Explore the ongoing conflict with radical Shia Islamism, anti-Semitic violence in the UK, and Israel’s military efforts in Gaza in this week’s update.
The West’s Conflict with Radical Shia Islamism – No End in Sight
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Tehran
As conflict escalates, Netanyahu explains it is an existential war
Explore the latest developments in the conflict with Iran, including military actions, leadership changes, and global energy impacts.
The West struggles to respond to Islamist terror
As the protests on the streets continue in Iran against the bloodthirsty regime in Tehran, Western countries are uncertain how to respond. The EU has announced it is “monitoring the situation”. Pressure is mounting on the EU to put the IRGC on the EU terror list. Christoph Heusgen, former head of the Munich Security Conference, said on Thursday that the European Union’s failure to list Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization was a sign of weakness. “That the Revolutionary Guards are still not listed is a sign of weakness by the European Union,” Heusgen told German public radio Deutschlandfunk.
Weekly Update: Dependent on God
Israel is fighting a war on seven fronts for its survival. Its main enemy is the revolutionary regime in Tehran – the radical Shiite Mullahs who hijacked Iran in 1979. Their goal is to destroy the west, and to export their revolutionary Islamic ideology around the world. This regime attacks Israel directly but operates through its many allies and proxies in the region. Its most important proxy is Hezbollah, in Lebanon.
Islam: From Confusion to Clarity
Photo: Protest of 4 November 2015 in Tehran against government of the United States. Photo by Mohamad Sadegh Heydary By early 1981 American embassy hostages held in Tehran were back home. A discreet reception was held for some of them in a suburban home in Northern Virginia, USA. One former hostage, Malcolm Kalp (pictured below), was reported to have said at that meeting, “We still think the Soviet Union is our enemy, that worldwide communism is still the principal threat to our way of life. But the real challenge isn’t the Soviet Union – it’s militant Islam. We have no idea what we are up against”. Three and a half decades later his observation remains accurate on all counts. Mostly only those who have lived within Islamic societies and have studied their sacred texts (Qur’an, Hadith and Sira) can understand what is happening and give some explanation of likely outcomes should the message of revivalist Islam continued to spread unchecked around the world. And spreading it surely is. Like rogue organisms from some cancerous tumour, cells of fundamentalist Islam multiply and metastasise faster than intelligence agencies can track them. United Nations Secretary, General Ban Ki-Moon said on February 5, 2016 that […]