In the Islamic world, a Friday imam leads the prayer and gives the sermon at a mosque. There are, however, differences between the Sunni and Shi’a branches of Islam, as well as between schools of thought within those branches regarding how the term “imam” is used, and the criteria that allow for the use of that title. Normally, an imam’s standing or credibility is dependent on eloquence or knowledge. Some imams have great credibility and are very much taken seriously by their followers and jurists, and other imams are not.
In the Shiite world, titling someone an “imam” is showing great respect to that person (as in “Imam” Khomeini), if not outright sanctifying him. In the Sunni world, the title of imam may have a more political meaning than religious, even if the holder of that title conducts religious services. Sunnis generally do not sanctify the holder of the title.
The life manual of Islam, the Quran, is filled with hatred and violence, and that shapes many Muslims’ thinking and behaving. Hence both mullahs and imams become the principal agents of terror, believing their cause to be the cause of Allah. This misanthropy is the outcome of Islam. It is the result of adherence to the Islamic creed, precisely as codified in Islamic scripture.
Millions of Shiites make a pilgrimage to a jamkaran well near the city of Qom in Iran to pay homage and tribute to the Shiite’s 12th imam (Mahdi), who is claimed to be hiding there for over a thousand years. No one forces these millions to believe this patently absurd contention; it is successfully hammered into their minds by the purveyors of Islamic fraud: the high divines.
The present mullahcracy in Iran is in the form of a pyramid. The mullahs in the game at the top have skimmed and continue to skim inordinate amounts of national income. The late mullah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a past president of the Islamic Republic, and his family have reportedly stolen enough to give the Waltons of Wal-Mart a run for their money. And there are hundreds of lesser mullahs who pocket huge sums.
The ruling mullahs — the in-boys — are master practitioners of trickle-down economics. Except that by the time they are through with pocketing some of the national income and paying off their supporters, there is little left for the out-boys — the sidelined mullahs.
The in-boy mullahs must pay for the loyalty of the military, the police, and thugs to keep them in power. Furthermore, in contrast to their mastery of machination, treachery, and cruelty, they are inept at managing the affairs of the state.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a unique creature: it is best described as a theocratic aristocracy. The “divinely-ordained” rulers maintain themselves in power by an elaborate system of patronage. Lucrative positions, contracts and valued privileges are distributed by patronage. The result is that the ruling mullahs enjoy a significant number of supporters in all strata of society — the civil service, the military, the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards, and the hooligans and Basiji thugs, who are ready to unleash their vicious attacks on anyone or group that dares to challenge the in-charge men of Allah.
Another seeming anomaly is that proportionately there are more mullahs in prison in Iran than any other class of the society, including university students who have always been political “troublemakers.” The reason is that these are the out-boy mullahs—the parasites who are deprived of the dole, their very means of livelihood. Their mosques are often shut down, their flocks are harassed by the system’s agents and their sources of income dried up.
The out-boy mullahs hate the in-boy mullahs not only for looting Iran’s oil money, but also for badly impoverishing the masses, who had traditionally fed and pampered them. The flock of ignorant fanatic fools, the mullahs’ traditional source of sustenance, can barely feed itself and has very little to spare for the leeching mullahs.
Mullahs and imams are allowed to roam freely in the United States, using every means available to them to destroy liberty and freely preach their gospel of hate against all non-Muslims, while heartlessly destroying any individuals who dare to speak the truth about their beliefs. They remain a threat to our national security, and to the safety and security of all American people.
Walter Sieruk says
As for that despicably cruel and heinous “mullah regime” of Iran that ruthless cruel brutal tyrannical regime of Iran what so unfittingly has the word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I]. On the topic of this Islamic tyranny a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home” This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be. In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .” This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1] This heinous Islamic has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2] All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172
Walter Sieruk says
The harsh brutal oppressive Islamic regime of Iran with is vicious treatment of girls and women in this “Mullah regime” has ,many times, becomes even worse the forcing females to wear hijab against their will . As this following example reveals.
