Libertarian Muslim

The definitive book of orthodox Judaism is the Babylonian Talmud compiled by Rsbbis and Sages. The verses you quote were for Hebrews of the Biblical Era who were as badass as Jihadi Muslims are today. Judaism has detoxified itself. Primarily it is because Jews have had the shit beat out of them for 1500 years and have been forced to live in lands that were not theirs. It is painful but it is a useful character building exercise. I look forward (without to much hope) to the day when Islam detoxifies itself. Ba'al Chatzaf No one cares about you to be honest. You're just some hate filled nutjob with serious mental issues in the US who isn't a threat to anyone. The truth is that Muslims have had control over lands filled with Jews for more than 1000 years and there's been no great big genocide of Jews. In fact when Europeans have been the ones massacring Jews with their inquisitions and the sort it has been Muslims that have protected the Jews and given them safe haven. The fact that we haven't done what the Europeans have is enough proof that Muslims aren't a threat to the Jews at all. If it were truly our goal to rid the world of the Jews I can assure you that it would have already been done long ago.

The whole argument is faulted because who were the international community to impose the creation of a nation state dividing land up which already contained people who had lived in peace for a great deal of time in the first place. The fact is that Europe hates Jews and has a history of persecuting them and despite the fact that the Jews did their utmost to become European and assimilate the Europeans in their blood lust and hatred still could not resist in murdering Jews so instead of continuing that they thought that they could get rid of the Jews by shipping them off to another land and in all their wisdom in controlling the world they decided to deprive the Palestinians of lands. - The 1948 borders were illegitimate because they were not agreed on by both parties. Instead, they were agreed upon by Europeans, both European Jews and Europeans who wanted the Jews out and the Arabs that had been promised that land by the Colonial powers (hence the lands being under mandate) were betrayed and the European Jews then began taking the land for themselves after the Arabs disagreed, so and need not be respected. - The Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 was perpetrated by the Israelis and the British where Israel invaded Egypt to control the Suez Canal. - The 1967 borders were also illegitimate but that war wasn't actually started by the Arabs, it was the Israelis that attacked first. Yes, Israel exists now but still has no recognition by the Arabs in general except the Egyptians and Jordanians. So those who consider it an illegitimate military occupation of the lands are well within their rights to resist the occupation of those lands. The parties who are against the occupation of their lands have offered peace talks, in fact they've made a generous offer of peace with all of the Arab States including the Palestinians yet Israel still drags its feet. The Arab Peace Initiative, 2002 Official translation of the full text of a Saudi-inspired peace plan adopted by the Arab summit in Beirut, 2002. The Arab Peace Initiative The Council of Arab States at the Summit Level at its 14th Ordinary Session, Reaffirming the resolution taken in June 1996 at the Cairo Extra-Ordinary Arab Summit that a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East is the strategic option of the Arab countries, to be achieved in accordance with international legality, and which would require a comparable commitment on the part of the Israeli government, Having listened to the statement made by his royal highness Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, crown prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in which his highness presented his initiative calling for full Israeli withdrawal from all the Arab territories occupied since June 1967, in implementation of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, reaffirmed by the Madrid Conference of 1991 and the land-for-peace principle, and Israel's acceptance of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, in return for the establishment of normal relations in the context of a comprehensive peace with Israel, Emanating from the conviction of the Arab countries that a military solution to the conflict will not achieve peace or provide security for the parties, the council: 1. Requests Israel to reconsider its policies and declare that a just peace is its strategic option as well. 2. Further calls upon Israel to affirm: I- Full Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied since 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights, to the June 4, 1967 lines as well as the remaining occupied Lebanese territories in the south of Lebanon. II- Achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem to be agreed upon in accordance with U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194. III- The acceptance of the establishment of a sovereign independent Palestinian state on the Palestinian territories occupied since June 4, 1967 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital. 3. Consequently, the Arab countries affirm the following: I- Consider the Arab-Israeli conflict ended, and enter into a peace agreement with Israel, and provide security for all the states of the region. II- Establish normal relations with Israel in the context of this comprehensive peace. 4. Assures the rejection of all forms of Palestinian patriation which conflict with the special circumstances of the Arab host countries. 5. Calls upon the government of Israel and all Israelis to accept this initiative in order to safeguard the prospects for peace and stop the further shedding of blood, enabling the Arab countries and Israel to live in peace and good neighbourliness and provide future generations with security, stability and prosperity. 6. Invites the international community and all countries and organisations to support this initiative. 7. Requests the chairman of the summit to form a special committee composed of some of its concerned member states and the secretary general of the League of Arab States to pursue the necessary contacts to gain support for this initiative at all levels, particularly from the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States of America, the Russian Federation, the Muslim states and the European Union. For purposes of comparison, the following is an earlier draft discussed by Arab foreign ministers on 25 March, 2002, in advance of the summit: The Council of the Arab League, which convenes at the level of a summit on March 27-28, 2002 in Beirut, affirms the Arab position that achieving just and comprehensive peace is a strategic choice and goal for the Arab states. After the Council heard the statement of Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz in which he called for the establishment of normal relations in the context of a comprehensive peace with Israel, and that Israel declares its readiness to withdraw from the occupied Arab territories in compliance with United Nations resolutions 242 and 338 and Security Council resolution 1397, enhanced by the Madrid conference and the land-for-peace principle, and the acceptance of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state with al-Quds al-Sharif as its capital, the Council calls on the Israeli government to review its policy and to resort to peace while declaring that just peace is its strategic option. The Council also calls on Israel to assert the following: Complete withdrawal from the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including full withdrawal from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and the remaining occupied parts of south Lebanon to the June 4, 1967 lines. To accept to find an agreed, just solution to the problem of Palestinian refugees in conformity with Resolution 194. To accept an independent and sovereign Palestinian state on the Palestinian lands occupied since June 4, 1967 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and with Jerusalem (al-Quds al-Sharif) as its capital in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1397. In return, the Arab states assert the following: To consider the Arab-Israeli conflict over and to enter into a peace treaty with Israel to consolidate this. To achieve comprehensive peace for all the states of the region. To establish normal relations within the context of comprehensive peace with Israel. The Council calls on the Israeli government and the Israelis as a whole to accept this initiative to protect the prospects of peace and to spare bloodshed so as to enable the Arab states and Israel to coexist side by side and to provide for the coming generations a secure, stable and prosperous future. It calls on the international community with all its organisations and states to support the initiative. The Council calls on its presidency, its secretary general and its follow-up committee to follow up on the special contacts related to this initiative and to support it on all levels, including the United Nations, the United States, Russia, the European Union and the Security Council.

