What to expect from Iran Islamic Republic as its Imam “Ayatollah” Khomeini proclaimed:
Posted by: adonis49 on: November 10, 2012
What to expect from Iran Islamic Republic as “Ayatollah” Khomeini had proclaimed:
Ayatollah Khomeini, the original, not the current Khamenei, said: “Criminals should not be tried. The trial of a criminal is against Human Rights. Human Rights demand that we should have killed them in the first place, as it became known that they were criminals…
They (International Human Rights Organization) criticize us because we are executing the brutes… We all made mistakes: We thought we were dealing with human beings. It is not evident: We are dealing with wild animals... We will not tolerate these criminal and corrupt elements anymore…”
And who are these criminal elements, the wild animals, the brutes…?
They were the “Westernized” citizens, brought up in a westernized family, having stayed too long in Europe and the USA to study, smoking US cigarette brands in Iran, displaying leftist tendencies in not wearing the traditional Islamic attires, reading subversive foreign books like The Great Gatsby of Fitzgerald, or Farewell to Arm by Hemingway, all those non-politically motivated, considered monarchists, employees who worked in institutions during the Shah’s regime…
Khomeini went on: “The turbaned (militias) are about to execute in public the corrupt elements and burn them, and the story will be over… The corrupt elements are not allowed to publish newspapers…We will close all political parties except the One (Hezbollah?), or a few acting in a proper manner…”
Ayatollah Shariatmadari was heading the most popular party of Muslim People’s Republic Party and this party was disbanded. The second in command, Ayatollah Muntazeri was blown up in the hotel where his party convention was being held, along with a hundred of the leaders…The irony is that the Communist Tudeh Party and the Marxist Fedayeen Organization sided with Khomeini. Why? Khomeini was against the US imperialist!
And successive waves of makeshift trials executed thousands of Iranians, and the communists and marxists were diligently persecuted and massacred.
Women were forbidden to dance and sing in public, and going to movie theaters, and going out without veil and long nails…
Azar Nafisi wrote in her book “Reading Lolita in Tehran” a fitting similarity between radical ideals and their consequences when grabbing power.
Mike Gold, the American radical Marxist of the 20’s, wrote about his American dream in his newspaper New Masses: “The old ideals must die…Let us fling all we are into the cauldron of the Revolution. For out of our death shall arise glories…”
Iran Islamic Republic “Revolution” applied Gold ideals, adopting exactly the mechanism that should lead to glory… and did much harm to Islam by manipulating the religion to its political ends…
For example, Mike Gold wrote an essay in 1929 titled “Toward Proletarian Art“:
“Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors. gives lyrics to young soldiers, design textiles for factory women’s dresses, writes burlesque for factory theaters, does a hundred other useful tasks. Art is useful as bread…”
I was under the impression that this long statement was being utterly sarcastic: Gold was damned serious.
Compare the above proclamations with Conrad‘s description of the artist in his preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus:
“The artist appeals to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives, to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain…and to the subtle and invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds men to each other, the dead to the living and the living to the unborn...”
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