Category Archives: Essays

The third part and final installment of the three part series, “Jihad and Genocidal Islamic Antisemitism in Shi’ite Iran,” is now posted at Pajamas Media. Shiraz, the southern “hub” of Iranian Jewry, and its vestigial remnant dhimmi Jewish community.

The second part of the three part series, “Jihad and Genocidal Islamic Antisemitism in Shi’ite Iran,” is now posted at Pajamas Media. Shah Ismail I (d. 1524)—Founder of the Safavid Shi’ite theocracy, and inveterate Muslim Jew-hater.

“Jihad and Genocidal Islamic Antisemitism in Shi’ite Iran,” the first of a three-part series, begins today at Pajamas Media.

This past Thursday (1/14/10) I attended a briefing (an early iteration of the discussion contents are available here, entitled “To Our Great Detriment”) which elucidated in irrefragable detail  the Pentagon’s willful capitulation to the dictates of Islamically-correct interpretations of jihad … Continue reading →

Wittfogel: Totalitarianism is “…not checked by Beggar’s Democracy.” Karl Wittfogel (1896-1988) was an historian and sinologist. Early in his career, Wittfogel was a champion of Marxism—as an academic, playwright, and activist. By 1931, Wittfogel focused his efforts on fighting the … Continue reading →

The vocal stylings of Ayatollah Seyyid Ibn Pharteen, debuting his, “Ashoura Lura Lural, That’s a Shiite Lullaby” Audio produced and made available by Recorda Me Studios, at this link: http://www.archive.org/details/AshuraLuraLura The refrain: Ashoura Lura Lural Ashoura Lura Li Ashoura Lura … Continue reading →

Norman Rockwell’s “The Golden Rule”  “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets” Matthew 7:12

(It’s The Little) Saint Najis?  The death of Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri at age 87 on December 20, 2009 has been accompanied by decidedly hagiographic post-mortems.  But perhaps the most curious of these assessments, by Michael Rubin, includes … Continue reading →

William Happer on contemporary Climate Scientologists: “Disagreeing with them is like going to Saudi Arabia and criticizing Muhammad.” Eric Hoffer: “[A]bsolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”  The so-called “Climate Gate” e-mail scandal simply confirms fraudulent activity masquerading as … Continue reading →

Jules Monnerot’s, 1949 “Sociologie du Communisme,” was translated into English and published as “Sociology and Psychology of Communism,” by The Beacon Press, Boston,  in 1953. Monnerot elaborated at length upon a brief, but remarkably prescient observation by Bertrand Russell, published … Continue reading →