Islamic democracy?

The following is from Professor Bahram Moshiri, translated from Persian by Darwin Kurdistani

  A friend of mine from Europe called me and told me that one of the Islamist opposition group to the clerical Regime in Iran  have said that Islamic democracy is the only way to free Iran. Islamic democracy? Sir, if you are invited to someone’s home and want to smell good, go ahead and put on some sweet smelling cow dung. You want to smell good? Like I said put on sweet smelling cow dung.
   How can cow dung be sweet smelling? Foul and disgusting odor is the essence of the cow dung, if it was not the case, than it would not be called dung. Where in Islam do you see democracy? When has it ever been visible?  Other Friends of  mine have given me a manifesto called Islamic democracy. I told them that this is the same sweet smelling cow dung, does not exist, never has and never will.
    Islam has nothing to do with democracy. From the beginning it has used force and intimidation. From the beginning it has been said “ Grab the infidel and chop of it’s head. The Jew is unclean, when it is raining do not come out, you will become impure.” Do you see democracy here? I plead with you, let go of such ideas. Such Ideas are no longer valid, let alone the fact that they never have been.
   Islam is a religion, if people want to follow it let them hold in their hearts, let it be a private issue and quit wanting to mix it with politics. This is poison. Islam clearly says that a men are superior to women. Because the men provide for the women and the house hold, if the women disobeys, shun them, separate your beds and if she continues in her defiance, hit her with a stick. This is and Islamic democracy
   It seems that you do not know the meaning of democracy. It is a humanist principle, a universal principal. It has nothing to do with religion and when at the saying “Islamic democracy” you show your fascists tendencies. In Iran, we have Christians, Zoroastrians as well as Atheists and people that oppose Islam. What will happen to them in your Islamic democracy? Whenever we see the pictures of Rajavi, the leader of the MEK, he is at the grave of some Arab praying. You can no longer deceive the people with such actions. Our people have changed and they are not going to fall for such talk anymore.
 Anybody that starts using Islam for politics, their politics is worthless and will never get us anywhere. People are turning away from people that mix religion and politics. They wielded the sword and forced Islam down the throat of poor Arabs. Whoever that rose up to speak, his books were burned, called impure and his wife and kids were taken away. People were muzzled. Islamic democracy says that four women equals to two men. Is this not Islam? Is this not what Islam teaches? Islamic democracy teaches that an eye for and eye a tooth for a tooth and so forth.

    During the Iranian constitutional revolution of the early 20th century, the clerics were right when the opposed reform and progress. They openly said that there is an equality problem between male and female. Between  a Muslim and a non-Muslim. Please tell me what democracy? I’m pleading. This is worthless, let it go. Drop it. How many young Iranians have you sent to their death by your fairytale of Islamic democracy?
    Come, let us gather around each other and speak of freedom and freethinking. Our nation has been turned upside down, let us talk about what is in the interest of the nation and our people. Islam is anti-mankind. It is anti-human.
The world is looking for ways to fight off Islam because it has put human civilization under threat. Wherever you look you see someone with a bomb strapped to themselves and wanting to blow themselves up and take others down them. Doctors are doing this, educated people. Doctors whose profession is to save lives and prolong the lives of others.
    Pack this crap and throw it away. It is the 21st century and people are planning ways to land on Mars and you fools are investing your lives into this old stories. Democratic? We know of the slaves the Muslims made of innocent Iranians. Whatever that Islam might have had in the past it was given to it by us Iranians. It did not have anything. All it had was a sword and a dry book. Nothing else, barren as the desert it came out of. If the clerics in Iran were to rule they way Mohammed ruled, people of the world would have abandoned earth in search of another planet just to get away from it. Our people are doomed. Our people are depressed, people do not have anymore hope in their lives. Their joy has been taken away from them.
    With Islam, our nation was looted, our wealth snatched from us. Our people gone hungry our children have become beggars. Nowadays people  only see meat to make Kebabs in their dream. Only in their dream do they see an orange. Talk of rights for our people, independence of our nation, the rights for our broken hearted mothers, sisters and wives. Let go of this sickness, if you  think that you are in a competition for piety with the clerics you are loosing, you already have lost. Drop it, Please drop it and let us move on and make meaningful progress.  
 
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