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Below is the article I recently submitted, upon request, to Press TV on the anniversary of the death of Imam Khomeini. Above is my latest Friday khutbah. I realize that this stuff is controversial—for example, people on both sides of the divide may bristle at my speaking the names “Khomeini” and “Trump” in the same breath—but if you can handle it, you’ll earn bragging rights and be able to say that you have been exposed to an interesting and perhaps somewhat unusual Muslim viewpoint. -KB
“Allahu akbar.” That phrase, “God is greatest,” is repeated no less than thirty times each day in the calls to prayer that ring out above the rooftops of the Muslim world.
In 1978, Iran was ruled by a Shah who, like Donald Trump, had an inordinately high opinion of himself. Like Trump, and like Pharaoh in the Qur’an, the Shah thought he was the greatest. And like Trump, the Shah wanted some of his own self-styled greatness to rub off on his country.
Trump and the Shah both wanted to return their countries to a mythical era of ancient glory. Trump conjured up a grandiose vision of the American past, almost as grandiose as his image of himself. The Shah had a similar vision. He wanted to return Iran to its pre-Islamic era of imperial grandeur, so that he could strut around in the robes of an ancient emperor.
Neither egomaniac succeeded in remaking his country into a replica of the bygone mythical days of yore. And neither succeeded in becoming Emperor-for-Life. Both ended their rule ignominiously—the Shah when he fled Iran on January 16 1979, and Trump when he was practically dragged out of the White House kicking and screaming in the wake of the January 6, 2021 debacle.
Since Trump was unceremoniously ejected from office, the US has continued on its path of moral, spiritual, cultural, and economic decline. Joe Biden is now even more unpopular than Trump ever was. Neither Trump’s MAGA movement, nor its Democratic opposition, has a clear idea how to set things right.
Iran filled the void left by the departure of its Shah with considerably more success, thanks to the genius of Imam Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic. Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini (b. 17 May 1900, d. 3 June 1989) was a brilliant and highly accomplished religious scholar whose insistence on speaking truth to power gave him the moral authority to lead the uprising against the Shah that ushered in the world’s first Islamic Republic.
Like Trump, Iman Khomeini was at first not taken seriously by the Western establishment. Both expressed views far outside the Western mainstream. Both sounded, to the ears of political experts, naive about the realities of power. Both said things that sounded “crazy” to the experts—often because they expressed or alluded to taboo or unspeakable truths.
But Trump, like Imam Khomeini before him, rapidly accumulated millions of followers thanks to a new communications technology. For Trump, it was Twitter and other social media that allowed him to bypass the gatekeepers of traditional media and broadcast his message directly to the people. In like fashion, Imam Khomeini had bypassed the media gatekeepers by recording messages on cassette tapes, which were copied and recopied as they were smuggled into Iran and passed from hand to hand—an Iranian parallel to the samizdat literature of the former Soviet Union.
Just as almost nobody believed Trump could actually win the 2016 election, likewise almost no-one thought Imam Khomeini could overthrow the Shah and take the reins in Tehran. In both cases, the percolating people-power of peer-to-peer media was invisible to the experts. By the time a slight plurality of American voters in key swing states anointed Trump, it was too late. And by the time an overwhelming majority of Iranians celebrated the return of Imam Khomeini to Tehran on February 1, 1979, it was likewise too late for the CIA to do anything about it.
Both Imam Khomeini and Donald Trump wanted to radically remake their countries. Only Khomeini succeeded. Why? The short answer: Because Trump is a phony, while Khomeini was “the real deal.”
Trump, a narcissist and egomaniac, is in essence an actor permanently stuck in the role of his own inflated self-image. All of his decisions and actions are taken on the basis of their ability to make himself look good in his own eyes and in what he imagines to be the eyes of others. Since a man so wrapped up in himself cannot see much outside of his own puffed-up head, he is likely to act with marked incompetence, because he doesn’t know much about the real world.
Imam Khomeini, in sharp contrast, acted according to the Islamic injunction that one should surrender the self and always do what is right in the eyes of God. An advanced student of Islamic mysticism, Khomeini knew that al-fana’, sometimes translated as “the annihilation of the ego,” is a requisite step before one can experience al-baqa’, subsistence or permanence in an exalted state close to God. With the lower self out of the way, he could look at earthly as well as scriptural and divine realities and see them for what they were.
