Islam & the Iranian Dilemma

[Rasputin]

[Dokhtar Bandari]

Iran our country is only means to and end for these people. Always has been and always will remain that way unless we do something about it. What is that end? To return Islam to its Golden Age. We as the indigenous society have always been subject of their prey due to our wealth, intellect and geographical location. We as 40,000 years nation have come to evolve and understand that violence is never an answer, but because of that we are perceived as weak and foolish and therefore have been subject of these atrocities.

The longing of radical Muslims to return to the "golden age" of Islam during the time of Muhammad and his immediate successors is explained in the following quote from Serge Trifkovic's book, THE SWORD OF ISLAM which reads as follows:

"The revival of the model of early Islam in a modern form absolutely mandates the reaffirmation of uncompromising animosity to non-believers and the return to violence as a means of attaining political ends. Islamic terrorism, far from being an aberration, became inseparable from modern-jihad as spiritual battling with the evil impulses of the soul - a rendering endlessly repeated by Islam's apologists in the Western world - is quite properly rejected by today's Islamic activists not only as theologically incorrect (which it is) but also as a dangerous and harmful distraction from the path of divinely ordained struggle. The cult of martyrdom, always present in Shi'ite Islam, was fully revived by the Muslim brotherhoods in the early twentieth century and their different incarnations throughout the Islamic world and the Muslim diaspora in the West. What distinguishes "fundamentalists" and "conservatives" from "ordinary" Muslims as far as reference to the "golden age" is concerned is that "the former blot out history in favor of the reactivation of the founding myth, while the latter accommodate themselves to the history of Muslim societies". p 205

"Islam, a religion born in the desert, has created jihad and remains defined by jihad , its most important concept for the rest of the world. Through jihad Islam has emerged as a quasi-religious ideology of cultural and political imperialism, that knows no natural limits to itself. Unlike the "just war" theory originated in Christian thinking, which has evolved into a secular concept instituted in international laws and codes, including the Geneva Conventions, jihad is inherently religious as well as political: Islamic normative thinking does not separate the two. It has emerged from the desert, and it perpetually creates new mental, psychic, spiritual, and literal deserts of whatever it touches." p 141

Do not be against Islam, be for freedom of Man from the tyranny of Evil.