Posted on 06/15/2009 9:30:21 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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Thank you for that. It brings a tear to my eye.
If the military does get involved, there's no guarantee that they'll take the mullahs' side...
Liberty.
A lot of things have changed tremendously since 1979. The outburst of rebellion these days shows that the boiling point has been reached. Since the 1990’s internally there was a gradually increasing easening. But Ahmadinejad went full steam backwards to the most repressive times of Khomeinism. The educated middle and upper class and the urban youth no longer put up with this backwards trend. Also if there is one thing these sections of society don’t want, it’s another war. They are batshit scared by Ahmadinejad’s attitude towards Israel and the West. Iran went through almost 10 years of total war. They want Ahmadinejad gone, because they fear that he will drag them into the abyss. That’s why they hit the streets now.
WOW !!!
BTW there were several attempts to topple the regime since 1979. First 1980 the military tried a coup against the Ayatollah, which failed.
The Iran-Iraq war rallied the people around the flag against Saddam. But in 1998 there were massive student rebellions, which were however crushed.
The current event’s aren’t entirely new. But they apparently have reached critical mass. The youth of Iran and the educated classes aren’t taking anymore of the stoneage mentality of Ahmadinejad.
We have a thread around here....giving directions for helping....not sure if I can find it again....was running it for a few hours last night!
I thought that might be part of the current situation. My BS meter just went off reading about “the freedom loving people of Iran” again and again.
Fear is a great awakener.
This is the problem — no matter how much they oppose the regime, will any of them risk the wrath of Allah by touching a hair on the chinny-chin-chin of any of the black robed mullahs? And would the mob support them or turn on them if they did? What needs to happen is for those mullahs to be doing the rope dance. THAT would be change you can believe in, my FRiend.
Prayers up for the freedom-loving Iranians...and prayers for those in Azidi Square...
You said — This is the problem — no matter how much they oppose the regime, will any of them risk the wrath of Allah by touching a hair on the chinny-chin-chin of any of the black robed mullahs?
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Yep, they haven’t come to the realization that Allah is a false god and that sharia law is nothing more than something to enslave them to an Islamic government, and that the actual identity of Allah is “Satan” the great deceiver that the Bible talks about.
If they knew that, there would be no mullahs. The problem is not the mullahs, or the election or the candidates — but it’s the false religio-governmental system of sharia law, which imposes a totally false worldview upon the people *and* the people *accept it*....
Your BS meter must be defect. Iranians are not a monolitic group. There are poor illiterate islamic fools, and there are westernized Iranians in the big cities who want to join the rest of the world.
The more people they kill, the angrier the protestors will get and the violence will intensify. If they don’t kill anyone, the protesters will know they’re safe and become more brazen. Either way, it’s a no-win situation for the mullahs.
Musavi is under house arrest...if they kill him, all hell will break loose. Methinks the mullahcracy’s days are numbered.
Maybe you already have this picture of the true essence of the islamofascists:
Warning http://twitpic.com/7hbae
I dunno. In Czechoslovakia, 1968, the people backed down from the Russians and endured more than 20 more years of repression.
The Iranians have ALREADY put up with 30 years of mullah repression. They’re tired of it. I really doubt they’ll just back down.
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