Iran – Don Boys https://donboys.cstnews.com Common Sense for Today Sun, 05 Mar 2023 04:46:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.29 Biden’s Election is as Stinky, Shady, and Spurious as Persia’s Darius the Great! https://donboys.cstnews.com/bidens-election-is-as-stinky-shady-and-spurious-as-persias-darius-the-great https://donboys.cstnews.com/bidens-election-is-as-stinky-shady-and-spurious-as-persias-darius-the-great#respond Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:35:43 +0000 http://donboys.cstnews.com/?p=2733 Niccolò Machiavelli has impacted world politicians since publication of The Prince in 1513, in which he advised political leaders to consult the past because human events are similar in all ages. He added, “This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.” Will Durant seemed to agree when he said, man “changes his habits, but he does not change his instincts.” He can’t change his instincts.

Men change their behavior depending on many influences, but their basic human nature does not change. All honest theologians and philosophers would agree. All men are flawed (the Fall), so each will do the least work to get the best results. Cheating, lying, manipulating, and maneuvering can be justified in warped minds to achieve their desires.

Election cheating by public officials is not new. Even Darius the Great was chosen King of Persia, like Biden, through incredible, insidious, although innovative corruption.

The nation of Persia is now called Iran and is in the news daily. It is considered the enemy of the world except for their support from Syria. Both are Muslim but of opposing sects. Iran is an extreme Shiite Muslim state, and Syria is a secular state with a mixture of Muslim sects (70% Sunni Muslim and 12% Shiite) and a few Christians. But the good relations between Iran and Syria do not depend on religious similarities but political concerns: they both hate America and Israel—the great and little Satan. Syria does not have both feet in Iran; only one and has been skittish about Iran’s extreme hostility; taking hostages, etc. It’s a marriage of convenience.

Persia had an incredible influence upon the Mediterranean world, having spanned a timeframe from the sixth century B.C. to our day. It should be remembered that while Iran is Muslim, it is not Arab.

The Persian Empire had an inauspicious beginning with a few semi-nomadic tribes on the Iranian plateau. They didn’t have much with which to begin an empire; only goats, cattle, and sheep. One tribe boasted of a man of authority and leadership abilities who was called Cyrus; later to be known as Cyrus the Great. Cyrus was very ambitious and began to cajole, harass, and control the tribes one after the other until he ruled Lydia, Babylon, and Media in 550 B.C.—the genesis of the great Persian Empire. It would soon become the first world superpower comprising Egypt’s Nile Valley, all of Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers), and a large part of India.

The Old Testament praises Cyrus the Great for helping free the Jewish people of Babylon from captivity and allowing them to return to Jerusalem. With few exceptions, Persia’s leaders were tolerant of all religions and this was one of the reasons for their long periods of peace.

Cyrus the Great was followed by Cambyses in 530 B.C., who ruled to 522 when Bardiya, or as Herodotus calls him Smerdis (a wild, wild story worth researching), became king for ten months and was assassinated by Persian aristocrats. Following a suspicious election as Emperor, Darius I, who became Darius the Great, ruled from 522 B.C. to 486 B.C. with an impressive 36-year reign, during which time the empire reached its zenith.

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Darius led campaigns into Europe, Greece, and India. He also built impressive projects through his vast empire and introduced a legal system (based on the famous Code of Hammurabi), a postal system, and a new international currency that simplified business and trade.

One of his greatest projects was his Royal Road that permitted travelers to travel over 1700 miles from his administrative capital Susa to Sardis, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia in modern Turkey. The Royal Road was a major intercontinental thoroughfare that had postal stations and relays at regular intervals. The trip usually took three months on foot, but with fresh horses and riders ready at each relay, royal couriers carried messages and mail from Susa to Sardis in eight or nine days. By this road, Darius was in contact with his entire empire; however, ironically, this same road was used by Alexander the Great to conquer the Persian Empire 150 years later.

And civilization moved along.

The Royal Road moved all kinds of trade from east to west with offshoots to major cities. This extended into the famous Silk Road that connected Persia with China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Rome. This ancient trade route linked China with the West. Jade and silk from China, spices and precious stones from India, highly bred horses from Kazakhstan, gold from central Asia, bronze buckles from Greece, and many other objects plus religion and philosophy were traded like objects. Archeologists have found Greek bronzes and Chinese silk in Germany dating back to the time of Cyrus the Great.

Obviously, Darius was a successful ruler; however, he cheated like Joe Biden to gain the office.

