2 Islams, PMOI vs. Khomeinis internpretation-1

Tolerance of Opponents The Iranian clerics used the slogan "the only party is the Party of God [Hizbullah]" to crack down on their political opponents and suppress freedoms. During the early years of Khomeini's rule, organized gangs chanted that slogan as they raided meetings and ransacked the headquarters of political organizations, bookstores, publishing houses, newspapers, and so forth. The Quran, on the other hand, says to Muslims: "Allah forbiddeth you not those who warred not against you on account of religion and drove you not out from your homes, that ye should show them kindness and deal justly with them. Lo! Allah loves the just dealers."17 Although many companions of Imam Ali urged him to act decisively against the Kharijites in the seventh century, or at least restrict their freedom and political activities, Ali replied, "So long as they do not harm us, we will not take any action against them. If they debate with us, we will do likewise. We will continue to pay them their share of the treasury. We will allow them to go to the mosques to pray. Only if they resort to violence and killing will we reluctantly fight them." The Mojahedin have been profoundly influenced by such teachings of the Prophet and Imam Ali. In 1980, the Mojahedin formally asked the Khomeini regime's judiciary to refrain from executing the leaders of a coup that shattered the Mojahedin Organization. In 1983 , the Mojahedin denounced the torture, harassment, and detention without trials of the Tudeh Party leaders, although the latter caused the imprisonment and subsequent execution of hundreds of Mojahedin supporters and sympathizers by turning them over to the security forces. The program of the National Council of Resistance and the provisional government guarantees the individual's right to dissent and freedom from persecution in the future Iran. It specifies that there are no limits to any individual's or group's political activities short of armed rebellion against the government. The program also states: "Our rich heritage of Islam, contrary to Khomeini's [fundamentalism], does not draw its rightfulness and legitimacy (including political legitimacy) from coercion and compulsion. We firmly believe that Islam can only flourish in the absence of any discrimination, privilege, or social or political coercion."18

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