Talk:Mohsen Kadivar

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If anyone who knows about these things wants to add to the article on the subject of his criticisms of the Iranian political system, there's an interesting article by Timothy Garton Ash here. About a third to a half of the way down he says:


 * A few years ago, Kadivar took the bold step of arguing that the Guardianship of the Jurist [velayat-e faqih] has no sound basis in the Koran or mainstream Islamic thought, and is incompatible with the essence of a true republic. He also questioned the Islamic rectitude of condemning people (e.g., Salman Rushdie) to death in their absence, and suggested in a newspaper interview that today's Iran reproduces characteristics of the Shah's monarchic rule: "People made the revolution so that they could make decisions, not so that decisions would be made for them." He paid for his intellectual honesty with eighteen months in prison.

There's a bit more if you read on. 86.136.88.187 00:11, 15 April 2006 (UTC)