Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

To understand Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's mindset and behavior require close scrutiny of the elaborate and intricate theology of Hujetieh Shiism, perhaps the most fundamentalist of the numerous Shiite sects.

In the 1950s, a group of Islamic clergy led by Sheikh Mahmoud Halabi (a close associate of Ayatollah Khomeini) formed a society called the Anjoman-e Khayryyehye Hujjatiyyah-ye Mahdaviat (Charitable Society of the Mahdi), based in ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dale Penn - Sep 24, 2007 - 7:55 AM PDT
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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

Where to start? No sourcing on the information. The writing is brimming with intensely bias, anti-Muslim language. Most importantly, however, is that the author has framed Amadinejad problematically. Serious Iranian scholars and Iranians themselves continue to wonder why Americans don't realize that their President is not the primary power broker in their country, and that he is increasingly unpopular- though made more popular with all the hateful attention those in the west of have laying on him.

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Dale Penn
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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

This special report from "American Thinker", a very conservative online publication, unwittingly provides clear evidence that the separation of church and state is crucial to the survival of democracy in our own country. It seems our nation would be well served to take note that religious belief taken to the level of the ridiculous is poison - and fundamentalist Islam is not the only religion with fanatics who seek to poison the stream of human consciousness for their own warped ends.

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