Skip to Content

Khamenei

Khamenei staggers, like a camel being ritually slaughtered - by Afshin Ellian

Islamic dietary rules require that animals that provide food for the faithful be slaughtered in a very specific way.   Muslims are allowed to eat camel meat, but how can you kill a camel according to ritual halal rules, which specify the precise manner in which the camel’s throat is cut?  A camel does not permit human beings to kill him according to the religious requirements, but if a camel has not been killed in the ritual way then one is not allowed to eat it. What to do?  
The first Muslims solved the problem by cunning.

Iran’s Post-Election

Jahanshah Rashidian As Iran's 2009 presidential election authorities surprisingly announced on Saturday that hard-line incumbent Mahmood Ahmadinejad was re-elected with about two-thirds of the vote, Iranian people were immediately casting doubt over the authenticity of the results. At the same time, the “reformist” candidates of the regime, Mr.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards: Arm of Oppression Within and Terrorism Without

Manda Zand-Ervin The focus on negotiations with the Iranian regime has been on the supreme leader, Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad's cabinet.

Syndicate content