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The twin suicide bombings yesterday in Bir Hassan, south of Beirut, were rightfully described as “an attack on the Islamic orphanage.” In fact, the two blasts shook the neighborhood surrounding al-Majad Center, part of the Social Welfare Institutions, where about 100 children were playing outside and 150 others were attending …

Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) are big news in 2014. If Scarlett Johansson’s Sodastream fiasco didn’t grab your attention, perhaps the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli universities did, or Netanyahu’s increasing talk of million-dollar PR campaigns, legal offensives and diplomacy efforts to counter the BDS threat. Opinion pages are filled with debate, John Kerry has warned …

An old Kurdish saying goes: “When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.” In 1962, on the eve of the American invasion of Vietnam, US propaganda movie “Red Nightmare” portrayed the peoples of the Communist Bloc as bellicose, duplicitous, semi-human fanatics. The Warner Brothers-produced …

On 20 January, heavily-armed gunmen killed a prominent Shiite leader, Allama Alim Al-Musvi, in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. “Two gunmen opened fire on the scholar and escaped when he came out of his house and walked towards the mosque,” media outlets quoted a local security official as saying. No …

Hujjat al-Islam Shaikh Murtadha Tehrani, representative of the people of Tehran in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, gave a speech last night in Fatimiyyeh Mosque in which he advised the importance of self-refinement in political activism. He started off by speaking about the people who helped Prophet Moses (s) topple the …

Allamah Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri, secretary general of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM), has announced that MWM would launch a movement to protest against the pro-Taliban and pro-takfiri policies of the PMLN-Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Sharif) government. “Punjab’s government too has become the patron-in-chief of the Taliban [and the takfiri] terrorists, with the …

Hujjat al-Islam Mohammadian, president of the Institution Representing the Supreme Leader in Universities, presented a short letter from the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khamenei to a union made up of Islamic student groups noting down 5 practical steps as reminders relevant to all youth involved in Islamic …

Scholars have always been at the forefront of the revolutionary movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. From the struggle leading up to the revolution to the revolution itself, from the 8 year war to the struggles of society today,  the scholars have been on the front lines as role …

Grand Jurist, Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli, speaking to journalist regarding the revolution day demonstrations in Qum, stated the reality of answering the call to come out in support of the system: “This presence is answering the call of the intellect, of one’s true nature, of independence and political awareness.”   The …

Ayatollah Mohsin Araki, the Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, on the side-lines of the revolution day demonstration, stated the reason why people came out with more vigour then previous years: “The inappropriate stances of America in the negotiations such as the broken …