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The elemental force of violence that emanates from islamic ideology should never be underestimated. Naïve politicians and journalists have already made this mistake with the Arab Spring™. Now Iran is in the thick of becoming a nuclear power. The kind of apocalypse that will mean can be seen from a glance at Iranian schoolbooks. Contained in those books is the call for the world government of Islam. Note well: These are not remnants from the dark ages of the Ayatollah Khomeini, rather they are totally current “works,” that have come into existence under the leadership of the “reformer” Chatami. Welt...

Reporting from Tyre, Lebanon -- Hiba Qassir dreams of making movies. She's ambitious and precocious enough. At 18, she's taught herself how to edit video and sound on a computer, and has her sights set on directing gripping social and psychological dramas. But if the movie business doesn't work out, that's OK. She has other dreams: perhaps to become a cop or a pilot. Or maybe a suicide bomber. "Martyrdom is the shortest way to heaven, and the history of martyrdom is not like any history," Hiba says. "It made victory. We wouldn't have achieved victory without these martyrdoms."