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 <title>Egypt: Islam Strkes Again -- History Threatens Replay of Iran&#039;s 1979 Revolutionary Disaster</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;It appears that  the Egyptian students&#039; glorious Facebook revolution may be quite shortlived and about to be hijacked in broad daylight by masses of Islamic riffraff. Here is a (longish) link to one report, but the story is already old news:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/in-post-revolution-egypt-islamists-threaten-to-outmanoeuvre-secularists-evoking-iran-in-1979/article2115197/page1/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/in-post-revolution-egypt-islamists-threaten-to-outmanoeuvre-secularists-evoking-iran-in-1979/article2115197/page1/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-m...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/omid-parsi/egypt-islam-strkes-again-history-threatens-replay-irans-1979-revolutionary-disaste-0&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Nordic Mass Killer - Sadly, It Appears That Terrorism &quot;Has Worked&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Just look at all the intense, heated discussion about multi-culturalism, political correctness and islamofascism going on in just about every blog and forum the world over... It appears that the Nordic terrorist was looking for a way to make this debate front and center and &quot;fuel a fire&quot;. Tragically, he concluded that a horrific large scale massacre would focus the world&#039;s attention. To that extent, he has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/omid-parsi/nordic-mass-killer-sadly-it-appears-terrorism-has-worked&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>It&#039;s Islam Stupid ...</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s Islam, stupid...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is often claimed that Islam means &quot;Peace&quot;. The word &quot;Islam&quot; however, to those who understand even a modicum of Arabic, transliterates into &quot;Surrender&quot;. Of course &quot;surrendering&quot; to domination is a form of achieving &quot;peace&quot;, as opposed to &quot;not surrendering&quot; which implies &quot;annihilation&quot;. That is what is meant by &quot;Islam&quot;, in whose totalitarian mindset &quot;peace&quot; and &quot;surrender&quot; are synonymous as a matter of sincere fact.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/omid-parsi/its-islam-stupid&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title> Thanks mom for thinking of me when it comes to exporting &quot;Torshi&quot;!</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;The night before last, I got a call from my now ancient parents, still living a quaint, quiet and dignified middle-class retirement in our ancient home in my provincial hometown in Iran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/omid-parsi/thanks-mom-thinking-me-when-it-comes-exporting-torshi&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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 <title>Fateful Day Ahead</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;We are only one day away from the 31st anniversary of the Fall of the Pahlavi Regime, a day of showdown between the Green Opposition and the IRGC Junta; And quite likely, the most fateful day in the history of the Islamic Republic that will set the tone for the future of the Iranians&#039; struggle to achieve basic &lt;span id=&quot;lw_1265791692_0&quot; class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot;&gt;civil rights&lt;/span&gt; under a rational, if not secular, representative government.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/omid-parsi/fateful-day-ahead&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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