Darius, just before his election, was the lancer of King Smerdis, who was a false king, the brother of Cambyses. The false king was assassinated and the seven killers met to decide who would run the empire and the kind of government it would become. After expressing opinions for different kinds of government, they agreed on a contest where the winner would take the throne and form the kind of government he wanted. They agreed to meet the next morning, each on his horse, and the first horse to neigh at the sunrise would be the new king.

Well, that’s about as reasonable as the 2020 farce with a major candidate campaigning from his basement.

Herodotus, the “father of history,” tells us that the servant of Darius cheated by making Darius’ horse neigh by letting the animal smell his hand that he had previously rubbed over the genitals of a mare. That settled who would run the great Persian Empire. The neighing was followed by a thunderstorm and lightning, so it was obvious to everyone, including the media, that Darius had won and was declared the new king in 522 BC.

On reflection, overall, there are great similarities between the U.S. 2020 election and the election of Darius the Great.

They both were done in the dark and both stank to high Heaven.

Radical Democrats would say that the Darius election proves that a suspect king could still have a long and productive reign. Yes, but those Democrats are looking at this comparison out of their left eyes. No one knew the views of Darius since he was a simple but talented soldier. Biden has an exhaustive résumé after 45 years at the public trough that would make Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Castro stand up and cheer. Biden also has a long history of corruption, political and financial manipulation, lying, loose lips, as well as loose hands for females, etc. Harris is the most leftist Senator in America. We know what they will do, because they have done it, or promised to do it.

You will love Biden and Harris if you like higher, even confiscatory taxes; open borders; illegal immigrates on welfare and voting rolls; forgiveness of college debts; return to environmental fanaticism; confiscation of your guns; and lockdowns into the Millennium. It is shocking that anyone would have voted for Biden and Harris except the hangers-on and grafters looking for a glory hole.

Another comparison to our day is while Darius’s fraudulent election turned out good for the empire, one of the other cheated conspirators might have done an even better job. No one will ever know. However, President Trump had already proved his superiority by putting America first, making it great again, reducing taxes, shredding strangling regulations, ending endless wars in the Middle East, strongly supporting Israel, achieving the lowest unemployment in history and the highest employment of Blacks and Hispanics in history, limiting abortions, slowing illegal immigration, and supporting religious rights.

Even Ronald Reagan could not boast of such accomplishments.

Trump did all that in four years, being fought by Democrats and many Republicans who refused to accept his legitimacy and fought him every step of the way. Additionally, he had to defend himself from irrational media attacks, an accusation of being a tool of a foreign government without any supporting evidence, and an impeachment that was the closest to a coup in our history.

The coup came election night when many “servants” of Biden had their hands where they should not have been (on the genitals of the Democrat jackass), and Biden, like Darius, “won.”

A famous high-achiever once wrote, “My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I’m a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage – my life is a study of that.” That was Donald Trump, who is poised to give every liberal perpetual heartburn by winning in 2024 what was stolen from him in 2020.

And an aide will not have to handle the genitals of a mare to accomplish the task.

Since hope springs eternal in the human breast of the valiant, Trump may yank victory for 2020 from the jaws of defeat via the courtroom. If not, he will Make America Great Again in 2024.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for U SA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent being Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! The eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

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Traditional Muslims are Dishonest, Dangerous, and Deadly Whether in Iran, Iraq, or America! https://donboys.cstnews.com/traditional-muslims-are-dishonest-dangerous-and-deadly-whether-in-iran-iraq-or-america https://donboys.cstnews.com/traditional-muslims-are-dishonest-dangerous-and-deadly-whether-in-iran-iraq-or-america#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2020 17:58:23 +0000 http://donboys.cstnews.com/?p=2479 Peaceful nations have nothing to fear from backslidden Muslims (moderates) but traditional Muslims (whether Sunni at 940 million, Shiite at 120 million, or the other offshoots) are zealots with an obligation to convert the world to a massive caliphate. While the various sects have a hot, holy hatred for each other, they will temporarily suppress the desire to send other Muslims to Paradise so they can kill the infidels (non-Muslims) and establish a global caliphate.

Syria is a very unique country: primarily a Sunni nation with a strong Shiite minority. President Assad belongs to the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam that is supported by Iranian Shiites. This love affair between Iranian and Syrian Shiites is the reason the area is a bubbling volcano.

