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| | Ruhollah Khomeini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (آیتالله روحالله خمینی in Persian) (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shi'a Muslim cleric, and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. | | | Khomeini was considered a spiritual leader to many Shi'a Muslims, and ruled Iran from the Shah's overthrow to Khomeini's own death in 1989. | | | Khomeini's granddaughter, Zahra Eshraghi, is married to Mohammad Reza Khatami, head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the main reformist party in the country, and is considered a pro-reform character herself. |
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| | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
| | Khomeini became a highly respected religious teacher, based in Qom, but his position was not a leading one, when he in 1963 was arrested for opposing land reform and women's emancipation. | | | This was Khomeini's title at the time of the Iranian revolution, but he soon took the title 'Imam', which is definitely the highest position in Shi'i Islam. | | | Two titles have been used for him, 'Ayatollah', which is the title of a religious leader, but not the highest in Shi'i Islam. |
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| | History of Iran: Ayatollah Khomeini |
| | Khomeini's grandfather, Seyed Ahmad, left Lucknow (according to a statement of Khomeini's elder brother, Seyed Morteza Pasandideh, his point of departure was Kashmir, not Lucknow) some time in the middle of the nineteenth century on pilgrimage to the tomb of Hazrat 'Ali in Najaf. | | | Khomeini began his education by memorizing the Qoran at a maktab (traditional religious school). | | | Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed the next day, April 1, 1979, as the "first day of God's government". |
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| | Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah on Encyclopedia.com |
| | (Sayeed Ali Khamenei succeeds Ayatollah Rudollah Khomeini in Iran) | | | Following the revolution that deposed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi, Khomeini returned triumphantly to Iran in 1979, declared an Islamic republic, and began to exercise ultimate authority in the nation. | | | Grandson of former Ayatollah Khomeini denounces Iran's leaders. |
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| | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| | Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini is born in Khomein, Iran. | | | Khomeini called for a clerical state to succeed the "corrupt" Shah throughout the 1960s and 1970s, building a power base within the country among his religious followers. | | | Khomeini declares U.S. to be "Great Satan," elevating himself to the same status in Iran as the Beatles did in the West when they declared themselves to be "bigger than Jesus." |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search View - Ayatollah Khomeini |
| | Khomeini was the son of Sayyid Mostafa, a religious scholar who died six months after Khomeini was born. | | | Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah (1900?-1989), full name Sayyid Ruhollah al-Musavi al-Khomeini, religious leader who, from exile, led the popular revolution that toppled Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran in 1979. | | | From his Faziye Seminary in Qom, Khomeini vehemently attacked the shah’s policies, prompting the shah to imprison him in 1963 and expel him from Iran in 1964. |
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| | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
| | Khomeini was descended from the Mussavi Sayyeds, a family tracing its lineage from the Prophet Muhammad through the Shiite seventh imam, Musa al-Kazem. | | | Khomeini came to believe that he embodied this "Perfect Man." So preoccupied did he become with his mission that after the revolution, officials who came to see him often left complaining that he had no time or patience for real people with real problems. | | | By the early 1960s, Khomeini had become the point man in Shia religious resistance against modernizing reforms, embodied in the Shah's self-styled "White Revolution." The Shia had also been deeply offended by the Shah's glorification of Iran's Persian past in his coronation ceremony (held in 1971). |
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| | Ayatollah Khomeini: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary |
| | Khomeini put his faith in the false and contradictory teachings of men, instead of the infallible Word of God. | | | As an Iranian Shia cleric, Khomeini was the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, then the Shah of Iran. | | | Khomeini thought he was leading a glorious Islamic purification of the world. |
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http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b1khomeini.htm
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| | AsiaSource: Asia Biography - a resource of the Asia Society |
| | Ayatollah al-Uzma Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was a Shi’ite scholar and mystic. | | | After an interval of ten years, Ayatollah Burujirdi succeeded Ha’eri in 1964 as head of the religious institution in Qom. | | | In 1918 Khomeini’s elder brother determined that he should begin his madrasa (Islamic school) education in the nearby city of Arak under Shaikh abd al-Karim Ha’eri. |
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| | Khomeini ruled Iran until his death in 1989. | | | In early 1989, Khomeini issued a fatwa declaring that Muslims had a religious duty to kill author Salman Rushdie, whose book The Satanic Verses Khomeini deemed a blasphemy against the prophet Muhammed. | | | Within ten days after his homecoming, Khomeini seized power and formed an Islamic Republic of which he himself was Head of State for life. |
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| | Iran: Ayatollah Khomeini's Grandson tells VOA Rushdie Fatwa was Wrong |
| | Khomeini went on to say that he is open to the idea of meeting author Salman Rushdie after watching a series of interviews with Rushdie on VOA, believing that he might benefit from the writer's knowledge about religion, especially the religions in the author's native India. | | | Rushdie was forced into hiding for almost a decade after Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa (religious decree) that the book "The Satanic Verses" was against Islam and calling on all Muslims to kill the author and all those involved in the book's publication. | | | Although his grandfather was included in this group, he pointed out Islam accords this kind of decision-making authority only to prophets, not to ordinary people. |
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http://www.payvand.com/news/04/apr/1198.html
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| | Pejmanesque: THE KHOMEINI FAMILY TREE |
| | Ostensibly, this was in honor of Khomeini's father--Sayyed Mostafa--but also was in honor of the prophet Mohammad, one of whose titles was "Mostafa" (Arabic for "the chosen one"). | | | Through the name, Khomeini sought to demonstrate that he was a sayyed--a descendant of Mohammad (one of Khomeini's brothers--who himself became a high-ranking Ayatollah--gave his line of the family the name "Pasandideh" which means "the chosen one" but is a purely Farsi/Persian name with no Arabic roots). | | | The "al" prefix is Arabic, and was used in defiance of the Persianization campaign of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the father of the last Shah of Iran, and the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty. |
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http://www.pejmanesque.com/archives/006524.html
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| | Short Biography of Imam Khomeini |
| | At the age of 30, Imam Khomeini married the daughter of a religious scholar and their marriage was blessed with two sons and three daughters. | | | Imam Khomeini's mother also had a religious background for she was the daughter of Ayatollah Mirza Ahmad, an exalted theologian. | | | Imam Khomeini returned to Iran, from exile and brought with him the 'Dawn of the Islamic Revolution,' but now the light of the full sun shines from the faces of those who have followed his guidance and accepted the tenets of Islam. |
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http://www.irna.ir/occasion/ertehal/english/biog
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| | BBC ON THIS DAY 1 1979: Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran |
| | Ayatollah Khomeini led the new regime from the theological seminary of Qum and declared an Islamic Republic in Iran at the beginning of April 1979. | | | The Ayatollah - a title meaning Gift of God - emerged from his chartered plane looking tired and tearful to meet the 1,500 religious and political leaders allowed to meet him in the terminal building. | | | Nearly five million people clamoured to see the return of their spiritual leader |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/1/newsid_2521000/2521003.stm
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| | The 80s Server -- Icons: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
| | Khomeini vehemently attacked the shah's policies, prompting the shah to expel him from Iran in 1964. | | | In December of 1979 a new constitution was passed declaring Iran an Islamic republic, and Khomeini was named imam (a successor of Muhammad) and supreme leader for life. | | | He was raised by an older brother who helped him memorize the Koran and learn the basics of Shiite Islam. |
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http://www.80s.com/Icons/Bios/ayatollah_ruhollah_khomeini.html
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| | IRVAJ English - |
| | Al-Sharq Al-Awsat added that Hussein Khomeini's move to Najaf, which was done without the knowledge of the Iranian authorities, sparked suspicion among Iran's conservatives, who are aware of the extent of Khomeini's influence in the religious seminary in Najaf and among the religious youth, as well as within reformist circles. | | | According to a source close to Hussein Khomeini, Khomeini considers Ayatollah 'Ali Sistani, Ayatollah Saeed Al-Hakim, and Ayatollah Fayadhi the "true Marja'iya" — that is, the true Shi'ite religious authorities. | | | The paper further reported that Hussein Khomeini spoke out against attempts by Sheikh 'Ali Ha'iri, who is close to the Iranian regime, [12] to impose the authority of Khamenei's control on the people of Najaf. |
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http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news_en.pl?l=en&y=2003&m=08&d=07&a=7
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| | Ayatollah Khomeini grandson assails Iran regime / Muslim cleric says he would accept U.S. intervention |
| | But Hossein Khomeini -- who is in Iraq ostensibly on a religious pilgrimage to Shiite holy sites in Najaf, Karbala and Baghdad -- praised the U.S. takeover of Iraq. | | | But Khomeini said he was not afraid his words would bring harm to him or his wife and three children, who are still in Iran, insisting that one should always take advantage of an "opportunity to speak freely and tell the truth." | | | Currently, the Iranian city of Qom, where Khomeini and his family live, is considered the center of Shiite religious authority. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/05/MN129010.DTL
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| | Conversation With Khomeini - The ayatollah's grandson calls for a U.S. invasion of Iran. By Christopher Hitchens |
| | It was not a matter for the state, and the state and religion (he reiterated) ought to be separated—for both their sakes. | | | Hossein Khomeini operates within an entirely Quranic frame of reference, but what he has to say is obviously of great interest to those who take the secular "regime change" position. | | | He speaks perfect Arabic, acquired during the years when the ayatollah and his family were exiled by the shah to live in Karbala, and he knows Iraq reasonably well already. |
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http://slate.msn.com/id/2089329
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| | Contemporary Review: Ayatollah Khomeini, Mohammed's Zealot. - Review - book review |
| | Ayatollah Khomeini, the political and religious zealot, who turned Iran into a militant Islamic republic, still casts a dark shadow over the lives of the Iranian people ten years after his death. | | | Despite the early hopes of a new dawn, the despotic, intolerant theocracy he created remains largely in place, out of step with its neighbours and at odds with much of the rest of the world. | | | The Shah, who despised the religious establishment as bearded parasites living in the dark ages, paid little heed to them or to Khomeini who, in turn, branded him as Genghis Khan's successor. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1609_276/ai_60070703
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| | History of Iran: Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei |
| | Ayatollah Khomeini appointed him in 1980 to be the leader of the Friday congregational prayers in Tehran. | | | In 1977, together with some clerics from Qom and Tehran, he established the Jame'ye Rouhaniyat Mobarez (Combatant Clerics Association) which became the basis of the Islamic Republic Party. | | | He began religious studies before completing the elementary education. |
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http://www.iranchamber.com/history/akhamenei/ali_khamenei.php
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| | Dr. Homa Darabi Foundation: |
| | Khomeini's Teachings on sex with infants and animals | | | Khomeini's teachings on Adultery - original Farsi text | | | from Khomeinie's book Tahrir-ol-Masael, printed in Qum, Iran. |
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| | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| | This offended Khomeini, who asserted that the Koran is the only appropriate book to be used when taking an oath. | | | The latter part of his name came from the city he was born in (Khomeyn) and the first part of his name came from studying the Islamic theology where he attained the rank of Ayatollah. | | | In 1962, the Shah of Iran signed a bill that allowed the use of any holy scripture while an oath is being taken. |
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| | AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI PERSONALLY ISSUED THE FATWA ON Mr. RUSHDIE |
