On this day, Imam Hussein wrote the epic of Ashura. He defined honor for the whole history of mankind. He embraced a red death but did not succumb to the shame of humiliation. Hussein forever became a symbol of human dignity. The people of Iran, inspired by him, do not bow down to bullies.
On the eve of Ashura last year, in the aftermath of the 12-Day War, the martyred Leader stepped through the curtains at the Imam Khomeini Hussainiyah, as unshaken as ever. Tonight, on the eve of Ashura once more, the heart remembers.
#MartyrdomIsOurHighestHonor
One of the killings involved a ten day old baby being shot by an Israeli sniper in broad daylight whilst the baby was being breastfed : an independent UN Commission says Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank
BREAKING: Zionist normalizing pseudo-cleric Abbas Razawi confronted during Muharram ceremony by brave believer who was forcibly removed and assaulted by the organizers
In northern Houston, Texas, a Shi'a Muslim community center named Dar-e-Abbas Houston shamefully invited Abbas Razawi, a UK-based pseudo-cleric who is a self-appointed ambassador of Shi'a Muslim to several Jewish-Zionist organizations and other organizations related to the British crown. Claiming to represent all Shias, Razawi signed (and helped to draft) the infamous Drumlanrig Accord along with the Chief Rabbi of Britain, one of the staunchest Zionists in the UK. These accords were presented to King Charles.
Razawi also met with the World Jewish Congress, one of the most rabid pro-Zionist organizations led by Ronald Lauder, who pushed then New York governor Pataki to privatize the World Trade Center complex and sell it to a close Netanyahu friend named Larry Silverstein.
Would any center be shameful and dishonorable enough to invite a person who flatters and cajoles people who are a party to the mass murder of Shi'a Muslims around the world and who control a vast media machine that slanders the religion of Shi'a Islam? Is Ronald Lauder not close to Marco Rubio who even goes as far as to insult Imam Mahdi (aj) himself?
It is in this context that in 2025, the year prior, a shameless center invited him and during his first lecture, the entire congregation got up and walked out in protest.
The protests against this pseudo-cleric continued this year in 2026 when a brave man stood up in the middle of the congregation to call out this boot-licking, buck-dancing pseudo-cleric and prevent this fraud from desecrating the sacred space of a mourning ceremony for Imam Hussain (a).
As this brave man called out this fraud to his face and to the ears of the community, much like Sayyeda Zainab (sa) did to Yazid 1,400 years ago in Syria, a group of shameless, self-hating House Muslims — including some of the board members of the community center's organization — came up and roughly manhandled this brave lion of truth as an offering to their god America and international Zionism. The man reportedly suffered minor physical assault as well — over mere words which exposed falsehood, hypocrisy, and having hands stained with the blood of Shi'a Muslims worldwide.
The community center announced that the programs hosted by Razawi have been canceled until further notice. Did they do so out of finally growing a spine and using their moral compass? Or because they were so embarrassed by one brave lion of truth that they were worried more rightful protests would continue and spoil their perfectly good plan to kiss the shoes of America and "israel" by hosting this normalizer pseudo-cleric?
Golden rule of life: no one respects those who don't respect themselves. We have zero respect for the organizers of this program who violently manhandle the one man in the congregation who has an iota of self-respect and understanding of what Muharram really means.
Do not desecrate the pulpit of the Prophet (S) with these fake normalizer sheikhs. Any center which hosts pro=Zionist, pro-imperialist boot-licking fake sheikhs should have similar non-violent protests by the congregation. Even if it is only one person.
They called it a conspiracy theory.
For years, anyone who suggested that powerful people protected each other from accountability, that money bought actual political outcomes rather than merely access, that both parties served the same donor class at the expense of their voters, was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist.
Tinfoil hats.
Paranoid populism from people who couldn't accept complexity.
Then the Epstein case happened.
And the Panama Papers happened.
And the Pandora Papers happened.
And the bank bailouts happened while the people who caused the crisis got bonuses.
And the pharmaceutical executives sold their stock before announcing failed trials.
And the senators traded options on companies affected by legislation they were about to pass.
And the revolving door between regulatory agencies and the industries they regulated kept spinning.
And the lobbyists kept writing the legislation.
And the media kept being owned by fewer and fewer people, all of whom had extensive financial ties to the industries the media was supposed to scrutinize.
At what point does a "conspiracy theory" become a "description of observable reality"?
They took the question away from the conspiracy theorists by proving it in front of everyone.
Now the problem isn't that people don't believe it.
The problem is that the people who confirmed it are still in charge, and accountability is still a concept that applies to the people below them but not to themselves.
That's not a conspiracy. That's a structure.
And structures can be changed.
A UN commission has found that Israel is committing genocide through a "deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children".
The truth always comes out in the end — and we must never, ever let it be forgotten.
This report is haunting even for someone who has documented the most horrific aspects of this genocide - which too many world leaders pretend not to see.
I commend the Commission of Inquiry for its effort to bring about accountability and make the truth accessible.
Send a letter today asking Canadian officials to support the Palestinian Nakba exhibit at Winnpeg’s Canadian Museum of Human Rights.
The purpose of museums and exhibits is to display and prompt open discussion around important historical issues. The Nakba is well within this mandate.
Stand up for free expression and dialogue inside the CMHR, free of political pressure.
https://t.co/nxc8sEKtSx
The UN inquiry’s findings that genocide is being carried out by Israeli authorities and security forces in Gaza - as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes - and additionally war crimes in the occupied West Bank - is due to what the inquiry found was the deliberate targeting of children - and it is horrifying reading. The details of the targeting are chilling. Children. Killed. Wounded. Tortured. Starved. Raped. On a mass scale
Persian Gulf monarchies take their anger out on vulnerable Shia communities during the month of Muharram following Iran’s attacks on U.S. military bases in their Kingdoms.
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Israel is dropping bombs on tents full of displaced families in Gaza.
The end of empire is not a single event.
It is a thousand small humiliations that the imperial culture experiences as existential crises.
A trade deal signed without American approval.
A country selling oil in a currency that isn't dollars.
An election result that Washington didn't want and couldn't prevent.
A military intervention that failed.
An ally that quietly started making other arrangements.
Each one is reported as an outrage.
A betrayal.
A threat.
What it is, in each case, is just a country deciding something for itself.
Which is all anyone ever wanted.
The fact that self-determination reads, inside the imperial culture, as aggression: that is the psychological damage the empire did to its own citizens.
It taught them that the natural order is one where they decide.
Any deviation from that order feels, to them, like disorder.
It is not disorder.
It is just the world, which was always multiple, slowly remembering that it doesn't need permission.
The biggest terrorist organization in history has a flag, an anthem, a stock index, and a media ecosystem that calls its terror "projected power."
It sponsors coups, arms militias, burns countries to the ground, and then demands gratitude for rebuilding the ruins.
And we are supposed to fear the people who throw stones.
I do not understand how every young person on earth is not done.
Done with paying taxes to fund their own surveillance.
Done with calling this order "stability."
Done with pretending that an empire in decline deserves anything but resistance.