Unraveling of Iran's mullahs - Mark Steyn

Washington Times ^ | 6/23/03 | Mark Steyn

[kattracks]

It's mullah time. The question now is whether Iran's ayatollahs and the original "Islamic republic" can survive the summer, or whether President Bush will mark the second anniversary of September 11, 2001, with two-thirds of his axis of evil consigned to the trash can of history.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

So what should the West do? The European Union and large elements of America's State Department can't seem to wean themselves off the idea that the ayatollahs are "reformers."

That's a gut-busting laugher. The ayatollahs want to "reform" Iran back to the Seventh Century A.D.

[Cronos]

Ayatollah Rafsanjani said last year that on the day the Muslim world gets nuclear weapons

It already has those weapons -- the Pakshave them courtesy the Chicoms

[glock rocks]

steyn ping.

[AdmSmith]

When he going get tough, Ayatollah Rafsanjani will go from a follower of Khomeini to: What?

[PGalt]

Great article. Thanks for posting it.

[TomSmedley]

Ayatollah Rafsanjani said last year that on the day the Muslim world gets nuclear weapons the Israeli question will be settled forever "since a single atomic bomb has the power to completely destroy Israel, while an Israeli counterstrike can only cause partial damage to the Islamic world."

I suspect an event like this would do much to wean remaining dispensationalists from their idiotic ideology.

[DB]

If that happened we would go on a rampage against anyone with nuclear weapons. The risk being far too high not to.

[americanSoul]

Thanks for posting; Steyn has no equal.

Yes indeedy, it's mullah time.

[goldstategop]

Iran is older than the 7th Century. It gnaws at the Shiite clergy that Iran's heritage is older than Islam and much of it is glorious.

[goldstategop]

Rafsanjani seems to overlook the simple fact the Islamic world would be reduced to a smoking pile of rubble.

[Cronos]

Bump! You ought to speak to a Zoroastrian (the 'Magi') which was the original religion of Persin and whose dualistic nature influenced Manicheanism. I'm glad to see Persia returning to it's roots and shaking off the yoke

[TexanToTheCore]

"I'll wager there are a more than a few quiet-life mullahs weighing the options. Iran is not a one-man cult like Saddam's Iraq, and many imams, whether "conservative" or "liberal," can recognize the smell of death percolating from the head office. "

ROFLMAO

[gridlock]

Mullet Time?

[browardchad]

Iran is older than the 7th Century. It gnaws at the Shiite clergy that Iran's heritage is older than Islam and much of it is glorious.

While true in the historical sense, it is neatly overcome by the Islamic insistence that the Koran mystically preceded the Bible, the Torah, human history and, I'm sure, creation itself.

Islam provides irrational solutions and convenient historical revision for all rational or factual arguments, which, of course, makes it a the ultimate tool for despots, terrorists and wild-eyed Ayatollahs.

[Smile-n-Win]

This appears to be more or less the same article as the last one, but I thought you might want to know about it.