LOL. Islam is growing stronger and stronger every day, more and more people in the West are accepting Islam, not because they are forced to do so by the sword as many claim that Islam spread this way, rather, they do it after studying it for themselves. Islam isn't in any danger and the ridiculousness of Sina's comments are apparent. For example. On the website he calls Muhammad a mass murderer. He gives the reason for this as the fact that the men of the Banu Qurayza were put to the sword after the Battle of the Trench. But he fails to mention several important facts. Firstly, they made a treaty with the Muslims as inhabitants of Medina, they took part in the constitution and as citizens of the nation they were obliged to help defend Yathrib. However, during the battle they switched sides as a tribe and started attacking Yathrib from within. These actions were treasonous as they fought against the state and assisted those at war with the state. When they were besieged by the State they gave up. They then asked to be judged not according to Islamic law, but according to their own laws which was Jewish law. They asked a former Jewish scholar who had converted to Islam to pass judgement on them rather than allowing Muhammad to do it and that judge did exactly that. He went according to Jewish law which stated: For example in Deuteronomy Chapter 20 (Parshah Shoftim) 11. And it will be, if it responds to you with peace, and it opens up to you, then it will be, [that] all the people found therein shall become tributary to you, and they shall serve you. 12. But if it does not make peace with you, and it wages war against you, you shall besiege it, 13. and the Lord, your God, will deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike all its males with the edge of the sword. 14. However, the women, the children, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoils you shall take for yourself, and you shall eat the spoils of your enemies, which the Lord, your God, has given you. And so that was what happened. Their actions were treason and thus a crime against the state and a crime against any state today. Their punishment could not be considered murder because the matter was adjudicated on by a judge of their own choosing who held them accountable to their own laws. For it to be murder, their executions would have to have been unlawful and this is not the case.