That heinously cruel and murderous Islamic tyranny of Iran is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women. For example a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1] That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
Walter Sieruk says
This Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran has been well nicknamed “the mullahs regime” in which them mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other fiendish and fanatical Muslims in power have a strong and awful control of the Islamic regime of Iran and through their band of Islamic state “police” , who are called the “Revolutionary Guards “come down hard human rights of the Iranian people . Therefore, the Iranian people who are trapped and forced to exist in this Islamic tyranny live in terrible fear of the mullahs and others in power in Iran. This is a tragic and sad reminder of the wisdom that was printed in the periodical of Benjamin Franklin which is entitled POOR RICHARDS’ ALMANACK that reads “Those who are feared are also hated.”
Walter Sieruk says
This brutal and cruel and regime of the mullahs as well as other Muslim villains in power and control in this tyranny of Iran which so falsely and inappropriately has the word “Republic” in its title. This “mullah regime” is oppressive both in the physical sense to the people of Iran and also in the informational way. In that this tyrannical regime severely limits the information the Iranian people receive for the outside world. It stands to reason that the mullahs and others in power in Iran afraid the people might start think for themselves if outside information is received so it’s strongly restricted. This is a reminder of the wise words the Thomas Jefferson had written. Which are “Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” Likewise, Mr. Jefferson had nobly declared “I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every from of tyranny over the mind of man.”
Walter Sieruk says
The actual word “Republic” has on origin the Latin meaning “Of the people” With the mullahs and imams in so much power and even influencing the parliament of this Islamic regime is tyranny is hardly a real republic .Furthermore the ruthless gang of thugs who are the stooges of those Muslim clerics, called the “Revolutionary Guards,” those Islamic State “police” come down hard on the human rights and freedoms of the Iranian people. Therefore the people do have the right to overthrow a tyranny. This reality had even been expressed and described by men of great intelligence .For example the philosopher .John Locke. This is wisdom that mullahs and other villains in power in that Islamic tyranny don’t want the Iranian people to know about or understand
gravenimage says
Iran is a “republic” in the same sense that oppressive Communist states are–that is, not at all.
Indiana Tom says
They are all the People’s Pal. Snicker.
KWJ says
Great posts. The Basiji are the ones that harass Iranians day to day just like the Saudis vice and virtue police. Some are plain-clothed men so they can infiltrate clubs or whatever to spy. A friend in Iran even thinks his brother is one of the latter because he once found a gun in his possession and guns are illegal for the common folk.
The Revolutionary Guards do things such as confiscate 100,000 satellite dishes Iranians have which get foreign TV. Still, many Iranians see American films, music, etc. The IRGC also keeps an eye on Sunnis in Iran even some who were supporting a Saudi soccer team, and they are military.
Many Iranians do illegal or in-Islamic things every day-things we take for granted. Their prisons are chock full and women raped. See the movie Women’s Prisons by an expatriate. An Ayatollah has been in prison since 2006 for advocating for a secular government which was daring for him.
Sometimes they ease up. Despite there being American products and signs in English (brand names) a couple years ago they closed 60 shops, some of them because of too western clothing. At private closed events, e.g. a wedding, the women don’t have to wear hijabs and wear short dresses, but the facade of morality and modesty continues in public. Iran pushes the hijab in the West in the Iranian way, not the Saudi way. Iran has more liberal” dress codes but still oppressive.
Some expatriate Iranians here in the US who supported the nuclear deal are not anti-regime will show more modern Tehran and Iranians looking happy as if it’s not so bad.
A weird thing to me is seeing religious Iranians sent here celebrating Ayatollah Khomeini’s Memorial Day. This we didn’t have before considering his hostage taking, murdering and executing thousands of Iranians, and a violent-minded and perverse person. It’s a bit of an insult. They also fund mosques here like the other usual suspects. I recall people half-joking about Obama: “Is he going to go Sunni or Shi’a?” But the Saudis and neighbors are much more powerful with their dhimmi Americans.
Rajaram says
Let the mullas have their own say in Islamic countries, if collectively the women folk willingly subjugate themselves to the tyranny of Islam! But why free ,civilised countries remain silent spectators , allowing the mullas their own develish ways?
Carol the 1st says
Women are held hostage by their lack of muscle and testosterone, their love of their children and their ability or inability to obtain work and to be safe. It’s the men who are truly making fools of themselves and who remain close-minded or unable to bow to superior, modern-day thought and systems. As for the free world we have limitations and preserving ourselves must come first.
boakai ngombu says
i remember on the evening of 9/11, watching a Cspan cover of the New Black Panthers meeting in D.C., as i remember. in attendance were mullahs, apparently of repute.
the meeting was a celebration.
