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While Soroush's quips about "revisiting the role of the Supreme Leader", a "Referendum" and "Secularism" may sound attractive, Soroush, in my view, is just another Iranian Islamist trying to save the Islamic Regime in Iran under the guise of "religious [Islamic] democracy".

See if you can make any real sense out of his double talk.

Khomeini and his supporters, prior to 1979 Khomeinist [Islamic] Revolution, made very similar noises.

1 posted on 02/21/2010 6:45:47 PM PST by odds
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To: odds

How about someone blow up the whole Guardian Council and get it over with?


2 posted on 02/21/2010 6:47:36 PM PST by GeronL (I pledge allegiance to the Principles of the Bill of Rights and to protect and defend it...)
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To: nuconvert

Ping


3 posted on 02/21/2010 6:48:25 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: odds

Some background info on Abdolkarim Soroush [born Hosein Haj Faraj Dabbagh]:

“After the Revolution, Soroush returned to Iran and there he published his book “Knowledge and Value” (Danesh va Arzesh) the writing of which he had completed in England. He then went to Tehran’s Teacher Training College where he was appointed the Director of the newly established Islamic Culture Group.”

“A year later, all universities were shut down, and a new body was formed by the name of the Cultural Revolution Institute comprising seven members, including AbdulKarim Soroush, all of whom were appointed directly by Ayatollah Khomeini.”

“In the following three-year period of the shut down of the Iranian Universities also known as Iranian Cultural Revolution (1980-1983) a total restructuring of the syllabi based on the idea of Islamization of Universities took place. Soroush played an active role in the decisions made by this committee which particularly involved expulsion of a significant number of academics and students from universities that were felt anti-revolutionary or non-religious. Among direct and indirect consequences of the Institute’s activities were arrest, imprisonment and execution of many Iranian scholars, force exile of University Professors and “a major blow to Iran’s cultural and intellectual life and achievement”,[2] continued today.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdolkarim_Soroush

http://www.drsoroush.com/Biography-E.htm


4 posted on 02/21/2010 6:48:53 PM PST by odds
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To: odds

I expected this article to be about the United States!!


5 posted on 02/21/2010 7:03:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: odds

actually this is double-talk for removing Ahmadinejad... it’s been in the pipes (from my reading ) since before the last E-LEC-SHUN


7 posted on 02/21/2010 7:23:18 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: odds

Crap. I saw the headline and I thought it was about Obama.


12 posted on 02/21/2010 8:38:49 PM PST by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: odds; FARS

Ping .................. FRegards


13 posted on 02/21/2010 10:26:36 PM PST by gonzo ( Buy more ammo! You should already have the guns .................. FRegards)
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