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“This is the month of blood, Yazid will fall!” the protesters shouted, equating Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with Yazid, the ruler who ordered Hussein’s killing.
I don’t know how long it’ll take, but a theocracy that the faithful equate with the man whose iniquity ultimately prompted the creation of Shiism is doomed.
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Particularly when that Theocracy is Shi’ite…
“It’s pure political suicide to kill people on Ashura of all days,” said Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, an analyst and Ph.D. candidate in contemporary Iranian history at London University. “They become instant martyrs.”
This is truly troublesome…
‘Mousavi nephew’ among Iran dead…
In the 20th century, the two most dangerous theocracries were Fascism and Communism.
Secular religions oddly enough.
In the 21st century, however, the ecclesiatic religions of God are striving to make a comeback: disrupting the world, fomenting jihad, tearing down constitutional barriers between church and state.
But by far the most dangerous Diety of all continues to prevail around the globe: the God that is Money.
And its worshippers, by and large, are realists. They are not interested in Holy Scripture or ideological renditions of The Word. They simply want to sustain social, political and economic infrastructures that permit them to garner both the most power and the most wealth.
Their messiah is Henry Kissinger and their temple is the Bilderberg Conclave.