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...Question: There have been some unpopular picks over the years - Adolf Hitler, Ayatollah Khomeini, to name just a couple. What has been the reaction from the public about these picks...
Foreign Cultures 17 is concerned with many other matters than the troubles around Israel. It describes the recent experiences of countries before and after the break up of the Ottoman Empire. The course goes on to include the Khomeini revolution in Iran, as well as the position of women in Islam. I have spent 10 minutes each lecture in open discussion on Afghanistan. Events in Central Asia have a bearing on the Middle East...
...Saudi Arabia-based Islamic World League declared that 'the communist aggression aims at eliminating the Muslim presence in Afghanistan'... Even Iran's fanatical leaders denounced the Soviet invasion. During an audience with Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Soviet Ambassador to Iran Vladimir Vinogradov tried to explain that his country had moved in Afghanistan against cia and Zionist agents, two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the convoy that 'Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes...
...exhibited by the kamikaze 19 and their abettors and apologists, another element is required. That element is the idea that the U.S. is not just the enemy of the Arabs or even of Muslims generally but also the enemy of God. It is an idea encouraged by the Ayatullah Khomeini, who proclaimed the U.S. "the Great Satan," spread by Islamic extremists throughout the Arab world and now given potent expression by, it would seem, the biggest player among all such militants today, Osama bin Laden...
...empathize: as a teenager, she was forced by Aslam to wear the all-enveloping burka whenever she went out in public. In a poem titled I Do Not Accept This, she writes: "Every woman knows/ That respectability is not simply/ Wearing a dupatta on your head/ Which you, Khomeini-style/ Order us to wear...