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Blog entries from Amil Blogs Blog entries from Amil Blogs http://www.amilimani.com Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:30:59 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 Iranian-Americans Grieve with Bostonians http://www.amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/iranian-americans-grieve-with-bostonians <img height="72" align="left" src=""> Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:17:47 +0100 Islamists Iranian-Americans Interview with Amil Imani http://www.amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/interview-with-amil-imani <img height="72" align="left" src=""><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>As an apostate his mission is to raise the clarion call about the imminent and present danger of expansionistic theocratic Islam. Having witnessed first-hand the horrors and indignity that Islamofascism visits on people it subjugates, he has taken it upon himself to do his part in defeating this ideology of oppression, hate and violence.</strong><!--more--></p><p><strong><em>When and why did you get involved in the anti-Islamic movement?</em></strong> My confrontation with Islam actually began early in life when I encountered so many Islamic beliefs and practices. Born in a Muslim family and enveloped by an Islamic society, I needed to find my own identity and path in life. A great many things about Islam clashed with beliefs that I cherished. Namely, those of the longstanding, life loving, and egalitarianism of my ancient pre-Islamic people.</p><p><strong><em>Islamophobia is an irrational fear or prejudice towards Islam and Muslims. Are you an irrational Islamophobe?</em></strong> All phobias are, by definition, irrational fears. I&#39;m not an Islamophobe, because my &quot;fear&quot; of Islam is completely rational. Avoiding a poisonous snake is a rational fear. Not a phobia. The emotion of fear, when utilized rationally, is of immense value. The key point is that the person, as well as the society, must base their assessment on facts. My assessment of Islam, conclusively supported by indisputable facts, is that it is a dangerous destructive and death-bearing belief system of a long ago savage people that has inflicted and continues to inflict misery and death to people.</p><p><strong><em>Did you receive any threats from Muslims or others because of your involvement in the anti-Islamic movement or because of your apostasy?</em></strong> Yes. But I ignore them. I will speak the truth about Islam. In no way am I falsely defaming Islam. Islam is own best defamer. Speaking the truth usually entails risks. I&#39;m well aware of that. Sharia law stipulates that any Muslim who turns his back on Islam should be given a chance to revert to the religion. For an un-repenting male apostate, death is the punishment and life imprisonment for a female apostate. &ldquo;Kill whoever changes his religion.&rdquo; __Sahih al-Bukhari 9:84:57</p><p><strong><em>What aspects of Islam do you find most problematic and disturbing?</em></strong> To answer this question properly, volumes can be written. Just a few keywords should cue you for now. Intolerance, fatalism, institutionalized slavery, injustice, jihadism, oppression of women and non-Muslims, celebration of death, lack of respect for individualism, rejection of freedom and democracy, belief in the theocracy of Allah as ministered by the self-serving clergy who are not accountable to the people, stifling of questioning and inquiry, disallowing all legitimate forms of freedom, and on and on.</p><p><strong><em>Do you think Israel is a good ally in the struggle against Islamization?</em></strong> Yes, absolutely. Now, Israel is a sovereign state but hardly safe. She is surrounded by nations and peoples who are bent on her destruction. It is tragic that her neighbors and she has not been able to find an equitable way of living side-by-side with mutual respect and in peace. I earnestly hope that ways can be found for a peaceful resolution to this destructive impasse.</p><p><strong><em>Who is a moderate Muslim?</em></strong> It is wishful thinking on the part of the non-Muslims to believe that one can be a Muslim moderate, given that Islam is radical to its very core. To be a moderate Muslim demands that the person explicitly renounce much of the violent, exclusionary, and radical teachings of the Quran. A moderate Muslim is someone who is Muslim in name only. A moderate Muslim is not a true Muslim. If in any way and to any extent a person supports Islam or carries out its stone-age precepts, then he/she is Muslim. There is no such as thing as moderate Muslims. There are, however, some moderate people who consider themselves Muslims. These people are not sure who they are. They are in a limbo and suffer from an identity crisis.</p><p><strong><em>How do you see the future with current immigration policies? And what needs to be changed?</em></strong> I have always believed that being a Muslim and being American are incompatible. A Muslim is an Ummahist. His loyalty, first and above all, to the Islamic world rule and not to his country. By allowing Muslims to immigrate to the West, we are literary inviting the biggest enemy of mankind into our homes. Because, Muslims do not assimilate, they come here to make Islam the law of the land.</p><p><strong><em>What do you see as the biggest challenge when it comes to informing people about the dangers of Islamization?</em></strong> The biggest danger is being seen as racist. Also, lawsuits and other forms of intimidations by rich powerful Muslim organizations impede an individual to come forward and tell the truth. Personal threats of harm and even death fall into this category.</p><p><strong><em>What do you say to people calling you a racist or a Nazi because you oppose Islamization?</em></strong> They are entitled to their views. I want them to enjoy freedom of expression as long as allow me and others to present the non-sanitized true version of Islam. Islam isn&#39;t a race, so critics of Islam cannot be racists.</p><p><strong><em>Do you think mainstream media is pro-Islam biased?</em></strong> Certainly. And part of the bias is driven by financial gains from advertising and the real fear of losing advertising when an advertiser, under pressure from an Islamic organization threatens to boycott their products.</p><p><strong><em>Muslims want to use Sharia (Islamic law). In what way does it clash with our Western civilization and our laws?</em></strong> This is another book in itself. Read my past writings on my web site. Muslims, under the banner of religion, are infringing blatantly on the rights of others, not only in Islamic countries, but also in much of the non-Muslim world. By their acts of dogmatic savagery, Muslims are finally awakening non-Muslim democracies to the imminent threat of Islamofascism keen on destroying their free secular societies.</p><p><strong><em>Living in America, what can you tell us about the ongoing Islamization of the country?</em></strong> Islamization is just as dangerous as Hitlerism and worse than communism. As more and more Muslims arrive in non-Islamic lands, as they reproduce with great fecundity, as they convert the disenchanted and minorities, and as the petrodollar-flush Muslims and Muslim treasuries supply generous funds, Muslims gather more power to undermine democratic rule. A consortium composed of pandering politicians, blinded with short-term self-interest and egoism; attention and fund-seeking self-proclaimed prima donna professors; and, bastions of useful idiot liberals, universities, is the witting or unwitting promoter of Ummah-ism.</p><p><strong><em>Is Islam a religion of peace?</em></strong> No, it has never been a religion of peace. What we need to do is demand that politicians, Islamic apologists, and paid-for media do not abuse freedom by lying about Islam. When these people portray Islam as a religion of peace, they are lying through their teeth. Just take a quick look at Islam&rsquo;s history as well as what is happening today in the Islamic lands. Islam is not a religion of peace and it has never been. Islam is violent, oppressive, racist, and irrational at its very core. It is treachery for people to present it as otherwise, either out of ignorance or because of their own personal reasons. You could also read this interview at <a title="Interview" target="_blank" href="http://www.siotw.org/modules/siotw_interviews/item.php?itemid=10">source here</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Amil Imani is the author of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></p> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 03:19:09 +0100 Muslim Islamization Islam apostate Amil Imani Massacre In Newton, Connecticut http://www.amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/massacre-in-newton-connecticut <img height="72" align="left" src=""><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="sandy-hook-elementary" width="344" height="344" src="http://amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/article-5/sandy-hook-elementary.jpg" />&ldquo;Children of Adam are akin to members of a body; if a member suffers, thus suffers the entire body,&rdquo; a Persian poet (Sa&rsquo;di) expressed it best, centuries ago.<!--more--></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is said, &ldquo;powerlessness frustrates and absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely.&rdquo; It seems like the world we live in reveals to us incessantly, at certain moments or in certain circumstances, just how little we are and how vast the universe is. This world we live in is very complex. The world we live in is a world of many brutal voices. It is a world of heavy blows and delirious trances, but it is the only world we have.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The senseless cruel massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School did not limit its horrors and pain to the victims of the shooting and their families. The entire family of our nation is grieving for the innocent victims of this tragedy. I am heartbroken and am certain, so is everyone else. We need to resolve and do what is needed to prevent such future senseless acts of murder and violence. By so doing, we can best honor the memories of the victims and their families.