The Sunni sect thrives in most Islamic nations (Syria 85%, Saudi Arabia 90%, Egypt 90%, Jordan 90%, Turkey 65%) while the Shiites dominate Iran 90% and Iraq 65%. Hatred between Sunnis and Shiites going back to the death of Mohammed and his successor is currently expressed in the tragic Yemen (Iran’s proxy) war funded by Saudi and the U.S. with massive arms sales by the U.S. and Britain.

Saudi Arabia and the U.S. should stop the slaughter in Yemen and let Saudi and Yemen (Iran) settle their own religious and political differences.

An honest writer will always write the truth about Islam (and all things) and will never refuse to expose a lie. Fact: Islam is the Jonestown Cult without the Kool-Aid. It is dishonest, dangerous, and deadly.

Islam has a 1400-year history and has two “holy” books that clearly delineate what they believe; however, most people refuse to read them. Moreover, numerous Muslim scholars have expounded on their holy books so the dullest person has no excuse to be deceived into thinking Islam is a peaceful religion. People who believe that failed World History—in high school.

Moreover, they obviously know nothing about world events in the last 20 years.

And for college graduates to believe that traditional Islam is peaceful, requires a huge gulp of Kool-Aid.

Islam was started by an illiterate moon worshiper named Mohammed (spelled many different ways)—a pagan, slave-holding, sexist, thieving pedophile. If gasping Progressives will correct me, my apologies will follow.

Muslims have boasted how slowly Christianity gained prominence while Islam gained prominence so quickly. I pointed out that Christ’s basic message is love and Mohammed’s is hate. Christians used the Word while Muslims used a sword to conquer.

Muslims are still altering nations as free nations are being overwhelmed by Muslim immigrants who are swiftly changing the nations’ cultures. England is no longer England. France is no longer France. Germany is no longer Germany. And America is no longer America. Many don’t think that matters but I do. Moreover, we are fools if we don’t recognize the enemy among us.

I authored ISLAM: America’s Trojan Horse! in 2003 with second and third editions in 2009 and 2012 suggesting “the day [is] coming when our glorious Republic will only be remembered as a noble experiment between the great oceans. In kindness, we have permitted aliens inside our nation who have no intention of being absorbed into our ‘melting pot.’ They believe in the ‘salad bowl’ theory. Muslims will not adopt our ways and be assimilated into our culture. They are determined to change our culture, laws, and religion as they have in England, France, and other nations.”

I first wrote that in 2003. It is far worse than I anticipated. European nations have never seen such a massive sea change in their culture as observed by the invasion of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa. If American leaders would simply open their eyes, they could see the same thing happening here. It is almost too late to stop the massive shift in our national life.

There are 3000 mosques in America and 80% of them are controlled by the most extreme Wannabee sect in Saudi Arabia. It is interesting that there is not one church, of any kind, in Saudi Arabia! I have challenged Muslims and US progressives who are so sensitive about equality and diversity and fairness to help me start the Trinity Baptist Church in Mecca but I’ve had no response from the self-righteous hypocrites.

Most politicians are too gutless to read and acknowledge the facts. It is much easier to question my sanity, my sincerity, my ability, and my parentage than to respond honestly.

The Hamas Charter demands that “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it”; therefore, all Hamas followers are obligated to drive Israel into the sea. The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei agreed, “Israel is a cancerous tumour that should be cut and will be cut.” It is significant that Psalms 83:4 revealed this hatred millennia ago: “They have said, ‘Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.’”

The biggest mistake and most dangerous mistake being made by the world’s leading politicians is their statement: “Radical Islamic terrorists are the nation’s biggest problem.” That is not true: Islam is their biggest and most dangerous problem. There is little to fear from a backslidden Muslim.

Yasir Kazi is not a backslidden Muslim but an American imam (Ph.D. from Yale) and former professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He has taught that Christians are “filthy” in the sight of Allah. He compared us to feces and urine saying we are the “most evil of evils.” But that’s his mildest charge against us. This dude has been characterized by The New York Times magazine as “one of the most influential conservative clerics in American Islam.” What else does that “conservative” teach? He tells his students to rape, steal, and murder any who do not convert to Islam, yet he has never been arrested!

Imam Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh, Ph.D. from Temple University, told the Washington Post that suicide bombings are acceptable “if certain Muslims are to be cornered where they cannot defend themselves…” He is also the head of the Islamic Judiciary Council of the Shari’ah Scholars’ Association of North America. Few Americans know that such a group exists. Sharia law is based on the Koran and the Hadith, the sayings and actions of Mohammed.

Many Muslims believe they should live under their religious law and not under state or federal laws. Some states have passed laws making it illegal for any court to consider any foreign laws in making decisions. Since Muslims consider sharia law as divine and cannot be changed, a major train wreck is ahead.

