This is a timely article for us Torontonians.

A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.

"Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die," said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan.

Yet we're told the hijab is a choice....

Labels: Aqsa Parvez, Feminism, Iran, Islam

It was on this date in 1979 that Iranian militants took Americans hostage at the embassy for 444 days. Today Iran uses it as a lesson in hatred for the next generation of would-be martyrs and thugs.

Thousands of young Iranians proclaimed "Death to America" on Sunday as they celebrated the 28th anniversary of the storming of the US embassy in Tehran by student radicals.

A massive crowd, composed mainly of schoolchildren bussed in to central Tehran, gathered outside the site of the former US embassy, known locally as the "Den of Spies."

"Death to America! Death to Israel!" the young people shouted, wearing bibs that depicted the burning of the US and Israeli flags.

Interior Minister Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, in a keynote address, hailed the embassy seizure as "a great and glorious event" from which Iranians were still drawing inspiration.

Labels: Iran, Islam

Todays Weekly Friday Hate highlights provided by Provisional Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Khatami.

On the Knighthood of Salman Rushdie:

Khatami then focussed on the British Queen's decorating of the disbeliever Salman Rushdie with a Knight Medal, as a sign of Britain's direct confrontation with 1.5 billion Muslims around the globe.

He said, "The old, and decrepit British colonialism that claims to be the standard bearer of the human rights is now awarding a wretched bankrupt fellow that has insulted the sanctities of 1.5 billion Muslims." Posing the question, "Is that the meaning of the human rights and the Western Civilization of yours?" he added, "The old and feeble British Government had better realize now that it is no longer an empire, but an ear-ringed slave of the Americans." Pointing out that the Islamic movement is gaining momentum around the globe, he said, "Under such conditions the height medal of honor of Britain is given to a wretched fellow that knows no art at all." Khatami added, "The Islamic World is unanimously protesting against that new insult, and in Islamic Iran, too, the verdict issued against Salman Rushdie is still in effect, and irrevocable.

He emphasized, "The British had better know they are for sure the losers in this scene."

Labels: Iran, Khatami, Salman Rushdie

His latter-day minions are pretty damn cowardly. Think about it. Osama is hiding in a cave on the Pak/Af'stan border. Moqtada al Sadr has been hiding since the surge was announced. Even the "secular" Saddam Hussein was found in a spiderhole, wretched and filthy, not having seen the sun in weeks. These are the people that are leading resistance? How could anyone be foolish enough to follow them and do their bidding?

The orders [to resist the surge] come from a diminished Sadr, who still has yet to poke his head above ground in Iraq since the beginning of the surge. At first, he fled to Iran supposedly to hold strategy meetings with senior Mahdi Army commanders and to consult with his Iranian allies, but most suspected he bugged out before the Americans could seize him and his most loyal followers.

Sad, sad, sad.

Labels: Iran, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, War on Terror

a clever Persian girl figures out how to beguile a blood-thirsty misogynist Persian mullah who likes to bed virgins and execute them

Kate's running a contest. Go over and put yours in the comments.

Labels: Iran, Middle East, Movies