December 11, 2002
STILL THINK OSAMA'S WINNING?
IRAN: JUDICIARY SPOKESMAN RESIGNS IN PROTEST (Nazila Fathi, December 11, 2002, NY Times)The spokesman for the hard-line judiciary, Hossein Mir-Muhammad Sadeghi, has resigned to protest the death sentence issued against a reformist scholar, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. "I did not like the sentence and I am sorry and aware of its consequences for the country," he said, according to the agency, which also said his resignation had not yet been accepted.
The mullahs, and thus radical Islam, appear to have completely lost control of their own Revolution. In a world where Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Palestine are all moving Westwards, the Clash of Civilizations is nearly over. Posted by Orrin Judd at December 11, 2002 8:32 AM
Don't pop champagne corks too quickly. It's a long, long road ahead. Eventually, Islamism is going to fail because it's a cookoo ideology based on a cookoo heresy, but it ain't going to be this easy. Especially if our government insists on getting involved.
Posted by: Derek Copold at December 11, 2002 10:13 AMIt seems no stronger now than Soviet communism did in the late 80s/early 90s. The problem is that foilks see 9-11 as Islam on the rise rather than the final desparate lashing out of a dying Islamicist fantasy.
Posted by: oj at December 11, 2002 10:26 AMI think you underestimate the satisfaction of
living in the Koranic cocoon.
True, the gap between Islam and modernism
is widening every day, as it has for 300 years.
But I see no sign that Muslims see it as us
rising above them, and until they do, nothing
fundamental is going to change.
That's a butterfly you see popping out in Iran.
Posted by: oj at December 11, 2002 1:03 PMThe Palestinians are moving Westward? What did I miss overnight? The only westward movement I detect is the desire to push the Israelis into the Med.
If the Palestinians got their way, or even a full state in a two-state solution, the resulting nation would not be western in outlook, belief system or function. It would have a thin veneer of some western trappings but would otherwise be a true oriental (note the small 'o') state. Yasser Arafat or his successor would be a pasha. That part of the world has about four thousand years experience with such forms of government, and I see no reason to think that a "Palestine" would be run any differently.
Regards,
Declare Palestine a state today and Arafat would be the enemy, not the Israelis.
Posted by: oj at December 11, 2002 2:15 PM