Submitted by Behrouz Azarnia(Sweden), Jul 29, 2004 at 13:53
Islam feeds on ignorance and it is in abundance in the Islamic countries. If the United States wants "Tolerance, the rule of law, political and economic openness, the extension of greater opportunities to women" in the Islamic countries she must be the moral leader of the world. I'm not sure if the USA has changed. Many of us in Iran believe that the CIA-MI6 led coup in 1953 was the begining of the rise of the Islamic fundamentalism. The Shah suffocated all democratic opinions by imprisonment, torture and killing of Iranians. People had no means to express their dissatisfaction. The only freedom was for mosques that led to the growth of fundamentalism in Iran. It is an open secret that the 1979 event that brought another disaster in the name of Khomeini to power was planned by the MI6 and CIA again and it is no secret that Taliban and bin Laden were products of USA and UK with the help of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia of course. The two coups in 1953 and 1979 have destroyed Iran and for the sake of honesty the USA and UK must accept their responsibility for fermenting Islamic terrorism. I'm sure you understand my point.
Islam has all evil characters of Nazism and Communism and it is very dangerous. It needs brain and muscle to remove this cancer.
Cordially
B. A.
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