Zee News reported that a female Muslim professor at Islam’s most prestigious university said Muslim men are permitted to rape non-Muslim women and enslave them. “Allah allows Muslims to rape non-Muslim women in order to humiliate them, claims Islamic professor,” Try to find any US Muslim leader (even among the most moderate) who renounced and repudiated her claim.

Most people are fearful of criticizing, even questioning Muslims since they are a preferred, protected, and pampered class thanks to a gutless media and know-nothing academia.

World leaders have displayed political correctness and personal cowardice in dealing with Islam, becoming tools for Muslims to advance their cause. Such leaders will be recognized as cheerleaders for their own destruction. Leaders who are afraid of adverse public opinion and being labeled “conservative” (gasp!) or “Fundamentalist” (gasp! gasp!) are moral cripples who are not aware of their limp and crooked walk.

Such leaders, in crises, are as useless as a milking stool under a bull.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog. Send request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

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President Trump: Permit Muslim Nations to Handle Bombing of Saudi Oil Fields! https://donboys.cstnews.com/president-trump-permit-muslim-nations-to-handle-bombing-of-saudi-oil-fields https://donboys.cstnews.com/president-trump-permit-muslim-nations-to-handle-bombing-of-saudi-oil-fields#respond Wed, 25 Sep 2019 18:56:06 +0000 http://donboys.cstnews.com/?p=2423 The BBC headline on September 15 was “US blames Iran for drone strikes on two sites” and Saudi Arabia’s energy minister reported the attack affected about half their oil production. The bad guys, the “purveyors of peace” in the Middle East, are at it again and the U.S. and President Trump “spoke with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to offer U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s defense.” Trump says America is “locked and loaded” to come to Saudi Arabia’s aid.

That is tacit permission for the war hawks to come out of their teepees and beat the drums for military action—old men sending young men to die in military action that should be handled by fellow-Muslims.

While all people of good want to see tyrants assume room temperature as they go into eternity to be greeted by whomever, it is not wise for the U.S. to assume the role of peace keeper of the world. I believe there is another organization with that mandate that meets on the East River in New York City. Let Muslims fight their own battles. The choice between the two sides is not a choice between good and evil but between much evil and more evil.

I will not be angry, agitated, or alarmed if Saudi Arabia’s oil wells become dry holes in the desert! Neither do I care if the price of oil drops to $10.00 a barrel and they end up pouring it on their breakfast pancakes.

Neither do I care if a regime change takes place in Iran but it is not America’s responsibility to effect that change. It is time for Muslim nations to settle their own problems. No one made America the paladin of peace or the world’s banker.

This is not a plea for isolationism but a plea for consistency. America has not been attacked or seriously threatened by this deplorable action. So Muslims should solve their own problems, after all they are equipped with sophisticated weapons—sold to Saudi by America and Iran by Russia. No one would declare that any other nation has a right to effect regime change in America because each nation is sovereign. Look at the furor of the alleged Russian Collusion in our 2016 election.

Fanatical, committed Muslims are dangerous, devious, and deceitful people and we are fools to waltz into the crossfire. The free world should permit these countries to work out their own differences, remove their own totalitarian leaders, and worship however they choose. The U.S. can cheer the good guys (better guys) but we don’t have the money, manpower, or moral authority to get involved.

No one elected America as the world’s moral and humanitarian watchdog and we are arrogant, asinine, and absurd to assume that because we have the might, we therefore have the right to do so.

Why should Americans be outraged about an attack of one Muslim nation on another while other Muslim leaders choose sides and stand around sucking their thumbs acting as cheerleaders without getting involved?

Meanwhile, an assortment of U.S. politicians are pounding the war drums. But then, older politicians have always managed to find the guts and money to send younger men to fight their wars.

In addition to the Arab League, the UN might provide some leadership in world squabbles since they promised to be a peace-keeping organization. Heaven knows we have given them enough money to expect them to do what they were organized to do—help provide peace and protection, and promote prosperity.

Are we to do what others are responsible to do? Isn’t the United Nations supposed to keep the peace, protect the innocent, and bring the bad guys to justice? Alternatively, doesn’t the pecking order demand that surrounding Muslim nations bring offenders to justice?

One must remember that Iran is supported by Russia, Syria, and the terrorist group Hezbollah. Let the bloody bullies bang their heads together and resolve their own differences. If Israel wants to get involved, that is their business. Let the Middle East nations that are threatened take whatever side they choose. It will not be a principled decision since there is no noble principle involved, only violent religious and political hatred. All factions are thugs, thieves, tyrants, and terrorists.