Cultural more than religious. Most American Jews have no intention of ever going to Israel (for which I can hardly blame them). For them it is more a cultural artifact or a place to take a two week vacation and "work" on a Kibbutz (for which privilege the will pay several thousand dollars). Or they will get a mini-thrill from visiting the Jerusalem and touching the West Wall. For American Jews (by and large) America is home. We are not exactly living in "exile". Ba'al Chatzaf Fantastic! Let's deprive millions of people with an unbroken link to the Holy Land of their homes and farmlands built by their fathers, their father's fathers and so on going back more than a thousand years as well as depriving them of having a nation state because some Jews who say that God promised them the land and therefore it is there's yet have no real religious practice can have a nice vacation place by the sea. Sounds like justice to me.

So what you're stating is that Jewish extremists only make up a very small portion of Jews? Therefore they're not representative of Jews? Newsflash, Muslims have been saying that about extremists in Islam for years yet you still don't take that as an excuse, why should we accept your excuse? Rabbi Meir Kahane and Baruch Goldstein were US Jews actually, so are the Jewish Task Force. So what I'm getting is that the majority of Jews in Israel actually have no real religious connection to those lands in the first place.

I certainly do believe in free speech Michael but unfortunately, what Craig Winn is doing is not just free speech. It's inciting violence and hatred against Muslims and therefore begins to infringe on the rights of Muslims with his free speech and as I believe in the principle written by Thomas Jefferson where he stated "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others." Craig Winn is aware of what he is doing. He knows what he is publicly stating about Islam and Muslims are lies and the lies he perpetrates against the Muslim community has inspired religious fanatics all around to attack Muslims on the street and firebomb mosques and community centres. He is no different to me than Rabbi Meir Kahane and actually has a major alliance with the Jewish Task Force, a Kahanist Group with links to Baruch Goldstein, an American Jew who moved to Israel and massacred 29 Palestinian worshippers in a mass shooting while they were praying, injuring more than 100 more. Now when I say that I don't care if he receives death threats you fail to take it into context with what is said below it. I said if he was actually killed I would condemn it because it is unlawful too. In terms of what I said about understanding where someone would be coming from if they did threaten or harm Craig Winn, I sincerely do because if your wife is attacked and beaten on the street by someone inspired by his lies, it's only natural that you'd see that person as a threat to your and your family's lives and wellbeing. Now why should I care about threats to Craig Winn's life when as a result of his irresponsible lies, I now have to be more concerned about my safety and that of my community? Surely I have a right to care more about protecting my community.

To clarify, and I know that William was very aware of this, my comments about Judaism being a violent religion that promoted slavery and the killing of innocent people was not my opinion at all. Rather, it was an exercise to show Baal that the type of arguments that he uses to make Muslims and Islam look violent are in fact just as easily applied to Judaism and Jews because it is quite easy to pick and choose verses from a book out of context and without considering abrogation and also by pointing out the extremist views of a very vocal minority and saying that if some believe this, then all must etc. I just hope that Baal can look at this and appreciate that it's just not as simple as he thinks and it's really inappropriate to judge the beliefs of 1.6 billion people in the world based on arguments that contain faulted logic.

