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From: cramer@sun.uucp (Sam Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Islamic Tolerance : the final chapter
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 13:06:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 13:06:10 1986
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Nidhal continues to mislead us concerning the situation of Iranian Jews 
under the Khomeini regime.  He assures us

>	First of all, if there is persecution of Jews in Iran, it
> cannot possibly be for such "crimes" as "receiving letters from 
> relatives in Israel ," or "importing honey from Israel." 

Why can it not possibly be for such "crimes"?  Many things take
place to Khomeini's Iran that seem quite incredible in the West. 
Who would believe that the madman of Quom would have 14 year 
old martyrs marching through minefields to clear the way for
aging Iranian tanks?  Who would believe that an Iranian judge
would start a fist fight in the World Court in the Hague?  Given the
state of affairs in Iran today, Nidhal's assertion that there is no
persecution of Jews in Iran on spurious grounds is somewhat less
than credible.

Nidhal does state that

> Persecution
> due to " cooperation with Zionism and the state of Israel " could
> be considered as `cooperation with the enemy' by the Iranians,
> and would then take a political dimension rather than a religious
> one.

However, the Ayatollah himself states that the conflict between
Islam and Israel is religious and not political in nature (this gibes
with the oft-made statement that Islam is an all-embracing system
which subsumes political and economic life).  Khomeini stated in his
book "Confronting Israel":

	"Oh brothers!  Let us not regard this holy and sacrificial war
	as a war between Arabs and Israel.  Let us regard it as a war of
	all Moslems together against Jews and their leaders."

Nihdal's hollow and unsubstantiated statements aside, this is a war
which Khomeini and his followers are prosecuting most viciously.

Sam Cramer	sun!cramer