Author: Kirollos Abdalla

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Kirollos Abdalla is on the Middle East beat

By Kirollos Abdalla — Faced with shortages of water, a collapsed economy and years of stifling repression, Iranians have risen up in uncountable numbers and overrun government offices and buildings in a bid to oust the Islamist occupiers who have called themselves the legitimate rulers of the historical land of Persia. “The Islamic Republic security forces have lost total control of the major cities over the last few hours,” says Mayhar Tousi, a UK newsman immigrant from Iran who keeps close tabs on the country. “The anti-Islamic revolutionaries are completely overrunning the security. A lot of them have now retreated……

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By Kirollos Abdalla — At great peril of life or liberty, protesters marched en masse through Tehran, calling for the overthrow of the Islamic occupiers, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has not be able to muster forces to quell the demonstrations. Videos released from Iran show public expressing outrage that the government has spent its money fighting a war against Israel and America while letting its citizenry go to pot — with massive strikes in most industries, a 300% inflation rate, an insanely devalued currency and water shortages in Tehran. “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, we are all…

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By Kirollos Abadalla — TWO DAYS after Gaza attacked Israel and killed 1,200 civilians, outraged protesters in Sydney rallied at the Opera House, shouting (as was widely heard) “Gas the Jews!” Now — again in Sydney — a father-son team shot and killed 15 Jews at Bondi Beach (wounding 40 or so others) at a Channukah by the Sea event. What is there so much Jew-hating in Sydney? It happens to be the largest Muslim population by percentage (6.3% or 329,566 people by the 2021 census) of Australia. And nowadays anyone can get radicalized anywhere via the internet. But there’s…

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By Kirollos Abdalla — A Pakistani pastor was gunned down twice, succumbing to his wounds the second time on Dec. 6. Pastor Kamran Salamat, 45, was first shot months ago in Rawalpindi, next to the capitol city of Islamabad. He was still on crutches when he relocated to Gujranwala to get out of the danger zone — or so he thought. But the extremists who hated him in a dispute over church’s land in Rawalpindi apparently tracked him down 135 miles away in Gujranwala. He thought he was safe because in Gujranwala, the Christian community is bigger. The second attack…

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Israeli surgeries saved her life and skin after severe burns when she was six. Years later Wafa, a Gazan who had an entry visa into Israel for continuing treatments, volunteered to be a suicide bomber to kill Israelis — in the same hospital where she got treated. At the checkpoint, Israelis saw the bomb. She tried to detonate it. It didn’t work. She got 12 years in prison. The Israelis continued to treat her burns and gave her a college education. She was returned to Gaza in the 2011 Galid Shalit prisoner release. Shortly thereafter, journalist Leland Vittert visited her…

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By Kirollos Abdalla — As the Pakistani school kids cheered wildly the killing of civilians in the Twin Towers on 9/11, Momus Najmi felt very alien. “There were innocent people that died. The principal of the school led the cheers. How can they celebrate innocent people dying?” says the ex-Muslim immigrant in the UK. “You have to be a bad Muslim if you’re a good person. The only good Muslims are Taliban.” In the West, a Christian who analyzes, rejects and criticizes the religion of his upbringing is called a free-thinker. But a Muslim who analyzes, rejects and criticizes the…

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By Kirollos Abdalla — Born in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is banned in Egypt. It is banned or a designated terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Russia, Austria and Jordan. Meanwhile, it is welcomed most heartily in the United Kingdom. “Actually, the UK today is the only place where the group can have an office with its name,” says Egyptian political analyst Dalia Ziada. “The Muslim Brotherhood can have an office and the banner on this office with their name. We’re living in a crazy world.” U.S. Senator Ted Cruz hopes this year his legislation to ban…

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By Kirollos Abdalla — On the same day Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, liberal college students jumped into action, doing Hamas’ PR, intimidating Jews, staging protests and encampments. “We are not just in solidarity with this movement. We are part of this movement. We are all operating under a unified command,” said a toolkit issued that day to members of Students for Justice in Palestine. “They literally identify themselves as being members of Hamas,” Goldfeder says. That toolkit was the basis for suing SJP on the grounds of “aiding and abetting” a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. Mark Goldfeder…

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By Kirollos Abdalla – Now we know, Hamas are ants. Just like ants make extensive and complex tunnels, Hamas built an extensive network of 600+ miles of tunnels — dubbed the Metro of Gaza — at an estimated cost of $1 billion. During some 12 years, they made tunnels just below the surface and tunnels at 200 meters down, out of reach for bunker buster bombs. They made tunnels big enough for trucks to drive through, tunnels with rails to transport material, tunnels to import weapons and finances from Egypt. They were reinforced with steel and concrete. They spent $250,000…

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By Kirollos Abadalla — An Iranian who got a PhD in AI in California but turned to a lifetime of outreaching his nation says Iran will soon cease to be a springboard for Islamic terror around the world. “This fire of a revival has started and it’s going to impact not just Iran,” says Hormoz Shariat, whose satellite channel Iran Alive gets 7M daily views. “It’s going to impact the whole Middle East and even the whole world. Am I saying talking big that Iran will be a Christian nation? Yes.” When he became a Christian after being a successful…

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