Imam Khomeini’s decisions, like Trump’s, often contravened the conventional wisdom of worldly experts and powerbrokers. The difference is that Khomeini acted under the dictum “God is greatest,” while Trump’s motto was “Trump is greatest.” So Khomeini’s decisions, as counterintuitive as they sometimes seemed, were based on worldly and Divine realities and wound up bearing fruit, while Trump’s were usually just plain stupid.
Western experts were shocked and discomfited by Imam Khomeini’s string of successes as he transformed the US-occupied kingdom of Iran into an independent Islamic Republic. They had doubted that Khomeini could ever achieve power, then doubted whether he would last more than a few days. The idea that such a man, with a formation so far outside that of the dominant political class in the West and in Western-colonized lands, could successfully wield the reins of power in a modern state, seemed to them unthinkable. And the idea that a coherent alternative to secular liberalism could not only be proposed and implemented, but might persist, seemed even more unthinkable. And yet today, the Islamic Republic of Iran, founded by Imam Khomeini, forges ahead, not merely enduring but generally moving from success to success, despite the rabid enmity of the most powerful worldly forces on the planet.
The US under Trump, of course, experienced no such success. No wall was built. No swamp was drained. Few manufacturing jobs returned. Cultural and financial corruption continued to fester. The liberal elite oligarchy kept its grip on power. The COVID-19 pandemic exploded and was badly mishandled. Ultimately, Steve Bannon’s dream of replacing secular liberalism with an amorphous traditionalist alternative, with Trump somehow being the catalyst, was stillborn.
The above comparison between two profoundly different leaders—and between two populist movements aiming to totally remake society by overthrowing secular liberalism—suggests that one succeeded while the other failed largely due to the genius, versus the marked lack of genius, of the respective leaders who embodied each movement. Additionally, the fact that the successful effort was rooted in a traditional faith and led by an extremely pious and erudite man of religion, while the unsuccessful effort was led by an ultra-worldly egomaniac obsessed with his own wealth, power, and self-image, indicates that secular liberalism is best overthrown by those who can offer a spiritually-energized and time-tested alternative.
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Khamenei represents “Peak Phony”.
He abrogated the original JCPOA deal while Obama was still in office. (1)
Khamenei violated his own Fatwah by actively pursuing nuclear weapons.
The ultra-phony regime that delivered Iran unto ruin lies exposed. The Iranian people realize that theocracy has betrayed them with an aggressive, expensive, and failed foreign policy agenda: (2)
The people of Iran grasp that sociopath Khamenei’s misdeeds have brought sanctions upon his regime. And, that the answer to getting rid of those sanctions is getting rid of the abusive theocracy.
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MAGA remains untested. Trump’s 1st term required establishment GOP(e) Senators for appointments. Does anyone think that Trump wanted to nominate Elaine Chai (a.k.a. Mrs Mitch McConnell? This was further compounded by Jeff “Judas” Sessions shocking betrayal. He is now gone, enjoying his 30 pieces of silver in retirement.
The next MAGA President will have:
— MAGA House for appropriations
— Many more MAGA Senators for confirmations
This provides the opportunity to *begin* draining the Deep State swamp. It took decades for SJW Fascist Leftoids to dig the current hole. It will take multiple MAGA administrations to repair this damage.
PEACE 😇
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(1) https://thedispatch.com/p/dont-let-iran-humiliate-the-iaea?s=r
(2) https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-missing-iranians-protest-regime-declare-america-not-enemy
Get this: Israel was/is against the JCPOA.
Israel is against Iran when the deal is destroyed.
What’s gonna please the apartheid state?
BTW, I heard that there is another state in the Middle East which has had nuclear weapons for years. Wonder who that may be
A123, your comment apparently concerns neither
nor the author’s assertion that he
1) khomenei was a egomaniac ….he thought of himself as the plato’s philospher king
2) khomenei basically propelled himself to power and wanted power. lets say he led a movement that toppled the shah and instituted justice he would have relinquished power and or at least permitted the popular will to be implemented in the form of true democracy
3) even more scary people used to call khomenei the Imam Al mahdi literally the herald of the messiah as fast i know trump doesnt consider himself equal to Jesus
A123 is a zio
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I agree with your assessment of Donald Trump. I totally disagree with your hagiography about Khomeini. I had the opportunity to be very close to a number of Persians who had to flee his rule and I was informed about his capacity for cruelty. He had no tolerance for apostasy or sexual misconduct, and his willingness to kill people for crimes against HIS faith should alarm you.
While I agree that our secular soulless society in the West is not something to emulate, I do not think civilization is served at any level by a theocracy.
