Editor, International Affairs, Världen idag (THE WORLD TODAY)
2009-06-24
The Ayatollah Khomeini led the Islamic revolution in Iran. It was promised – and most people believed – that if the country was governed by the Koran and the Sharia law, a good and just society would emerge. In 1979 Iran started to be ruled by Islam through Islamic leaders.
1. Iran has become an active supporter of terrorism around the world, like Hezbollah and Hamas.
2. Iran has perhaps the highest proportion of drug users in the world.
3. Due to economic failures and Islamic laws of “temporary marriages” hundreds of thousands of women have been forced into prostitution.
4. Iran is one of the worst Human Trafficking countries in the world.
5. Iran is among the biggest threats to world peace: nuclear weapons and Shia beliefs in the 12th Imam is really a bad and dangerous synergy.
6. Mullahs are detested and people have turned against Islam.
7. Hundreds of thousands have left Islam and have become followers of Isa / Jesus.
8. Christians are being persecuted.
9. Women are being treated as 2nd class citizens.
10. Iran is a world leader when it comes violating human rights
The list can be made longer. The Islamic revolution has brought about rampant unemployment, world pariah status, lack of freedoms, persecution of dissidents and other miseries.
But it has also brought about one of the biggest Christian revivals in the world – in a Muslim country.
This is what the 1979 revolution has brought. What will come out of the 2009 uprising? It is too early to tell. But we do know that all dictatorships fall – it is just a matter of time. But we also know that some revolutions and changes of governments fail because they replace one oppressive system with another.
Poland, for example, went from Nazi oppression to a Communist oppression. But when and where there have been leaders with democratic ideals and personal integrity, changes of governments have been benefited the people, like South Africa & Nelson Mandela and Czechoslovakia & Vaclav Havel.
We need to pray for the people of Iran and that freedom may come, freedom which respects human dignity and human rights.
5 comments:
Thanks for that, Sven, although I must confess I am a bit mystified how this came onto the site. Is the writer a former SA officer?
I just think we need to be careful with such a political statement as this. Whilst we would no doubt rejoice in the growth of the church in Iran, some of the other points are somewhat unbalanced (imho).
For example, although Iran may well have attained "world pariah status", I think any survey would show that the USA has a similar standing in many countries around the world (unfairly perhaps, but it's a sad fact). And we really cannot point the finger of suspicion on human rights when we have supported the obscenity which is Guantanamo Bay.
I could say lots more about what constitutes "terror" and how this is perceived in the Arab world, especially those which have been bombed back to the stone age in the name of "freedom". I could also point out that, compared to other Islamic Middle East countries, Iran is very modern indeed. Their elections may be suspect, but at least they have elections, which cannot be said of many of the West's allies in the region.
Anyway, I'll leave it there, and put on my tin hat.
All the best.
Former UK
Thank you, Spartacus- I issued a plea for articles and within an hour a former from Sweden submitted the article; I don't know the author except to share that he is a respected Christian commentator in Sweden. Sweden is quick to open their doors to asylum seekers and do not hesitate to point out human rights' violation, no matter the country.
Articles needed...
Yeah...write an article Spartacus. We need you. We need articles. My fingers and brain are written out for a while.
'...In the pain, in the doubt, in the loneliness, in the struggle of of right against wrong. Somewhere amidst the confusion there will be God.'
Joy Webb
Thank you for posting this.By stating what I share here I am not defending any US position or rejecting but if the leadership in Iran continues to threaten and harm Israel, do not be surprised when you hear of unmarked aircraft destroying nuclear production sites
in Iran.
USA East
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