Khomeini in Dallas and Dearborn

This is an excerpt from the "P.I.G." by Robert Spencer.

In November 2004, Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, held an anti-America, anti-Israel demonstration. Protestors carried a large model of Jerusalem's Al-Asqa Mosque and waved signs bearing slogans such as, "US Hands Off Muslim Land". But the most arresting image was that of two Muslim women carrying large signs featuring the face of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The following month, the Metroplex Organiztion of Muslims in North Texas held a, "Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary," Ayatollah Khomeini, in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.

Khomeini a hero? In the United States? For Muslims in America to revere him was revealing, for Khomeini's 1979 triumph in Iran embodied the idea that Islamic law was superior to all others and must be pressed by force. As Khomeini himself put it, "Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled or incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world....But those that study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world." The goal of this conquest would be to establish the hegemony of Islamic law. As Khomeini proclaimed, "What is the good of us [i.e., the mullahs] asking for the hand of a thief to be severed or an adultress to be stoned to death when all we can do is recommend such punishments, having no power to implement them?"

He then delievered a notorious rebuke to the Islam-is-a-religion-of-peace crowd: "Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by the unbelievers? Islam says: Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]....Islam says: whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obediant except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Qur'anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim."

The sharia state that Khomeini envisioned was not one that guaranteed equal right for all. In 1985, Sa'id Raja'i-Khorassani, the permanent delegate to the United Nations from the Islamic Republic of Iran, declared that, "the very concept of human rights was 'a Judeo-Christian invention' and inadmissable in Islam....According to Ayatollah Khomeini, one of the shah's 'most despicable sins' was the fact that Iran was one of the original group of nations that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

The Dearborn and Dallas pro-Khomeini displays indicated the Khomeini's vision for society is alive in America today--and that it is dangerously naive to assume that all Muslims immediately and unquestioningly accept American pluralism and the idea of a state not governed by religious law . Just where American Muslims stand on Khomeini's doctrines--and how many stand with him--are still forbidden questions for the major media. But if the old man could have spoken from his sign in Dearborn, he might have said, "Ignore me at your own risk."

Joh:16:2: They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Alien
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"The conversion of the entire population to Islam and the extinction of every form of dissent is the ideal of the Muslim State - This is Islamic Peace"

A moderate Moslem is one who sends others blow themselves up.