| | Rushdie’s controversial book, "The Satanic Verses" was sacrilegious and blasphematory to both Islam and its prophet and the authorities placed a bounty of £2.2m on the writer’s head. | | | PARIS 29 Apr. (IPS) The fatwa that condemned the Anglo-Indian author Salman Rushdie to death for insulting Muslim’s prophet Mohammad and forced him to spend nine years in hiding, was issued by Grand Ayatollah Roohollah Khomeini and was not "fraudulent" nor "phoney", as claimed by an Iranian writer quoted Sunday by "The New Scotsman". | | | Montazam says, was behind most of the purges and mass executions that took place in Khomeini’s time. |
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http://iran-press-service.com/articles_2002/Apr_2002/rushdie_fatwa_29402.htm
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| | Jihad Watch: Dallas: A tribute to the great Islamic visionary, Ayatollah Khomeini |
| | According to Ayatollah Khomeini, one of the Shah’s ‘most despicable sins’ was the fact that Iran was one of the original group of nations that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” | | | I would not have concerned myself too concerned about the age of Khomeini's wife, which was and is an acceptable age in many parts of the world, and not limited to muslims either. | | | Don't forget that this is not something from 1000 years ago, Khomeini is the founder of the "Islamic Republic of Iran" who virtually unopposed toppled the Shah just 3 decades ago. |
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004300.php
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| | Ruhollah Khomeini |
| | From France he was influencial in bringing about the fall of the Shah and in 1979 he returned to Iran and received a tumultous welcome. | | | He studied Islamic theology and law, and moved to Iran's holy city of Qom in the 1920's. | | | Gordon, Matthew S. Ayatollah Khomeini (World Leaders in Spanish). |
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| | HoustonChronicle.com - Khomeini: U.S. is best example of freedom |
| | It was there that the older ayatollah honed his views of an Islamic government. | | | Last Sunday, Khomeini canceled a day trip to Karbala, 60 miles south of Baghdad, after aides in London tipped him off that Iran's assassins lay in wait there, he says. | | | Despite his rejection of many of his grandfather's beliefs, Khomeini says he has loving memories of the man. |
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| | Khomeini, the Soviets and U.S.: Why the Ayatollah fears America - article by Daniel Pipes |
| | Khomeini is not crazy; rather, he represents the Islamic tradition in Iranian culture and his actions make sense in the context of that tradition. | | | Although we share with the Iranians a respect for religion, private property and the family unit, the Ayatollah's regime also shares much with the Marxists against the West. | | | Note: Comments will be screened for substance and tone, and in some cases edited, before appearing on this site. |
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| | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| | A quarter-century after they were taken captive in Iran, five former American hostages say they got an unexpected reminder of their 444-day ordeal in the bearded face of Iran's new president-elect. | | | Twenty-five years after being taken hostage in Iran, five Americans believe Iran's president-elect was one of their captors. | | | BEIRUT -- Islamic resistance groups throughout the Middle East are receiving the election of Mahmud Ahmadinejad, Iran's new president, known for being passionately devoted to the principles of the 1979 Islamic revolution and its founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as good news. |
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| | CBS 11: Texas Muslims Host Ayatollah Khomeini Tribute |
| | A 10-year-old boy opened the conference praising Khomeini for reviving "pure" Islamic thinking and saving the religion from being conquered by the West. | | | In an exclusive interview with CBS-11 on Friday, MOMIN Imam Shamshad Haider defended the conference and said Ayatollah Khomeini was a great, if widely misunderstood, scholar and poet who deserved tribute and appreciation. | | | The conference was advertised, in part, with brochures entitled "A Tribute to Great Islamic Visionary" celebrating the 16th anniversary of Khomeini's death. |
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| | THE IRANIAN: History, Ayatollah Khomeini, SAVAK, General Pakravan |
| | Every morning when I came, I would greet him, and he would greet me very nicely, and would say, 'What's new in town?' One day there was some unrest in the city, so I told him about it. | | | He said, "It was frightening." And after that, well, I know that Khomeini was sent into exile. | | | When we were in India, I had taken an orderly with me so that he would peak Persian with my children. |
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| | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Salman Rushdie death sentence proclamation |
| | "Thanx to Khomeini Iran is the wayy IT SHOULD BE!! | | | "Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion... | | | "Death for blashpemy is the punishment in Islam and Muhammad (SAW) himself had 3 people executed for this offense, so Khomeini was only performing his religious duty." |
