By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 November 2022
The Popish Plot and its Legacy
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Pakistan Has Theories on Who Tried to Kill Imran Khan
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 November 2022
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot four times in both legs yesterday as he took part in a protest march supposed to end in the capital, Islamabad, calling for new elections. One of two alleged shooters, who between them killed one person and wounded at least ten, soon appeared in a confession video released by police. In it, he said he was motivated to stop Khan, whom he regarded as insufficiently pious, “misguiding the people”.
Western Self-Hatred and the Iranian Revolution
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 November 2022
The late Bernard Lewis recorded in his memoir, Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian (2012), meeting the Shah of Iran “a year before” the Islamic Revolution that felled him, thus, some time in early 1978:
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