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Hello Blue State Insurgent,

I am not bigoted. That they want to tear down something awful and unsuccessful is clear. What is not clear is what they WANT TO REPLACE IT WITH.

So I see it as some well deserved mob frenzy, but not as a true liberation movement of democratically minded people. I think a lot of foreigners are “reading” what they like into this rebellion and thinking of it in western terms. We hate the nutjob and so anybody fighting the nutjob is good. I’m okay with that, but I have serious doubts that it’s about democracy or the end of female oppression, not with those people howling Allahu Akbar from the rooftops. I see it as a fiery mix of highly dissatisfied people. Should they be so lucky as to bring down that regime, I’ll bet you that civil war will ensue with today’s allies killing each other off until the next strongman comes along.

Democracy and Islam don’t mix. They’ll go on being nasty to women, developing nukes, hating Israel, lopping off hands and lapidating lovers. As a matter of fact, I find it OMINOUS that chants of freedom and chants of Allahu Akbar are being combined. Should they be successful, I see more Islamic green revolutions rising in which the young will try to get rid of the old in the name of some vague la-di-dah freedom.

Put it this way. There were two great revolutions, the American and the French. The American revolution made the USA, legality, stability, reasonableness. The French revolution led to a reign of terror.

My hackles tell me that an Iranian revolution will lead to terror. I hope for them that they get a more benevolent despot, but - should they be successful - I don’t see democracy being the upshot.

My view is that we westerners don’t know what’s up, because not even the Iranians do. They have facebook and twitter and SMS and satellite dishes... they have the communications, but they don’t have a unifying ideal beyond tearing down the regime. Is their leader REALLY their leader in an ideological sense or just a momentary excuse for all the different groups?

If Mousawi (sp) is their leader, well check out his record. He’s a Nutjob Light. If he’s just an excuse, then - should they bring down the regime, there will be a civil war.

There were two great revolutions, the American and the French.

The French Revolution led to the Reign of Terror. From Wikipedia.

The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793 – 27 July 1794), also known as the The Terror (French: la Terreur) was a period of violence that occurred fifty months after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution."

Nothing great about the Jacobins. There were the first modern leftist cabal. You might want to read a little about the September Massacres.

Again, you are misunderstanding the intent of shouting Allah-o Akbar from the roof tops. They are mocking the slogan that regime's own revolution used 30 years ago - taking it back as their own the and using it to usurp religious and political authority from the hypocritical tyrant.

What could being more frighting for the dictatorship then to now hear the very words they shouted 30 years ago to bring down a regime echoing in the streets?

Islam and democracy don't mix you say? Well, the Iraqis and now the Iranians beg to differ, don't they?