![]() Khomeini's picture of society was now one of "antagonistic dichotomy." Lower class respected private property, whereas the upper class had no regard for other people's belongings. Khomeini added that the clergy would lead the oppressed masses to their liberation. Run over the shah without having to worry about our laws.". "An AmericanĬook," he declared, "can now assassinate our religious leaders or Jews" and "capitulating" to the almighty dollar by exemptingĪmerican military personnel from Iranian laws. ![]() Thus causing "our Sunni brothers to think that we Shiis are really ![]() High offices to the Bahais siding with Israel against the Arabs, "black reactionaries" trampling over the constitutional laws giving Oaths on sacred books other than the Koran smearing clerics as Women to vote in local elections allowing citizens to take The shah for secular and antinational transgressions: becomingĪn unwitting tool of the "imperialist-Jewish conspiracy" permitting Revolution or for the overthrow of the monarchy. ![]() Even in 1963 when heĮmerged as the most vocal antiregime cleric, he did not call for a Khomeini retained traditional attitudes toward the state Excerpts from 1993 book Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic ![]()
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