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Islamofascism: A Brief Overview of
'The Twelvers' - Ahmadinejad's Islam

Compiled by Frank Salvato, Executive Director, BasicsProject.org
With the regime in Iran moving from rhetorical saber-rattling to attaining the wherewithal to threaten the region, if not the world, it is smart to acquaint ourselves with the theocratic philosophy of Iran’s ruling mullah class – including their governmental figurehead Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the faction of Shi’a Islam known as “The Twelvers.” It is important to understand the belief system of the Twelvers because it gives us insight into the motives for the actions of the Iranian mullahs’ today: in their quest for dominance in the Middle East; in their pursuit of an Islamic global Caliphate; in their vicious approach to the State of Israel; and in their determination to acquire nuclear technology, including the weaponization of that technology. Imami Shi’a Islam, the clinical name for the form of Islam practiced by The Twelvers, is the largest faction in Shi'a Islam. The term “Twelvers,” is derived from their conviction in twelve divinely ordained Islamic leaders, known as the Twelve Imams. The Twelvers believe that the Mahdi will present in the returned of the Twelfth Imam, who, it is believed, disappeared and is to be in occultation. The Mahdi, is believed to be divine by all sects in Islam. But the Twelvers hold the Mahdi in higher esteem. They believe that the Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will rule for a period of time, culminating in the “Day of Judgment” and, alongside Jesus Christ, will rid the world of wrongdoing, injustice and tyranny...

 
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Constitutional Literacy
The Internet Is Not Government's to Regulate
Jim Harper, The Cato Institute
Imagine that Congress passed a law setting up a procedure that could require ordinary citizens like you to remove telephone numbers from your phone book or from the "contacts" list in your phone. What about a policy that cut off the phone lines to an entire building because some of its tenants used the phone to plot thefts or fraud? Would it be okay with you if the user of the numbers coming out of your phone records or the tenants of the cut-off building had been adjudged "rogue" users of the phone. Cutting off phone lines is the closest familiar parallel to what Congress is considering in two bills nicknamed "SOPA" and "PIPA" -- the "Stop Online Piracy Act" and the "Protect IP Act"...
Islamofascism
Europeans Increasingly Converting to Islam
Soeren Kern, The Stonegate Institute
Irish actor Liam Neeson says he is thinking about becoming a Muslim after undergoing a spiritual awakening in Turkey. Neeson, who was born into a Roman Catholic family in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, told the London-based newspaper The Sun that he was impressed by the religious atmosphere in Istanbul while filming a movie in the city. He said: "The [Islamic] call to prayer happens five times a day, and for the first week, it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit, and it's the most beautiful, beautiful thing. There are 4,000 mosques in the city. Some are just stunning, and it really makes me think about becoming a Muslim." Neeson is just one of hundreds of thousands of Europeans who are trading their Christian heritage for the supposed exoticism of Islam. The surge in conversions is contributing to the mainstreaming of Islam in Europe and contributing to the Islamization of the continent...
Progressivism
A DtN Profile on Saul Alinsky
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the tactics of infiltration -- coupled with a measure of confrontation -- that have been central to revolutionary political movements in the United States in recent decades. He never joined the Communist Party but instead, as David Horowitz puts it, became an avatar of the post-modern left. Though Alinsky is rightfully understood to have been a leftist, his legacy is more methodological than ideological. He identified a set of very specific rules that ordinary citizens could follow, and tactics that ordinary citizens could employ, as a means of gaining public power. His motto was, “The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.” Alinsky studied criminology as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, during which time he became friendly with Al Capone and his mobsters. Ryan Lizza, senior editor of The New Republic, offers a glimpse into Alinsky’s personality: “Charming and self-absorbed, Alinsky would entertain friends with stories -- some true, many embellished -- from his mob days for decades afterward. He was profane, outspoken, and narcissistic, always the center of attention despite his tweedy, academic look and thick, horn-rimmed glasses.”

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