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by Denis MacEoin
• October 25, 2015 at 5:00 am
- Despite
promises of amelioration from Iran's current President, Hassan
Rouhani, the situation for Christians has not improved at all.
- Rouhani, came
to power as a proponent of human rights and reform, and has been
considered a reformer and moderate in the West ever since. He made
countless declarations of his intention to pursue a human rights
agenda and guarantee equal rights for all Iranians: Every one of
those promises has been broken, yet the U.S. continues to put faith
in Rouhani as an honest broker.
- "Christians
continue to be arbitrarily arrested... [They] disappear for weeks at
a time... Detainees are sometimes told they must to convert to Islam
or their families will be killed." -- Ruth Gledhill, journalist
- Even though
many Sufi Muslims are fervently pious in their devotion to the faith
of the Shi'a, clerics in Qom declared Sufis to be apostates and
attempted to expel them from the town and to take over their
religious centre.
- The document
organized the methods of oppression used to persecute the Baha'is,
and contained specific recommendations. When Iranian judges offer
the Bahai's life in exchange for abandonment of faith it is a clear
admission of a purely religious motive.
- Why do so many
Western states and the UN condemn Israel while bending over
backwards to accommodate every demand Iran makes in its bid to build
nuclear weapons, expand its terrorist influence, and threaten the
West?
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The destruction of a historic Baha'i cemetery in
Shiraz, Iran, by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp. (Image source:
Baha'i World News Service)
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In the wake of the infamous nuclear deal with the hard-line Iranian
regime, countries around the world, led by U.S. President Barack Obama,
are busy trying to bring the Islamic Republic, so long sanctioned and
held at arm's length by decent people, in from the cold. Business deals
beckon, great claims are made of coming dialogue and a slackening of the
tensions of the Middle East. We are told that war has been avoided.
But has the Shi'ite leopard, overnight, truly changed its spots? It
still executes more people per capita than China, it still supports and
conducts terrorist activities in several countries, its leaders still
preach hatred for America, Israel, and the West. In reality, nothing has
changed, yet the theocratic, human-rights-denying regime is now to be
everybody's best buddy.
by Shoshana Bryen
• October 25, 2015 at 4:00 am
- This minute,
the UN is labeling one of the oldest existing symbols of Jewish
patrimony in the Land of Israel -- the Tomb of Rachel, wife of the
biblical patriarch Jacob -- as a Muslim holy site.
- The UN had not
a word, however, about the Muslims who burned the Jewish holy site
at Joseph's Tomb last week. This omission raises a different
question: the same Joseph is also a prophet in Islam; why are they
firebombing his tomb?
- Abbas has been
lying about threats to the status quo on the Temple Mount, and
proposing his own change: The Jews, he said, have no right to
"desecrate" the mosque with their "filthy feet."
- Watch a
beautiful little girl with a large knife tell her approving father,
"I want to stab a Jew."
- In 2000, the New
York Times wrote about Arafat's summer "war-game
camps" in Gaza, teaching Palestinian children how to prepare
for battle. That is fifteen years of learning to kill Jews and
creating child soldiers: a violation of the UN Convention on Child
Soldiers, and one reason so many young Palestinians are primed for
violence.
- In the summer
of 2015, tens of thousands of teenagers in Gaza participated in
these "summer camps" to learn from their Hamas teachers to
kill Jews.
- If what
happened in the 1930s and 1940s, however, is allowed to turn our
attention from the current threats to the Jewish State, we will have
granted Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem a belated victory
they do not deserve.
Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, set off a firestorm on
October 21 by saying that the Mufti of Jerusalem had actually planted the
idea of exterminating the Jews in Hitler's mind; that Hitler would have
simply ousted them from Europe.
Scholars, academicians, politicians, friends and enemies of Jews,
Israel, and Netanyahu leapt to the barricades. The Washington Post
had the story on the front page. Twitter and blogs have overflowed with
it. The Chancellor of Germany found it oddly necessary to say,
"Germany is responsible for the Holocaust."
But enough about who, between two long-dead anti-Semites, was the
worst. It is a distraction and provides cover for today's racists and
those who would destroy Israel.
Palestinian agitator Saeb Erekat used the tumult to weigh in. In the
latest Palestinian effort to rewrite history, he said, "Palestine's
efforts against Nazis, are deep-rooted part of our history."
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