Where did J.-P. say that about choosing Shariati?

[Al]

President Ahmadinejad's real views are summarized on this website: ahmadinejadquotes.blogspot.com

[Eg]

The sad irony and very real tragedy here is that the US and those that are actively engaged in fighting this war against Islamic imperialism are not using the full spectrum of social, cultural and structural faults - faults which are inherit of Islam and which have kept it in the dark ages - to our advantage. Supreme Fubar Khamenei is projecting. He’s fear is Fitna. Well damnit, exploit that fear. Get the evidence catching the Iranian’s red-handed providing weapons killing Shia in Iraq and use it against them. Quit worrying about Iraq throwing the region into civil war, turn it around to create a divide and war inside Iran.

You’d think we’d never have fought a war before.

[Ghost Dansing]

This is interesting.... maybe the Saudis can do some good.... their Wahabism has certainly contributed to the overall problem of Islamic extremism.

JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 5 — With the prospect of three civil wars looming over the Middle East — and Iran poised to gain from them all — Saudi Arabia has abandoned its behind-the-scenes checkbook diplomacy and taken on a central, aggressive role in reshaping the region’s conflicts.

On Tuesday, the kingdom is playing host in Mecca to the leaders of Hamas and Fatah, the two feuding Palestinian factions, in what both sides say could lead to a national unity government and reduced bloodshed. Last fall, senior Saudi officials met secretly with Israeli leaders about how to establish a Palestinian state.

In recent months, Saudi Arabia has also increased its public involvement in Iraq and its support of the Sunni-led government in Lebanon. The process is shaping up as a counteroffensive to efforts by Iran to establish itself as the regional superpower, according to diplomats, analysts and officials here and throughout the region. Some even say that the recent Saudi commitment to temper the price of oil is aimed at undermining Iran’s economy, although officials here deny that....

....On the surface, the effort by Saudi Arabia to establish itself as a counterpoint to Tehran is a contest between the main sects of Islam: Shiites, led by Iran, and Sunnis, led by Riyadh. Iran, which is Persian and not Arab, is the only state that is led by Shiite religious figures. Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam, and its king draws legitimacy as the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, in Mecca and Medina....

....Sectarian overtones aside, the battle is also about political power, national interests and preserving the status quo. Riyadh and its allies see a threat to their own power and security in the rise of Iran and the Shiite revival. They have expressed fear at Iran’s insistence on pursuing a nuclear program, and anxiety over the rise in popularity of Hezbollah, the Shiite militia in Lebanon.

The Saudi shift, many here say, dates from last summer, when Israel failed to crush Hezbollah during 34 days of bombing, shocking officials here and throughout the region at the strength of Hezbollah, seen as Iran’s regional proxy army....

....Saudi analysts said another key moment came after the midterm elections in the United States when the Republicans lost control of Congress. That was read here as a sign that the United States might soon withdraw its troops from Iraq, leaving an open field to the Iranians.

“The outcome confirmed our worst fears,” said Awadh al-Badi, director of the department of research and studies at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. “It said that we could no longer be sure of the Americans.”

In January, the kingdom initiated talks with the Iranians to mediate the growing stalemate in Lebanon, where Hezbollah has faced off with the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora in sometimes violent confrontations. King Abdullah then held a surprise meeting with leaders of Hezbollah.

The kingdom has played host to numerous meetings of Sunni and Shiite leaders as well as of so-called moderate Muslim leaders in recent months, possibly to emphasize its custodianship of Islam’s holiest sites. And it has decided that it will be the host of the next meeting of the Arab League, in Riyadh....

....In his recent newspaper interview, King Abdullah made that point, lamenting the failure of Arab countries to unite, while alluding to Iran’s efforts to exploit the inability of Arabs to solve their own problems.

“We do not want any other party to manipulate our causes, profiteer from them, and draw strength from them,” he said. “We do not want any other country to exploit our causes to bolster its position in its global conflicts.”

NYT 

 

[gringoman]

(for another look at the "fluid" U.S. scene)

GRINGOMMENTARY Feb05 update. In a surprising move recently, MilitaryCorruption.com, while lashing out at Dems too, more or less adopts their call for admitting defeat in Iraq and getting out in "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH." This is not insignificant, as MCC, while attacking corruption and malfeasance in the military, proudly flies the flag of patriotism, setting it well apart from your typical peacenik, puffnik and cocktail mediacrities. MCC calls for a phased withdrawal from Iraq, seeing this as not the Democrat desire for "cut and run." While gringoVision can understand the lashing out against and frustration with Bush and his ex-SecDef Donald Rumsfeld (besides critiques over the years, we also, after all, posted here not long ago TWO FLY GUYS, a ruminating look at both Bush and Rumsfeld in context of historical war leadership) our Strategy Klatsch is not yet ready to echo MCC's call. Even with grave doubts about how effective the Bush "surge" in Baghdad can be,(we expect, in fact, little from it) gringoVision does not see "cut and run in stages"as either a wise or expedient response to the Muddle East. If Vietnam and The Killing Fields and the rise of the Mad Mullahs in the ashes of US defeat did not teach that lesson thirty years ago, a study of history is perhaps useless. A great nation that simply withdraws. whines about "neo-cons" etc etc who may have made mistakes or blunders, and hopes, pathetically, that "dialogue" will stop creation of the Mullah Bomb in Iran (without a shred of evidence or hard logic on how) is only questionably "great," and is unquestionably not the nation that in 1945 stood proud and victorious over mighty despots and menace.

