Has the Voice of America taken sides and broadcast Muslim clergy condemning as blasphemous the suicide-murderers' path to paradise?
Montazeri spoke out against the disputed poll, opposing the election results and condemning as illegitimate a political system that maintained power through repression and force.
Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a nonbinding resolution condemning as genocide the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915.
He largely deplored the authentic-performance-practice movement that came to hold sway at midcentury and afterward, condemning, as he told The Times in 1985, its "messianic pretensions of infallibility" on questions of interpretation.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has threatened to expel thousands of illegal Armenian immigrants after American and Swedish lawmakers passed resolutions condemning as genocide the mass killings of Armenians early in the last century.
He started by condemning as an "attack on religion" President Obama's requirement that most health plans cover contraception, including those of large religious employers like Catholic hospitals and universities.
