Has the Iran Deal Undermined U.S. Alliances in the Persian Gulf?

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With Daniel Akbari, Diana West, Michael Rubin, Jim Hanson

DANIEL AKBARI, Leading Shariah lawyer from Iran, and the author of “HONOR KILLING: A Professional’s Guide to Sexual Relations and Ghayra Violence from the Islamic Sources”:

• An overview of the sources of Islamic legal authority
• Is the death penalty for insulting Muhammad not Islamic or quintessentially so?
• The misnomer of “honor killings”: Islamic jealousy and the concept of Ghayra
• Are more devout Muslims more likely to engage in Jihad and Ghayra violence?

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation’s Character”

• Claims that Pamela Geller provoked the Garland, Texas attack
• Enforcement of Shariah against criticism of Islam here in the U.S. on a wider scale than ever before
• Forced repatriation of citizens fleeing the USSR at the tail end of World War Two

Dr. MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes”:

• Obama’s negotiated surrender to Iran and the incentivizing of defiance
• Why the U.S. has lost credibility in the Gulf
• Concerns about the strength of U.S. leadership before the oncoming proliferation cascade

JIM HANSON, former U.S. Army Special Forces Technical Weapons Sergeant:

• A look at the Garland, Texas attack as a project of the Islamic State
• The global reach of the black flag of Jihad
• The extent to which civilization jihad is thriving in the United States
• Why law enforcement and counterterrorism agencies can’t properly prevent threats from “known wolves”
• “Knowing your enemy so you can defeat them”: How the Patton vs. Rommel analogy is relevant today