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* Raymond Ibrahim: 'You Have a Beautiful Daughter...': The Persecution of Christians, March 2024
* Lawrence Kadish: Rx for America
* Amir Taheri: Iran: Making a Future Out of the Past


** 'You Have a Beautiful Daughter...': The Persecution of Christians, March 2024 ([link removed])
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by Raymond Ibrahim • April 28, 2024 at 6:00 am
* [O]n March 25, the Lahore High Court in Pakistan awarded custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to her Muslim kidnapper.
* Charges were filed, "but instead of arresting the two suspects, police tipped them off .... Since that time, they have been threatening me and my mother to withdraw the case or face the consequences." – Morning Star News, March 8, 2024, Pakistan.
* "Christians are obviously a despised minority [in Yemen]... Christians are often last in line as it relates to being able to receive the care and attention there as war and as these things continue to escalate. That has a ripple effect ... while Christians were already last [in] line, that line becomes even further elongated." — Open Doors USA CEO Ryan Brown, Christian Broadcasting Network, March 8, 2024.
* "I thought it only happened elsewhere." — Mayor of Clermont d'Excideuil, France, March 11, 2024.

On March 25, the Lahore High Court in Pakistan awarded custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to her Muslim kidnapper. Pictured: The Lahore High Court. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)

The Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Russia: On March 22, Muslim terrorists armed with automatic weapons launched an attack on Crocus City Hall near Moscow, massacring at least 139 people and wounding more. Boasting of "killing Christians," ISIS quickly claimed the attack in a statement that said the assault was intentionally designed to target "thousands of Christians." Two months earlier, ISIS issued a communique to the "Lions of Islam" — presumably Muslim "avengers" around the world — to terrorize and slaughter Christians and Jews, including by targeting churches and synagogues. An excerpt follows:

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** Rx for America ([link removed])
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by Lawrence Kadish • April 28, 2024 at 4:30 am
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We might start by returning to energy independence. The climate would not be hurt one bit: The US has plenty of oil under the ground; we can extract it more cleanly than anyone. Instead, we are paying exorbitant prices to, say, Russia for oil that is far dirtier, while the Chinese Communist Party are opening two new coal plants a week. The result, in terms of clean air, is therefore currently either net-zero or, thanks to "protecting" the planet from America's clean oil, actually down.

Additionally, the US outlay for buying overpriced foreign oil and gas for immediate domestic use has simply served to finance both Russia's war on Ukraine, and Iran and Hamas's war on Israel. If the US were to start drilling, refining and exporting oil again, its price would go back down to $40 or $50 a barrel, nearly half its current $83 – and Russia and Iran, soon unable to afford their global aggression, would be forced to stop.

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by Amir Taheri • April 28, 2024 at 4:00 am
* [A]ny regime's foreign policy is basically a continuation of its domestic policies. The Khomeinist revolution's ambition was to transform the Iranian society into a vehicle for "exporting revolution" which, as "Supreme Guide" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei often asserts, is the fundamental goal of the regime. The hitch is that, as the old generation of revolutionaries, a hodgepodge of leftist and religious zealots, fades away, younger Iranians have no interest in exporting any ideology or building an empire. They just want to live "the Iranian way" by which they mean a nostalgia-generated vision of the past.
* In today's Iran, rappers... like Saman Yasin end up in prison, or like Toomaj Salehi are sentenced to death.

In today's Iran, rappers like Saman Yasin end up in prison, or like Toomaj Salehi are sentenced to death. Pictured: Protesters hold signs to show solidarity with Salehi, who was sentenced to death in Iran for supporting anti-government protests, on April 25, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Ali Khaligh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Over the past half a century, what is called "Iranology" has developed into a global industry with dozens of think-tanks, institutes, faculties and pressure groups trying to understand and explain what is going on in the Islamic Republic created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979.

Patterned on Kremlinology, a bustling industry during the Cold War, Iranology ignored Iran's history and culture and assumed that rather than being an epiphenomenon like Bolshevism turned out to be, the Islamic Republic is a true and thus permanent expression of Iranian nationhood.

Also like Kremlinology, Iranologists used and abused a number of terms to sustain its claim of expertise: Shi'ism, taqiyah, source of emulation, fatwa, revolutionary Islam etc. Noam Chomsky, one of the most ardent admirers of the Islamic Republic, also added "people-based" and "anti-Imperialist" to the list.

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