Revolutionary Islam's Little Green Book

"If an instrument of governing is dictatorial, as in political systems in the world today, the society's vigilance towards deviation from law will have only one way to gain readjustment. That is violence, which means revolution against the instrument of governing. This violence or revolution, even if it is an expression of the feeling of the society against deviation, is not carried out by the whole society. It is undertaken only by those who have the initiative and boldness to proclaim the will of the society."

"Political struggle that results in the victory of a candidate with 51 per cent of the votes leads to a dictatorial governing body disguised as a false democracy, since 49 per cent of the electorate is ruled by an instrument of governing they did not vote for, but had imposed upon them. This is dictatorship."

"Those who say 'yes' and those who say 'no' do not, in fact, express their will. They have been silenced through the conception of modern democracy. They have been allowed to utter only one word: either 'yes' or 'no'. This is the most cruel and oppressive dictatorial system."

"The wage-worker is like a slave to the master who hires him. He is even a temporary slave, since his slavery lasts as long as he works for wages from the employer, whether the latter is an individual or a state."

"The ultimate solution is to abolish the wage-system, emancipate man from its bondage and return to the natural law which defined relationships before the emergence of classes, forms of government and man-made laws. The natural rules are the measure, the reference book and the sole course in human relations.

Natural law has led to natural socialism based on equality among the economic factors of production and has almost brought about, among individuals, consumption equal to nature's production. But the exploitation of man by man and the possession by some individuals of more of the general wealth than they need is a manifest departure from natural law and the beginning of distortion and corruption in the life of the human community. It is the beginning of the emergence of the society of exploitation."

"Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs. For need may result in man's enslavement of man. Need causes exploitation."

"In the socialist society no one, including the society itself, is allowed to have control over man's need.

No one has the right to build a house, additional to his own and that of his heirs, for the purpose of renting it, because the house represents another person's need, and building it for the purpose of rent is an attempt to have control over the need of that man and 'In Need Freedom is Latent'.

The income is an imperative need for man. Thus the income of any man in the society should not be a wage from any source or a charity from anyone. For there are no wage-workers in the socialist society, only partners."

"Land is no one's property. But everyone has the right to use it, to benefit from it by working, farming or pasturing."

"The legitimate purpose of the individual's economic activity is solely to satisfy his needs. For the wealth of the world has limits at each stage as does the wealth of each individual society. Therefore no individual has the right to carry out economic activity in order to acquire more of that wealth than is necessary to satisfy his needs, because the excess amount belongs to other individuals."

"The wealth of the society is like a corporation or a store of supply which daily provides a number of people with a quantity of supply of a definite amount which is enough to satisfy the needs of those people during that day. Each person has the right to save out of that quantity what he wants, i.e., he can consume or save what he likes from his share."

"Tribalism damages nationalism because tribal allegiance weakens national loyalty and flourishes at its expense. In the same way loyalty to the family flourishes at the expense of tribal loyalty and weakens it. National fanaticism is essential to the nation but at the same time it is a threat to humanity."

How much lower can you go than writing a second-rate Mao knockoff?

2 posted on 09/28/2004 3:11:31 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)

Much less Islamism than half-baked Maoism for Arabs. Not saying Islamism is any better.

Freedom is slavery. --Big Brother, 1984.

Ah, Colonel Moon-'em-More Clodhoppy is heard from.

5 posted on 09/28/2004 3:39:42 PM PDT by Poohbah (If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)

How much lower can you go than writing a second-rate Mao knockoff?

Writing a third-rate Mao knockoff.

6 posted on 09/28/2004 3:40:04 PM PDT by Poohbah (If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)

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