Someone with a diverse background and knowledge who argued against Khomeini's own speeches and writings while claiming to speak for him. Sounds legit. No room for improvement there!
Ha ha ha. Argued against Khomenis speeches? You're making shit up now. You're the ignorant one who didn't even know they call Khomeini an Imam in Iran. Stick to the private room lap dancing.
I'd be happy to quote his speeches where he extolls his followers to assault and tear off the turbans of the classical Shia ulama for you if you'd like (showcasing classical shiism's opposition to his ideological structures) which you denied existed when you painted him as a shia pope who represented "traditional and pure Shiism".
He gave speeches like that when he came to power?
Yes. Though in fairness he did tone it down a bit when he entered office, but not enough to prevent exactly that from happening to a renown Shia scholar in Qom: Ayatollah Kazem Shari'atmadari from having exactly that happen to him in 1982.
Yes he was like a pope, his picture was in every household and business. Although most did it out of fear. I don't think you've ever talked to an Iranian, you are completely delusional and clueless.
I have studied directly under Iranians, among others.
See, this is where your knowledge is crap and garbage and having absolutely nothing to do with reality.
Algar, Hamid 1981.
Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini page 141. Feel free to look it up.
Also concerning my "crap knowledge" regarding the novelty of Khomeini's approach:
"...it was practically unheard of in the context of Shi'i Islam, whose scholars had long maintained a resolutely quietest political stance toward the government."
Euben, Roxanne and Muhammad Qasim Zaman 2009
Princeton Readings on Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden page 155.
In all fairness, you're insane and truly ignorant. May I suggest a book?
"The Little Green Book" - Ayatollah Khomeiniβs Book: Sex with Children and Animals
The leader of the Iranian Revolution in 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, wrote extensively on Islamic Jurisprudence. A two-volume book, which was published originally in Arabic, was called βTahrir al Wasilahβ. Translated into Farsi, the book is called βTahrirolvasyleh.β (read entire text here.) Khomeini also had another treatise on Islamic rules for living, called in English, βThe Little Green Book.β (see entire text here.)
It is useful to understand what an esteemed Islamic leader such as the Ayatollah teaches his followers.
Here are some excerpts from βTahrirolvasylehβ which Muslims probably donβt want you to know about Islam:
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate vaginally, but sodomising the child is acceptable. If a man does penetrate and damage the child then, he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl will not count as one of his four permanent wives and the man will not be eligible to marry the girlβs sisterβ¦ It is better for a girl to marry at such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husbandβs house, rather than her fatherβs home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven. ["Tahrirolvasyleh", fourth edition, Qom, Iran, 1990]
A man can have sex with animals such as sheep, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village, but selling the meat to a neighbouring village is reasonable.
If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, a ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrement become impure and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed as quickly as possible and burned.
Wine and all intoxicating beverages are impure, but opium and hashish are not.
If a man sodomises the son, brother, or father of his wife after their marriage, the marriage remains valid.
During sexual intercourse, if the penis enters a womanβs vagina or a manβs anus, fully or only as far as the circumcision ring, both partners become impure, even if they have not reached puberty; they must consequently perform ablutions.
A woman who has contracted a continuing marriage does not have the right to go out of the house without her husbandβs permission; she must remain at his disposal for the fulfilment of any one of his desires, and may not refuse herself to him except for a religiously valid reason. If she is totally submissive to him, the husband must provide her with her food, clothing, and lodging, whether or not he has the means to do so. A woman who refuses herself to her husband is guilty, and may not demand from him food, clothing, lodging, or any later sexual relations; however, she retains the right to be paid damages if she is repudiated.
If a father (or paternal grandfather) marries off his daughter (or granddaughter) in her absence without knowing for a certainty that she is alive, the marriage becomes null and void as soon as it is established that she was dead at the time of the marriage.
It is not illegal for an adult male to βthighβ or enjoy a young girl who is still in the age of weaning; meaning to place his penis between her thighs, and to kiss her. ["The Little Green Book"]
If a man commits adultery with an unmarried woman, and subsequently marries her, the child born of that marriage will be a bastard unless the parents can be sure it was conceived after they were married. A child born of an adulterous father is legitimate.Ali [son in law of Mohammed], having cut off the hands of two thieves, treated their wounds and offered them his hospitality, and this affected them so much that they became utterly devoted to him; or again when he heard that the marauding army of Muawiyah had abused a woman of one of the tribes, he was so upset and moved to pity he declared: βIf a man died after such an occurrence, no one could blame him.β And yet, despite a nature as sensitive as that, Ali bared his sword and hacked the perpetrators to pieces. This is the meaning of justice.- βThe Sayings of Ayatollah Khomeini, Political, Philosophical, Social and Religiousβ (The Little Green Book), ISBN number
0-553-14032-9.
Paedophilia legal in Iran
In June, 2002 Iranian authorities approved a law raising the age at which girls can marry without parental consent from 9 to 13. The elected legislature actually passed the bill in 2000, but the βGuardian Councilβ, a 12-man body of conservative clerics, vetoed it as contradicting Islamic Sharia law. Iranβs clerical establishment insists that the marriage of young girls is a means to combat immorality. The Expediency Council, which arbitrates between the elected parliament and the theocratic Guardian Council, timidly passed the measure. The law however does not change the age at which children can get married (nine for girls and 14 for boys), but says that girls below the age of 13 and boys younger than 15 need their parentsβ permission and the approval of a βRighteous Court.β Reformists state that the new law does not protect children, since most of those who marry at such a young age do so by force.
A religious decree by Khomeini ordered that girl prisoners who are virgins must be raped before execution, to prevent them from entering heaven. A Guard conducts the rape the night before execution. The next day, a marriage certificate is issued by a mullah, who sends it to the girlβs family, along with a box of chocolates as a wedding gift.
It is quite common in Iran for older men to marry children, as long as they pay the appropriate bride-price to the girlβs family. This basically means that a father can sell his daughter to whomever he wants, whilst the mad mullahs see this as a means of maintaining purity. We prefer to call this child prostitution and rape, especially given that Iranβs clerics approve of the βtraditionβ of βtemporary marriageβ (Mutβa), which can last less than 24 hours and may be repeated as many times as desired. This form of exploitation is widespread and legitimises sex with young children. The man may even visit his temporary wife every weekend at her fatherβs house, for about $10 per visit.
Khomeini on prostitution and Mutβa (temporary marriage)
βIt is permissible to do Mutβa with an adulteress, but with aversion, particularly if she is a well-known prostitute. If Mutβa is done with her, she should be told to give-up her profession.β
March 15, 2010: Gulf News reports that a guard has been arrested for having sex with the animals he was guarding on a farm. Muslim readers writing in to comment in the newspaper want to to know if the animals are still fit for eating.