Christian Republic of America?
'How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?' cried the British mass circulation Daily Mirror referring to the election of George W Bush for a second 4-year term as president of the USA. A similar question has been asked by many young Iranians of their parents' support for the Islamic revolution a quarter century earlier.
What makes the two events strikingly similar is that in this election the "war on terror" or the debacle in Iraq or even the economy were not the number one factor for people to vote for President Bush, but the "moral values".
This reminds one of the famous saying of late Ayatollah Khomeini that the Iranian people did not support the revolution for "bread or melon" but for Islam. What we are facing in today's America is a Christian Revolution with far reaching consequences for decades to come...
Read the whole article in Iranian.com
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