"In the elections, the people said 'no' to Khamenei's monopoly" - Rafsanjani 1 "I will support Rohani as long as I live... God will make our way successful so we can solve problems together with the people. The leader will also help" - Rafsanjani 2 "The state is not the personal property of anyone" - Rafsanjani's daily newspaper Jomhouri-e Eslami 3 Introduction Political observers and global media view the Iranian elections as a struggle between a reformist stream – and its purported ...
Introduction On July 3, Egyptian Defense Minister 'Abd Al-Fatah Al-Sisi removed Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi and appointed Supreme Constitutional Court head 'Adly Mansour interim president. This move came after Mursi rejected Al-Sisi's 48-hour ultimatum 1 to meet what he presented as the demands of the people, which included his resignation and the holding of early elections. 2 Mursi's ouster by the military sparked a wave of responses in the world and in Arab media. The most support for ...
Pakistan and many Islamic countries are witnessing targeted killings of Shia Muslims by Sunni jihadi forces such as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda (image courtesy: shiapost.om) Given below are excerpts from an article that appeared in a leading Pakistani daily following the June 15, 2013 terror attacks in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province, where a female suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying female students and later the militants laid siege to a medical complex where the ...
The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock – among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.) Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an ...
Introduction In a speech given on May 25, 2013, on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the withdrawal of the Israeli military from South Lebanon, Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah openly admitted what was already known, namely that his organization is actively fighting in Syria alongside the Assad regime. He described the fighting in Syria as a war declared by the Islamists, the U.S., and Israel against the resistance axis, which is fighting for its life, and said that if Syria ...
"According to the model of Western democracy, we must see what the people say and what will satisfy their will, even if this will is against the religion and against morality... Based on this definition of democracy, even if people are drawn to acts that are against humanity and the religion, this must be complied with ... like in some countries that have legalized homosexuality... In contrast, Islamic democracy is guided democracy... if there is deviation among the people, they must be guided ...
Introduction The Al-Risalah Islamic Bookstore in Sydney, Australia, which doubles as a community center, offers a wide range of lectures and activities for adults, children and teens. Al-Risalah's website and Facebook page, as well as videos of lectures it has presented and the background of some of the lecturers, indicate that it is spreading extremist and militant Islamic views. Both its online presence and the lectures presented there convey an ideology that is sympathetic to the global ...
Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered by Sheik Abd Al-Jalil Al-Karouri, which aired on April 19, 2013: Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV. Abd Al-Jalil Al-Karouri : "The most important political events of the week were the Boston earthquake and the Texas earthquake, which joined it yesterday… Or rather, the bombings in Boston and in Texas, as well as the Iran earthquake. In short, the peculiar thing is that no one knows who is behind these events. Even President Obama said ...
The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock – among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.) Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an ...
