Reza Khalili (pseudonym), a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard,has reported the latest restatement of the Iranian Shiite theocracy’s Jew-annihilationist jihadism:
Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove “this corrupting material. It is a ‘jurisprudential justification’ to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”
The article, written by Alireza Forghani, an analyst and a strategy specialist in Khamenei’s camp, now is being run on most state-owned sites, including the Revolutionary Guards’ Fars News Agency, showing that the regime endorses this doctrine.
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Putatively (and perversely), these genocidal pronouncements are a “response” to Israel’s own planned efforts to thwart Iran’s longstanding, repeatedly expressed desire to destroy the Jewish state and “Zionists” (i.e., non-dhimmi Jews) in general. Shiite Iran’s obsessive calls for the destruction of Israel and the mass murder of Jews are driven by a deeply rooted theological Islamic anti-Semitism.
Past as Prologue
The Mujtahids [authoritative interpreters of Islamic law] and Mulla are a great force in Persia and concern themselves with every department of human activity from the minutest detail of personal purification to the largest issues of politics.
The Persianophilic scholar E. G. Browne wrote those words in the 1920s about the entire pre-Pahlavi period of Shiite theocratic rule, from the ascension of the first Safavid shah, Ismail I, at the outset of the 16th century through Reza Shah Pahlavi’s installation in 1925, at the end of the Qajar dynasty. These Shiite clerics emphasized the notion of the ritual uncleanliness (najis) of Jews in particular, but also of Christians, Zoroastrians, and others, as the cornerstone of relations toward non-Muslims. The impact of this najis conception was already apparent to European visitors to Persia during the reign of Ismail I. The Portuguese traveler Tome Pires observed (between 1512 and 1515) that “Sheikh Ismail . . . never spares the life of any Jew,” while another European travelogue notes “the great hatred [Ismail I] bears against the Jews.”
The writings and career of Mohammad Baqer al-Majlisi elucidate the imposition of Islamic law (Sharia) on non-Muslims in Shiite Iran. Al-Majlisi (d. 1699) was perhaps the most influential cleric of the Safavid Shiite theocracy in Persia. For six years at the end of the 17th century, he functioned as the de facto ruler of Iran, making him the Ayatollah Khomeini of his era. By design, he wrote many works in Persian to disseminate key aspects of the Shia ethos among ordinary persons. In his Persian treatise “Lightning Bolts Against the Jews,” Al-Majlisi describes the standard humiliating requisites for non-Muslims living under sharia, first and foremost the blood-ransom jizya, or poll-tax, based on Koran 9:29.
He then enumerates six other restrictions relating to worship, housing, dress, transportation, and weapons, before outlining the unique Shiite impurity or najis regulations. It is these latter najis prohibitions which lead anthropology professor Laurence Loeb — who studied and lived within the Jewish community of Southern Iran in the early 1970s — to observe, “Fear of pollution by Jews led to great excesses and peculiar behavior by Muslims.” According to Al-Majlisi:
And, that they should not enter the pool while a Muslim is bathing at the public baths . . . If something can be purified, such as clothes, if they are dry, they can be accepted, they are clean. But if they [the dhimmis] had come into contact with those cloths in moisture they should be rinsed with water after being obtained. . . . It would also be better if the ruler of the Muslims would establish that all infidels could not move out of their homes on days when it rains or snows because they would make Muslims impure.
The dehumanizing character of these popularized “impurity” regulations fomented recurring Muslim anti-Jewish violence, including pogroms and forced conversions throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, which rendered areas of Iran Judenrein — free of Jews. For example, the preeminent modern historian of Iranian Jewry, Walter Fischel, provides these observations based on the 19th-century narrative of Rabbi David d’Beth Hillel and additional eyewitness accounts:
Due to the persecution [by] their Moslem neighbors, many once flourishing communities entirely disappeared. Maragha, for example, ceased to be the seat of a Jewish community around 1800, when the Jews were driven out. . . . Similarly, Tabriz, where over 50 Jewish families are supposed to have lived, became Judenrein towards the end of the 18th century through similar circumstances. The peak of the forced elimination of Jewish communities occurred under Shah Mahmud (1834‒48), during whose rule the Jewish population in Meshed, in eastern Persia, was forcibly converted, an event which not only remained unchallenged by Persian authorities, but also remained unknown and unnoticed by European Jews.
An interesting article, but it suggests something that is completely false—from the small sample subset I know.
Persians are a conquered people—conquered by those who follow the governance of islamic dementia.
