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Jerusalem, Israel – A scholar of Islamic studies dubbed a “Professor of Peace” at Oberlin College, Ohio, backed a campaign to assassinate US and British author Salman Rushdie because the famous novelist portrayed the Muslim prophet Muhammad in disrespect. .
A 24-year-old man named Hadi Matar is said to have stabbed Rushdie in the neck and liver during the author’s speech on Friday in Shatowka, N.Y. Rushdie is on a respirator and speaks I can’t.
According to law enforcement officials, Matar’s social media footprint indicated he was a fan of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. Matar was also sympathetic to radical Shia Islamism, the governing religion of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
When asked about then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini’s fatwa and “the right to put a bounty on someone’s head,” Iranian scholar and former diplomat Mohammad Jafar Maharati said, according to a Reuters report in 1989. , replied: All Islamic nations and countries agree with Iran that any blasphemous statement against a sacred person should be condemned.
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Maharati added, “If the West really believes and respects free speech, I think they should respect ours too. A sacred Islamic figure.”
Fox News Digital sent a press query to Mr. Mahallati. Oberlin of Maharathi An auto-reply from his college email reads: Fox News Digital also sent the press her query to Carmen Twillie Ambar, president of Oberlin College.
Prominent Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad took to Twitter to denounce Maharati. she wrote: Alinejad’s tweet went viral, garnering 502 retweets and her 1,629 likes.
According to law enforcement officials and regime-backed terrorism experts, the Iranian regime has kidnapped and targeted Alingjad for assassination on his New York City compound. An armed man was charged Friday with standing outside her Brooklyn home armed with an AK-47-style rifle.
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In a second tweet, women’s rights activist Alinejad wrote: She covered up the mass executions in Iran in 1988. ”
A detailed 2018 Amnesty International report accused the Maharati of committing “crimes against humanity” in covering up the 1988 massacre of at least 5,000 Iranian dissidents. .
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Oberlin College spokesman Scott Wargo told the local Chronicle-Telegram in October 2021:
J. F. Oberlin University Student Paper J. F. Oberlin Review did my own research He published a scathing editorial titled “Evidence Against Maharati”.
Earlier this year, 50 UN-affiliated NGOs called for a UN investigation into alleged crimes against humanity in Maharati. Iranian dissidents also claimed that Oberlin University “covered up” Maharati’s crimes.
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Kave Charros, an Iranian-Canadian lawyer, and Rhodan Bazargan, an Iranian-American human rights activist, jointly wrote a student paper in response to Oberlin’s report at the time. They said the “evidence is, in fact, overwhelming” against Mahrat, and that “oberlin investigators must have gone to great lengths not to find it.”
Iran’s theocratic state executed Shahrooz’s uncle Mehrdad Ashtari in 1988 and Bazargan’s brother Bijan the same year. Critics point to Oberlin’s Orwellian twist on the Maharati title “Professor of Peace” at his college.
According to a New York Times article, the Islamic Republic of Iran attacked the US guided-missile cruiser Wainwright, killing two American crew members. Hills of Thomasville, North Carolina.
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Maharati said at the time, “The American government has failed miserably, both politically and militarily,” after reports that the Iranian clerical regime destroyed three American ships. “We will show the United States the lessons we learned in Vietnam,” he added.
Both Democratic and Republican governments have classified the Iranian regime as the world’s worst sponsor of international terrorism.