He is, of course, recommending Sharia as the alternative. And we can all see by how well-run and prosperous Sharia states are. But the advantage that Khamenei has is that when someone in the West points out that Sharia states are human rights basket cases and economic disasters, the one who notices is excoriated as “Islamophobic.” Criticism of Sharia is already immensely stigmatized in the U.S. And so the proponents of Sharia can and do advance their agenda essentially unimpeded.
“Iran’s Khamenei Praises Islamic Response to Coronavirus: Applauds ‘Powerful Hand of the Infallible Imam,’” by Simon Kent, Breitbart, April 9, 2020:
Western civilization is facing decline and fall as it struggles with the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Thursday.
Khamenei made a point of reminding Iranians that the U.S. is the main enemy and mocked Americans who fought over toilet paper at stores and purchased firearms as a sign of Western weakness.
“The problem of corona should not make us ignorant about the plots by our enemies and arrogant powers,” he said.
He lamented that “confiscating other nations’ masks and buying guns” as well as fights over toilet paper are the “logical and natural outcome of the philosophy that governs western civilization,” the offical IRNA news agency reports.
“Confiscating other nations’ masks, emptying shops, fighting over toilet paper and long lines for buying guns during the coronavirus outbreak are the logical and natural outcome of the philosophy that governs western civilization,” Khamenei said in a live televised address which he also relayed on Twitter:
While lamenting the perceived failure of the west to cope in the pandemic, Khamenei congratulated Muslims for their resolve, saying that in the history of humanity, people may rarely witness a situation like today “in which all in human society need a savior.”
He said Islam has the answer to mankind’s search for that savior.
“Today, after experiencing various ideologies from communism to pretentious, western, liberal democracy, mankind does not feel at peace. Mankind is not happy. Few eras in the history of mankind have witnessed such a strong desire for the sublime truth, for a Savior,” he added.
He explained “human wisdom is a great blessing, which can solve many problems but not all of them,” before again pointing to Islamic notions of divinity for inspiration against what is offered by the U.S. and other countries.
The supreme leader went on to allege in some western countries, “the elderly, the disabled and people with major problems are not a priority to receive medical care.”
Khamenei said all of this “is a result and product of the dominance of western culture, which is based on materialism and atheism.”…