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Meeting Protestants in Ukraine

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2025

This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Russia and tagged A Jesus Mission, atheism, Austria, Battle of Poltava, Bible, Bolsheviks, Catherine the Great, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Crimea, Crimean Khanate, Dnipro, Donald Trump, Donbas, Donetsk, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Euromaidan, Evangelical Christianity, George Floyd, Germany, Gleb Kopalin, God, Golden Horde, Greek Catholic Uniates, GRU, Habsburgs, Hezbollah, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hizballah, humanitarian aid, Ignatius Aphrem II, Igor Pilipyshka, Intelligence, Israel, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews for Jesus, KGB, Kharkiv, Kievan Rus, Kyiv Jewish Messianic Congregation, Latin Christendom, Lebanon, Left-Bank Ukraine, Little Green Men, Luhansk, Maidan Uprising, Mariupol, Mercy House, Minsk I, Minsk II, Mongols, NATO, Nazis, Nicodemites, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Empire, Poland, Protestantism, Protestants, Prussia, Reformation, religion, religious persecution, Right-Bank Ukraine, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Save One More Life, Second World War, secularism, siloviki, Soviet Union, spies, Stephen Smith, Syria, Twitch, Ukrainian Cyborgs, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, White Angels, Zaporizhiya on May 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

New Orleans and the Islamic State’s Policy on Lone-Actor Terrorism

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 January 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abbasids, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, America, Banner of the Eagle, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, bay’a, Black Banner, Black Standard, Christianity, Christians, Christmas, Crusades, deen, din, Donald Trump, Facebook, Flag of the Eagle, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Ikhwan, inghimasi, inghimasiyyun, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, jihad, jihadism, Joe Biden, Khorasan, lone wolf, lone wolves, manhaj, Meta, methodology, mujahideen, murji’a, Muslim Brotherhood, New Year, Pakistan, Raya al-Uqab, secularism, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, Syria, terrorism, United States, Yemen on January 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Advocacy Journalism Has Been a Problem for Ages: Looking Back at Bosnia

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 October 2024

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This entry was posted in Bosnia, Iran, Islamic Militancy and tagged activism, Adnan Jahić, advocacy journalism, AKP, al-Qaeda, Alija Izetbegović, Arkan, Asim Blekić, assassination, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Çetin Doğan, Balyoz, Bill Clinton, Borislav Herak, Bosnian civil war, Bošniaks, Branko Veleć, Britain, Caco, Captive Nations, China, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Communism, Counterintelligence Service, crimes against humanity, Croatia, Croats, cult, Dani Rodrik, Deep State, Douglas Hurd, Ed Vulliamy, El-Mudžahid Brigade, Ergenekon, ethnic cleansing, Ettela’at, Eve-Ann Prentice, false flags, fascism, Fethullah Gülen, Fikret Muslimović, Franjo Tudjman, Franjo Tuđman, genocide, Greater Serbia, HAMAS, Handschar Division, Hasan Čengić, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hizmet Hareketi, Hizmet movement, ICTY, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, international aid, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, international law, Iran, Iranian Intelligence Ministry, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Declaration, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, jihadism, jihadists, JNA, Josip Broz Tito, journalism, Jugoslav National Army, Jugoslavija, Juka Prazina, Juka’s Wolves, Justice and Development Party, Jusuf Prazina, Kasim Blekić, Kemalism, Kemalists, Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KOS, Koševo Hospital, Kravica massacre, Krso Ramiz, Larks, League of Communists, Lewis MacKenzie, Lisbon Agreement, Macedonia, Mate Boban, media, Mirsad Tokača, Montenegro, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Muslims, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Mušan Topalović, Naser Orić, nationalism, NATO, Nazis, Nedžad Ugljen, New York Times, Nikola Gardović, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Odred el-Mudžahid, Omarska, Operation DESERT STORM, Operation FRAME, Operation STORM, Orthodox Christians, Osama bin Laden, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, Party of Democratic Action, Patriotic League, political warfare, PR, propaganda, public relations, Radovan Karadžić, Ramiz Delalić, rape as a weapon of war, Ratko Mladić, Rebecca West, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, religion, Renate Flottau, Republic of Serbian Krajina, Republika Srpska, Risto Pustivuk, Roman Catholics, Samantha Power, Sandžak, SDA, secret police, secularism, Sefer Halilović, Senad Avdić, Serbia, Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbs, Seventh Muslim Brigade, Sledgehammer, Slobodan Milošević, Slobodna Bosna, Slovenia, Soviet Union, Srebrenica Massacre, Sretko Damjanović, SS, State Department, strategic messaging, Third Balkan War, Third World Relief Agency, Trnopolje, Turkey, United Nations, United States, Usama bin Laden, VEVAK, Vojislav Šešelj, war crimes, war rape, Young Muslims, Yugoslavia, Zvornik, Ševe, Željko Ražnatović, Ćelo on October 26, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Jews and the Russian Orthodox Church