Walter Sieruk says
To boakai ngombu, It’s good of you that you keyboarded about 9/11 in your comment. Thank you. For this opens the opportunity to repeat this following short essay.
About that September 11, 2001 jihad murderous affront against both humankind and America the following might be interesting to some people. A type of thinking of many from Middle East is the sayings that “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This type of Middle Eastern “philosophy” may explain, to a degree, how Muslims of two different branches of Islam which are hostile to each other can work together against what they perceive as a “common enemy.”
In this case the mullahs and other in power in Shi ‘ite Iran can work with the jihadists of al Qaeda against which they see as “The Great Satan” By that term they mean the United States of America. As the Muslim author, Rohan Gunaratna , explained in his book INSIDE AL QAEDA . For on page 198 it reveals that among different Islamic terror originations that “Ideological tolerance and intergroup cohesion as a means confronting a common enemy.” So another author, Robert Spencer, in his book which is entitled THE COMPLETE INFIDEL’S GUIDE TO IRAN supply’s information about this topic. It has been keyboarded that this book reveals “Iran’s long –standing support of terrorists- including shocking evidence that Iran helped plain the 9/11 attack.”
gravenimage says
Yes–disgusting, boakai.
11B40 says
Greetings:
I currently reading “Skin in the Game” by Nassim Nicholas Talib and one of his minor assertions seems to be that the Sunni (Salafi/Wahabbi) end of the Muslim spectrum is much more aggressive than the Shia. More specifically Talib mentioned the self-flagelations in regard to Ashura as a moderating indicator.
Perhaps Robert Spencer or some allied blogger can continue my education in this regard.
gravenimage says
I think that the Shia can be as savage as the Sunnis–just look at Iran and Hizb’allah. It is just that there are a lot fewer of the former, which just makes them statistically less of a danger.
As for Ashura being a moderating factor, it is–with all respect–difficult to image how beating and cutting themselves–and their children–to a bloody mess can be considered “moderate”.
StellaSaidSo says
11B40 does not claim that Ashura is a ‘moderating factor’. He refers to the author Talib describing the practice as a ‘moderating indicator’.
As for which sect is the most ‘savage’, Sunni or Shia, it should be noted that, in the West at least, it is Sunni, not Shia mosques which are most likely to promote violent jihad.
gravenimage says
Certainly, Sunnis outnumber Shia both in the West and worldwide.
Walter Sieruk says
Those mullahs and imams of Iran with their falsehoods and deceptions of the many false doctrines of Islam in which they brainwash the Iranian people in believing is something that is both sad and tragic. Those imams and mullahs are, no doubt, just as deluded as the people who they thoroughly indoctrinate with false teachings of Islam. Of such demonic deception by false teachers who are also deluded such men a have been predicted in the Bible. For in the Bible it’s written that “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived.” Second Timothy 3:13. [K.J.V.] All those mullahs and imams are, according to the doctrines of the Bible, Isaiah 8:20. false religious teachers .Meaning false teachers who teach and indoctrinate the false doctrines of the false religion of Islam into the hearts and minds of others . Such false teachers are described in the Bible ,in Second Peter 2:1. “There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
Therefore, to reply to the many different claims made by the imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam there is the Christian internet site. It’s http://www.answering-islam.org
In addition, it should be make clear that in the context and meaning of the above Bible verse Second Peter 2:1. The word “destruction” does not mean “loss of being but loss of well-being ,as the destruction of well- being . That is “going to ruin” by ending up and a terrible place of awful suffering which the Bible call hell, Luke 16:19-31.
Ren says
Mullahs and Imams = gang of retarded people
cornelius says
Back in the 90s, I was watching an interview with an Algerian Muslim radical fighting for an Islamist state….the interview was in Arabic, but there were English subtitles. At one point, the Muslim was talking about sanctioned violence and clearly used the word “Imam”….and the English translation was “{our ‘gang-leader’ said it was permissible to kill]”.