Whenever I’ve met a “Persian” they take offense to the ideology of islamism, and say they are not. It has become a badge of differential that they are Persian…and as such they have no cultural association with the most psychological, corrupt and perverse ideology ever unleashed on mankind known in world history.
Iran is the Persian word for Aryan. The former Shah of Iran was sent back into Persia by the OSS in 1943 in order to prevent Iran from following Iran's pro-Axis line. The meeting of the Big Three in Teheran that year was a signal that Iran was securely in the Allied camp. Not enough of the allied supplies to Russia was transshipped through the Persian Gulf to circumvent the severe losses during the Murmansk run especially PQ. 17. Norman Schwartzkopfs father helped plan the Persian supply route. The 1919 British Afghan campaign was a residual of the pan Germanic influence in the region.
The only religious ally to the Third Reich was the Grand Mufti of Palestine. A good friend in the military who works in the Middle East told me that every Palestinian, every Egyptian he's ever spoken to, no matter how friendly to my Christian friend will declare an utter hatred of the Jews. The Palestinians were the Philistines of old. They and the Egyptians have been at war with the Jews since before the coming of Christ. When my friend began to ask the Egyptians why they hated the Jews so much the answer he got repeatedly was that the Jews wrote that God favored them over the other tribes in the region, as is written in the Old Testament and in the Torah. In other words, those old battles have never been forgotten or forgiven. That's a difficult thing to overcome.
If our ancestors were this unforgiving and bitter there would never have been any nations in Europe or North America established. We just would have been tribal factions forever fighting.
One correction there mate, the Philistines were tall, red-headed sea-going people from the Aegean.
So little is known of them, we use the name "Philistine" which actually just means "invader" in Hebrew. Those who today claim to be "Palestinians" are Arabs, and have nothing at all to do with anyone of Biblical fame.
To stop Iran today will cost the world dearly in Blood and Treasure to accomplish. The resultant oil price shocks from the naval battle in the Strait of Hormuz will ripple over the world and plunge us back into economic chaos again, as these same price shocks pushed an overleveraged tottering world financial system over the edge into the chaos of 2008. We can expect Iranian agents, their allies and terrorist sleeper cells all over the world to strike everywhere and rein even more chaos down upon us. And a strike could produce another Arab-Israeli war likes we have not seen since in a long time.
Iran can be expected to rise to new levels of madness and violence like those seen during the long and bloody Iran Iraq war. But if Iran fights like this now, merely to keep their bomb making capabilities, what can we expect from them when they finally have the nuclear weapons and the missiles to strike all of Israel, Europe and the US? And what of the dreaded EMP weapon which could destroy every single unshielded electronic device for hundreds of miles of the epicenter of the blast if it were exploded high over the US heartland?
The Saudis, Syrians, Kuwaitis, Yemenis and others have all said publicly that if Iran acquires a nuclear bomb they will be forced to do the same. As troublesome and violent as the region is now, when nuclear weapons are in the hands of these states, history teaches us that they will use them against each other - just as they have repeatedly warred against each other for millennium without nuclear weapons. A nuclear war in the region that contains one third of all existing oil today would produce an immediate and incalculable cataclysm upon all the nations of the earth.
Iran’s hostile intentions are clear and they are almost able to carry them out, right now! A military strike upon Iran will produce terrible results everywhere in the world. But the far greater scope and magnitude of the consequences from Nuclear Armageddon between Iran and Israel will be of Epic Biblical Proportions. The consequences of not stopping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon capability so far outweigh the consequences of a military strike that Israel and the US are left with no other rational choice but to strike - and do it now before the cost gets ever greater and the results become less and less achievable. Simply put, the only thing worse that stopping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is not stopping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Iran must be stopped, and stopped right now before it is too late. Israel and the US must strike Iran and destroy their capability to produce nuclear weapons - before they strike first and annihalte Israel and the US - and we must strike immediately.
your assessment is insightful, but it assumes that the current President considers Israel an ally, or is willing to treat Israel like the traditional ally that it has been. The jack*ss we have in the white house has treated the British, a strong ally, with contempt. What makes you think he will support Israel defending itself let alone help to defend Israel?
"Simply put, the only thing worse that stopping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is not stopping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Iran must be stopped, and stopped right now before it is too late."
exactly right!
it seems obvious to you and me. isn't it amazing how many people just don't get it? once Iran gets the technology, they've GOT it--there's no going back. Israel bombed a reactor in Syria several years ago to quite good effect. I say "go for it."
I do wish that we were able to help Israel, but Obama would never raise a fist to his brother Ahmadinejad. we should know by now that there's nothing the Iranians can do that will displease Obama. he was madder about Israeli apartments in Jerusalem than he was about the Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington DC!
btw, I have sympathy for the Madonna fans who are asking Bibi to delay the attack until after her May 29 concert in Israel. I think that'd be ok; I'd like to see them go on June 6, D-Day.
