IN PICTURES: Thousands of Iranian soldiers stage mock siege of Temple Mount

By Daniel J Roth, JPOST— Thousands of Iranian paramilitary forces participated in mock drills and exercises simulating the capture of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Friday. Constructing a plastic replica of the al-Aksa Mosque and Dome of the Rock, “tens of thousands of soldiers” conducted staged exercises dubbed “Towards…

The Islamist Tantrum

By Brett Stephens, Wall Street Journal— People are dead in Paris because Europe decided to make a fetish of its tolerance for intolerance. We live in the age of the sanctified tantrum—the political and religious furies we dare not name or shame, much less confront. Students bully college administrators with contrived political demands. The administrators…