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The political correctness worked this time, eh?

Seems the focus of your article is in jail now. 

Everything is sacred

Vildemose,   I am

Vildemose,

I am amazed at you. The one whose ignorant here is you, who call people who simply have a different view than you “ignorant”. You represent what’s wrong with Iran. All you do is prove my point.

As far as my agenda, oh yes, I do have an agenda, and that agenda is: take the initiative from close minded, chauvinistic, intolerant Iranian bigots like yourself who believe in outdated ultra nationalistic Aryan supremacy ideology and who think there is absolutely nothing wrong with Iran which causes none of our historical problems to go away, and give it to modern thinking, tolerant, worldly, classy, future-vision internationalist Iranians, those who will build a free and progressive future Iran where no one is bullied or harassed or belittled for their beliefs, whether they're Islamic, or ultra nationalist or anything in the middle. That’s my agenda.

The only Iran that I’m scared of, is the Iran that you want, and that Iran is an Iran that is ruled by extreme e ideology and there is a state doctrine stripping Iranian culture and civilization from many of its beautiful aspects. It is because people like you that Iran can never get it right, especially in the last 60-70 years. We keep going from one extreme to another because of people like you. One day its Aryan extremism, the other day is shite extremism.

Iranians like you bring the worst out of people, and because of that, you need to step back and let the people build a future democratic Iran.

Iran 2050:Shite is copy

Iran 2050:

Shite is copy of Zoroastrianism ...

I stopped right there....I don't know you agenda but you're willfully ignorant, repeating IRI's Islamic "Scholars" talking points a la soroush et al..

BTW, your Iranophobia is no different than Islamphobia...Stop bashing our heritage...whatever it is. at least, it was organic and not imposed by foreigners...

Vildemose, Shite is copy

Vildemose,

Shite is copy of Zoroastrianism built by a minority group of ultra-nationalist Iranians as a response to Sunnism. In the beginning it was nothing but a “group” battling Sunnis. It is Iranian-flavored, nothing to do with Islam.  Many aspects of it are designed to empower the establishment, just like many other religions. However, shiteism is extreme and dangerous when you compare it to Sunnism. Surely Sunnism has extreme aspects too, but Shite has really taken extremism to another level. One example is the coming of Mahdi, which the center of most IRI policies, shite tells you to create as much chaos as you can in the world (which IRI has been doing for 30 years now) in order for him to come back. Where does in Islam say anything about that?

What happened later is that as it grew, especially during the Safavid period, it become used as a political tool.

what is sad right now that Iranians, starting from the Reza Shah period as Reza shah built up an Aryan –themed anti Islamic anti Arabic state doctrine to legitimize his dictatorship, and also since the IRI take over in 1979 as response to IRI’s anti nationalist policies, blame Islam and Arabs for their mischief! That is false, wrong, unscientific, racist and a threat to building a future democratic multi cultural Iran.

Many non Muslim

Many non Muslim philosophers and social scientists are much more aware and understanding of Islam than many of these so called “Ayatollahs” or “Imams” can ever be. That’s just an example.

That is very true..Especially when it comes to Iranian fake Shia/Sharia. It shouldn't even be considered a religion, let alone Islam.

Practice what you preach is

Practice what you preach is what you need to apply here, and by that, I mean you’re the one who needs to think before uttering things that do not make sense.

First off, common sense is different than “feelings” and “inner voices”. Your common sense, and that sense is developed and nurtured based on many factors including family, society, beliefs, life experiences, etc…will allow you to interpret things that are told to you.

Second off, if you think a “Grand Ayatollah” who is a product of a phony and non-Islamic system that teaches concepts far from Islam itself with all its contradictions, represents Islam or somehow speaks on behalf of Islam or is somehow an Islamic scholar or knows the true philosophy of Islam and knows more about Islam than others, that’s your progetive. You can listen to the ayatollahs, whom you think are experts on Islam, all day and take their BS as Islamic teachings, but again, that’s your progetive.

Many non Muslim philosophers and social scientists are much more aware and understanding of Islam than many of these so called “Ayatollahs” or “Imams” can ever be. That’s just an example.

Conscientious objector, yes

But shariah objector, wtf ?!

Is that a new social category? Are they going to have NGOs soon claiming all their members are shariah objectors ? 

Khomeini was just atool of the American Empire

And his republic was used in many ways by the American Empire, but not to bring Freedom, Democracy and Justice.

For Laughs  

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Khomeini's Jihad

Khomeini's Jihad Doctrine.