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In grief, Amil Imani</p> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:16:41 +0100 Israel has right to defend itself http://www.amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/israel-has-right-to-defend-itself <img height="72" align="left" src=""><div style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="israel-under-fire" width="275" height="200" src="http://amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/article-5/israel-under-fire.jpg" /><p>Self-defense is the right of every individual, group, or nation. The inveterate belligerent Hamas cannot expect Israel to refrain from retaliation when it lobs barrage after barrage of rockets at Israeli populations.<!--more--> Hamas thrives on violence. And violence begets violence. Hamas is in a state of hostility even with its own kindred, the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank. It is time for Hamas to mend its ways, realize the futility of its strategy, and live in peace with others. It is time for the people in Gaza to demand that their leaders cease exploiting them and have them extend a hand of genuine peace for the betterment of all.</p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p>Decades of bloodletting by the Hamas extremists, has inflicted unnecessary and unacceptable suffering on all sides. Israel, justifiably, is compelled to do what it must to defend itself and its people. In stark contrast to Hamas, Israel&#39;s response is measured and does not intentionally target the innocent civilians. Those who support and fund Hamas in its belligerence have their own vested interest and not that of the Palestinians. The Palestinian people need to realize the futility of the present hostility and demand that their leaders work for a peaceful solution.</p></div><p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><p>Amil Imani is the author of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></p></div><p> </p> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:19:36 +0100 America: Still the Best Hope http://www.amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/america-still-the-best-hope <img height="72" align="left" src=""><div style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="united-states-of-america" width="354" height="266" src="http://amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/islamic-kingdom/united-states-of-america.jpg" />I just finished reading Dennis Prager&#39;s new book <em>Still the Best Hope - Why the World Needs American Values</em>. I have been trying to fit political issues together all my life, and Prager seems to be doing that job admirably.{C}<!--more--> The book&#39;s jacket gets it right: &quot;In this visionary book, Dennis Prager, one of America&#39;s most original thinkers, contends that humanity confronts a monumental choice. The whole world must decide between American values and its two oppositional alternatives: Islamism and European-style democratic socialism.&quot; On the first page, Prager states, &quot;Few Americans can articulate what is distinctive about American values or even what they are. There is ... a thirst among Americans for rediscovering and reaffirming American values. ...<p>A lot of Americans realize we have forgotten what we stand for.&quot; Prager not only explains our values, but he compares our values in detail to the reasoning of the left in each arena. His analysis is so well done that it may even get converts from the left, and it will certainly aid independents and conservatives in grasping the big picture. It is clearly a must-read for Romney and each member of his team because Prager has explained the left and Obama unlike anything I have ever read. If Romney can find a way to use this author&#39;s theories, the independents will become conservatives. Paul Ryan&#39;s &quot;thank you&quot; speech to Mitt Romney copied a concept from Dennis Prager&#39;s book, a combination of political science and philosophy. It is a wonderfully powerful book loaded with notable jewels such as this concept adopted by Ryan in his speech. The book contains an unwinding explanation of things with which many of us have struggled, such as the concepts of religion, God, conservatism, and liberalism. Prager also analyzes Islam in great detail and explains why none of the arguments in support of it changes the immorality of Islam. The first paragraph of Chapter 9, &quot;Still the Best Hope,&quot; states: &quot;The USA is not merely a geographical location. And unlike most of the world&#39;s nations, Americans are not, and have never been, a race or an ethnicity. America is and has always regarded itself as an idea. That idea is a value system. And that value system -- unique to America -- can be called the American Trinity.&quot; Ryan copied this concept in his speech, stating: &quot;America is an idea, and that idea is Liberty and God.&quot; Prager defined the term &quot;American Trinity&quot; as &quot;Liberty, God and E Pluribus Unum&quot; (out of many, one), each of which Prager includes in many pages of discussion. Ryan used the concept but shortened the expression and left out the last portion -- which is fine, as E Pluribus Unum is a bit too complex for a short speech. Prager notes, &quot;E Pluribus Unum rejects tribal, ethnic and blood ties and elevates the individual. It is the individual who matters, not any group to which the individual may belong. Anyone can become an American because America, unlike other nations, is not defined by territory, religion, or ethnicity, but by an allegiance to a set of ideals. It is telling that the &#39;hyphenated-American&#39; only became a part of political speak with the ascendency of the Left. For two centuries, Americans, whatever their place of origin, were just Americans.