It all started from Tunisia. Self-emulation of a vegetable peddler, Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi, was the unlikely trigger for the massive explosion. People rose up and evicted a corrupt, brutal lifetime president.
It soon spread to other countries. The hope was for “Arab Spring” to have a democracy domino effect, one after another, Islamic countries under tyranny, being emancipated by democratic rule.
It didn’t happen in any of the effected countries, except in Tunisia where it all started.
Couple of days a ago, Rachid Ghannouchi, the founder of Tunisia’s Ennahda, the man who at one time was labeled as Tunisia’s Khomeini, told the French newspaper Le Monde that his party—long defined and projected as Islamist—would be “leaving political Islam behind.”
The move requires some clarification: Ennahda is not stripping Islam from its identity. Rather, the group will formally delineate between its political and religious activities. Its leadership will focus exclusively on politics and technocratic issues, whereas its other members will remain free to engage in the civic and religious spheres.
In other words; for the good of the country and the religion of Islam, Tunisia is divorcing the political Islam, a divorce Iran needs badly. Congrat to the Tunisian people.
Sanction works, U.S. Senate, get to it.
That is the bad thing with some iranians.
They are so attached to this notion of everything islamic/islamatic?:) that even their freaking leaders decide to convert and even deny and reject god, they will focus on punishing them rather than use it as an occasion to turn things around.
It is like what they say in the south: "you can take the girl out of country. but you can not take the country out of her"
I only wonder whether the Maliki school plays a role in that so-called divorce..If that's the case, the only remedy for Iran would be "the school of reformed Shia"...it has to come from within; anything else remains a wishful thinking...
Sure. All we need is more reform...reform away...It is like taking a pile of crap and add all kinds of herbs and spices to it, smell it...and pretned it is something IT Clearly IS NOT:)
If Iranians decide to divorce islam that will be the end of career for Mullah's and to some extent their looting cousines, the Bazari merchant , so that is not going to happen. Self preservation and job saving are the name of the game.