You make a very compelling argument. However, perhaps we should just "go in" with overwhelming force. Begin with a media blitz that ignites the great citizens of Iran to stand up for their rights and go in and "free them" from the Mullahs. Take over the nuclear facilities, safely shut them down for good and help bring in a more stabilizing, form of leadership,
Just blowing up their facilities is going to prolong the inevitable, they will rebuild and we will be right back here again in our lifetime. They might even be just mad enough to purchase nukes from, Russia, North Korea, Pakistan, India, Libya (where did their missing nukes end up after our supposed liberation and leading from behind) etc....and skip the building process all together. After all it won't take but one or two nukes to do major harm to Israel. But Hamas, Palestine, Egypt, should all be concerned. Because those gases spread with the wind and the repercussions on their future generations will be horrific. It will not just impact Israel.
There is no doubt that something has to be done, and no matter what it is, it will have a significant impact on the world. But, whatever it is it can't be a surgical extraction it needs to be a major amputation of all that is bad so that we aren't repeating this exercise in a few years. Cut the head off of this monster once and for all!!
In addition, wouldn't it be nice if we were working on that Keystone Pipeline while all of this oil disruption takes place? We'll just have to buy are oil from China like everything else. At least we know they will still have to use the dollar. We owe them to many for them to work off of a different currency.
I just recalled, the prophet Mohammed lived during the 5th and 6th centuries AD. How do Muslim scholars explain the authority of their faith when human history predates Islam's foundation by thousands of years? Did they ever bother to give a defense of this? I'm more curious than anything, because the prophet used elements from the Bible as pretext for the faith he claimed, so I really was wondering if there was an authoritative explanation into how Islam justifies its absence before its founding?
With the laws of the Old and New testament, people had an opportunity for salvation for most of human civilization. Did all of Islam's non-believers or dhimmis just simply go to hell or something?
The answer is quite simple. Since the Koran was dictated directly to Mohammed who repeated it word for word, and recorded by scribes, it is considered the absolute and authentic word of God In contrast the Hebrew bible and the New Testament were written by many men, copied many times, and both have incurred horrible mistakes. Only the Koran is uncorrupted. (We will ignore the many contradictions in the Koran.)
Most Muslims are incredibly ignorant of the bible of the Jews and Christians. Even gentle types who are intellectually curious are surprised to hear that Isaac, not Ishmael, was the intended sacrifice of Abraham. In fact, Ishmael takes the place of several people mentioned in the more ancient holy books.
For anyone who's been to the Middle East and Persia, this fear of theirs of uncleanliness is laughable.
Muslims throughout the world live in some of the filthiest hell-holes to be found anywhere on the planet. Cairo is the most disgusting city I have ever seen.
A sewer hole is more pristine.
Given the pathetic sanitation systems and sewer systems that operate -- or fail to -- where a majority of the planet's Muslim population resides, they're lucky there is not an international ban on their travel elsewhere.
The Middle East and Persia are so physically and thoroughly decrepit, that they have some of the highest infant mortality rates in the world, and low life expectancies.
A lesser man would take solace in that, I suppose, given the love of death among young Arab and Persian males.
I'd rather live in the back of a garbage truck than in the filth of Persia and Arabia. The lack of any false pretense is more attractive.
Speaking of the Keystone pipeline... I'm wondering why we are STILL shipping oil through the Straits of Hormuz, 30 years after the Iranian Revolution and after 3 wars in that region? Why haven't Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia just built piplelines across the Arabian Peninsula to the much-safer Red Sea? This is the most dangerous chokepoint in the entire world, and all it would take is a threat by Iran to shut it down.
Destruction of Iranian nuclear facilities will be very difficult, because they are now buried under mountains, as a result of several years of vacillation and nail-biting about what has been an obvious threat. The best that can be hoped for, from an attack against nuclear objectives, is a transient delay in their efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
However,
Iran has only one oil refinery, and must import over 50% of its gasoline. If that refinery were destroyed, along with most oil storage facilities, it would halt every vehicle, including military vehicles, indefinitely. Most of Iranian military resources would be immobilized.
The Iranian economy is overwhelmingly dependent upon oil exports, from terminals in the Persian Gulf. If the Straits of Hormuz are closed, Iran can't sell any oil, and will have no income.
If these weak points were attacked and held hostage with a blockade of gasoline imports and oil exports, Iran could be compelled to turn over all nuclear materials as a condition of survival.
