Radical Islam uses Nazi-Like Tactics to Eliminate Foes and Brainwash!
September 7, 2006
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The two articles which follow, concerning Radical Iran’s Revolutionary Nazi-like elimination of those who disagree with their politics, and the establishing of robot like devotion to their god or leader, like the SS created in the minds of their Nazi Youth Movement, bring back vivid memories of compromise after compromise on the part of the world in the 1930’s. It was the time of the cry of “Peace in our Time,” which sounded no more when Hitler rolled in Poland in September of 1939. The first of the articles is from the Jerusalem Post and the Second Excerpt is from the MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute).
Begin Article 1 Jerusalem Post Article
Iran to rid Universities of Liberalism
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
September 6, 2006
Iran’s hard-line president urged students Tuesday to push for a purge of liberal and secular university teachers, another sign of his determination to strengthen Islamic fundamentalism in the country.
With his call echoing the rhetoric of the nation’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Ahmadinejad appears determined to remake Iran by reviving the fundamentalist goals pursued under the republic’s late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Iran still has strong moderate factions, and since taking office a year ago Ahmadinejad has moved to replace pragmatic veterans in the government and diplomatic corps with former military commanders and inexperienced religious hard-liners.
His administration also has launched crackdowns on independent journalists, Web sites and bloggers.
Speaking to a group of students Tuesday, Ahmadinejad called on them to pressure his administration to keep driving out moderate instructors, a process that began earlier this year.
Dozens of liberal university professors and teachers were sent into retirement this year after Ahmadinejad’s administration, sparking strong protests from students, named the first cleric to head Teheran University.
The country’s oldest institution of higher education remains home to dozens more professors and instructors who outspokenly oppose policies that restrict freedom of expression.
“Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities,” the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a meeting with students.
The president complained that reforms in the country’s universities were difficult to accomplish and that the educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 150 years.
But, he added: “Such a change has begun.”
It was not clear if Ahmadinejad intended to take immediate specific measures, or if he was just urging the students to rally.
Ahmadinejad, in his role as head of the country’s Council of Cultural Revolution, would have the authority to make such changes himself. But his comments seemed designed to encourage hard-line students to begin a pressure campaign on their own, thus putting a squeeze on universities.
“This is the beginning of a so-called cultural revolution. Ahmadinejad and his allies plan to sweep their opponents from the universities,” said Saeed Al-e Agha, a Teheran University professor.
“They want to rule the brains of youth there.”
“Ahmadinejad wants to settle scores with the most important center of critics and opposition and close the door to any opponent before municipal elections in late November,” said Kouhyar Goodarzi, a human rights activist.
“But his move may prompt a new round of student unrest.”
Liberal and secular professors teach at universities around the country, but they are a minority. Most are politically passive and do not identify with either the hard-liners or the liberal camp.
Hard-liners increasingly control the top rungs of government but still encounter resistance from some members of the public.
Moderates also remain in government. Even among conservatives, there are different goals and powerful political factions.
It remains unclear, for example, how tightly Ahmadinejad controls the government, or the exact nature of his relationship with the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Ahmadinejad surprised his conservative backers in April by deciding that women could attend soccer games, but Khamenei didn’t agree and the supreme leader’s view prevailed.
Shortly after the Iranian revolution, Iran fired hundreds of liberal and leftist university teachers and expelled many students.
It had a brief period of reform in the 1990s under then-President Mohammad Khatami, but hard-line factions cracked down then, too, especially on university students, dissidents and journalists.
“It’s horrible. I did not expect at all that Ahmadinejad … would try to deprive others of their jobs because of political differences,” Reza, a university graduate who did not wish to be identified further for fear of retaliation, said of Ahmadinejad’s statement Tuesday.
The president, who won election based on promises of economic reform, has sharpened the government’s stance both on human rights issues and on its controversial nuclear program.
Meanwhile, in spite of Ahmadinejad’s bluster, the purge has not yet taken place, a human rights activist pointed out.
“At the moment, these words haven’t been followed with actions,” he said, but they signal a “possible coming crackdown,” said Hadi Ghaemi, a researcher on Iran for the New York-based Human Rights Watch.
End Article from Jerusalem Post
Begin Excerpts from MEMRI Article
This is Much Worse than the Hitler Youth Movement!
MEMRI – Middle East Media Research Institute
Hizbullah’s Children’s Militias [Aged 10-15]
Over 2,000 Serving
Special Dispatch
Egypt/Lebanon/Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project
September 1, 2006
No. 1276
Egyptian Weekly on Hizbullah’s Armed Children’s Militias: Over 2,000 Children Aged 10-15 Serving
In its August 18, 2006 edition, the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Yusuf featured an investigative article by Mirfat Al-Hakim titled “Hizbullah’s Children’s Militias.” The article reveals that Hizbullah has recruited over 2,000 children aged 10-15 to serve in armed militias, and that the Hizbullah-affiliated Mahdi Scouts youth rganization is training them to become martyrs.
The article is accompanied by a photo, which can be viewed in the HTML version of this Special Dispatch and at:
http://www.memri.org/images/uploaded/sd_127606_1.jpg .(1)
The following are excerpts from the article:
Hizbullah Recruits Children Barely 10 Years Old
According to Roz Al-Yusuf, “Hizbullah has recruited over 2,000 innocent children aged 10-15 to form armed militias.
Before the recent war with Israel, these children appeared only in the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations, and were referred to as the ‘December 14 Units,’ but today they are called istishhadiyun [‘martyrs’]…
“Hizbullah has customarily recruited youths and children and trained them to fight from a very early age. These are children barely 10 years old, who wear camouflage uniforms, cover their faces with black [camouflage] paint, swear to wage jihad, and join the Mahdi Scouts [youth organization]… “The children are selected by Hizbullah recruitment [officers] based on one criterion only: They must be willing to become martyrs.”
The Children Train to Become Martyrs
“The children are educated from an early age to become martyrs in their youth, like their fathers, and their training is carried out by the Mahdi Scouts youth organization… [This organization], which is affiliated with Hizbullah, teaches the children the basic principles of Shi’ite ideology and of Hizbullah’s ideology… The first lesson that the children are taught by Hizbullah is ‘The Disappearance of Israel,’ and it is always an important part of the [training] program…
“The Mahdi Scouts organization was founded in Lebanon on May 5, 1985… According to the organization’s website, the number of [scouts] who had undergone training by the end of 2004 was 1,491, and the number of scout groups which had joined [the organization] was 449, with a membership of 41,960. According to the organization’s most recent statistics, since 2004, 120 of its members have been ready to become martyrs.
“The organization’s goal is to train an exemplary generation of Muslims based on the [principle of] ‘the rule of the jurisprudent’ [a founding principle of the Islamic Revolution in Iran], and to prepare for the coming of the Imam Mahdi [the Shi’ite messiah]. Its members, including the children, undertake to obey their commanders, to bring honor to the [Muslim] nation, and to prepare themselves for helping the Mahdi [when he comes].”
“A Nation With Child-Martyrs Will Be Victorious” According to the article, Na’im Qasim, deputy to Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, said in an interview on Radio Canada: “A nation with child-martyrs will be victorious, no matter what difficulties lie in its path. Israel cannot conquer us or violate our territories, because we have martyr sons who will purge the land of the Zionist filth… This will be done through the blood of the martyrs, until we eventually achieve our goals.”
Endnote:
(1) Roz Al-Yusuf (Egypt), August 18, 2006.
End Excerpts from MEMRI Article
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