Some Reflections on Human Rights and Clerical Claims to Political Power
M.H.A. Reisman
Abstract
The Iranian revolution. American hostages in Iran. Hezbollah takes hostages in Lebanon. Terrorists bomb an American marine compound in Beirut.
Hamas conducts a terror campaign in the West Bank and Gaza. Ayatollah Khomeini sentences Salman Rushdie to death for his novel The Satanic Verses. Terrorists bomb the World Trade Center.