I know you are deeply religious KB and have strong beliefs, but most of us do not want our lives guided by religious dogma or clerics any more than we want our lives to be guided by Jewish supremacists always looking for a fight to advance their ambitions. Both end up being dogmatic, unreasonable, despotic, and ultimately very destructive. In fact in many ways we have a theocracy here in the United States guided by our clerics–supremacist Zionist Jews.
Neither option appears to me to be one that civilized societies should seek to emulate.
The only good thing about the theocracy in Iran is that they have refused to surrender their society to the Zionists–something that the West is doing faithfully.
Just like the Shah of Shahs, Komeini, was installed by western Imperialism to bring about chaos and destruction to the middle east. The benefactors of Mullacracy terror in the middle east are none but Israel and the west. The whole Mulla charade was about uprooting secular anti imperialist governments in the middle east and replace with reactionary medieval figures like Komini to serve Imperialism,
The Mullaas have achieved nothing and their dream of greater Iran using Shiism has failed miserably in the region. Iran is in deep economic recession and poverty and inequality due to graft and corruption that has put the country on the precipice of another uprising that this time may end up in total destruction of Mullas.
There is no difference between the so-called king of kings and the gran mulla, Kamenii.
One had a crown on his head and the new tyrant a turban.
There is no hope for a country that forces its women to cover up or be beaten on the streets and enacts racial, ethnic discriminatory policies against its non-Persian citizens and deliberately destroying the ecology of their regions.
The Persian regime is a reactionary cult, a failure and elevating it to so called regional power is a joke. It is nothing but a paper Tiger and both the west and east can erase it easily and install another dictator for that beleaguered country.
Funny how the first comment so often comes from Tel Aviv.
Thanks Priss. Excellent piece. My hook in this was my affiliation with NAVAIR circa 1976 through 1981. A6 squadron aboard Nimitz in the Med for a year (gunboat diplomacy between Israel and Egypt) and then sent to the Indian Ocean for another 6 or 7 months. You know, to rescue the hostages. It didn’t work if you look it up. Great little movie you posted.Sometimes you suck until you don’t. Hey, ya can’t make everone happy but you caught this one right. I was right on the Shah v. Khomeini. So was CIA, that’s why they sent us, to save the spies and diplomats. Kudos on this one. Faint praise from a dickhead, take it in the spirit intended, heh.
Why can’t Iran have nukes if the Israelites can have nukes?
In this case, the first comment came from the U.S….
As a Christian American, I am a MAGA supporter. Your fiction about Trump needed a rebuttal. If you had left Trump out of your headline, there would have been no need to respond.
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Khomeini’s legacy is his successor, The Phoniest of all Phonies, Ali Khamenei. The man who is so irreligious he violated his own “religious edict”. It is literally impossible to be more phony that Khamenei.
Iran is now primed for a counter revolution against the authoritarian theocracy.
PEACE 😇
The Military Industrial Complex [MIC] loves your idea: (1)
The world you want will evolve like this:
-1- The MIC makes money selling weapons technology to Iran
-2- Then, the MIC sells the same nuclear solution to the Saudis
-3- Erdogan will not tolerate being left out, so the MIC wins again
-4- Greece will need nukes to defend against Turkey, more profits for the MIC
Will your desired future stop at #4?
It could go easily further. Every country that obtains nukes substantially increases the chances of a catastrophe.
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Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nukes. Look at what is happening now.
Regardless of anyone’s position in regards to the current conflict in Ukraine, it has created one objectively true fact. There is a 0% chance of any currently armed nation giving up their nuclear defense. Anyone trying to suggest disarmament as a scenario will be guilty of strawmanning.
PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.foxnews.com/world/saudi-arabia-bomb-iran-deal-experts
Khomeini was phony too. He had deep links with the Carter administration and even took money from the Carter Administration. He might have backstabbed his Western backers after the revolution, but he had secret support of the West during the revolution, who decided to pull the rug under the Shah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini%27s_life_in_exile
In France, because of journalists and the press, and support and approval of the UK and the US foreign policies and their lack of trust in Shah to support their long-term interest, Khomeini’s speeches were published rapidly in global media.[28]
—Koya, Abdar Rahman (2009). Imam Khomeini: Life, Thought and Legacy. Islamic Book Trust
The UK, France and USA supported Khomeini.