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| | Jihad Watch: Khomeini in Dallas |
| | Frankly I don't what most defines Khomeini in the Islamic world, the overthrow of the Shah, fundamental adherence to Allah, the American hostage drama or something else. | | | But is there a Islamic context that views the Khomeini as --- I don't know, a George Washington, for lack of a better example, due to his overthrow of the Shah. | | | I think that what y'all are getting at is that there is conceivably some positive aspect to Khomeini's vision, and that that might be what attracted local Muslims to the "tribute" this past weekend. |
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004339.php
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| | The Story of the Revolution Part 1 - BBC Persian |
| | Ayatollah Khomeini's supporters were preparing to welcome him back to Iran. | | | After the big march in Arba'in, Ayatollah Khomeini in a message to his supporters promised he would soon be among them in Iran. | | | Ayatollah Khomeini's advisor, Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr, says he persuaded the Ayatollah not to meet the Iranian Prime Minister. |
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| | BBC News Middle East Ayatollah Khomeini on the Web |
| | Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and was vocal in his criticism of the West and its culture, left a huge number of works, mainly of Islamic theory and sayings. | | | Officials in Iran say the writings of the late Ayatollah Khomeini are to be published on the Internet. | | | Ahmed Khomeini's work will be published on the Internet along with his father's |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_104000/104312.stm
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| | Khomeini's speech on the day of celebration of the birth of Muhammad: 1981 | | | The real Day of God is the day that Amir al mo’menin (1) drew his sword and slaughtered all the khavarej (2) and killed them from the first to the last. | | | You may translate and publish the articles in this site only if you provide a link to the original page. |
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http://www.faithfreedom.org/Iran/KhomeiniSpeech.htm
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| | Report: Grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini slams Iranian regime |
| | The grandson of called for "separating religion from the state and ending the despotic religious regime reminiscent of the rule of the Church during the Dark Ages in Europe", the newspaper reported. | | | What we need is the world's sympathy and understanding of our legitimate demands," Hussein Khomeini was quoted as saying. | | | A grandson of Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who is currently in Iraq has denounced the religious "dictatorship" ruling Iran, an Arabic newspaper reported Monday. |
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| | Ayatollah Khomeini's Grandson Feels Freer, Safer in Iraq |
| | As for Iran, Khomeini said he had not been directly threatened there, but he was worried not only about the welfare of his wife and three children, who currently live in Qom, Iran, but also for the welfare of all Iranian people. | | | Asked about his future plans in Iraq, he said, "I'd be happy to do anything in this environment -- everything from peddling in front of Hazrat Mooseh-Abn-Jafar (a religious site) to creating a theological school. | | | Washington, D.C., July 2, 2004 - Seyyed Hossein Khomeini, the grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini who fled Iran several months ago, told the Voice of America Thursday that he feels freer and safer in Iraq than he did in Iran. |
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http://www.payvand.com/news/04/jul/1011.html
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| | Astrology of Current Affairs: Horoscope of Ayatollah Khomeini |
| | All the people of the world born on that day had some stressfull aspects to say the least. | | | As usual many mysterious stories are given about this weirdo. | | | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. |
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http://alimostofi.blogspot.com/2005/09/horoscope-of-ayatollah-khomeini.html
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| | Ayatollah Khomeini Returns From the Dead |
| | The Ayatollah is a very religious man. He does not condone the telling of falsehoods. | | | He has shaved his beard, and he no longer wears the traditional dress of the Islamic mullah. | | | This reporter has only recently learned the truth about the alleged death of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the late spiritual and political leader of Iran. |
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http://home.grandecom.net/~dennisnbetty/khomeini.htm
