Is Tehran Building a Devil's Kitchen?

 

In this mailing: Guy Millière: France Is Still Under Attack Amir Taheri: Is Tehran Building a Devil's Kitchen? France Is Still Under Attack by Guy Millière  •  December 6, 2020 at 5:00 am       "If nothing changes, in a few decades, France will have submitted to Islam, and Islamic violence will probably be even greater than today. It is already almost impossible for the country's leaders to react. They are hostages of a Muslim population that is less and less integrated and whose anger they do not want to arouse. They are under the gaze of groups that immediately denounce any criticism of Islam and under pressure from many countries in the Muslim world that France does not want to offend". — Alan Wagner, "L'Europe face à l'islam", interview on Tepa, August 2, 2020. "For Muslims, Islamic law has God as its author. Any other legislator is illegitimate." — Mohammed Hocine Benkheira, historian, Le Point, March 21, 2016. "Macron... is still not able to pinpoint the real problem because it would be politically incorrect for him to do so... This is the problem with someone like Macron and what he's saying... they can never acknowledge that what's happening is integral or a part of authentic Islam...." — Raymond Ibrahim, "Islamic Terror in France", SkyWatch TV, October 30, 2020. "France still does not understand the reality it is facing. It believes that it has been struck by terrorists... but it is suffering a guerrilla war that is gradually gaining momentum..." — Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, lexpress.fr, October 18, 2020. According Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, "France still does not understand the reality it is facing. It believes that it has been struck by terrorists... but it is suffering a guerrilla war that is gradually gaining momentum..." (Photo by Farouk Batiche/AFP via Getty Images) October 29. Nice, the main city on the French Riviera. A man in the Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption decapitates a woman and murders two other people while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" ["Allah is the greatest!"] This is the second beheading in France by an extremist Muslim in less than a month. Two weeks earlier, on October 16, a middle school teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded in the suburbs of Paris after showing his students some Mohammad cartoons during a discussion on freedom of speech. Continue Reading Article Is Tehran Building a Devil's Kitchen? by Amir Taheri  •  December 6, 2020 at 4:00 am       We may be proved wrong, but our guess is that Tehran will do nothing to raise the degree of tension even by one notch.... Khamenei promised "hard revenge" for Soleimani's death but has vowed nothing but "prosecution and punishment" of perpetrators. His emphasis is on "the continuation" of Fakhrizadeh's work. In other words, as long as our progress towards the "threshold" isn't halted, we can grin and bear Fakhrizadeh's martyrdom. Pictured: A billboard commemorating the assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Tehran, Iran on November 30, 2020. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images) To hit back, or not to hit back? This is the question that has heated up debate within Tehran's ruling Khomeinist circles for almost a week. The debate was triggered by the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a shadowy figure in the top echelons of Tehran's murky establishment. Despite an avalanche of obituaries and reports on the event, it is not yet quite clear who Fakhrizadeh was and what he was doing. The official narrative started by introducing him as a military figure. He was, we were told, a brigadier-general and bore that title of Deputy Defense Minister. Then the Defense Minister, Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami spoke as if he hardly knew Fakhrizadeh while praising him for his unspecified "immense services". The narrative then switched to presenting Fakhrizadeh as a nuclear scientist and thus a victim of "enemies who do not wish to slow down Iran's progress in peaceful use of nuclear science." Continue Reading Article