Word: satanity
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...mullah and the mob have provided Jimmy Carter, vicar of Satan in their eyes, with a smokescreen for all the failures of his presidency: inflation, energy policy, the increasing desperation of the poor, tax reform, an urban housing short-age, declining productivity...
...Ayatullah is no friend of the Soviets. Far from it: while in his mind "America is the great Satan," he knows, and has often said, that Communism is incompatible with Islam. Tehran mobs have occasionally chanted "Communism will die!" as well as "Death to Carter...
...vivid denunciations of assorted opponents as "devils" and "agents of Satan" have persuaded some American politicians that Khomeini is?in the words of Egypt's Anwar Sadat ?"a lunatic." Not so, conclude most Iranian scholars. "I don't think he's crazy," says Columbia University Historian Richard Bulliet. "Most of his decisions have been taken quite logically as a consequence of his perception of the popular will." Richard Falk, professor of international relations and foreign policy at Princeton, concurs: "When he seems the most crazy to us, he appears most exemplary to the Iranian people. That suggests you would...
...sided and biased" coverage. Said he: "Since the hostage problem, the magazine has done nothing but help arouse the hatred of the American people toward Iran." One example he cited was TIME'S use on its cover of Khomeini's quote: "America is the great Satan." Sadegh admitted that Khomeini had made the statement but charged that TIME had taken it out of context...
...common sense and Christian ethics. "America is suffering from tolerance," he would proclaim, "tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, Christ and chaos." Or, "Freedom is the right to do what you ought to do." He did not hesitate to take on the likes of Darwin, Marx and Satan, not to mention Sigmund Freud. He once parodied the prayer of a modern Pharisee: "I thank thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me that there is no such thing as guilt ... I may have an Oedipus complex, but I have no sin." After one summer vacation...