Quote of the Day
As an Islamic theocracy, Iran serves as a role model for the Islamic world. And as a role model, we cannot capitulate.
Hamid Reza Taraghi
February 28, 2026
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The sponsor of terrorist activities for many decades considers itself the role model for the Islamic world? And that is ignoring the whole theocracy thing, the treatment of women, death to Jews, taxing of non-believers, death to protesters, mistreatment of women, and forced sexual transitions (or death) to homosexuals.
If they really are considered a role model in the Islamic world then that does not bode well for a civil relationship between the non-Islamic world and Islam. That makes certain decisions much easier.
Thank you Taraghi. It is good to have clarity.
Yes, it’s a role model for islamist theocracy, just as North Korea of Kim 3rd is a role model for communist totalitarianism. In both cases, a clear and easily understood example of why such a thing should not exist and should never again be allowed to emerge.
I think the other followers of the prophet might object to the idea.
It would be the same as saying the Pentecostals are the role model for Christians.
Only two sects of Islam make up the *overwhelming* majority of muslims. The stuff they disagree on is like the disagreements between Pentecostals and Catholics. The parts of Iran that we can’t get along with? Both sects agree with all of that.
When your enemy tells you his plans, believe him. While I support freedom of religion, Islam is an existential threat due to a theology based on world domination and extermination of non-believers
More speculative clarity?
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“And that is ignoring the whole theocracy thing, the treatment of women, death to Jews, taxing of non-believers, death to protesters, mistreatment of women, and forced sexual transitions (or death) to homosexuals.”
Those are all considered to be virtues in the Islamic world.
“The sponsor of terrorist activities for many decades considers itself the role model for the Islamic world?”
Decades????
Almost all that is-lame inhabits today was once Christian. Conquered most all by belief, not sword.
Islame would have never made it out of Saudi Arabia’s backyard if not for the doing of all those things. With the sword.
“Islam” mean submission to the will of God.
The disconnect is who is determining God’s will.
And does not all power resort to this, the most misused of all syndromes in the human condition? Belief in greatness of some kind?
Qui bono? Who benefits? (It certainly isn’t God.) But evil men.
In all this, islam is not alone. It’s not the first, nor will they be the last.
But it’s ideas of forced conversion were the only reason it ever existed in the first place. Terrorizing people to make yourself powerful is all it was ever about.
And that’s been over 1500 years now.
As you say Joe. We have to fight smart.
The problem is no one in power is ever going to allow someone with “smarts” to come up for election.
Maybe that’s why;
Albert Einstein is often quoted saying, “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
That’s if AI doesn’t kill us all first. (islam is a piker.)
Islam is a throwback to a much earlier politico-religious social structure. It is clearly stated in the Koran that it is a Totalitarian ideology in the original sense of the word, invented by Benito Mussolini . Islam encompasses all life. It tells its adherents how to act and why. Things beyond the scope of the Koran are supposed to be haram, unclean. Somehow the billion+ Muslims today seem to ignore that part and gleefully use aircraft, firearms, internal combustion engines, radios, computers, modern medicine, etc. Islam should be treated like any other totalitarian political philosophy and be largely stomped out when it extends beyond a tiny fraction of any population
Islam is closer to a political scheme than it is to a religion. It is not deserving of First Amendment protection.