&quot;</p><p>It is very encouraging to me that the Romney camp seems to know about Prager&#39;s new book and will use it as a source for their campaign. It could prove to be as valuable to Romney in this election as de Vattel&#39;s book <em>Law of Nations</em> was to the Founding Fathers in the lead up to our War of Independence. The author expends significant effort in defining liberty. Simply stated, it is our well-known five familiar freedoms plus two: political, religious, assembly, speech, and press, plus economic freedom and as much freedom as practical from government interference in our lives. Prager&#39;s first jewel regarding government interference is that &quot;[i]ndividual liberty exists in inverse proportion to the size of the state.&quot; Prager&#39;s case for small government is overpowering: 1. The Founders believed that unnecessary government is dangerous and destructive of the moral character of its people. 2. Character begins in taking responsibility for oneself. State involvement, when a person can care for himself, damages moral character and reduces care for the truly needy. 3. Government entitlement programs have terrible moral consequences. These programs lead to a loss of self-worth, an attitude of entitlement, and a lack of gratitude for what is provided. Why work if the government provides a handout? 4. People need the emotional reward of feeling needed. Men especially have been denied rewards for their involvement. When the State becomes totally responsible for the financial support of their women and children, men are denied this reward. As the State expands its role, nothing is left of liberty and dignity. 5. American churches and other voluntary groups have been an essential part of American culture that becomes denigrated when government expands into their role. Charity and volunteerism are reduced substantially in leftist states, a detriment to the needy and to the volunteers&#39; sense of community contribution. Another jewel. &quot;There are fine individuals on the left and selfish individuals on the Right. But as a rule, bigger government increases the number of angry, ungrateful, lazy, spoiled and self-centered individuals.&quot;</p><p>And another jewel. &quot;The Left&#39;s altruistic motives have created the Welfare state, and the Welfare state creates selfishness.&quot; Prager&#39;s book discusses all the many underlying philosophical differences between conservatives and the Obama left, and in my opinion, he discloses the fallacy underlying all the liberal concepts. Prager discusses how the Age of Reason&#39;s and the Enlightenment&#39;s rejection of religion and God resulted in the rejection of the concept of the inherent immorality of man -- a rejection which took over Europe. Contrary to this European post-Enlightenment concept, the Founders retained in the Constitution the concepts that man is immoral and that the essence of man is most interested in self-satisfaction. This led the Founders to incorporate Montesquieu&#39;s advice in the Constitution and to create three branches of government in which each branch had equal power. This was their attempt to counter the inherent self-interest and immorality of man. It is my dream that a clear-thinking philosophy major would use Prager&#39;s book to generate a short version for consumption by independents. Such a text would help the world appreciate the inherent weaknesses underlying the social democracy of the Obama administration. </p></div><p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;">Read more: <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/america_still_the_best_hope.html#ixzz23dQmK6Ak">http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/08/america_still_the_best_hope.html#ixzz23dQmK6Ak</a></div><p> </p><div style="text-align: justify;">Amil Imani is the author of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></div><p> </p> Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:01:44 +0100 Amil Imani: Iranian Dissident http://www.amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/amil-imani-iranian-dissident <img height="72" align="left" src=""><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><a rel="nof.com" href="http://amilimani.com/joomla/media/com_joomblog/images/www.amilimani.com"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="amil_imani" width="196" height="255" src="http://amilimani.com/joomla/media/com_joomblog/images/amil_imani.jpg" />Amil Imani</a> is an Iranian-American writer that opposes the Iranian regime and Sharia Law. He is a contributor to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.com">Family Security Matters</a>, <em><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.americanthinker.com">American Thinker</a> </em>and the author of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://freeamericanpress.com/">Operation Persian Gulf.</a> In 2010, he was honored with the &ldquo;Speaker of the Truth Award&rdquo; by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.emetonline.org">Endowment for Middle East Truth.