Iran, The Muttawa And The Ice Cream Jihad

Kobayashi Maru has what to say on Iran- on what was said and on what was not said.

The idea that Iran believes the West to have already failed in stopping their nuclear ambitions is reinforced by the recent actions (or rather, non-actions) of pretty much everyone in the international community, including the U.S. Although Iran has not rolled its armies across any borders recently (a technical, though hardly meaningful, point of departure from literal Hitlerian analogies in light of Iran's outsized influence in Syria and elsewhere), the state of mind that Ahmadinejad appears to be in is the same that possesses any leader when his aggressive actions have gone unopposed. If they didn't stop us from doing 'x', he thinks (and quite logically) then why would they stop us from doing 'y'? And if that's true, then why should we believe them when they say that 'z' is really truly their bottom line and it "will not stand"?

In short, they are on a roll and they know it.

Kobi's post is a good- and thoughtful, read. 

In a curious bit of news, the Saudi regime has announced it will curb the powers of the muttawa, the religious police.

Sadly, these new limits come about too late for the 15 girls that burned to death, in a building from which they were prevented from leaving by the religious police.

As for the 'Ice Cream Jihad,' well, that is yet more proof that at times, we live in a world that increasingly resembles a Salvador Dali painting.