Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sunday, 25 October 2015


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The Shi'ite Leopard: Iran's Religious Persecution

by Denis MacEoin  •  October 25, 2015 at 5:00 am
  • Despite promises of amelioration from Iran's current President, Hassan Rouhani, the situation for Christians has not improved at all.
  • Rouhani, came to power as a proponent of human rights and reform, and has been considered a reformer and moderate in the West ever since. He made countless declarations of his intention to pursue a human rights agenda and guarantee equal rights for all Iranians: Every one of those promises has been broken, yet the U.S. continues to put faith in Rouhani as an honest broker.
  • "Christians continue to be arbitrarily arrested... [They] disappear for weeks at a time... Detainees are sometimes told they must to convert to Islam or their families will be killed." -- Ruth Gledhill, journalist
  • Even though many Sufi Muslims are fervently pious in their devotion to the faith of the Shi'a, clerics in Qom declared Sufis to be apostates and attempted to expel them from the town and to take over their religious centre.
  • The document organized the methods of oppression used to persecute the Baha'is, and contained specific recommendations. When Iranian judges offer the Bahai's life in exchange for abandonment of faith it is a clear admission of a purely religious motive.
  • Why do so many Western states and the UN condemn Israel while bending over backwards to accommodate every demand Iran makes in its bid to build nuclear weapons, expand its terrorist influence, and threaten the West?
The destruction of a historic Baha'i cemetery in Shiraz, Iran, by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp. (Image source: Baha'i World News Service)
In the wake of the infamous nuclear deal with the hard-line Iranian regime, countries around the world, led by U.S. President Barack Obama, are busy trying to bring the Islamic Republic, so long sanctioned and held at arm's length by decent people, in from the cold. Business deals beckon, great claims are made of coming dialogue and a slackening of the tensions of the Middle East. We are told that war has been avoided.
But has the Shi'ite leopard, overnight, truly changed its spots? It still executes more people per capita than China, it still supports and conducts terrorist activities in several countries, its leaders still preach hatred for America, Israel, and the West. In reality, nothing has changed, yet the theocratic, human-rights-denying regime is now to be everybody's best buddy.

The Holocaust is OVER

by Shoshana Bryen  •  October 25, 2015 at 4:00 am
  • This minute, the UN is labeling one of the oldest existing symbols of Jewish patrimony in the Land of Israel -- the Tomb of Rachel, wife of the biblical patriarch Jacob -- as a Muslim holy site.
  • The UN had not a word, however, about the Muslims who burned the Jewish holy site at Joseph's Tomb last week. This omission raises a different question: the same Joseph is also a prophet in Islam; why are they firebombing his tomb?
  • Abbas has been lying about threats to the status quo on the Temple Mount, and proposing his own change: The Jews, he said, have no right to "desecrate" the mosque with their "filthy feet."
  • Watch a beautiful little girl with a large knife tell her approving father, "I want to stab a Jew."
  • In 2000, the New York Times wrote about Arafat's summer "war-game camps" in Gaza, teaching Palestinian children how to prepare for battle. That is fifteen years of learning to kill Jews and creating child soldiers: a violation of the UN Convention on Child Soldiers, and one reason so many young Palestinians are primed for violence.
  • In the summer of 2015, tens of thousands of teenagers in Gaza participated in these "summer camps" to learn from their Hamas teachers to kill Jews.
  • If what happened in the 1930s and 1940s, however, is allowed to turn our attention from the current threats to the Jewish State, we will have granted Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem a belated victory they do not deserve.
(Image source: MEMRI)
Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, set off a firestorm on October 21 by saying that the Mufti of Jerusalem had actually planted the idea of exterminating the Jews in Hitler's mind; that Hitler would have simply ousted them from Europe.
Scholars, academicians, politicians, friends and enemies of Jews, Israel, and Netanyahu leapt to the barricades. The Washington Post had the story on the front page. Twitter and blogs have overflowed with it. The Chancellor of Germany found it oddly necessary to say, "Germany is responsible for the Holocaust."
But enough about who, between two long-dead anti-Semites, was the worst. It is a distraction and provides cover for today's racists and those who would destroy Israel.
Palestinian agitator Saeb Erekat used the tumult to weigh in. In the latest Palestinian effort to rewrite history, he said, "Palestine's efforts against Nazis, are deep-rooted part of our history."
Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 11:32