</a></em> <em>Below is RadicalIslam.org National Security Analyst Ryan Mauro&rsquo;s interview with Amil Imani:<!--more--></em> <strong><em><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="" width="95" height="189" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/Numbers1.png" /></em></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Ryan Mauro: Tell us a little bit about yourself. What got you involved with the Iranian opposition?</em></strong> <strong><em>Amil Imani: </em></strong>I was born in Tehran, Iran, in a loving family that encouraged freedom of thought and promoted universal human ideals. The upheavals of 1979 shattered the existing order and a turbaned charlatan that Jimmy Carter called a saint, Ayatollah Khomeini, skillfully steered the forces of change to promote his brand of totalitarianism rule -- a rule aimed at taking Iran backward to a primitive, violent and misogynistic Islamic theocracy. Like many patriotic Iranians, I sensed the catastrophic tragedy Islamism really is and began doing what I could to prevent it from destroying Iran&rsquo;s nascent civil democratic system. Before long, Khomeini and his gangs capitalized on the frustrations of the masses, promised them everything under the sun while simultaneously murdering thousands of Iran&rsquo;s best children who opposed them and their system of rule. I was fortunate enough to leave Iran, continuing my education abroad and carrying on with my battle against the Islamic Republic of Iran&rsquo;s murderous rulers.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="" width="105" height="165" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/Numbers2.png" /></em></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Mauro: Why haven&#39;t we seen massive protests in Iran like those we witnessed in 2009? Many analysts expected, and hoped, that the Arab Spring would carry over to Iran.</em></strong> <strong><em>Imani:</em></strong> The so-called &ldquo;Arab Spring&rdquo; was in fact inspired by the massive anti-regime movement of 2009 by millions of Iranians, subsequent to the fraudulent re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The regime&rsquo;s response to those protesting people was a set of dastardly measures typical of dictatorships. People were severely beaten, huge numbers arrested and herded like cattle into make shift prisons, some were shot in the streets as they marched; others were raped and killed in Iran&rsquo;s prisons. And the world simply watched. The Obama Administration not only failed to voice its support for the people, it implied that what was happening in Iran was a kind of family <img class="alignright" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="" width="162" height="251" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/OperationPersianGulf.jpg" />squabble best left to be settled by Iranians themselves. A family feud indeed. One side of the &ldquo;family&rdquo; with legions of savages armed to the teeth, the Revolutionary Guard and their hired thugs, and the other side of the &ldquo;family&rdquo; defenseless civilians using their voices to plead their case. The Islamic rulers spared no heinous means in mercilessly silencing the voices of the people. No nation provided even moral support for the Iranian people while the savage mullahs and their thugs consolidated their rule of terror with impunity. To this day, thousands of anti-regime Iranians are languishing in prisons by the edicts of Islamic kangaroo courts. Even in the face of torture, rape and murder, Iranians are battling the Islamic theocracy by various methods. They no longer pour in the streets to subject themselves to the armed thugs who are just too eager to brutalize them. The opposition forces are patiently recruiting more and more members, establishing networks, using the Internet successfully to educate and inform their compatriots and the world and are certain of the collapse of the Islamic debauchery imposed on them by a bunch of thuggish mullahs. <strong><em><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="" width="117" height="181" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/Numbers3.png" /></em></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Mauro: What trends do you see among the people of the Middle East? On the one hand, we see the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist extremists rising politically. On the other, there are reports that atheism, agnosticism and evangelical Christianity are spreading like wildfire. What do you see happening?