Posted on 02/05/2006 9:21:10 AM PST by diverteach
TEHRAN - When mild-mannered former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami lashed out in a post-election sermon at the "powerful organization" behind the "shallow-thinking traditionalists with their Stone-Age backwardness" currently running the country, it became clear that Iran's political establishment is worried by the ideology propelling the government of new hardline President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
Khatami's attack coincides with mounting evidence that a radically anti-Bahai [1] and anti-Sunni semi-clandestine society, called the Hojjatieh, is reemerging in the corridors of power in Tehran. The group flourished during the 1979 revolution that ousted the Shah and installed an Islamic government in his place, and was banned in 1983 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the revolution.
Khomeini objected to the Hojjatieh's rejection of his doctrine of velayat-e faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist) and its conviction that chaos must be created to hasten the coming of the Mahdi, the
12th Shi'ite imam. Only then, they argue, can a genuine Islamic republic be established.
"Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression," Khatami was reported as saying at a speech in the conservative northeastern town of Mashhad, the same location chosen by Ahmadinejad to convene the first meeting of his cabinet.
"The shallow-thinking traditionalists with their Stone-Age backwardness now have a powerful organization behind them," he said, in what was interpreted as an indirect reference to the Hojjatieh society.
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This is precisely what Ahmadinejad has been saying for the last several months. It also fits in with the supposed light he claims he was enveloped in while talking in front of the UN a short while back.
It's interesting to note that the cartoon that started this current fiasco was published in Sept of 2005 and it's only now, the same time that Ahmadinejad is now facing the UN security council and still thumbing his nose to the world.
Texas A&M will file suit, shortly.
"its conviction that chaos must be created to hasten the coming of the Mahdi"
And they're frantically developing nuclear weapons. What a coincidence! Surely that wouldn't have anything to do with wiping Israel "off the map."
Isn't creating chaos pretty much what the Danish Muslim group has done with it's release of the pamphlet with the original cartoons, plus several more, much more objectionable to Muslims ones.
Well if they wish to sow the wind, they most certainly will reap the whirlwind.
No, but a goodly percentage of the troops that will be busting the Iranians up shortly will be Aggies.
Gig 'em!
My Aggie son will be joining them this summer.
Plans are for mine to be going in this summer, as well (though he left A&M this last summer).
Is you son in the Corps? If so, which unit? My son was C2.
And have we had this conversation before? Looking at your about page, I know I recognize that dog.
Filing suit is not the Aggie way. StealingBorrowing artillery and heading towards the object of their ire to "set things" right by application of high explosives, that's more like the Aggie way.
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