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Adolf Hitler, Albigensianism, Albigensians, Aleksander Men, Alexander Men, Alexy II, Antisemitism, Archpriest John Vostorgov, Émile Zola, Bible, Black Hundreds, blood libel, Bolshevik Revolution, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Catharism, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Church Fathers, Communism, Council of Trent, deicide, Dreyfus affair, Ecclesiastical Collegium, End Times, Enlightenment, fascism, February Revolution, Gospels, Grand Prince Vladimir, Greek Orthodox Church, heretics, Hieromonk Heliodorus, Hieromonk Iliodor, Hilarion of Kiev, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Ilarion of Kiev, Islam, Israel, Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin, Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Sanin, Ivan Sergiyev, Ivan Snychev, Ivan the Terrible, Jews, Jews for Jesus, John Chrysostom, John Iliytch Sergieff, John of Kronstadt, Joseph of Volokolamsk, Joseph of Volotsk, Joseph Stalin, Joseph Volotsky, Judaism, Khazars, Kievan Rus, Kirill, laity, Latin Christendom, laymen, liturgy, Metropolitan John, monasticism, monastics, monotheism, Most Holy Synod, Nestor the Chronicler, Nestor the Hagiographer, New Testament, Nikolai Maikov, Nikon of Vologda, Nil Sorski, Nilus of Sora, Old Testament, Orthodox Church, paganism, Pale of Settlement, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, Patriarchate, Patristic Era, patristics, perestroika, Peter the Great, Philosopher’s Discourse, pogroms, Pope Gregory X, Pope Innocent IV, Primary Chronicle, Protestantism, Protestants, Pyotr I, racism, Reformation, Renaissance, Roman Catholic Church, Romanian Orthodox Church, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian intelligentsia, Russian nationalism, Russian Orthodox Church, S. Bulgakov, Saint Theodosius, Second Vatican Council, secularism, Serbian Orthodox Church, Sergei Bulgakov, Sergei Michailovich Trufanov, Sergei Trufanov, Soviet Union, Synodal era, Tale of Bygone Years, Tanakh, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodosius the Cenobiarch, theology, Ukraine, V.I. Ilyin, V.I. Solovyov, Vladimir Gundyayev, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Vladimir Solovyov, Vladimir Sviatoslavich, Vladimir the Great, Yuri Tabak on October 10, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Recreation of Israel, War, and Survival

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Adolf Hitler, Alec Kirkbride, Alfred Dreyfus, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arab Higher Committee, Arab League, Arab Liberation Army, Arab-Israeli War, Armenian genocide, Army of Holy War, Army of Sacred War, Arthur Garrels, Ba’ath Party, Balfour Declaration, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Megiddo, Benny Morris, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Buddhism, caliphate, Chaim Weizmann, Christendom, Christianity, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Constantin Zureiq, Crusaders, CUP, Cybele, Czechoslovakia, David Ben-Gurion, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Deir Yassin massacre, Der Judenstaat, Djemal Pasha, Edmund Allenby, Egypt, Emperor Hadrian, Enlightenment, espionage, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, First World War, François Georges-Picot, France, French Revolution, Gaza Strip, genocide, Germany, Golda Meir, Great War, Greeks, H.H. Asquith, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Herbert Asquith, Hindu nationalism, Hinduism, Hindutva, Holocaust, Holy Land, Holy War Army, Husayn bin Ali, Ibn Saud, IDF, India, Ioudaismos, Iraq, Iron Wall, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli War of Independence, Jamal al-Husayni, Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqadas, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish State, Jewish Temple, Jews, jihad, Jordan, Judaism, Kaiser, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Land of Israel, League of Nations, Lebanon, Lydda, Maccabees, Mahmud al-Nuqrashi, Mandate Palestine, Mark Sykes, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim, Moshe Sharett, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nakba Day, Nazis, Nazism, Neturei Karta, New Historians, Nicholas II, Operation ASSAF, Operation HIRAM, Operation HOREV, Operation SHMONE, Operation UVDA, Operation YOAV, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, Passover, Peel Commission, Plan D, PLO, pogroms, Protestantism, Raj, Ramla, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, religion, right of return, Roman Catholicism, Romans, Russian Civil War, Russian Empire, Russian Orthodox Church, Sacred Jihad Army, Sacred War Army, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Second World War, secularism, Shukri al-Quwatli, Sir John Glubb, Soviet Union, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Sykes-Picot Treaty, Syria, Ten Days Battles, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodor Herzl, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Tsar, Tsardom, Turkey, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United States, UNRWA, Vendée, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Wahhabism, Warren Austin, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Yiddish, Yishuv, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Zionism on May 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Spokesman Calls For Global Terrorism, Again

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 January 2024

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This entry was posted in Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Aqsa Mosque, al-Naba, AMAL, Antisemitism, Battle of Stone and Trees, Christians, Communism, Crusaders, Gaza War, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Ikhwan, international law, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Jews, jihad, jihadism, Lebanon, Mahmoud Abbas, Mahmud Abbas, Mohammed Dahlan, Muhammad Dahlan, Muslim Brotherhood, nationalism, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinians, PLO, Qibla, sectarianism, secularism, Shi'a militias, Taha Falaha, theology, Yemen on January 8, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The September Massacres: The Violence Inherent in the French Revolution

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged AbbéSicard, American Revolution, ancien régime, atrocities, Austria, Austrian Netherlands, Battle of Yorktown, Belgium, bishops, Brabant Revolution, Britain, British Empire, Brunswick Manifesto, Charles William Ferdinand, Christianity, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart, Communism, Comte de Rochambeau, Declaration of Pillnitz, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Duke of Brunswick, Enlightenment, Estates General, Fabre d’Eglantine, fédérés, François-Noël Babeuf, France, Frederick William II, French Revolution, genocide, George III, Georges Danton, Girondins, Guerre de Vendée, Habsburgs, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, Inquisition, insurrection, Jacobins, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Jean-Denis Violette, Jean-Lambert Tallien, Jean-Marie Roland, Jean-Paul Marat, Joachim Ceyrat, Jourgniac de Saint-Méard, Leopold II, lettre de cachet, liberty, Louis Collenot d’Angremont, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Marquis de Sade, Maximilien Robespierre, monarchism, National Assembly, National Guard, Paris Commune, priests, Princesse de Lamballe, Prussia, radicalism, republicanism, Revolutionary Tribunal, Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, Roman Catholic Church, sans-culottes, secularism, September Massacres, Seven Years’ War, show trial, Siege of Yorktown, Simon Schama, slaves, Stanislas Maillard, Storming of the Bastille, Swiss Guards, Tennis Court Oath, Tenth of August Insurrection, Third Estate, Thirteen Colonies, Tuileries Palace, Vendée, Vendée War, Versailles, War in the Vendée on September 3, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Decembrist Revolt: Russia’s Revolutionary Tradition Begins

