To be precise, at least according to this AP report, he said that "a dictatorial cult is ruling Iran in the name of Islam." So presumably he thinks that Islam actually teaches something other than what the mullahs represent and teach. It would be interesting if he were to spell this out, since everywhere in the world where we have seen Islamic Republics and other self-styled Islamic polities, they don't differ significantly from what we see in Iran.
And with Sharia on the confident advance in the West, this is a pressing question. "Opposition leader: A cult ruling Iran," from The Associated Press, February 27:
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's opposition leader says a dictatorial cult is ruling Iran in the name of Islam.The criticism was the strongest yet by Mir Hossein Mousavi.....
Iran's opposition leader says a dictatorial cult is ruling Iran in the name of Islam.
Or...The cult of Islam is ruling Iran in the name of Allah...
I don't think that's going to change any time soon, but good luck to the 'opposition', just the same...
Sorry AP.That big raisin on his fore head isn't from wishful thinking.
Ah but the criminal leftist propaganda machine loves an underdog of any stripe.
...and as always,AP SUCKS!
"a dictatorial cult is ruling Iran in the name of Islam"
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Iran's opposition has been referred to as "the Green Revolution", mostly by people who are hopeful that it will result in something as salubrious as the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine.
But the "green" in the "Green Revolution" is the green of *Islam*. It is no accident that the opposition goes up to their roofs at night to yell "Allah Akbar"—as the fomenters of the Islamic Revolution did before them.
I recently read "Reading Lolita in Tehran". It is an excellent book overall—but hopelessly muddled on the very central issue of Islam. It is full of character's mutterings that—somehow—the terrible things going on in Iran do not represent true Islam.
And yet, it seems not a single character—not the very devout or the relatively secular—can tell you what that 'humane Islam' would actually look like, or how the Mullahs have actually erred in their interpretations.
The book's author, like so many before her, eventually sidesteps the question entirely, and flees to the United States. Many of her students later take a similar path, finding humane societies nowhere in Dar-al-Islam, but in the Christian and secular West instead.
"I recently read "Reading Lolita in Tehran". It is an excellent book overall—but hopelessly muddled on the very central issue of Islam. It is full of character's mutterings that—somehow—the terrible things going on in Iran do not represent true Islam."
gi, I started reading "RLT" a few years ago, but like you was very disappointed in the excuse-making for Islam. I eventually put it down, didn't finish.