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http://nureinwort.blogspot.com Some Angles on the Islamic Revolution
(Ivor Benson)

An exploration of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and its meaning for the rest of the world can begin with three wide-ranging generalizations:

1. The Islamic Revolution showed that religion can still be a more potent mobilizer of mass political action than can secular ideologies;

2. The revolution challenges the cultural hegemony of Western ideas, not only as a religion but as an alternative social model and way of life;

3. The Islamic Revolution thus can be regarded as one of the most important happenings in modern history, comparable to the French Revolution in the 18th century and the Russian Revolution in this century.

There are innumerable reasons for believing that the emergence of highly dynamic Islamic fundamentalism in Iran is a development of incalculable worldwide consequence. The Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had this comment:

"The Iranian Revolution has highlighted one of the principal religious and political developments of our time: the revival of Islamic fundamentalism from Indonesia to Morocco and from Turkey to Central Africa."

Dr. Algar, professor of Persian and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, observes:

"The subject of the Islamic Revolution in Iran is one whose importance hardly needs underlining. With the passage of time, its importance will become even clearer, as being the most significant and profound event in the entirety of contemporary Islamic history. Already we see the impact of the Islamic Revolution manifested in different ways across the length and breadth of the Islamic world from Morocco to Indonesia, from Bosnia to the heart of Europe down to Africa."

Dr. Kalim Siddiqui, director of the Muslim Institute, London, offers this assessment:

"Since the revolution in Iran I have been moving around some of the Sunni countries, some of the most reactionary if I might put it that way; I can assure you that the people in those countries have been absolutely galvanized and their imaginations have been captured ... Some of them take the precaution of locking their doors before they talk about it. If national boundaries were taken away, probably Ayatollah Khomeini would be elected by acclamation by the Ummah as a whole as the leader of the Muslim world today."


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[elite1980s]

I like this video and in particular when Dr. Ahmadinejad states that both America & England are trying to run the world. This form of global control specially with the UK has been practised over 500 years. Colonising foreign lands to achieve its own aims & greed. I put it down to the Anglo Saxon history of England and how that German mentality still present now days in this country. Hence why we have wars and chaos around the world and specially the wars raging in the middle east caused by both.

[germanicus24]

Thank you for your very valuable comment.

[deewana16]

brother your video is simply impressive, thank you so much for sharing and your dedication

[germanicus24]

Thank you for your kind comment. As Deedat wisely says, it is Islam that the tyrants have a problem with. Whether they disguise their hatred in tyrants such as the Arab monarchies, which claim to be "moderates" and who say "moderate Islam is good" while "fundamentalist Islam is evil", by Israeli orders, a more sophisticated way of saying that true Islam is evil.

[plostylzz]

germanicus24 does it again! i honestly believe that if it wasn't for people like you we would never see these types of pictures and images. thank you brother!

[germanicus24]

Many thanks for such a kind comment, and I am profoundly pleased to hear your words, as that is precisely what I try to do here: Shed some light on what Western media and its internet proxies (YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Wikipedia) systematically censor down.

[IRANMUSICC]

i LOVE and RESPECT each of your video's DAMN :D ! you always let our voices be heard thank you!!

[iranpiruz]

compliments, always your video very interesting. 5 *****

[floatingcompassmedia]

Why do people need to believe in mythology...to have peace? I ask all religious groups this question.

[GoingGoingGalt]

What we all need now is not to return to morality, but to discover it

[SpeedOverStrength]

Im really happy that people like still exist in the world.

[germanicus24]

Indeed, it is the Khomeinist imprint on it. Unfortunately, when given little maintenance, powerful mafias arise, such as the Iranian mafia of mullahs behind the green protests and attempt of coup.