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 June 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Albigensian Crusade, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Alexander Benckendorff, Alexander Boshniak, Alexander Golitsyn, Alexander Herzen, Alexander I, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Radishchev, Anastasy Kuzmin, Ancient Greece, Arkady Maiboroda, Arzamas Society, assassination, Astolphe de Custine, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Kulm, Battle of Leipzig, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of the Nations, Battle of Trafalgar, Battle of Waterloo, Bolsheviks, Britain, Catherine the Great, Catholicism, Charles XII, chinovnik, Christianity, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Classical world, Classics, Committee of Public Safety, Congress of Vienna, conspiracy, Crimean War, Decembrist Revolt, Decembrist wife, Dekabristka, egalitarianism, Ekaterina II, Ekaterina Trubetskaya, Enlightenment, espionage, Freemasonry, French Revolution, Greek Revolution, Gustav Goebel, Higher Police, Illarion Vasilchikov, Illuminati, Inquisition, Inquisitors, intelligentsia, Ippolit Muravyov-Apostol, Ivan Pushchin, Ivan Vitt, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Jews, John Sherwood, Joseph Stalin, Klemens von Metternich, Kondraty Ryleyev, Konstantin, Latin Christendom, liberalism, Lord Byron, Ludwig Niklaus von Stürler, Marquis de Custine, Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Mikhail Kutuzov, Mikhail Miloradovich, Mikhail Speransky, Nakaz, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Nicholas I, Nikita Muravyov, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Ogarev, Nikolay Panov, Northern Society, Operation BARBAROSSA, Orthodox Christianity, Paul I, Pavel I, Pavel Kiselyov, Pavel Pestel, Philaret Drozdov, Poland, Protestantism, Pyotr Chaadayev, Pyotr Kakhovsky, Roman Catholic Church, Romanovs, Romanticism, Russian Truth, Russkaya Pravda, secret police, secularism, Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, Sergey Trubetskoy, socialism, Society of United Slavs, Southern Society, Soviet Union, Spain, spies, Talleyrand, Terror, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third Section, Treaties of Tilsit, Tsar, Ukraine, Union of Salvation, Vasily Davydov, Vendée War, Viscount Castlereagh, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Raevsky, Vladimir Rayevsky, Wilhelm Küchelbecker on June 3, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Turkey Tries to Exploit the Latest “Blasphemy” Controversy in Sweden

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 January 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Turkey and tagged active measures, AKP, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, blasphemy, Chang Frick, Christianity, Danish cartoons, European Committee for Prophet Honouring, Finland, Hard Line, Iran, Islamism, Justice and Development Party, Jyllands-Posten, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Muslims, NATO, PKK, propaganda, Rasmus Paludan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, RT, Russia, Russia Today, Salman Rushdie, Saudi Arabia, secularism, Stram Kurs, Sweden, The Satanic Verses, theology, Turkey, Ukraine on January 22, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2022

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Khamene’i, Anthony Parsons, Anwar al-Sadat, Atatürk, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Catherine the Great, China, Cold War, Communism, craze, Ebrahim Yazdi Ruhollah Khomeini, Ekaterina II, Fakhr Arai, French Revolution, Great Civilisation, Hizballah, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, human rights, Ibrahim Yazdi, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Kemalism, laik, Lebanon, Leonid Brezhnev, liberalisation, liberals, Liberation Movement of Iran, Libya, LMI, Mahsa Amini, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, mujahideen, Mustafa Kemal, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nicolae Ceausescu, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Parviz Sabeti, Persia, Peter the Great, PLO, propaganda, religion, Reza Khan, Reza Shah, Robert Huyser, Russian Revolution, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, SAVAK, secularism, Shah, Soviet Union, Sun King Louis XIV, terrorism, Tsar Pyotr I, Tudeh, Turkey, Westernisation, White Revolution, William Sullivan, women’s rights on October 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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