No, he didn't. He went in there trying to prove that Islam was a religion of violence and terrorism and so he took everything he could find that confirmed his preconceived notions without actually studying into the issue. I've heard him debate and argue and what he does is nothing new, anyone could do it. That isn't proper research. Research must be done with an open mind and heart and completely without bias, he was incapable of doing this and it is reflected in his work. Not quite sure why I'd need to argue with Muhammad, I agree with everything he did during his life. Problem is that you don't know what he did in his life because all you're relying on is stupid websites which take things out of context instead of studying things for yourself. And who cares if he got death threats? What did he expect when he started intentionally perpetrating lies to incite hate and violence against the honor of 1.6 billion people in the world, some of whom still hold chivalry to be very important to some extent? Flowers? Get real. If a White Supremacist were to start pushing the notion that Blood Libel was real and that Jews secretly wanted to kill Christian children, to sacrifice them and said these things with the intention to incite violence against Jews what do you think the response from the Jewish community would be? Especially groups like the JDL? It would be violence, plain and simple and without prejudice and certainly without reservation. So how come Muslims should have to put up with anymore than any other group? I've gotten death threats too and if you go to SOLO Passion's website and insult Ayn Rand, watch and see what their response will be to you. I went on there and corrected their views about Islam and they started threatening me. The fact is that some people get quite emotional about having their honor insulted, does that excuse violence? In most cases I would say no, but in some cases it certainly does. For example, if I were married and I were walking with my wife in Saudi Arabia, and some religious policeman came to me, arrogantly demanding to see my wedding papers to prove that I had the right to walk next to my wife, my response would be to give him a backhander so profound that it would cause his body to defy the laws of physics and Newton himself would turn over in his grave in amazement. And why is that? Two reasons. The first being that I am a free man and my wife is a free woman, given by God natural rights and free will and no man has the right to interfere with that. Secondly, because by demanding to see such papers he would be therefore be making a subtle accusation that my wife is unchaste and I would not stand for that, not now, not ever. Now could I care less if someone decided to rid this earth of people like Craig Winn? I'm sorry, but no, not really. I certainly wouldn't support such actions and would condemn them because they are unlawful but I could understand the reasoning behind it, particularly when I know that as a fact that Mosques and Islamic Schools get burnt down and firebombed and Muslim women get attacked on the street by people who believe his garbage in the first place. Or don't we have the same right to safety and security that Craig Winn does?

No, I want you to back up your accusations after actually having gone and read the Qur'an, Seerah and hadiths for yourself, numerous translations of them and Qur'anic explanations by scholars of Islam who have not only studied the Qur'an in its original language, but looked at each verse within the context in which it was revealed. If you can't do that then there is no real use in discussing anything with you because it just means that you're another parrot who simply repeats what he hears or reads. Craig Winn, the author of Prophet of Doom is perhaps one of the most ridiculous people I've heard of. The reason is simple. He picks verses from different translations which suit the narrative that he wants to push, he leaves out the context in which it was revealed and the verses that relate to it, including those which surround them. The reason why you believe what he says is because you lack the ability to use your own free thought to research things for yourself with an open heart and without your mind already made up about the issue. The problem with people like yourself and Craig Winn is that you suffer from confirmation bias. You see a verse that you think is supporting your view previously held so you take it as confirmation of what you believe yet when there are verses or hadiths which contradict your point of view you ignore it. This is why there's no use arguing with people like you or Craig Winn.

I posted this link several times. http://prophetofdoom.net/ LOL. Sorry, I thought I was speaking to someone of independent thought who researched things for themselves rather than just believing BS from the internet. Never mind then.

Wafa Sultan, an Alawite who like most Alawites of Syria, are very unaware of their own religious beliefs, that compounded with the fact that Syria has always been secular in government with the Baath Party in power which would have been her experience. The writer of this thread makes some huge accusations against Muhammad yet doesn't back them up with fact. What I would like to see is him start a thread for each accusation and allow me to present a response to it, otherwise it's just rhetoric and BS.

The notion that it supports combat in a just or right war supports exactly what the Torah version stated specifically because the Jews believed that their actions were sanctioned by God. So your diversionary tactics aren't working. Also, sorry but I don't hear enough Jews actually condemning these extremist Jews and in fact, the Israeli government isn't even stopping it which must mean that these extremists are tolerated as it's in Jewish scripture, perhaps you're just hiding the fact that it's a Jewish belief to protect yourself. We know that Jews in the past have hidden their religious beliefs to avoid persecution.

