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n onreligious [i.e. non-Islamic] power, whatever form or shape, is
necessarily an atheistic power, the tool of Satan; it is part of our duty to
stand in its path and to struggle against its effects.  Such Satanic power
can engender nothing but corruption on earth, the supreme evil which
must be pitilessly fought and rooted out.  To achieve that end, we have
no recourse other than to overthrow all governments that do not rest
on pure Islamic principles, and are thus corrupt and corrupting, and to
tear down the traitorous, rotten, unjust, and tyrannical administrative
systems that serve them.... If Islamic civilization had governed the
West, we would no longer have to put up with these barbaric
goings-on unworthy even of wild animals....[Western governments
are] using inhuman laws and inhuman political methods... Misdeeds
must be punished by the law of retaliation: cut off the hands of the
thief; kill the murderer instead of putting him in prison; flog the
adulterous woman or man.  Your concerns, your 'humanitarian'
scruples, are more childish than reasonable."  Khomeini had a
prescription for such problems: "All of humanity must strike these
troublemakers [the governments of the West] with an iron hand....
Islam has obliterated many tribes because they were sources of
corruption [i.e. sources of non-Islamic influence]...."  Judging from the
Ayatollah's rhetoric, the next tribes he would have liked to see
obliterated were those in Europe and America.87
Allah is rapidly providing Khomeini's followers with a sword to
carry out their master's wishes.  He has offered Islam the fire in which
the Koran says those who follow false faiths are destined to burn:
nuclear weaponry.  He has also provided the long range missiles
needed to use it.88  According to the late imam's logic, there may be
only one just and righteous thing to do: employ this technology to
wipe out recalcitrant heathens like you and me.
The modern growth of Islam is the coalescence of a
superorganism drawn together by the magnetic attraction of a meme.
But this meme has an advantage: The social body it is trying to pull
together has existed as a unified social beast in the past.  The old
reflexes of solidarity are still there, waiting to be aroused.  The meme of
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