Khomeini: "Islam is in Danger"

I woke up this morning to the awful news of 14 Iranian Christian converts having been arrested in three different cities in Iran on Sunday right before Christmas. I can't imagine how they must be feeling and how they are going to spend their Christmas in jail. The reason for their arrest is stated as "to prevent their planned religious and prayers ceremonies for Christmas". The Islamic authorities also confiscated their bibles, religious books and materials, and their prayer's CDs.

Their names are as follows:

Shaheen Taghizadeh, Yousef Nour-Khani,

Mattias Hagh-Nezhad, Parveez Khalaj-Zamai,

Mohammad Baliad, Peymon SaAlarvand, Sohrab SaYadi

David and Amin, Shireen Sadegh-KhanjaAni, Behrooz

Sadegh-KhanjaAni, Hamid-Reza Tolou-i-Nia,

Behnam Irani, Bahman Irani

Why does Islam feel so threatned and vulnerble that it has to resort to such extreme measures of aggression and brutality to protect itself? What is the goal of such Islamic fury? From the cartoons of the Danish publication to hostage-taking at the U.S. embassy in Tehran to the episode of Salman Rushdie death fatwa and from the assassination of the opponents of Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) in Europe to Sept 11th WTC atrocity and the hostage-takings and beheadings of innocent people in Iraq, the world has witnessed these disproportionately violent acts from the religion of peace.

We hear all the time from variety of sources that all these are reactions to the injustice towards Islam or in simpler terms are the resistance to the discriminations and torments that Muslims have suffered and still suffer. What discrimination? The muslims are allowed to have their mosques and practice their religion in the West while Christians are persecuted in muslim countries and are not allowed to practice their religion or build any churches in any muslim country. We haven't had any relationship with the Islamic Republic for over 27 years now. So why the rage and the relentless hate toward the US, religious minorities, modernity, prosperty, and the West in general?

In my opinion the reason for all these brutal actions and hatemongering in the name of Islam was repeatedly pronounced by none other than Ayatollah Khomeini himself, "Islam is in danger" and they are fearful of this situation and see it necessary to repeatedly prove the power of Islam through acts of violence as did holy men of Aztec toward the end of their civilization. The human sacrifices of the innocent people by the holy men of Aztec at the end of that civilization in the American continent was to show the longevity of the *power* of their faith and to create fear and horror among those who might have allowed themselves the thought of the end of that civilization.

Their brand of power (and the Islamists) can only manifest in sheer brutality for it to cultivate the seed of revenge and violence in perpetuity. In other words Islamists fear danger from the intellectuals (Khomeini issued the death fatwa of over 30,000 of them in jails in 1986-87?), from ordinary people leaving one religion and accepting another spiritual direction and not necessarily abandoning religion.

Incidentally in the Islamist Iran (the heart of Islam) of the last two decades more people have left Islam than in the secular Turkey. Why would they risk their very lives to convert knowing the apostasy laws of the Islamists murderes? Why does Islam feel so insecure and vulnerable?

Yes, Islam is in danger of becoming irrelevant (Islam and globalization) by its own self-defeating behavior or at the hands of other religious extremists of Christian persuasion. It's only a matter of time when a counterbalance force emerges (think of the return of Christians Crusaders Wars) to get rid of the establishment of Islamic ummah:

It is clear that, one way or another; the demonic Islamic revolutionary terrorism will be driven from the face of earth, just as it was done in the days of Pope Urban II.

Islamic Imperialism of Iran (see Ahmadinejad call for revival of Islamic civilization and the return of Islamic ummah yesterday in Malaysia) has nothing to do with the US policies in the Middle East or the continuation of chaos and carnage in Iraq which the mullahs benefit from the most.

The Islamic Republic's hegemonic program started 28 years ago. As I mentioned before, the violence and terrorism exported by the IR has to do with the fact that Khomeini and perhaps many Islamic leaders saw that Islam was doomed and was bound to become irrelevant in an increasingly modern and global world. So, like a good CEO in charge of a transnational Islamic Corporation, he decided to reduce the competitive advantages of the modern and secular society by brainwashing and demonizing everything Western and to promote martyrdom, terrorim, and dying for allah to rescue this religion from becoming immaterial to the lives of their constituents.

In essence, this religion is fighting for its very survival because they know they have nothing to offer to the post-modern man. I end this rant with a quote from Robert M. Pirsig:

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."