Thanks for your words. Only a learned person of caliber, can and does allow himself to compliment and disagree at the same time.
I thought I was clear enough in my explanation. I knew where you were going with that. The objection of Ayt. Khomeini in regard to termination of feudalism and rights for women to vote etc etc. As I said, much has been written in this regard and I am not a revisionist. When Ayt. Khomeini came to 'absolute' power, he did not revert these changes (could he? We don't know). Whether he was playing politics in 15th Khordad or he really believed in what he did, is irrelevant since we would not learn anything new.
The point I raised and I think; it is clear enough in my previous reply, is that IMO, 15th khordad does not have its origin in such rather "street" politicking or bickering over religious edicts of social order of those days. Certainly not in a religious sermon or an ideological manifesto written by a young priest setting himself up for a political career. The duality fracture was rather deep and it went right through the society, dividing the people. The forces and desires were already there. They just required Ayt. Khomeini and whatever he did on that day or on subsequent days.
As I said, in my previous comment, all these were due to that duality we are experiencing and we still do not have a solution for. Even Ayt. Khomeini who probably was the greatest political philosopher Iran has produced since the time of Cyrus the Great could not solve this problem. It remains the Achilles heel of IR and actually the wider Islamic world and probably even Islam itself.
As you might or not have noted in my reply to you, I am not interested in 'little' debates about particular incidents and rallies, the tactical reasons for this or that protest and such trivialities as who said what (books, magazines, TV and internet are filled with that already). I would rather like stay with my bigger picture analysis and see the philosophical forces behind thought formations of a nation and its historical consequences. I have no interest in 'yellow' intellectualism
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Others of course are entitled to their opinions which they might or not share (I have no control over them
). The courtesy now rather requires that you tell us about your "view point".
I did not say, it is her. I am just having fun with "her" as Haman said, she is the only girl. You have again begun to assume too much
. And I do not care whether it is really a her. Living in Canada, you have learned nothing of diversity and respect for others orientations. You really got a long way to go.