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The Launch: Iran(ish)

Ok, we’re not launching all of Iran, that would be outrageous, don’t worry aziz, I’m sure there’s something in the Qu’ran about the launching of an entire nation of people, so let’s be more specific. We’re launching the Iranian Revolutionaries. Now, before you jump down my throat and attempt to squeeze my tiny heart to nothing, I realize that the Iranian Revolution is over, technically, or is it? I’m prepared to make a case for the fact that post-modern Islamic fundamentalism found it’s roots in the Iranian Revolution. Khomeini has long been laid to rest but his ideals and teachings have echoes that can still be heard in the streets of Tehran. And I’m not just talking about women this time, I’m talking about men, children, religious suppression, torture, execution, the whole nine yards. Days after the leadership of al-queda released video footage warning President-Elect Obama of the impending threats to the United States, Islamic fundamentalists are joining forces under a united flag of hatred that does not stem from religion, or opposition to the shah, it stems from the teaching of Imam Kohmeini and his revolutionary ideas. Now I’m not blaming Kohmeini for everything, but that’s where it started, this new wave of fundamentalism, misreading the Qur’an, misusing the teaching of Allah, and Sunni extremism that became a response to Shiite power in Iran. Nearly every day Ahmadinejad is on the news spouting something or other about homosexuals or Israel and making another idiotic comment that is loosely translated from Persian to sound even more insulting, but the problem doesn’t lie with the President. The President doesn’t run Iran, and that’s not like saying Bush doesn’t run the United States. Iran is a Islamic Republic, it’s not a democracy, the Ayatollahs run Iran, it’s religion, or their interpretation of what religion means, that fuels the fires in Tehran. It’s Khamenei that has the power to condemn the so-called religious acts of zealots and brainwashed young men. It’s Khamenei that has instead suppressed his opposition, brutalized dissenting clerics and ruled the roost in Iran for years. The Islamic populations of the Middle East changed after the fall of the Shah and what rose up in their place was radical and violent, and it’s still growing, I’m not saying the United States didn’t have hand in the Iranian Revolution, I could say a word or two about Jimmy Carter if I thought he made any real decisions during his administration. The point is, instead of stopping the violence against women, instead of encouraging education, even real religious education, in the way that former Iranian Supreme leaders have, the current religious leadership of Iran has brought the country to a humanitarian stand-still, and has continue to ignite and support extremists world-wide, we’re talking Hezbollah, we’re talking Jihad across the entire Middle East and probably Michigan too. So get with the program and start teaching the words of Qu’ran instead of violence and condemnation of Zion. We’re launching Iranian leadership with the power to affect positive change in the world of Islamic Extremism who chose instead to encourage or deny it.

Be advised: Sunni extremism and Shiite fundamentalism are quite contrary but do both fly under a flag of intolerance that was sparked by the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

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