Who said muslims lack a sense of humour?

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Taken from an islamist blog called the angry iranian

http://angryiranian.blogspot.com/

Islamic Republic Day

Tehran, April 1 - The Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini, was a God-sent man. He changed the destiny of Iran by giving Iranian real representative rule and throwing into the dustbin of history monarchial tyranny. The late Imam attached importance to people's aspirations and demands within the brilliant framework of the time-honoured and time-tested laws of Islam. He used to say: People are the real for me.

Imam Khomeini (may his soul rest in peace), did in fact set in motion the Islamic revolution and without him it was impossible for Iran or the Iranians to throw off the yoke of the American supported Pahlavi regime. In other words, his immense popularity, both as revolutionary leader for whom millions used to turn out in Tehran and other cities and as the supreme mujtahed whose words were binding for his followers, he did not require any referendum to determine the system of government for Iran. Yet, he decided to hold a free and fair referendum by inviting all sections of the Iranian society to make their views on the type of rule they favoured.

Such a great confidence the late Imam had in the nation that less than two months after the victory of the Islamic revolution he called for a referendum to determine a new system of government in Iran. On April 1, 1979, millions of Iranian voters took to the booths and 98.2 percent of the participants voted yes for setting up the dynamic Islamic Republic system in Iran. This was something unprecedented in history and none of the great revolutions of the past centuries ever ventured to carry out such a bold measure, as did the Great Islamic Revolution of Iran.

It is this unique characteristic that sets the Islamic revolution apart and at the pinnacle of the pyramid of all contemporary revolutions. The Islamic Revolution burst on the world scene like an explosion of light. It was moulded by the pristine ideology of Islam and the rich cultural background of the religion, that God chose for all humanity. Here, under the auspices of the Islamic Revolution, it was the will of the Muslims that mattered, unlike the deceptive slogans of the West's liberal democracy. In fact, a study of revolutions of the recent past, including the French and Russian revolutions shows that the leadership paid only lip service to the people.
For the French and the Bolshevik revolutionaries the masses were only means of overcoming the former dictatorial regimes and once the old system had been gotten rid of, both the French and the Russian revolutions suppressed the popular will of the people and imposed their absurd ideas upon them. This was not the case with the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which has never lost its popular appeal.

It continues to thrive on the will of the Muslim masses of Iran as the popular religious system. As a matter of fact, the April 1979 referendum that led to the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran actually heralded the start of other elections. Today, 25 years later, Islamic Iran is proud to say that it has held as many elections with the full participation of the Muslim people. Needless to say, nationwide elections have become a regular feature of the Islamic Republic for the past quarter century with the public exercising its right of vote to chose the country's parliament, the president, the Experts Council that determines the leadership and oversees its performance and various other bodies such as the rural and city councils.
Every time the Islamic Republic goes to the polls, the US and the Zionists cry hoarsely and leave no stone unturned to spew poisonous political propaganda in order to mislead people. But every time they are frustrated as Iranian Muslims consider it their religious duty to come out in large numbers to elect candidates of their choice and thereby defeat the plots of the enemies of Islamic Iran. The Islamic Republic system enjoys popular grassroots support, a factor that has kept Iran steady on its feet and made the country the cynosure of all eyes on the international arena.

The Iranian people through their wide scale support for the system they helped established have withstood against the military, political, economic and cultural plots of the West, and shown to world bodies how a popular religious system can counter the might of super bullies by relying firmly on God and the Islamic and humanitarian values. Could there be a greater proof of the popular base of the Islamic Republic system? No certainly not, thanks to the farsightedness of the Father of the Islamic Revolution who had the clarity of vision to determine the best possible system for Iran and the Iranian Muslims.