The French-Algerian Captain who ushered Khomeini into Tehran’s Mehrabad airport. Khomeini probably did not want to be helped by any of the Iranians around him to avoid lending unnecessary prominence to anyone among his aides. It was later disclosed, but not verified, that the captain was married to an Iranian woman and the couple’s two children still frequently visit Iran. Rumor has it that he stayed in Tehran until 2015 when he died. Some reports have said that he was among the security agents the French government had assigned to protect Khomeini while he was in France.
Why was France so keen to give security to Khomeini?
Some of those who accompanied Khomeini in the flight back to Iran ended up being killed by Khomeini. Dariush Forouhar who was labor minister in the first revolutionary government was slain with his wife Parvaneh in 1998 by Iranian intelligence officers at their home for opposing the clerics.
Abolhassan Banidsadr, one of the ayatollah’s hosts in France, became Iran’s president but was ousted a year later and fled to France where he died in 2021. Ayatollah Hassan Lahouti whose sons were married to former President Akbar Rafsanjani’s daughter was reportedly killed in a prison in Tehran and his death was portrayed as suicide by prison wardens. Sadeq Qotbzadeh, the first head of Iran’s state TV in the Islamic Republic, was executed on charges of plotting to kill Khomeini and overthrow his regime only a few years later.
What about Israel?
Do you support a pre-emptive strike on Iran?
What about the Military Industrial Complex [MIC]?
Why do you support massive war profiteering by MegaCorporations?
PEACE 😇
Why, A123, did you slip in this pathetic dissembling
here, rather than in reply to #3, where your ignorant confusion was noted?
At the risk of pissing on your parade, I put it to you that there isn’t a politician on the face of the planet that isn’t phony, and yes, Khomeini, while a cleric, was no less a politician than Ian Paisley.
Your disingenuous accusation is counter factual:
— I was obviously talking about someone who is alive (Khamenei)
— Barrett’s eulogy was obviously about someone who is deceased (Khomeini)
Neither of us was ambiguous in any way. The only confusion is yours.
PEACE 😇
This message is intended for Dr. Kevin Barrett.
Every American politician, every American journalist, every American college professor, and every American f*cking idiot are telling us that, in Arabic language “Allahu Akbar” means “God is Greatest”.
In Arabic language, “Akbar” does NOT mean “Great” or “Greatest”.
In Arabic, “Akbar” means BIGGER or OLDER.
For example, “My house is bigger than your house!” in Arabic will be “Baiti AKBAR min Baitak”.
OR
If one has children and points to the eldest one as “Older than all my other children” in Arabic “Akbar min kul awladi”.
In Arabic language, “Greater” is AATHAM.
For example, “Great Britain” in Arabic is translated to “Britania al UTHMA”, but NEVER “Britania al Kubra”!
The reason why — centuries BEFORE Muhammad the Arabian Bastard METAMORPHOSED the supreme rock God of Pagan Arabia named “Allah” into “God the Father” or “Jehovah” of the Bible — the Pagan Arabs used to exalt their Pagan deity “Allah” with “Allahu Akbar”, because the Pagan Arabs literally meant that their supreme deity named “Allah” was literally BIGGER in size than any of all 360 deities in stone-sculptures inside the Ka’ba.
Muhammad the Arabian Bastard made “Allahu Akbar” the battle-cry of Islam whenever and wherever Muslims AGGRESS against anyone on the planet — be they Infidels or Kuffar or even Muslims of a different sect.
So, in my conclusion, now in North America and Europe, Christians and Jews apparently recognize that Islamic “Allah” is just another fictitious name of either fictitious Jewish “Jehovah” or fictitious Christian “God the Father” by broadcasting in the 24/7 mainstream media that “Allahu Akbar” means “God is Greatest”.
Allahu akbar is supposed to mean “God is greater” (than my earthly deeds) and not “the Greatest”.
Allahu Kabir – God is the Greatest. Allahu Kabir means God is the Great – the Creator!
An enlightened Islamist will publicly never say, call, cry, yell, shout and what not the beggar’s “Allahu akbar”. The humbleness of “God is greater” is a rather private admission instead of public display.
A courages or bright light can say “Allahu Kabir” – God is the Greatest.
I suspect, that most know neither “God” nor what and how his greatness is, say stick to the begging: you are greater – you must be greater (than me little of whatever and whatever deeds).
Allahu Kabir!
You post makes not much sense.
MAGA was and is a trick on retards, courtesy of your Chosen owners.
BBC Persia turned totally anti-Shah during the revolution. The West pulled the rug under the Shah because maybe he was becoming too independent and Iran was on its way to be as rich as South Korea. South Korea and Iran were neck and neck. The Shah and Park Chung Hee of South Korea were good friends. The Shah criticized Jews openly in the Western media and in some time we have a revolution!!!
