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...TIME: This is your first visit to Washington. What do you think of the country that has been called the Great Satan...
...catapulted herself onto the headlines by taking issue with the recent trip of former president Mohammad Khatami to the United States. The offense was so great in her eyes, such a shameful capitulation to the "Great Satan," that she publicly called for Khatami to be defrocked. The term sounds antique, but in a theocracy it amounts to impeachment or removal from public life. Mrs. Rajabi is an Ahmadinejad loyalist who has recently published a book entitled Ahmadinejad: Miracle of the Third Millennium, whose cover features the president against a backdrop of a flash of light amidst a cloudy sky. Moderates...
With the rise of these rivals came one benefit: as time passed, the once hated Great Satan was no longer everybody's favorite whipping boy. Since the U.S. presence in the Middle East had wound down after 2008, it was no longer obvious why Islamist terrorists would expend their energies attacking American cities. That was why, by the 30th anniversary of 9/11, many younger Americans looked back on that event as a strange aberration...
Even more inspiring are efforts by one children's network to fight the prevailing notion that TV is the Great Satan. Programs are explained in terms of how they improve a tot's language-comprehension skills, his abstract-thinking skills, his "auditory-discrimination" skills--which, as best as I can tell, involve a child's ability to sing the Dora the Explorer theme song at top volume until Mommy's ears bleed. The network's website has a parent's section detailing the miracle of "connected learning" that occurs via the media's ability "to help children make connections between...
...neck than cause little ones to stumble? And she had failed her children. Only her execution would rescue her from the evil inside her--a state-sanctioned exorcism in which George W. Bush, the former Governor and now President, would come to save her from the clutches of Satan. Had not Scripture taught that the government is a minister of God, "an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil?" She told the doctors she wanted her hair shaved so she could see the number 666--the mark of the Antichrist--on her scalp. She also wanted...