Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The beauty of an Islamic nation

Want to get a tiny flavor of the freedom and temperance flowing within Iran?

"Every aspect of a non-Muslim is unclean," proclaimed Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. He explained that non-Muslims rank between "feces" and "the sweat of a camel that has consumed impure food.""

Personally I'm hoping I run a little closer to camel sweat. In any case, such statements from the head of Islam in Iran help those of us who've not had the pleasure of touring their lovely country understand the broad tolerance they have for those outside the boundaries of Islam.

For these folks, they believe two worlds exist. They believe that those who have embraced Islam are part of Dar al Salaam, "The world of peace." The rest of us between dung and camel sweat reside in Dar al Harb, "The world of war."

Read what what a couple brainiacs are saying about life inside Ahmadinejahd's Iran here.

Maybe I'm just getting uppity, but I'm still waiting for the Islamic moderates and liberals of the world to rise up to shut up their virulent cousins.

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