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Islam under the monarchy was what we now call “Eslaameh Shahanshahi” which basically was “Islam very-light” with nobody forced to obey any of the sharia laws nor tenets.

That wold be accetable anywhere but not by the Jihadi Islam of Obama and his supporters.

[odds]

“Eslaameh Shahanshahi” roughly translates as "monarchic or monarchical Islam" - can't think of a more appropriate translation at the moment. I appreciate it was "Islam lite". Though, point remains that there is no such Islam even if accepted by the average Ali, Hossein, Reza, Zahra & Dariush in Iran because they liked their social freedoms under the Shah. Hence, leading the ordinary Iranian to think that “Eslaameh Shahanshahi” is the norm. It isn't/wasn't. Obviously many others (not just Jihadis, but religious moslem Iranian families didn't accept that newly invented Islam. It was untenable & a misrepresentation of Islam, itself.