[Red Violin]

More on Shariati

http://www.iranian.com/Atri/2005/December/Shariati/

[Ghost Dansing]

Ali Shariati (1933-1977) has been called the "Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution." His reinter pretation of Islam in modern sociological categories prepared the way for the Islamic revival that shook Iran in 1979, attracting many young Muslims who had been alienated both from the traditional clergy and from Western culture....

Shariati was born in Mazinan, Khurasan, a small village in Eastern Iran, in 1933 and was educated by his father, Aqa Muhammad Taqi Shariati. His youth was spent in Meshad where his father established the Center for the Propagation of Islamic Teachings. After high school he entered Teachers' Training College and became an active member of his father's center. He entered the University of Meshad in 1956, graduating in 1960. From 1960 to 1964 a state scholarship enabled him to study at the University of Paris, where he gained sociological insight and pursued Islamic studies with the renowned French scholar Louis Massignon. In France he was influenced by the radical Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Franz Fanon. Despite this influence he criticized these thinkers for their rejection of traditional religion and suggested that the only way the deprived nations could counterbalance Western imperialism was through the cultural identity preserved by religious traditions.

In 1965 he established a center of Muslim religious teaching, the Husaniya-yi Irshad in Teheran, and he moved there in 1967. The choice of an institution dedicated to the martyrdom of Husayn in the struggles against the Ummayyads (660-750 A.D.) emphasized his commitment to the struggle against the tyranny of the shah's regime in Iran. His political influence was so great that the regime had him arrested again in 1973 and closed down the Husaniya, banning his works. Although released in 1975, his freedom was restricted. In June 1977 he travelled to England, where he died under circumstances that his supporters insisted suggested the involvement of SAVAK, the Iranian secret police.

Link 

Bearing the motif of hybrid hyperintellectualization....

Sartre is a terrible existential philosopher.... however he is an existentialist....thus the quality of his philosophy is questionable to begin with since philosophy itself is always and merely a reflection of the existential ground, the pre-reflective conciousness.

 I just had to do that :)

 

[LilMissIndie]

able to exert greatly increased influence on surrounding states

And will embolden terrorist groups like Hezbollah as they ponder the next strikes to take at Israel from Lebanon. Forgive me if I don't feel comforted by comments such as those made by Chirac recently -- that Iran would never use a nuclear bomb against Israel because Tehran would be "razed". Exactly what in the past three decades or so would make Tehran think that a threat (or promise) like that from France or the U.N. would be kept? The only thing that would truly restrain Iran is the promise (threat) from the Arab states that, should Iran introduce nuclear warfare to the Middle East, all bets will be off and the U.S. is welcome to annihilate them.

[Red Violin]

Iran: Destruction of Israel is feasible

http://www.irna.com/fa/news/view/line-7/8511170720011541.htm

Translation:

Persian language on Islamic Republic News Agency web site reports that possible destruction of Israel in near future is feasible said the Iranian regime's ambassador to Syria in a meeting with Palestinian representatives on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

Mohammad Hassan Akhtari, the Iranian ambassador to Syria said, we hope that Palestinians win over the Israelis in the near future so that all Palestinian refugees can go back to their own country. He also added that he personally hopes that next year Palestinians present in the meeting can invite their Iranian counterparts to a freed Palestinian land for the 29th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Iranian envoy to Syria Hassan Akhtari quoted as saying that destruction of Israel is a possibility and it will happen in the near future and all evidences point to that direction.

[rich]

Professor Bernard Lewis stated in an interview published 1/31/2007 that the Muslim world was about to take over Europe.

The interviewer said:

" 'About to take over Europe?' Do you have a time frame for that? It sounds pretty dramatic."

Lewis replied:

"No, I can't give you the time frame, but I can give you the stages of the process: Immigration and democracy on their side, and a mood of what I can only call self-abasement on the European side - in the name of political correctness and multiculturalism, to surrender on any and every issue."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467860507&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[Red Violin]

That Iran stands today able to challenge or even defy the United States in every sphere of American influence in the Middle East, attests to the dismal failure of the Clinton and Bush administrations' policy toward it during the last 14 years. Although ideally direct negotiation between the United States and Iran should be the first resort to resolve the nuclear issue, as long as Tehran does not feel seriously threatened, it seems unlikely that the clergy will at this stage end the nuclear program. In possession of nuclear weapons Iran will intimidate the larger Sunni Arab states in the region, bully smaller states into submission, threaten Israel’s very existence, use oil as a political weapon to blackmail the West, and instigate regional proliferation of nuclear weapons’ programs. How did we let it get this far?

http://iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2007&m=02&d=03&a=1

[Francis W. Porretto]

Even if we could justifiably assume that Iran's rush toward nuclear weapons has nothing to do with Israel -- mind you, I'm NOT saying that's really the case! -- the possession of nukes would automatically make Iran into a regional superpower, able to exert greatly increased influence on surrounding states, and putting itself in an admirable position as regards negotiations with "non-state actors." It would also more or less guarantee against regime change from without, because the regime would be able to threaten a Samson-smash against American client state Iraq, American ally Israel, American sort-of-ally Pakistan...or Iran's own defenseless people.

The Iranian theocracy must be stopped.

[Michael B]

Solid commentary and roundup. The closing graph or two in the Amir Taheri link, if in summary fashion, gets to the heart, gets to the pivot point of a great deal.

[Liquid]

Alexandra, I just don't know what its gonna take for America to wake up and see the enemy for what it is! Did you read This about their plan on our children?