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30 Oct 2011

Iranian Cleric Mohsen Ghara’ati Blames Women Opposing Polygamy

In his weekly televised lessons aired on IRIB Channel 1, Iranian cleric Mohsen Ghara'ati blamed women for opposing polygamy and standing in the way of their husbands who wish to get a second wife. Hojat-ol-Islam Mohsen Ghara'ati is the head of the Center for the Promotion of Prayers and a Muslim scholar teaching and promoting the Quran.
In his weekly televised lessons aired on IRIB Channel 1, Iranian cleric Mohsen Ghara'ati blamed women for opposing...
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11 Aug 2011

Iraq’s Sadr says Iran will not hand over militant

Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday that Iran has refused to hand over a militant known as the "Shiite Zarqawi," a former commander in his militia, to face justice in Iraq.
Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday that Iran has refused to hand over a militant known as the...
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4 Aug 2011

Iran’s dangerous concoction of nuclear ambitions and Shiite Messianism

Ahmadinejad s ambitions for achieving nuclear capabilities are hardly one of Iran s great state secrets. Yet it is far less widely known that the Iranian president seats himself within a strongly messianic and indeed apocalyptic strand of Shiite Islam.
Ahmadinejad s ambitions for achieving nuclear capabilities are hardly one of Iran s great state secrets. Yet it is far...
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21 Jul 2011

How Many Sufis Are There in Islam?

Devotees of Sufism, the spiritual interpretation of Islam, face problems wherever they are found. In the West, many self-styled Sufis have never become Muslim, know little of the religious background of the Sufi way, and give Sufism a reputation as simply another flavor of New-Age, "weekend" mysticism.
Devotees of Sufism, the spiritual interpretation of Islam, face problems wherever they are found. In the West, many...
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5 May 2011

Iranian Islamic Theologian Summoned To Court

Paris-based religious scholar Mohammad Javad Akbarin told Radio Farda that in that lecture Shabestari had said although the Prophet Muhammad was perfect in his mission, which was bringing people to God, he had shortcomings as a human being. The fundamentalists who could not tolerate what he said filed a case against him at the time, Akbarin said.
Paris-based religious scholar Mohammad Javad Akbarin told Radio Farda that in that lecture Shabestari had said although...
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crackdown, demise, islam
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11 Apr 2011

The Movie, The President, and the Hidden Imam

We begin this morning with a look at a curious, tangled story which has run for several weeks --- it includes a movie, President Ahmadinejad, and the "Hidden Imam", the 12th Imam of Shi'a who will return at some point.
We begin this morning with a look at a curious, tangled story which has run for several weeks --- it includes a movie,...
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16 Feb 2011

Iran’s post-Islamist generation

There's no question the military dictatorship of the mullahtariat - that conglomerate uniting President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's faction, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his clerical circle, and the military/business complex ruled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) - very much followed to the minute the extraordinary chain of events in
There's no question the military dictatorship of the mullahtariat - that conglomerate uniting President Mahmud...
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4 Feb 2011

Khamenei hails ‘Islamic’ uprisings

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader has called the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia an "Islamic liberation movement". In his address, during Friday prayers at Tehran University in Iran's capital, he said that people are witnessing the reverberations of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. "The awakening of the Islamic Egyptian people is an Islamic liberation movement and I, in the name of the Iranian government, salute the Egyptian people and the Tunisian people,"he said.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader has called the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia an "Islamic liberation...
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4 Feb 2011

Egypt protests are sign of ‘Islamic renaissance’

Iran said on Thursday the anti-government protests in Egypt were a sign of an "Islamic renaissance" in the Middle East. and that they echoed Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, which toppled the U.S.-backed Shah.
Iran said on Thursday the anti-government protests in Egypt were a sign of an "Islamic renaissance" in the Middle East....
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24 Jan 2011

Iran Journalism Special Protecting the Nuclear Talks from Lady Ashton’s Cleavage

Forget all the chatter about weapons, uranium stocks, and "break-out" capability at the nuclear discussions in Istanbul between Iran and the 5+1 Powers (US, UK, France, Germany, China, Russia). The clear-and-present danger was the chest of Lady Catherine Ashton, the head of the 5+1 delegation.
Forget all the chatter about weapons, uranium stocks, and "break-out" capability at the nuclear discussions in Istanbul...
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1 Jan 2011

Iran revamps education system to strip out Western influence

Iran is overhauling its education system to rid it of Western influence, the latest attempt by the government to fortify Islamic values and counter the clout of the country's increasingly secularized middle class. Starting in September, all Iranian high school students will be introduced to new courses such as "political training" and "living skills" that will warn against "perverted political movements" and encourage girls to marry at an early age, Education Ministry officials say.
Iran is overhauling its education system to rid it of Western influence, the latest attempt by the government to fortify...
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