I don’t recall calling Mosaddegh an “Islamist” nor did I mean to by accident if it looks like I did. I certainly did not mean to call him Islamist nor did I mistake him for same; I regard him as socialist.
That dissembling over prime ministers is specious; even the European Union claims that its Commissioners are installed “democratically” by that same notion. Clearly the position that Mosaddegh occupied is more powerful than that of the UK prime minister since he had to be removed from power forcibly; note that such power was accorded to him by the same Shah originally. Mosaddegh is not a figure to be defended at all.
Cronos, post 105: "Mossadeh - remember that elected PM"
Olog-hai, post 108 "He was an Islamic socialist"
Cronos, post 176: "he was a socialist, yes, but not an Islamist"
Olog-hai, post 177: "So when has it been okay to be a socialist so long as one is not an islamist?"
Quite frankly, socialism is lower on the list of evils compared to Islamism or communism. So if there is a third-world socialist who kills communists or Islamists, we should support them
if there is a socialist who opposes a capitalist, then we support the capitalist