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Lord; on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve." (Al-Baqara--62) The
apologists then ignore literally dozens of passages like the following: "The Jews call
Uzair a son of Allah and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying
from their mouths; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say.
Allah's curse be on them...." (At-Tauba--30); "O ye who believe! take not the Jews
and the Christians for your friends and protectors...Verily Allah guideth not a people
unjust." (Al-Maida--51). Most important, the Koran is explicit in its pronouncement
that Christians are, indeed, "those who believe in God's partners":
They do blaspheme who say: "Allah is Christ the son of Mary." But said Christ: "O children
of Israel! worship Allah my Lord and your Lord." Whoever joins other gods with
Allah Allah will forbid him the garden and the Fire will be his abode. There will for
the wrong-doers be no one to help. (Al-Maida--72)
They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except
One Allah. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy) verily a grievous
penalty will befall the blasphemers among them. (Al-Maida--73)
44. Shaul Bakash, The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution, p.
233. As R.K. Ramazani, the Harry Flood Byrd, Jr. professor of government and
foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, put it, "Khomeini believes that the export
of revolution is obligatory" in the interests of "an overarching concept of Islamic
world order." Ramazani pointed out that Khomeini "rejected...the very idea of the
[secular, non-Islamic] nation-state.... In other words, in Khomeini's ideal Islamic
world order there would be no room for the modern secular... international system."
Khomeini, in Ramazani's words, felt "it is Iran that is uniquely qualified as a nation
to pave the way for the ultimate founding of world government.... In Khomeini's
words, '...the Iranian nation must grow in power and resolution until it has
vouchsafed Islam to the entire world.'" (R.K. Ramazani, Revolutionary Iran:
Challenge and Respect in the Middle East, pp. 20-24.)
45. Ruhollah Khomeini, Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam
Khomeini, Hamid Algar trans., Mizan Press, Berkeley, California, 1981, pp. 35, 219.
Khomeini's view of Christ may become a little clearer if you realize that standard
Islamic doctrine asserts the Old and New Testament are insidious corruptions of
God's word, and that these perversions were later "corrected" by the Koran.
46. Mark Indyk, "Watershed in the Middle East," Foreign Affairs, America and the
World, Winter, 1991-1992, p. 70. For additional information on the progress of
Islamic Fundamentalism, see: "Islam Resumes Its March," by the editors of The
Economist, reprinted in The National Times, May 1992, p. 9.
47. John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: myth or reality, Oxford University Press,
New York, 1992, p. 8.
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