To those who say it is our fight, I ask if we are to get involved in every battle on earth. We would be wise to heed Winston Churchill who said, “To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”

I say, “yes, yes.”

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D; and visit his blog. Send request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

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Muslim States Must Clean Out Their Own Stables! https://donboys.cstnews.com/muslim-states-must-clean-out-their-own-stables https://donboys.cstnews.com/muslim-states-must-clean-out-their-own-stables#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2015 02:06:28 +0000 http://donboys.cstnews.com/?p=1160 The Middle East is a writhing, dangerous snake pit that is a threat to the whole area and the world. The question is: who is responsible to kill the deadly vipers? I think fellow Muslims should climb into the pit and do the killing, not the U.S. Muslim nations have been a curse on man for 1400 years and it’s time “moderate” Muslims clean up their own house.

Britain had troops in far-away Afghanistan in the 1800s because she feared a possible incursion by Russia into British-controlled India. Britain was also very fearful that Russia and Iran, then called Persian, might climb into bed together. That fear has become a reality and Russia is the main supporter of Iran’s nuclear program and Iran is considered Russia’s “client state.” In recent years the U.S. went to Afghanistan to–I’ve forgotten why and like Britain and every invading nation we got our kiesters kicked badly.

Great Britain was fearful that Russia looked at Afghanistan as a stepping stone into India, one of Britain’s major colonies. That fear was accelerated in 1839 when Tsar Nicholas I sent a small body of Russian troops that penetrated the border of Afghanistan. The British responded by sending an expedition to Kabul and placing their man (political puppet) on the Afghan throne. The result was a disaster. The nation rose up in arms–literally.

In Dec. 1841, the Afghans promised safe conduct to the British garrison of about four thousand troops, accompanied by about 12,000 women, children, and Afghan camp-followers, and they began to withdraw through the snow-laden mountain passes. They planned to march to Jalalabad about 90 miles away but they were doomed and were marching to their grave.

The safe-conduct was violated at the Khurd Kabul mountain pass where almost all the 16,000 were murdered or taken prisoners. Panic took over as the mangled, starving company fled in every direction with highly disciplined British troops knocking down their own officers with their muskets. Out of 16,000 only Dr. William Brydon, a British Army surgeon survived and reached India on Jan. 13!

I don’t want to say it but I must: Muslim leaders cannot be trusted. Mohammed gave them their marching orders–a world caliphate. The Muslim world is not united because they hate each other as much as they hate “unbelievers.” However, they will unite to drive Israel into the sea and to kill the “great Satan.” Each Muslim state has major problems with others. Maybe I can untangle some of the Muslim Mess below:

Three Middle East nations are not Arab: Turkey, Iran, and Israel. Turks do not speak Arabic, but Turkish. Iranians speak Persian and hate Arabs. Israel speaks Hebrew (and non-Jews speak Arabic) and is hated by everyone. Maybe feared also!

The Mediterranean nation of Egypt, with over 88 million people is the most populous nation in North Africa and the Arab world. It has always been a major influence in the Middle East and has impacted the whole world.

Egypt is considered one of the cradles of civilization going back thousands of years BC. It early became Christian but now only a small percent of its people are Christians (Coptic). The nation was overrun by Sunni Muslim zealots and slowly became Muslim. Today it is controlled by a “moderate” Muslim after street protests that prompted the army to remove the Muslim Brotherhood from power.

Saudi Arabia makes up most of the Arabian Peninsula with the Red Sea to the west and the Persian Gulf to the east. It is known as the land of the two holiest mosques of Islam: Mecca and Medina. It is an absolute monarchy ruled by the House of Saud since its founding in 1932. King Salman recently took the throne.

The king must rule according to Shariah law and the Koran, which along with the Sunnah (the Hadith) are the nation’s constitution. Political parties are not permitted and even peaceful protests are forbidden. Saudi is considered the fifth most authoritarian government out of 167 nations and beheaded 100 people by June of 2015. The U.S. is their bosom buddy! Oil makes strange bedfellows!

The Wahhabi form of Sunni Islam, a most extreme sect of Islam, is followed by most of its citizens. It should be noted that Osama bin Laden and fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and all were members of the Wahhabi sect. A small percentage of citizens are Shia Muslims. There are no churches in Saudi Arabia while there are 2000 mosques in America! Reciprocity, anyone?