My father served as a diplomat to Iran in the 1950’s, many Iranian friends.
None of them as I remember came close to smoking what you do. The tyranny of an Islamic theocracy was anathema to anyone Persian. My mother said, “Persians are passionate, whichever side they’re on, regardless of religion.”
All respected America and its land of opportunity, particularly after its sacrifice to rid the tyranny of Hitler, Japan and standing up to Stalin. They were ambivalent about American foreign policy, particularly after Mosadeck’s removal from power.
What that meant for Iran self rule and its third world economy was still in formation. Persia’s history of monarchs played into the Shah for the moment, the shock of economic development around the corner.
I feel badly President Carter misplayed his hand with Iran, and opened the door to the despot Khomeini, a tyrant on the magnitude of Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, Lenin. The genocide of political prisoners in 1988 falls perfectly in line with his autocratic inhumane rule, Imas protecting power above all. Imams ruling the country live in splendor, the people sell their organs to pay bills, the Quds terrorize any resistance.
Wonderful Persia deserves better, I look forward to the disintegration of the Imams’ tyranny.
Who me?
WAR IS A RACKET….GENERAL SMEDLEY BUTLER
I have a family member in the US Army front line troop stuff…I want him home-not over seas…I want him out of the US Military as soon as possible…
almost all and many are also functioning psychopaths too’
The reason they do such harmful acts that screw up (or end)the lives of millions is because they enjoy spreading misery, but, unlike many psychos, they are very good at concealing their evil.
Here in The OC I have close friends who are Persian-Americans. They are to me truly wonderful people, except in one respect, and I must get this off my chest. When they entertain – – massive backyard parties – – The timing is so late, that I have never made it past the delicious appetizers before reaching my senior-citizen bedtime and giving my apologies as I depart. When I had a medical appointment with a fantastic Persian-American doctor at a teaching hospital, I told him about this, and he kindly laughed and said, yes, in our family we do the same thing.
No, you weren’t a bit ambiguous.
Interesting and well said. Komeini was an agent of western Imperialism from the get-go and his regime offered support and assistance against Iraq and Afganistan and Pakistan on behalf of western imperialists.
One of the most egregious acts of the Mullas was the war against Iraq that weakened the anti-Zionist front significantly. During that war the Persian clerical regime was buying weapons from Israel.
Komeini wanted to liberate Palestine from the Zionists by buying guns from them. A true sad joke.
@ K Barret, who is “Allahu” ? as in Allahu Akbar means “God is great”? could be wrong, but I have always thought that to be three words, Allah hu Akbar, with “hu” being a word for God.
which then renders the expression to read, ” Allah God is great”.
IE, our God is bigger than your God! why in every other circumstance, and not least of all in the Koran, is Allah written as “Allah” and not Allahu?
Prof. Barratt’s point may have more to do with the secular EGI as opposed to the Supernatural.
By that I mean that , having rid Iran ( derived from the ancient “Aryan” , perhaps ) of the Cossack ,Peacock Throne, Shah placeman of the West , AK effected a similar sort of Revolution to that of the French in 1789 .
A certain aptness of analogy may obtain as the French “harboured” AK while he plotted a Revolution which expatriated much of the North Teheran business and professional class from society .
What saves modern Islam from inevitably fatal economic Socialism might well be the legend that the Prophet was employed by a ( female ) merchant.
Please accept my apologies for misspelling your name .
Mohammed – Muhammed.
The furore in India about a BJP spokeswoman’s comments re the Prophet is interesting , Prof. Barrett.
What did the moderately well educated Indian female actually accuse the Prophet of doing ?
“derived from the ancient “Aryan” , perhaps ”
Nothing “perhaps” about it, it is the shortened version of a longer designation which is literally “Land of the Aryans.”
I do like your comparison of the Iranian revolution to the French revolution. Very interesting.
The female you are referring to, I think, is Mohammed’s first wife Khadija. A daughter of a businessman who was a widow and became herself a businesswoman.
I am NOT a supporter of Isreal but can someone tell me, did They ever use or threaten anyone that they would use them? How many times has Iran threatened countries that oppose them? Does anyone really think if there was a real and fair election in Iran that the religious fanatics would win?
By the way, I think anyone who aspires to leadership of any kind has to be somewhat egomaniacal!
In fairness to President Trump, he relinquished his office on Jan 20th 2020, 12 noon without any need for coercion/force/ejection.
