Abstract: Shi`a Iran has been steadily recruiting, training, and equipping Shi`a foreign fighters from Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and their capabilities are growing. Shi`a foreign fighters have participated in conflicts throughout the region, including in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. There is evidence the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is providing the training to transform these fighters into a professional transnational militia proxy force modeled after Lebanese Hezbollah. The formalization and expansion of these networks risks exacerbating geopolitical and sectarian tensions throughout the region.
LLettosays
Nicely written
gravenimagesays
+1
mortimersays
Many thanks to Keith Hanson for inviting Robert Spencer and making more people aware of Spencer’s vital warnings to the West about the jihad threat. As he explained, Iran’s mullahocracy are immune to the normal levers for persuasion, such as trade or diplomacy. The mullahs are motivated by IDEOLOGY and they will not give up their power even if they received substantial bribes. They couldn’t care less about the Iranian people, just as Hitler didn’t give a hoot about the survival and well-being of the German people.
Keith Hanson gets it: Islam is primarily a political ideology and treating it merely as a religion will not address the concerns of Islamic leaders who in fact actually want to rule the world.
Muslim leaders do not merely want human rights and civil liberties for Muslims in the West.
MUSLIMS DON’T EVEN HAVE SUCH GREAT RIGHTS IN MUSLIM DICTATORSHIPS!
The only way to stop jihad is to convince tens of millions of Muslims that the Koran is of human origins.
Muslims who see that leave Islam instantly and are no longer capable of being jihadists.
Peter Dalesays
What interested me was Robert Spencer’s answer to a question about why politicians here don’t seem to grasp the threat. He said that they were ignorant of Islam’s teachings and naive. But there may a nastier answer. Recall that, just after Iran shot down the Ukrainian plane, it threatened to release the names of Western politicians who had accepted money from Iran. If politicians in the West have been taking money from this criminal regime to keep quiet and look the other way, then we have treason. Some investigative journalist should be looking into this.
Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ronsays
PLEASE Mr Spencer, whenever speaking with people like Keith Hanson who repeatedly refer to “RADICAL“ Islam, set them straight before they say it a second, third or fourth time.
By failing to not correct them by explaining that there is no such thing as “RADICAL” Islam, there is just ISLAM, you are doing a disservice to truth and allowing those who wish to deceive us as to the true nature of Islam validation.
Those who use the term RADICAL when discussing Islam are either IGNORANT or COWARDS or they are DECEIVERS.
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Josephsays
I thought the same while listening.
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Amil Imani says
Abstract: Shi`a Iran has been steadily recruiting, training, and equipping Shi`a foreign fighters from Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and their capabilities are growing. Shi`a foreign fighters have participated in conflicts throughout the region, including in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. There is evidence the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is providing the training to transform these fighters into a professional transnational militia proxy force modeled after Lebanese Hezbollah. The formalization and expansion of these networks risks exacerbating geopolitical and sectarian tensions throughout the region.
LLetto says
Nicely written
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Many thanks to Keith Hanson for inviting Robert Spencer and making more people aware of Spencer’s vital warnings to the West about the jihad threat. As he explained, Iran’s mullahocracy are immune to the normal levers for persuasion, such as trade or diplomacy. The mullahs are motivated by IDEOLOGY and they will not give up their power even if they received substantial bribes. They couldn’t care less about the Iranian people, just as Hitler didn’t give a hoot about the survival and well-being of the German people.
Keith Hanson gets it: Islam is primarily a political ideology and treating it merely as a religion will not address the concerns of Islamic leaders who in fact actually want to rule the world.
Muslim leaders do not merely want human rights and civil liberties for Muslims in the West.
MUSLIMS DON’T EVEN HAVE SUCH GREAT RIGHTS IN MUSLIM DICTATORSHIPS!
The only way to stop jihad is to convince tens of millions of Muslims that the Koran is of human origins.
Muslims who see that leave Islam instantly and are no longer capable of being jihadists.
Peter Dale says
What interested me was Robert Spencer’s answer to a question about why politicians here don’t seem to grasp the threat. He said that they were ignorant of Islam’s teachings and naive. But there may a nastier answer. Recall that, just after Iran shot down the Ukrainian plane, it threatened to release the names of Western politicians who had accepted money from Iran. If politicians in the West have been taking money from this criminal regime to keep quiet and look the other way, then we have treason. Some investigative journalist should be looking into this.
Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says
PLEASE Mr Spencer, whenever speaking with people like Keith Hanson who repeatedly refer to “RADICAL“ Islam, set them straight before they say it a second, third or fourth time.
By failing to not correct them by explaining that there is no such thing as “RADICAL” Islam, there is just ISLAM, you are doing a disservice to truth and allowing those who wish to deceive us as to the true nature of Islam validation.
Those who use the term RADICAL when discussing Islam are either IGNORANT or COWARDS or they are DECEIVERS.
Educate/Shame/Expose
Joseph says
I thought the same while listening.