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According to my aunt, this particular palace had become a museum. The leaders of the 1979 Islamic revolution had never lived there. Imam Khomeini, who led the revolution, had lived in a small, mud-brick house after 1979.
But the average American has a dramatically different image of Imam Khomeini and the ideologues of the Islamic revolution. The revolution is perceived as a victory of religious extremists over Western ideas, embodied by the very Western shah. Their values are considered dramatically different from American values; their revolution the...
When the Iranian government prohibited dressing in an un-Islamic way—requiring men and women to dress modestly, which, for women, includes wearing a headscarf—it was acting out of a concern for the common good. It believes that immodest dress in human society results in...
And even while the Iranian government compels women to wear scarves over their hair, a shirt extending to at least mid-thigh and an article of clothing over the legs, women are allowed to choose exactly how strictly they want to observe the Islamic dress. Many young women, mainly in...
The Struggle Within Islam Your story described a battle for the soul of Islam between tolerant moderates and hateful extremists who are a threat to all [Sept. 20]. You seemed to link religious piety with violence and terrorism. That is a simplification and misses the point that faith and consciousness...