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- Article · Sep 14, 2026Reflections on 9/11 and Iran
strains of militant Islamist hostility are the Shiite revolutionary model created by the overthrow of the Shah in Iran in 1979 and Sunni jihadism, of which bin Laden … interests all over the world. They have killed thousands in the process. Sunni jihadism’s biggest attack by far was 9/11, but they have orchestrated attacks before and since
- Opinion · Apr 30, 2026Do We Know Our Enemy?
Ayatollahs’ Constitution is to establish a universal Shiite society, based on the teachings of Ayatollah Khomeini, and bring to submission the Sunni Moslem ‘apostates’ and the non-Moslem ‘infidels
- Opinion · Apr 10, 2026There Must Be More
wrong. Lying is wrong. Iran is dominated by Shiite Muslims who, at heart, embrace Taqiyya, or religious dissimulation, in ways Sunni Muslims tend to reject. It is why more must
- Article · Apr 1, 2026MI Senate Candidate Knows His Audience
Americans and Muslims of any city in the US. It is also predominantly Shiite Muslim, despite Sunni Islam being the far larger branch of that religion globally.” El-Sayed … something else entirely. Maybe El-Sayed is merely applying one of the precepts of Shiite Islam, taqiyya — namely, that you’re allowed to lie to and mislead the unbelievers
- Opinion · Mar 12, 2026Our Long Road to War With Iran
arms from both. Two, they were endlessly chagrined that the Persian Shiites had been overshadowed by more populous Sunni Arab neighbors that supposedly lacked their own historical sophistication and more … destruction of Israel would ensure that theocratic and Shiite Iran regained its lost prestige and honor by finally accomplishing what the Sunni world had failed to do. By arming murderous
- Article · Jul 1, 2025In Brief: Iran’s Nuclear Theology
Protestant, and Orthodox branches, while Islam is also deeply divided — most significantly between Sunnis and Shiites. The divisions within Islam, however, are far more violent than any disagreements within present … false doctrine. Some Shia movements consider themselves divinely appointed minorities struggling against corrupt Sunni majorities. Shiites comprise only 10 to 15% of the Muslim world. Iran, however, has been
- Opinion · Jun 24, 2025Trump Did the Right Thing
Muslim Barbary pirates of the early 19th century, irrespective of U.S. policy, Sunni and Shiite Islamic terrorism has been determined NOT to disengage from — but to intimidate, terrorize and subjugate
- Opinion · Feb 14, 2025Why Were Hopes of the 1990s Dashed?
Russia’s authoritarian state-directed capitalism, the oppressive clerical regimes of Shiite Iran, and various Sunni Muslim states. By Freedom House’s sophisticated measures, 2004 saw a high point
- Opinion · Feb 6, 2025Turkiye — New Ottoman Empire
Empire, which covered most of the Middle East and North Africa. Erdogan is promoting Sunni Islam with the building of Islamic schools and converting Christian churches into mosques. The most … becoming an autocratic Islamic state. Erdogan is fostering Islamic (Sharia) law and persecuting Christians , Shiites, Alevis , and Kurds. Freedoms of speech and press are curtailed, with journalists and intellectuals jailed
- Opinion · Jan 4, 2025The ISIS Threat Never Left
Africa. ISIS rages in Syria and Iraq as its Sunni compatriots in Hamas fight to the death in Gaza. Shiite radicals in Hezbollah and among the Houthis sow terror
- Opinion · Dec 20, 2024What Does the Future Hold for Christians in Syria?
enforce a Salafi-Shariah law-based ideology that disenfranchises Christians, Druze, and non-Sunni sects including Shiites and Alawites. The SNA’s Targeting of Christians The Turkish-backed
- Opinion · Dec 13, 2024How Not to Think About Syria
thus many reasons to be ecstatic that Assad, a minority Alawite in a majority-Sunni country, is no more. From a Western geopolitical perspective, it is a clear positive that … lost easy access to Mediterranean ports, and Iran has a gaping hole in its “Shiite crescent” of influence, which, in the not-so-distant past, extended from Iran through Iraq
- Opinion · Sep 24, 2024Israel Derangement Syndrome
exploding pagers killed very few noncombatants. Hezbollah is the Shiite and Lebanese equivalent of the Gaza-based Sunni Hamas. Like Hamas, Hezbollah has one purpose: to kill as many Israelis
- Opinion · Jul 8, 2024October 7 Evil
Hamas was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and is committed to destroying Israel. Shiite Iran is the leading supplier of arms
- Opinion · Apr 19, 2024Are Iran’s Nine Lives Nearing an End?
decades has relied on surrogates — especially expendable Arab Shiite terrorists in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, along with the Sunni Arabs of Hamas — to do its dirty work of killing … claims it is the champion of aggrieved Shiite Arab and Persian minorities, unfairly exploited by Israel, moderate Arab regimes, and rich Sunni Gulf monarchies. Three, Iran hopes its pseudo-diplomatic
- Opinion · Mar 22, 2024Ramadan
been fighting the central Yemeni Sunni government with weapons and training received from fellow Shiite country Iran. Saudi Arabia actively backed the central Yemeni government until the Biden administration announced
- Opinion · Jan 20, 2024Delusional in Davos
Sunni Arab interest to back the “strong horse” of Israel and its ally, the United States, to ward off the Shiite radicals. Nor is the region disintegrating because the Palestinians
- Opinion · Jan 19, 2024Weakness Provokes Bullies
Yemen are the Houthi. Unlike most of the population, which is Sunni, the Houthi are Shiite Muslims, like Iran. Iran embraced the Houthi and have turned them into a terrorist
- Opinion · Dec 29, 2023A 2024 Wish List: Sanity at Home and Stability Abroad
interest in supporting Israel to the hilt in its now-multifront war against Sunni and Shiite jihadists. Many American citizens were killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom, and many more
- Opinion · Dec 18, 2023Houthi Who?
Navy intervention ? The short answer is that the Houthis are an Islamic Shiite tribe and political group in Yemen that hates Jews and Western Civilization. The Houthis’ slogan … Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for their support of the Yemen Sunni government. The Houthis are an Iranian proxy, as are Hezbollah and Hamas. The Houthis control