As to the voting, the validity of some of the mysterious ballots that appeared in favour of Biden at 3:00 am will always be questionable.
I also admit Trump’s departure was not the most graceful either. He could have been a better man and welcomed the Bidens into the White House.
Americans lost more under (((Trumpstein))) in 4 years than they had under the other cuckold Israel First Presidents of the last 75 years. Look up controlled opposition in a dictionary and you see a fat Orange Man. Trumpstein & Company set up his Trumptard magatards on Jan 6th. Judas goat leading the lambs to slaughter.
Trump accomplished zero. Just another boot licker to Jews. The doddering fool now, Biden is quite possibly the biggest traitor to his own people in history.
Which brings us to 6 am on the 6th day of the 6th month which was (((celebrated))) yesterday. Yes sir, in 2022, it is obvious to all but the dumbest of the dumb that America fought on the wrong side.
I didn’t know Kevin Barret was Shiite…. they’re akin to Christian Papists, worshiping their leaders on earth…
Trump, I firmly suspect– though I may be wrong– is merely a puppet of the Clintons. He ran against Hilary Clinton merely to make Hilary Clinton seem good in contrast. I think that is an interesting take on it.
Yeah Yeah. Trump and the Shaw are like two peas in a pod. What a crock of shit.
He had no tolerance for apostasy or sexual misconduct
which probably is why he molested a girl as young as 4 or 5 years, as told in Hal Ataaka Hadeeth ur-Raafidah by Sheikh Abu Mus’abaz-Zarqaawi (source: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/mufa-khathat-cleaning-mess-up.html, this has been eliminated from the web OF COURSE)
utter nonsense, I’m a “papist” and certainly do not worship that criminal idiot residing in the Vatican (besides I know he is not the first criminal idiot ever having resided there, but what does THAT matter?)
Mohammed’s first wife Khadija
could you please explain how someone who does not exist, can have a wife (or anything whatsoever, for that matter)??? I’ve already written about that, you can read https://www.unz.com/article/what-are-we-to-make-of-vladimir-putin/#comment-5322389 if you like
Hello, Schlomo.
You sound a tad hysterical, Schlomo, and you didn’t answer the question.
Trump does what his JEW masters tell him to do. Peri0d. The End.
I will ignore the insane/ignorant comments on related subjects and answer this relatively sane one. The “hu” in “Allahu akbar” is NOT the same “hu” as the masculine pronoun. Arabic is a highly inflected language, and the vowel sound “u” on the last consonant of a word, in this case the “h” at the end of “Allah,” tells you that the word is in the nominative case, i.e. it is the subject (rather than object) in a sentence.
By the way, if I’d kept my mouth shut about 9/11, I would be getting paid to teach this stuff ; – )
As we all should know , Arabic is a highly civilised language whose creators are , unsurprisingly , the ancestors of the ( still relatively ) ethnically unmixed Bedouins.
Not only are the Saudis the “Guardians of the Holy Places ” , they are the originators of the language .
This accord is superior to that of Europe’s in which Christianity was imported by racially alien , Jewish subjects of the Roman Empire and whose Hebrew OT biblical language was so undeveloped as to lack vowels.
European Colonialism’s worst mistake ?
If CIA hadn’t removed Time Magazine’s 1950 (or ’51?) Man of the Year cover man, Dr. Mossadegh, in ’53 and installed the shah, Iran would have continued its then-current move toward modernity.
Iran has accelerated its progress toward educational/technological modernity thanks to the Islamic Revolution. Under the Shah mainly the wealthy benefited from such progress, while half the population remained illiterate. Today there is universal literacy and Iran leads the developing world in educational and technological achievements. https://crescent.icit-digital.org/articles/iran-s-achievements-since-the-1979-revolution-islam-as-a-source-and-stimulant-of-knowledge
Arabic is a highly civilised language whose creators are , unsurprisingly , the ancestors of the ( still relatively ) ethnically unmixed Bedouins. — Not only are the Saudis the “Guardians of the Holy Places ” , they are the originators of the language .
Totally wrong, vide Die Entstehung einer Weltreligion I, Hans Schiler Verlag, Berlin 2010, pp. 363-4. This book being part of a series “Inârah” initiated by the Universität des Saarlandes and whose aims and purposes can be seen under http://inarah.net/
A non – sequitur.
The Arabic language predates Islam . In fact , the Koran ( The Statements ) was received by an illiterate whose now holy name was bestowed during the pagan age.