Tag: Theocracy
Saudi Woman Beheaded for ‘Witchcraft’
By Randy Kreider December 13, 2011.
Print: ABC News
A Saudi woman was beheaded after being convicted of practicing “witchcraft and sorcery,” according to the Saudi Interior Ministry, at least the second such execution for sorcery this year.
Rule of Lord
By William Saletan November 22, 2011.
Print: Slate
The Republican plan to nullify the courts and establish Christian theocracy.
A hostile takeover of Zionism
By PATRICK MARTIN September 26, 2009.
Print: The Globe & Mail
Israel is teetering toward theocracy, with the rise of the Haredim.
EU resolve hardens as British workers face Iran show trial
Younes Khani July 3, 2009.
Print: The Times
Iranian employees of the British Embassy in Tehran face the prospect of a show trial after the regime said that they had admitted conspiring against the Islamic Republic. Tensions between the Iranian theocracy and the EU rose as a hardline Ayatollah accused Britain of attempting to undermine the regime and EU officials expressed concern that confessions may have been extracted by torture, leaving the door open for a wholesale withdrawal of EU diplomats from the country.
For Radical Islam, the End Begins
by Joshua Muravchik June 28, 2009.
Print: The Washington Post
Much as the hammers that leveled the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of the Cold War, so might the protests rocking Iran signal the death of radical Islam and the challenges it poses to the West. Just as with the evangelicals and the Republican Party, the integration of politics and religious dogma cannot hold.