The definitive book of orthodox Judaism is the Babylonian Talmud compiled by Rsbbis and Sages. The verses you quote were for Hebrews of the Biblical Era who were as badass as Jihadi Muslims are today. Judaism has detoxified itself. Primarily it is because Jews have had the shit beat out of them for 1500 years and have been forced to live in lands that were not theirs. It is painful but it is a useful character building exercise. I look forward (without to much hope) to the day when Islam detoxifies itself. Ba'al Chatzaf Hmmm, interesting. Though quite unbelievable actually. Especially considering the behavior of many extremist Jews in Israel and abroad who promote Kahanism and other disgusting ideologies claiming that such beliefs are "True Torah" beliefs. "All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts." This was the religious opinion issued one week ago by Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Institute Or how about: Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira has been arrested for allegedly firebombing a mosque. Rabbi Shapira published a book entitled The King’s Torah in which he claimed that it was permissible under Jewish law for a Jew to kill a non-Jewish civilian (including a child). He also advocated the expulsion or genocide of all male Palestinians above the age of thirteen. And: The rabbi of Safed, a government employee, has decreed that it is strictly forbidden to let apartments to Arabs – including the Arab students at the local medical school. Twenty other town rabbis – whose salaries are paid by the taxpayers, mostly secular, including Arab citizens – have publicly supported this edict. So I guess you were wrong, looks like Judaism hasn't in fact detoxified and in that case, if it hasn't after 4000 years, what hope is there of it ever happening?

Very true, I must admit however that I find people that are willfully ignorant about issues yet still hold an opinion on it to be very annoying. Ah yes, William Scherk. He's a very enthusiastic guy, great heart.

Really now? What about the struggle between the dar al Harb and the dar al sala'am? ba'al Chatzaf These are not the only statuses of diplomatic relationships in Islam. You can have fruitful trade and diplomatic relationships with any nation so long as it's built on mutual respect and good faith. For example there is also Dar Al Amn or the Abode of Safety, where Muslims live in non Islamic countries yet their rights are respected and can practice their religion. The Ottoman Empire had Dar al-Sulh, or the Abode of Treaty, where a peace treaty allowed Muslim and non Muslim states to engage in relations without any fear of war so long as it was built on mutual respect. The view which you hold is very simplistic view that extremists tend to hold also. However, these terms are not found in the Qur'an, nor in Hadith and only came about later. As opposed to Jewish teachings of the Old Testament that promoted the killing of all the men and enslavement of all women and children of lands that didn't submit. For example in Deuteronomy Chapter 20 (Parshah Shoftim) 10. When you approach a city to wage war against it, you shall propose peace to it. 11. And it will be, if it responds to you with peace, and it opens up to you, then it will be, [that] all the people found therein shall become tributary to you, and they shall serve you. 12. But if it does not make peace with you, and it wages war against you, you shall besiege it, 13. and the Lord, your God, will deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike all its males with the edge of the sword. 14. However, the women, the children, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoils you shall take for yourself, and you shall eat the spoils of your enemies, which the Lord, your God, has given you. 15. Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. http://www.chabad.or...le_cdo/aid/9984 Wow, two interesting options. You can either be slaves to the Jews, or they'll kill you, plunder your lands and take your women and children as slaves..

Assalaamu Alaikumm WR WB Haider, Ahlan wa Sahlan! Nice to see another Muslim on here, I hope you enjoy your stay and don't get disheartened by people like Infidel and Baal and a few others. They're motivated and guided by hate compounded by profound ignorance. Seal of their hearts etc. Look forward to hearing from you more. We have a Mid East section here, it's where I mostly post when I have time. http://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/index.php?showforum=57 Ws!

Not at all, and that concept is foreign to Islam also.

Michael, any ideology can be used by fanatics as an excuse to maintain power and control over people for their own benefit. LM, Just so I understand correctly, are you saying that it is OK to consider Islam as a social ideology? Michael Social ideology in the sense that one's religious beliefs effect the way that one conducts themselves in their interactions with other people, the way they vote, the way they spend money, the schools they send their children to, the places they will socialize in? If so, then all religions generally have that function.

That's silly. Allah knows everything that will happen and allows it to because He gave mankind the freedom to choose for ourselves. This is the ultimate proof that freedom is paramount in Islam because if Allah doesn't exercise much control over us, then what right does the state have? Michael, any ideology can be used by fanatics as an excuse to maintain power and control over people for their own benefit. Also ridiculous, Christianity maybe, but one only has to look at the Muslim Empires in Cordoba and Baghdad to see that education in science and everything else was considered an obligation to Muslims. Where else did the Europeans steal the knowledge to have their own reneissance. Islam promotes the education of all, from the beggar to the king, men and women, regardless of race or religion. I do, Islam does also.

