Mainstream Western analysts will pay no attention, and continue to assume that the Israeli conflict with the “Palestinians” is about land, and can be ended by giving the “Palestinians” a state and forcing other Israeli concessions. Those analysts don’t even understand, or care to understand, why al-Nasseri says that the Gaza war is a global […]
Iraq to lower ‘age of consent’ for girls to nine at behest of Shia Muslim parties
Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage and the sexualization of children are taken for granted in wide swaths of the Islamic world. “The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated […]
Yazidi woman, 21, kidnapped from Iraq by ISIS, freed from Gaza after 11 years captivity
The abuse of Yazidis by the Islamic State (ISIS) was widely published. Many mistakingly think that ISIS is different from other jihad groups. The only differences with ISIS were its claim to be the new caliphate, and its sudden rise in the modern era. The rapidity of its expansion by the sword was reminiscent of […]
Hackers from Islamic Republic of Iran trying to influence US election and sow political discord
Of course. They want to keep the billions flowing into the Islamic Republic’s coffers. “Microsoft researchers report Iranian hackers targeting US officials before election,” Reuters, August 9, 2024: Microsoft researchers said on Friday that Iranian government-tied hackers tried breaking into the account of a “high-ranking official” on the US presidential campaign in June, weeks after breaching the […]
Progress: Iraq Moves to Legalize Pedophilia
New in PJ Media: Moral standards that people took for granted for centuries seem to be eroding everywhere. That is not just true only in the woke, decadent West, but all over the world, albeit for different reasons. While the West casts off every residual attachment to traditional morality, elsewhere in the world, old traditions […]
Zoroastrianism Makes A Comeback In Iraqi Kurdistan
About 15,000 young Iraqis, almost all of them Kurds, have in recent years left Islam to embrace Zoroastrianism. In March 2024, the news site Shafaq ran a startling headline: “Kurdistan celebrates birth of Zoroaster,” Shafaq News, March 26, 2024: Shafaq News/ Kurds in the city of Al-Sulaymaniyah celebrated the birth of Zoroaster (Zarathustra,) the founder […]
Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq confirms support for Houthis in attacking Israel
While Israel battles proxies of Iran such as the Houthis, Hizballah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and now Kataib Hezbollah, as well as the threat of various Iraqi and Syrian militia groups, the Biden administration is largely to blame, as it has sent billions into Iran’s coffers. The regime should have continued to be stymied by […]
Is ‘Extremist Islam’ a Recent Invention?
Many non-Muslims make confident but false claims about women’s rights in Islam. Some of these are tied to views of America’s long incursion in Iraq. There are claims that the United States fought in Iraq in part in order to champion women’s rights in Muslim countries. In fact, the United States went to war in […]
The Farhud Was Just One of Many Arab Muslim Pogroms Against Jewish Communities
The “Farhud,” which in Arabic means “violent dispossession,” was the pogrom carried out by Arabs against Baghdad’s Jews on June 1-2, 1941. This was the beginning of the ethnic cleansing of Iraq’s Jews, who had been there for millennia. 180 Jews, or 780 count the 600 corpses in a collective grave, were murdered. Over the […]
The Despair In Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon Has Nothing To Do With Israel
Young Arabs are suffering terribly from the economic difficulties in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. In Syria, thirteen years of civil war have caused six million people to flee the country, and another five million are internally displaced – that is, living mainly in tent cities throughout Syria. The country’s infrastructure lies in ruins; it is […]