</em></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Imani:</em></strong> It is always prudent to deal with facts to the best of our discernment, whether we like them or not. My judgment of the situation in the Middle East is that two major forces are in play. Islamism, in the broadest sense, is experiencing a surge mostly due to the masses of the lower classes&rsquo; dissatisfaction with their plight. Islamism is seen by some as the way to a dreamed of perfect order. Islam provides simplistic answers that are attractive to gullible people. Concurrent with the surge of Islamism, secularism with all its varieties, such as atheism, agnosticism, as well as non-Islamic religious beliefs are attracting large numbers of adherents, mostly from the ranks of the better educated and the more affluent. Hence,<img class="alignright" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="" width="193" height="293" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/ObamaMeetsAhmadinejad.jpg" /> there is a clash of sorts between the two surging, irreconcilable factions. The best example of this division can be seen in present-day Egypt. The Islamist candidate Morsi won the presidency with a thin margin, mainly because the great majority of Egyptians are wretchedly poor, semi-literate and religious fanatics. The military leaders who are better educated and many of the middle class are stern anti-Islamists. Which side is going to win Egypt? The side that wins is the best predictor of the side that will prevail in the Islamic world, including the Middle East. How will this clash play out in the short run is far from certain. The free world, particularly the West, can play a critical role in deciding the outcome. It can do so by wisely supporting the secularists wherever they are and refraining from the traditional resort of exploiting Middle Eastern resources, supporting dictators and ignoring people&#39;s legitimate aspirations. A case in point representing a shameful shirking of responsibility is Obama&#39;s callous response to the uprising of Iranian secularists in 2009. Iran was on the cusp of turning the tide against Islamism and Obama threw a lifeline to the mullahs by not even verbally expressing support for the people. <strong><em><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="" width="125" height="164" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/Numbers4.png" /></em></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Mauro: Why is the Iranian opposition so divided? They are all threatened by the regime, yet a common front hasn&#39;t been forged.</em></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Imani:</em></strong> The Iranian opposition represents the entire broad range of democracy. The opposition is not monolithic. Furthermore, the regime brutally deals with any group of any size long before a group can organize itself into a viable entity and certainly way in advance of opposition groups coalescing into a significant force. Arrests, imprisonment under horrific conditions, torture and even executions are the Islamists&#39; instruments of policy. What makes conditions even more unhelpful to the oppositions is that the nearly 10-20% of the population with all the guns supports the regime. <strong><em><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="" width="110" height="161" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/Numbers5%281%29.png" /></em></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Mauro:</em></strong><strong> Secretary of State Clinton has only about three months to decide whether to de-list the Mujahideen-e-Khalq as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. I know you&#39;re not a member or supporter of MEK, but what affect would keeping MEK on the list have on the Iranian opposition and what affect would delisting the MEK have?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Imani:</em></strong> The Islamist-Marxist gang of MEK has about zero support among Iranians, both in Iran as well as abroad. They are thoroughly despised by the overwhelming majority of the people for being cultists, Islamists and at the same time traitors for having aligned themselves with Saddam Hussein against Iran during the past Iran-Iraq war. What impact will de-listing the MEK by Clinton have? It would be another foolish foreign policy decision by the Obama Administration. If the MEK is de-listed, the Islamic Republic of Iran should indeed write a thank you note to President Obama and Secretary Clinton. Why? Two reasons: First, this highly despised, aging handful of Islamist cultists are only good at lobbying foreign government and international organizations. The Iranian people have already rejected them and their hybrid Communist-Islamist ideology while holding them accountable for treachery and treason. Second, the ever-Machiavellian mullahs of the Iranian Islamic Republic will use the de-listing as irrefutable evidence that the United States is indeed the Great Satan and the enemy of Iran. Why else would America legitimize this gang of proven terrorists, the regime would ask. De-listing of the MEK by the State Department would be another instance of &ldquo;brilliant&rdquo; foreign policy decisions in line with Jimmy Carter calling the criminal Ayatollah Khomeini a religious saint. <em><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="" width="163" height="209" src="http://www.radicalislam.org/sites/all/sites/default/files/images/RyanMauro1.png" />Ryan Mauro is </em><a rel="" href="http://www.radicalislam.org/"><em>RadicalIslam.org&#39;s</em></a><em> National Security Analyst and a fellow with the Clarion Fund. He is the founder of WorldThreats.com and is frequently interviewed on Fox News.</em> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Amil Imani is the author of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></em></p> Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:38:51 +0100