Glad you are honest. That doctrine was inspired by Dr. Shariati, who still has a great deal of followers among the reformers in Iran...

@Bavafa

I agree.  Being a Muslim means that you are pledging your allegiance to the Ummah.  People are ignoring this implication.  You can't think of Islam as a religion in the normal sense of the word.  Islam is a political ideology.  So in a way he is right.  You can't swear your allegiance to two nations at the same time.  You can only owe your loyalty to one or the other, Islamic Ummah or USA.  Muslims shouldn't be joining the military.  Accepting Muslim recruits is like letting the VietCong join the US army during the Vietnam war.

On the other hand,  Mr. Lyons is a stupid hypocrite for equating wars of national liberation/resistance with "terrorism" or "jihadis".

Iran 2050

'Think before you write' would be appropriate here.  Consider the following:
1) When you have problems with your eyes will you just visit the average Joe six pack down the street for a diagnosis or visit someone with the proper credentials?

2) You register for a chemistry course at the local college, and they tell you that the instructor is just some Bob without even a high school diploma.  Would you just rely on your 'inner voices' and feelings and continue with the course, or would you laugh at the institution and move on to a real institution where their faculty are required to have degrees?

Raoul1955.   You

Raoul1955.

You shouldn’t listen to someone based on their credential only, rather, if what they say makes sense to you deep inside, accept it, otherwise don’t. That someone could be an Islamic scholar or an average Joe off the street.

Don’t let titles fool you. Many call themselves “Islamic scholar Ayatollahs” yet don’t now anything about Islam.

Iran 2050

Your posting starts:
"The extreme version and interpretation of Islam which has come to be known as “Sharia law” is NOT true Islam."

What exactly are your islamic credentials? Are you an imam, or an ayatollah, or some islamic authority?  You need to indicate your islamic credentials, otherwise one would consider your claim as nonsensical. 

The extreme version and

The extreme version and interpretation of Islam which has come to be known as “Sharia law” is NOT true Islam.

Islam just like any ideology, including Christianity, Liberalism, Conservatism is subject to INTRREPRETATIONS. Certainly, we do not want to apply the Christian law of stoning the adulterer, do we?

It is very sad that since 1979 and the introduction of Khomeini’s Jihad doctrine which is nothing but a false and Iranian-themed interpretation of Islam, and also with the help of anti-Muslim ultra-Jewish propaganda machine in the U.S, Islam’s image has became what it is now. Let’s go back to 1979 and see if Islam had this image.

Also we need to be fair and objective here and understand that the reason many in Islamic countries hate our foreign policy is not because “we have democracy”, “or because we are infidel”..or anything like that, lets just go back and see how much injustice has we and Israel and IRI have done to the to Arabs and to Muslims in general. Lets be objective here for a second.

America is the greatest country in history, undoubtedly, but sometimes we do things that are contrary to the very ideas our founding fathers had in universal justice for all. Our founding fathers did not want us to support occupation and murder of innocent Muslim children and women in Iraq, Palestine, and elsewhere.

To me, that’s un-American admiral.

With regards,

Multicultural Cesspool ...

Good article. Unfortunately we are on our way to total cultural relativism, courtesy of unchecked immigration and total absence of any education about what constitutes a Republic or Citizenship. The UK is a far more advanced case of over-tolerance and I guess for the forseeable future thay can muddle through... But there will come a moment of truth. So far it seems that the Left/Liberal fanatics lodged in academia are on their way to do what the Soviet Empire what all its firepower could not do: To bring about the total collapse of Liberal Democracy.

Sharia is

Sharia is seditious.

Couldn't agree more...

Funny

America has created one of the finest, social security programs of all time with health care and all kind of benefits.

If I were a US Soldier wanting a little more security and work safety, I would become a muslim and object to deployment.

A few statements that is worth examining here

"Shariah is a totalitarian legal-military-political system that is designed to control every aspect of an individual's life and is antithetical to our concept of freedom and democracy"

This is very true, but isn't also true for military as once you sign up, you have signed away nearly all your rights?

"which states that any incursion by non-Muslims into the Islamic lands makes it the duty for all Muslims to fight the "occupiers." "

Partially true but again aren't we ALL suppose to fight for our home land against "occupiers" ? Would Retired Adm. James A. Lyons accept an army of foreign nationals setting up camp in Kansas or NY?  If he fights against any occupation of US land, will he be a jihadis?

"The U.S. military is the finest in the world"

As a killing machine, very true

A good solution would be to deny any Muslim or Muslim borned citizen or otherwise into US military.

'Vahdat' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad