April 24 marked the 105th anniversary of the 1915 Ottoman Empire’s deportation of 200 Armenian intellectuals from the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, an event that is remembered as the start of the Armenian genocide. Fitting reflections for this time come from Sister Hatune Dogan, a Syriac Orthodox Christian nun from Turkey, who has written about […]
The Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Hoax
Former Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “staffers have admitted that the hate accusations leveled by the SPLC are a ‘con,’ a deceptive scheme to raise money,” writes PJ Media Senior Editor Tyler O’Neil. In his new book, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center, O’Neil shreds the SPLC’s claims to be […]
New Book Exposes American Ingrate Ilhan Omar
“Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has lived the American dream,” but in her telling “America has always been a nightmare…conceived in sin, built on oppression and bigotry.” So writes conservative commentator Benjamin Weingarten in his new book, American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party, an incisive exposé of this dangerous, […]
Rashid Khalidi Twists History to Delegitimize Israel
Modern Zionism “is a self-described colonial-settler project,” stated Columbia University’s Rashid Khalidi on last month at Washington, DC’s Politics and Prose bookstore before a standing-room-only audience of about 120. This Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies distorted history to delegitimize Jewish self-determination in Israel upon the basis of his latest book, The Hundred Years’ […]
J Street Event Slams Israel
“One people is dominating another, this is the essence of the problem” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, claimed Israeli Jew Rami Elhanan, co-general manager of Israel’s fringe Parents Circle—Families Forum (PCFF), on March 6 in Washington, DC. He addressed about 30 largely like-minded listeners in the shared offices of the New Israel Fund (NIF) and Americans […]
Christ Subverts Iran’s Islamic Republic
“Christianity is considered an existential threat to the Islamic Republic of Iran,” wrote February 7 the Christian religious freedom advocates Arielle Del Turco and Lela Gilbert. This statement indicates the extreme measures Iran’s theocratic Islamic Republic is willing to implement in order to repress alternative belief systems such as Christianity, and the enormous attendant political […]
Iranians are Losing Their Islamic Religion
“Islam is dead,” the “mosques are empty,” and “no one follows Islam inside of Iran,” an unidentified Iranian church leader stated in the 2019 film Sheep Among Wolves Volume II. The film marks a widely observed trend in recent decades of Iranians abandoning the cruel theocratic faith of Iran’s 1979-established Islamic Republic for Christianity. “God […]
DC panelists on Trump’s peace plan: US officials “have never, ever put out a document this long, this detailed”
“The implications of just publishing” President Donald Trump’s recent Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal “are enormous,” stated former Israeli ambassador to South Africa Alon Liel during a February 13 panel in Washington, DC. His comments, transmitted from abroad via Skype and phone, along with those of his fellow panelists hosted by the Gulf International Forum (GIF), indicated […]
Iran’s Theocrats Mix God and Country
In order “to present the truth of Islam to the world, we should raise the Iranian flag,” stated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, in a 2010 speech that provoked ideological uproar in Iran. His words indicated how Iran’s Islamic Republic, proclaimed as a global Islamic revolution’s vanguard, has delicately tried to […]
A Cause, Not a Country: Iran’s Islamic Republic
“The Iranian state serves the revolution, not the other way around,” concluded Iran analysts at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (IGC) in a series of 2019 studies four decades after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. As this series has previously indicated, in the name of pursuing an Islamic new world order, the Islamic Republic […]