I wondered to myself how often the media corrupted information. This just happened to be one I caught.
gravenimage says
Interesting, Cornelius–who else watching this realized that the “gang leader” was a Muslim cleric?
And good to see you posting again.
11B40 says
Greetings, cornelius:
A couple of years back, I came across a documentary on the local PBS TV station entitled “Held Hostage” that was about the takeover of an oil refinery in southern Algeria. The filmmaker thought it important to report that the Algerian general sent to resolve the situation was nicknamed “The Exterminator” and he certainly seemed to take it to heart.
infidel says
Mad Mullahs and Impish Imams also roam freely in India and orchestrate complete mayhem. Even today, a Hindu festival was stoned by Muslims under orders from these Mullah creatures. Their job is nothing but fomenting hatred and riots against Khafirs.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Amil imani, you lied again. Iranian revolutionary leaders are not corrupt. It is corruption by shah the American stooge that brought Islamic Revolution in Iran. It appears that you don’t know how the system operates under Islamic revolution in Iran. there is a spiritual head who checks the political head the president who manages the resources. The spiritual head as guardian of Islamic revolution will ensure that political head is not deviating from corruption-free Islamic norms. Tell me when Imam khomaini died how much of personal assets he left behind?what about the present spiritual head Ali khomaini,how much he owns personally and where he keeps it? Remember, shah dynasty owned the Iranian wealths, which he stole and kept some in the evil United States exactly like what evil Zionist rulers of Saudi Arabia are currently doing. This is what you American stooges want Iran to go back to. You will be resisted by Iranians as they have been doing. Iran will never go backward. where is your mujahidee Haq network of terror making wishful thinking to take Iran backward to be American puppet rulers? Are you still working for them to carry out terrorist attacks on Iranian people or you work for evil United States directly?
Jow says
The shah is no longer the head of Iran. It has been that way for many years.
Indiana Tom says
The Shah looks great compared to the crew who is running Iran now.
Reza Shah?
Amil Imani says
I think Muhammad is a sleeper Cell. #FBI
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Amil imani, you lied again. Iranian revolutionary leaders are not corrupt.
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Of course not–Ibrahim itace muhammed *likes* the rape of small children, hanging gay people, and stoning rape victims to death.
More:
It is corruption by shah the American stooge that brought Islamic Revolution in Iran.
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Really? But Muslims are trying to impose the horrors of Shari’ah *everywhere*–no Shahs necessary.
More:
It appears that you don’t know how the system operates under Islamic revolution in Iran. there is a spiritual head who checks the political head the president who manages the resources.
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In other words, the horrific oppression and violence in Iran is perfectly Islamic, and Iran is a vicious theocracy.
More:
The spiritual head as guardian of Islamic revolution will ensure that political head is not deviating from corruption-free Islamic norms. Tell me when Imam khomaini died how much of personal assets he left behind?what about the present spiritual head Ali khomaini,how much he owns personally and where he keeps it?
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The Ayatollahs control a vast financial empire:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10442884/Ayatollah-Ali-Khamenei-controls-60-billion-financial-empire-report-says.html
But, really, their robbing the Iranian people is the least of it, compared with the bloody abuse of power.
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Remember, shah dynasty owned the Iranian wealths, which he stole and kept some in the evil United States exactly like what evil Zionist rulers of Saudi Arabia are currently doing. This is what you American stooges want Iran to go back to. You will be resisted by Iranians as they have been doing. Iran will never go backward.
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Islam is *always* backward.
More:
where is your mujahidee Haq network of terror making wishful thinking to take Iran backward to be American puppet rulers? Are you still working for them to carry out terrorist attacks on Iranian people or you work for evil United States directly?
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More grotesque calumny against Amil Imani. Ibrahim itace muhammed cannot imagine that there are those who oppose the horrors of Islam–he assumes it is all just bloody jockeying for power, because this is how Muslims think.
And no, the United States does not wage violent Jihad–Muslims do.
Raja says
GravenImage,
I wonder if Itace has ever replied to your rebuttals. He is just a shameless liar and a savage(condoning rape, murder, torture etc) just like his prophet who came from the bottomless pit if he ever existed.
Indiana Tom says
Shiite Imam, Sunni Imam. Sort of like Roehm of the SA and Himmer of the SS.
gravenimage says
Great analogy.