Green Energy
He's so fucking moderate.
From Carl:
If you're an American, your tax dollars are now at work sending the man who said these words all over the Middle East.
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Muslim Brotherhood Hails Imam Khamenei’s Support of the Egyptian Revolution Posted on Shia News on February 7, 2011 A senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has expressed gratitude to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali...
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Imam Says NYC Mosque Site Is Not 'Hallowed Ground' Sept. 13: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, addresses the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (AP). NEW YORK -- The imam leading the effort to build...
- 1979: Ground Zero Mosque Imam Supported Khomeini's Call For Sharia Dictatoship In Iran ... Apparently, Still Does
From Powerline: On February 27, 1979, the Times published Rauf's letter to the editor in which he criticized American for failing to apologize to Iran for past misdeeds. Rauf added that "the revolution in Iran was inspired by the very principles...
- The Mad Mullah Blinks
New York Times: In Iran, an Iron Cleric, Now Blinking News Analysis By Neil MacFarquhar updated 3:41 a.m. ET, Tues., June 16, 2009 For two decades, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has remained a shadowy presence at the pinnacle of power in Iran, sparing in his...
- And Then The Iranian Apologists And Truth Benders Come Out
Apparently waiting for the moment we have 2 exemplars of what hideous spin is in this post NIE, reality. This is going to be a bruising battle, and make the partisan divide bitter beyond reclaim just in time for Iowa and New Hampshire WaPo has...
Green Energy
Ground Zero Mosque Imam Supports Khomeinism
He's so fucking moderate.
From Carl:
If you're an American, your tax dollars are now at work sending the man who said these words all over the Middle East.
"President Obama said many of the right things as the turmoil surrounding the outcome of the Iranian election unfolded. After Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spoke Friday, Obama has an opportunity to make an additional crucial point....Friday, Khameini reaffirmed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the winner. And he made clear that this election was not a referendum on the foundations ofthe Islamic Republic....After the revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took the Shiite concept of the Rightly Guided Imam and created the idea of Vilayet-i-faqih, which means the rule of the jurisprudent. This institutionalizes the Islamic rule of law. The Council of Guardians serves to ensure these principles....[President Obama] should say his administration respects many of the guiding principles of the 1979 revolution -- to establish a government that expresses the will of the people; a just government, based on the idea of Vilayet-i-faqih, that establishes the rule of law."The Weekly Standard adds:
So presumably Rauf is now travelling the Mideast, courtesy of the U.S. State Department, touting the idea of vilayet-i-faqih—and the Iranian application of that idea—as appropriate for Muslims. Aren’t State Department representatives supposed to make the case for liberal democracy, or even an Islamic version of liberal democracy? Surely they’re not supposed to be justifying Khomeini-ism? And surely not Khomeini-ism as interpreted perhaps even more illiberally by Khamenei?
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Muslim Brotherhood Hails Imam Khamenei’s Support of the Egyptian Revolution Posted on Shia News on February 7, 2011 A senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has expressed gratitude to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali...
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Imam Says NYC Mosque Site Is Not 'Hallowed Ground' Sept. 13: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, addresses the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (AP). NEW YORK -- The imam leading the effort to build...
- 1979: Ground Zero Mosque Imam Supported Khomeini's Call For Sharia Dictatoship In Iran ... Apparently, Still Does
From Powerline: On February 27, 1979, the Times published Rauf's letter to the editor in which he criticized American for failing to apologize to Iran for past misdeeds. Rauf added that "the revolution in Iran was inspired by the very principles...
- The Mad Mullah Blinks
New York Times: In Iran, an Iron Cleric, Now Blinking News Analysis By Neil MacFarquhar updated 3:41 a.m. ET, Tues., June 16, 2009 For two decades, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has remained a shadowy presence at the pinnacle of power in Iran, sparing in his...
- And Then The Iranian Apologists And Truth Benders Come Out
Apparently waiting for the moment we have 2 exemplars of what hideous spin is in this post NIE, reality. This is going to be a bruising battle, and make the partisan divide bitter beyond reclaim just in time for Iowa and New Hampshire WaPo has...