Frasi di Ruhollah Khomeyni
Ruhollah Khomeyni
Data di nascita: 22. Settembre 1902
Data di morte: 3. Giugno 1989
Ruḥollāh Moṣṭafāvī Mōsavī Khomeynī è stato un politico e religioso iraniano.
Fu un Grande ayatollah , capo spirituale e politico del suo Paese dal 1979 al 1989. Il suo governo fu ispirato alla religione islamica secondo un'ottica sciita duodecimana, e fu impostato in ossequio a uno stretto approccio fondamentalista.
Il regime da lui instaurato inaugurò in Iran una linea di potere che fu definita, in maniera approssimativa, "teocratica", e che sopravvive tuttora.
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„L'Islam o è politica o non è nulla [... ] la guerra è una benedizione per il mondo e per ogni nazione [... ] una religione senza guerra è zoppa [... ] Allah ordina agli uomini di condurre una guerra e uccidere [... ] i nostri giovani combattenti sanno che l'uccisione degli infedeli è uno dei compiti più nobili che Allah affida all'umanità.“
— Ruhollah Khomeyni
Dopo l'ascesa al potere nel 1979.
„Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled or incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world.... But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world.... Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender [to the enemy]? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Qur'anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
As quoted in Holy Terror: Inside the World of Islamic Terrorism (1987) by Amir Taheri, pp. 241-3.
„Variant: I shall kick their teeth in. I am appointing the government. I am appointing the government by the support of this nation!“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Speech at Behesht Zahra cemetery (1 February 1979), condemning the government of Shapour Bakhtiar
„Islam's jihad is a struggle against idolatry, sexual deviations, plunder, repression, and cruelty. The war waged by [non-Muslim] conquerors, however, aims at promoting lust and animal pleasures. They care not if whole countries are wiped out and many families left homeless. But those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Islam or to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation. For they shall live under [God's law].“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
As quoted in Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East (2002) by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, pp. 29, 32-36
„With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
"Imam's Sahife" vol. 4 p. 244 (1 November 1978).
„From the beginning while we were engaged in these issues, I said in interviews with those who came from abroad, even in Najaf or Paris or among my personal words, I have always said that clerics have an occupation which is more important than these executive jobs, and should Islam become victorious, clerics would dedicate themselves to their own occupation. But as we went on with the revolution, we found out that if we tell all clerics to go after their mosques, this country would fall into the throat of America and Soviet Union. We experienced and saw, those who took the lead but were not clerics, even though some of them were religious people, our revolutionary path was not according to their taste, therefore... we temporarily deviate from our original word until this country could be administered by those other than clerics, then clerics will go back to their preach and their own position and they will leave executive matters to others who work for Islam.“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Imam's Sahife. vol. 16, p. 349,350. (21 June 1982)
„…the author of The Satanic Verses book which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Qu'ran, and all involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them wherever they find them, so that no one will dare to insult the Islamic sanctions. Whoever is killed on this path will be regarded as a martyr, God willing.“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Fatwa against Salman Rushdie (14 February 1989)
„... in our domestic and foreign policy,... we have set as our goal the world-wide spread of the influence of Islam... We wish to cause the corrupt roots of Zionism, capitalism and Communism to wither throughout the world. We wish, as does God almighty, to destroy the systems which are based on these three foundations, and to promote the Islamic order of the Prophet...“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
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„All those against the revolution must disappear and quickly be executed.“
— Ruhollah Khomeini
Quoted by dissident cleric Hossein-Ali Montazeri, once in line to be Iran's supreme leader. ShiaNews.com (17 December 2000) http://www.shianews.com/hi/asia/news_id/0000573.php. This statement is said to have been made after the Mojahedin-e Khalgh militant organization launched an offensive against Iranian troops from bases in Iraq.
