- Thread starter
- #41
The Shah was installed by both US and English agents. After that, the Shah put together a secret police known as the "SAVAK".
SAVAK - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These guys were charged with eliminating and liquidating all opposition to the Shah..and they were very efficient. The one place they didn't go into..were mosques. So, more radical leaders seeking to overthrow the shah..started meeting there. In turn...it inspired a nationalism in religious leaders. Which is why you have this marriage of Religion and Government in the region.
Marriage of religion and government; the blending of the two, is not unique to Iran but is consistent with islamist theology. That theology, such as it is, is inseparable from its political program: suppression / oppression of all competing faiths and to make islam supreme over all people.
It's not unique with Muslim theology.
You forget about the Dark Ages..and Kings like Charlemange? Or the 1930s and the Nazi Movement? Or the Christian Coalition?
Israel is a Jewish state..it's not secular.
Almost all religions seek some hand in governance.
In fact Europe's Christians (with her Jews in tow) accepted the findings of Luther and Calvin which established biblical justification for separating the laws between God and man from those between man and man. The advent of liberal democracy over 5 centuries ago marked the moment when the West really began it's ascension while the Muslim World jogged in place.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...s9jMBg&usg=AFQjCNEhOoWmUjlMSSXoa_zpVGGHSurbdg