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Originally Posted by Ray
Iranian people will surely come out victorious.
All power to them.
But surely not the theocratic mish mash that rules Iran as of date.
The Shias are the more progressive of the Islamic people and more pragmatic. They have Ijtihad as a tenet, but not the Sunnis.
The Mad Mullahs are having their two minutes worth of glory and defiance in the name of Allah, but all that will fade when God's truth dawns on these mad men that hold Iran in hostage to their mad ways.
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Ray, I applaud your faith in that reason and sanity will be win out in Iran, even though I don’t share your optimistic hopes.
I sincerely hope that you are correct and I am wrong, but I feel that course laid out by Ahmadinejad and the Mad Mullahs will be dominant; at least for the foreseeable future.
Don’t forget that; and here I’ll give them the benefit of a doubt, that they are following the dictates of their God and beliefs as they see it.
A viewpoint that makes them very dangerous indeed, far more so then AQ and Usama in the long run, as they will have the resources and manpower of an entire nation state behind them. This especially if they manage to stifle the nascent dissent that is present in segments of the Iranian population, maybe the reason for the crackdown underway, which is referred to in this thread.
Don’t forget Ray, that the USSR and the dogmatic belief system it had as its core lasted for nigh on to 80 years.
This in spite of the fact that the belief system was flawed and in the long course unworkable, yet the powers-that-were in the old USSR clung to power and in their wake were the cause of untold misery.
Whereas in Iran we are dealing with a belief that has at its core not just a political belief but one founded in religion, therefore of much more potency.