Just two weeks ago I wrote about the UN Commission of Inquiry being caught red-handed in the proverbial antisemitic cookie jar. The notoriously anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council and its inquisition were decloaked after one commissioner made antisemitic remarks in a media interview, stating that social media is largely controlled by the “Jewish lobby.” It was a gift because it spotlighted the extraordinary bias of the UNHRC. This week, we were handed two more examples that demonstrate to the world without a shadow of a doubt the laughable absurdity of those who demean, defame and attempt to delegitimize the State of Israel.
Muhammad, Not Khomeini, Was First to Institutionalize the Slaughtering of His Critics
BY RAYMOND IBRAHIM, PJ MEDIA AUG 19, 2022
Iranian worshippers walk past a painting of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and Basij paramilitary force members at the conclusion of a Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran on Oct. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Who was really responsible for the recent assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie? While “mainstream media” spent a fair bit of time clearing their throat and searching for a “motive,” many remembered that in 1989, the then supreme leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini, had issued a fatwa, an Islamic edict, calling for the slaying of Rushdie, for having “insulted” the prophet of Islam in his 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses.In reality, fatwa or no fatwa, Muslims have been attacking and slaughtering those perceived to “blaspheme” against the prophet of Islam for nearly a millennium and a half, simply because Muhammad himself institutionalized the practice. Read more…