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| | Moviefone: Biography: Ayatollah Khomeini - Holy Terror Movie |
| | Revered in Iran and reviled in America, the life of Khomeini exemplifies the divergent points of view of two... | | | Video Available · Biography: Ayatollah Khomeini: Holy Terror · Video Available · Biography: Babe... | | | MSN - Movies: Biography: Ayatollah Khomeini - Holy Terror |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Sayings of the Ayatollah Khomeini: Political, Philosophical, Social, & Religious |
| | Khomeini opines on the topics: Revolutionary Religion, Colonialism, Justice, Media and Propaganda, Temporary Marriages Okay, On the Manner of Urinating, On the Manner of Eating, On Ablution, On the Five Namaz, On Woman and Her Periods, On Marriage, On Taxes...and more. | | | Amazon.com: Books: Sayings of the Ayatollah Khomeini: Political, Philosophical, Social, & Religious | | | Publisher: Learn how customers can search inside this book. |
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| | Shop A&E and The History Channel : Ayatollah Khomeini - Holy Terror VHS |
| | But for those in Iran, Khomeini is a legend who lives on today in the continuing revolution of Islam. | | | Examine the man whose name brings to mind a swell of hate to most in America but instills immeasurable pride, honor and national dignity to the people of Iran. | | | Here is the story of Khomeini's rise from dutiful student in the dusty hamlet of Khomein in Iran to one of the most ruthless leaders the twentieth century has ever known. |
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| | TIME 100: Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini |
| | Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the dour cleric who led an Islamic revolution in Iran, perceived himself above all as an avenger of the humiliations that the West had for more than a century inflicted on the Muslims of the Middle East. | | | He was among many Muslim autocrats in this century to embrace a mission designed as a corrective to the West. |
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| | "IF ALIVE, AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI WOULD ALSO JOIN THE PROTESTERS" |
| | Asked if the present leader of the regime, Ayatollah Ali Khameneh'i had been able to carry properly the legacy of his grandfather, the young Khomeini answered by the negative, pointing to the fact that Mr. | | | Khomeini called for the establishment of a secular, democratic system in Iran and accused the present ruling ayatollahs of "abusing" Islam and the revolution for their own interests. | | | Hoseyn Khomeini’s declarations to NCR Handelsblad, the daily "Jomhoori Eslami (Islamic Republic) that belongs to the leader of the regime said the Grand Ayatollah had ordered his nephew from talking politics, "knowing his eccentricities". |
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http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles_2003/Aug-2003/hoseyn_khomeini_3803.htm
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| | TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Ayatullah Khomeini |
| | By April he had established a theocracy based on strict adherence to Islamic law, with the U.S. as Iran's greatest enemy. | | | A politically active Shi'ite cleric, Khomeini was an outspoken critic of the Shah of Iran's Western-influenced policies and was exiled to Iraq for 14 years before moving to France, where he continued his opposition. | | | SAYYAD / AP TIME named the Ayatullah Khomeini Man of the Year in 1979 |
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http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/archive/photohistory/khomeini.html
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| | CREED \ Deviant groups and individuals \ The Islaamic ruling regarding (Ayatollah) Khomeini |
| | Response: Khomeini has a book in which he mentions the excellence of the Imaams (Hassan and Hussein et al) of the family of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) over and above the Prophets and the Messengers (`alayhim as-salaam); (So) based upon this (statement of his) he is not a Muslim. | | | Question: What is the Islaamic ruling regarding (Ayatollah) Khomeini? | | | CREED \ Deviant groups and individuals \ The Islaamic ruling regarding (Ayatollah) Khomeini |
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: Ayatollah Khomeini's Grandson Calls for Iranian Freedom by Ramin Parham |
| | What responsibility befalls upon you from this heritage, in preserving Iran’s spiritual and moral spheres and how do you approach it? | | | Khomeini asserted the necessity of democracy comming to not only Iran, but to the entire Middle East. | | | When I met him two days after his AEI speech, we focused on the changing values in the younger Iranian generation and the present-day influences that hold potential for the possibility of real change in Iran) |
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