An esteemed Arab League ‘grandee’ recently thundered that it was impossible for the Arab world to accept anything – ‘other’- than 21st century modern secularism: Islamism was forbidden. Egypt’s ‘coup’ (“if you wish to call it such”, against the elected Muslim Brotherhood government) was absolutely appropriate, he insisted.
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Henrik covers the increased violence in Sweden, especially in the No-Go Zones. Immigrant groups are being taught to hate native Swedes. Robberies and crimes involving humiliation have increased rapidly the last few years. Watch the second episode of No-Go Zone.
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Professor Ed Dutton joins Henrik to discuss his latest book “Why Islam Makes You Stupid . . . But Also Means You’ll Conquer the World.” We discuss intelligence, religion, submission, genetic mutants, the outcome of the right vs. left political battle in the West. Join us for an interesting conversation.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution remains as bellwether, even though attempts to emulate it have not yet succeeded.
— Journalist Eric Walberg1
Patrick COCKBURN
Today Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei gave his first Friday sermon in Tehran for eight years to an audience of thousands, as he tried to calm down the furious public reaction to the Revolutionary Guards mistakenly shooting down a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers, then proceeding to lie about their responsibility for three days.
What is Russia’s real position on Libya? Has it shifted sides or playing a double game? And what strategy can Turkey’s Erdogan take now, so that he remains a friend to Putin but also a winner in Tripoli? Martin Jay asks the Tripoli-based analyst Mohamed Eljarh for his take on who are the winners and losers of Russia and Turkey being on opposite sides in Libya.
According to BBC’s top expert on jihadist movements, official publications from ISIS are now calling the killing of the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani an act of God, and are portraying Shiite Iran as Muslims’ greatest enemy, more so even than powers that don’t claim to be Muslim.
Joe Biden’s statement that “President Trump just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox” by assassinating Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani was not inaccurate. But it skirts an all-important question: who created the tinderbox in the first place?
The answer, of course, is the United States.
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Henrik speaks with Jason Reza Jorjani, author of Iranian Leviathan, about the situation in Iran and the death of Soleimani.
Book: Iranian Leviathan
Articles:Trump’s Iran War BeginsThe Leviathan of Iranian CivilizationIranian Hegemony in the Islamic World
