There are a number of issues here. Firstly, I have never heard of any such statement by Ayatollah Khomeini - please tell me where you got this from. Secondly, buttuming that he said this (and I have strong doubts about its authenticity) it does not mean that it is Islamic - it means that one Muslim (or some fringe group) interpreted the religion in this way. The Shi'ite tradition is quite different in any case from the Sunni one on a range of matters.
Australian Muslim Threat 4322Rifty, In your posting of June 23, 7:06 pm, you stated that Komeini (thanks for the correct spelling) was directly involved...
Every religion has had people in it who interpret the injuctions of their religion in their own way, and these may or may not be the intention of the original text or founder. You need to sort out what is the core of any religion - its ideals - and not focus on how someone, who may be a fanatic, decides to impose their own values upon it and then say it represents the entire religion. If you condemn a religion because of its extremists' views, then you have to condemn every religion because of what their extremists have done.
If a society were actually based on those principles, then you would be right. But how many ordinary Muslims do you think would go along with state-initiated rape and end? This is a bit like condemning the entire western tradition because of what Hitler did.
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