Politically, Saudi Arabia is an adamant enemy of Iran and Syria and is friends with the U.S. and Egypt. In recent weeks the Saudi Air Force bombed Shiite rebels in Yemen (located on Saudi Arabia’s southern border) to restore the Yemeni government that has been a U.S. ally in fighting al Qaeda; however the legitimate government of Yemen was kicked out of the capital city by rebels a few months ago. Eleven countries have signed onto this effort: Saudi Arabia (Sunni), the United Arab Emirates (85% Sunni), Bahrain (65 to 75% Shiite), Qatar (50% are Sunni), Kuwait (70% Sunni, 30% Shiite), Jordan (95% Sunni), Egypt (90% Sunni), Morocco, (67% Sunni), Pakistan (77% Sunni, 20% Shiite), Turkey (77% Sunni), and Sudan (70% Sunni). Note that all but one of these are Sunni and there is incredible hatred between the two groups!

Iraq is the land of Mesopotamia, the land of the Fertile Crescent. At the end of WW I, Britain seized Baghdad and formed Iraq in 1920. After an unstable period Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party in 1979 was in control. Hussein was a Sunni in a nation that was 65% Shia! Moreover most of the national offices were filled with the minority Sunnis! The Shiites were never going to be satisfied with that arrangement.

Between 1980 and 1988 Iran and Iraq fought a vicious war with many dying from poison gas used by Iraq. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait kicking off a massive U.S. led First Gulf War. Iraq withdrew in early 1991. In 2003 the U.S. and her allies removed Hussein and his cohorts and set up national elections turning the nation back to Iraqis. The U.S. left in 2011 and the Iraqis have been fighting for their lives to this day. In 2014 Sunni rebels seized Mosul and other cities with thousands fleeing across the border. Recently, ISIS terrorists overran Ramadi as American-trained Iraqi troops fled the city. It seems we conquered more than we could control.

Jordon lying just east of Israel is 95% Sunni and the small Christian community has little discrimination; however, it is illegal for Christians to seek converts from Islam.

Iran is not Arab but Persian and they resent being called “Arabs.” Iran (Persia) was a world empire in 550 B.C. after Cyrus the Great defeated Babylon making Persia the largest empire the world had seen. After Islamic troops took the empire in the seventh century, it gradually became Shiite, the only Shiite nation on earth. They have officially declared their goal is to establish a “new world order” according to the Shia Islamic belief system. The UN applied sanctions against Iran because of their nuclear program (thanks to Russia) thereby isolating them economically, politically, and socially from many nations of the world. About 95% of Iranians are Shia Muslims of the Twelver branch and maybe 4% to 8% are Sunnis plus a few Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, etc. Iran is a major supporter of Syria.

The U.S. was conned into signing a treaty with Iran even though massive crowds run their streets yelling, “Death to America,” and “Death to Israel.” Their leaders have promised that they will not stop their nuclear experiments nor will they stop exporting terror around the world. As usual, Americans are fools, willing to give everything for a facade of peace. And we didn’t even get the release of the four Americans held in Iranian prisons! Look for Saudi Arabia to join the nuclear club.

Syria is bordered by Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel. Muhammed invaded Syria in 626 bringing Islam with him. The nation has been ruled by the Al-Assad family since 1970 and most of the people are Shia Muslims of the Twelver branch.

Syria participated in the U.S. directed Gulf War against Iraq. A civil war has raged in Syria for more than four years that has killed more than 210,000 people with hundreds of thousands of refugees crossing the border into Turkey.

Note that Syria and Iran are of the same fanatical sect of Islam and Iran is supporting Syria in their civil war. So Iran and Syria are at war with the rest of the Islamic world.

The Middle East is a tangled mess. It is a nest of vipers. Basically Iran and Syria are hated and feared by the other nations and Israel is hated by everyone.

It should be noted that Christians have been slaughtered in most of those Muslim nations whether they are Sunni or Shia. Jordan is the major exception.

With all their oil money (plus billions in personal foreign bank accounts) “reasonable” Muslim leaders can handle the problems in Iran and Syria. Let them fight it out. It is their responsibility to clean out their own stables. The free world will cheer from the sidelines. If that is “isolationism” then so be it. God never gave America a mandate nor did the Constitution to bring democracy to totalitarian regimes especially when they have no experience with freedom and little desire for it.

And be assured that after the Sunnis and Shias bomb each other, those remaining will turn their sights on Israel and the free world. We are seeing another Hundred Years’ War!

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