I don't see ushering in freedom as being mutually exlusive from ushering in Islam. But that's just my point of view as I understand Islam differently to many people. I think what we'd all like to avoid is a Wahhabist system like Saudi Arabia's or worse being implemented but I don't think it will.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy0UBpagsu8

No, a democracy was Iran in the early 1950's when they democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh. It was the CIA and MI6 who launched Operation Ajax and overthrew him despite the fact that he was friendly to the West and Western educated. What is happening in Iran today and the style of government there eis due to the interference of the West, it gets the hardliners support because they don't want foreign powers ruling their country. As soon as the West leaves Iran alone, positive change will occur. If the Soviet Union had overthrew the US government in the 70's and installed a dictator, and then the people rose up against this dictator and pushed him and his cronies out, what type of government do you think the US would elect? It would most definitely be hardline.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/325785 Egyptian girl, Aisha Mustafa, invents new space propulsion system Posted May 31, 2012 by JohnThomas Didymus A physics student from Egypt's Sohag University, Aisha Mustafa, 19, has patented a new type of propulsion system based on quantum theory that she says could propel space probes and artificial satellites without using any fuel. NASA An artist images one of tne of NASA's "twin" STEREO spacecraft orbiting the sun, observing a coronal mass ejection. According Gizmodo, Aisha's new system exploits the quirky laws of quantum physics which state that in spite of appearances, space really is not vacuum but that it is a seething cauldron of fundamental particle interactions involving creation and destruction of "virtual particles." Mustafa believes it is possible to use vacuum energy fields to create propulsion and build spacecraft propulsion systems that need little or no fuel to travel in space. According to Fast Company, Mustafa is betting on exploiting quantum effects involved in dynamic Casimir effect and the Casimiri-Polder force. She uses two silicon metallic plates in a vacuum, "like capacitors placed a few micrometers apart." The plates interact with the virtual photons in the quantum field and generate a net force that is either an attraction or a repulsion depending on their arrangement. According to OnIslam.net, the invention is similar to a hypothetical concept of jet propulsion termed “Differential Sail," proposed by NASA’s Marc G. Millis. Fast Company reports that Aisha's university was so impressed with her new invention that it assisted her with a patent application. OnIslam.net reports that Mustafa's supervisor, Dr. Ahmed Fikry, who heads the physics department in Sohag University, said “I expect this invention to be highly beneficial in several fields and areas of industries." The President of Sohag University, Dr. Nabil Nour Eldin Abdellah, said the university facilitates "science clubs" for creative students. He said: “Once we knew about her (Mustafa’s) invention, we encouraged her and provided her with the budget needed through the Science Club for innovative students in the university. This is the case with any other creative student." According to OnIslam.net, with the retirement of NASA's space shuttle program, the field of space vehicles propulsion is expanding and and growing in importance with ongoing search for new methods of space travel that are faster, safer, cheaper and easier. A rich variety of new ideas in propulsive systems are being proposed some of which are beyond current technological capabilities to implement. Gizmodo reports that Mustafa intends to further study and develop the design so that it may be tested out. In a popular Egyptian morning program "Sabah El kheir Ya Masr"(Good Morning Egypt), Mustafa expressed her appreciation to her faculty and university staff for providing materials, resources and support. She, however, lamented that there is no funding for a department of space science in her university and in Egyptian universities in general. She said this prevents development and research in the field of space technology. She said: “Departments of astronomy and physics are only available. Although they are related to space sciences but unfortunately they aren’t into the specific field of my invention and they can’t practically test or implement it.” Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/print/article/325785#ixzz1wUMCLYVe

Exactly. I believe that there are some Ma'soom people, that is, people who have no intention to commit sins who were mandated by God to have authority over the government but they are far and few between and we believe that the Prophet Muhammad, His son in law Ali ibn abi Talib and his two sons Hassan and Hussein were such people and I would have no problems whatsoever giving full authority or power to someone like that. But there is no one like that apparent today and so I am not comfortable however, giving such authority to clerics who are fallible and therefore, it becomes necessary to have a separation of the powers of government so as to prevent tyranny from taking place and thus it becomes necessary for the people to hold that power and to protect it. Iran's Revolutionary Guard should be there to protect the people's rights, not keep a bunch clerics in power.

What I support for Iran is a change from Wilayat al Faqih to Wilayat al Ummah.