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    n onreligious [i.e. non-Islamic] power, whatever form or shape, is

    necessarily an atheistic power, the tool of Satan; it is part of our duty to

    stand in its path and to struggle against its effects.  Such Satanic power

    can engender nothing but corruption on earth, the supreme evil which

    must be pitilessly fought and rooted out.  To achieve that end, we have

    no recourse other than to overthrow all governments that do not rest

    on pure Islamic principles, and are thus corrupt and corrupting, and to

    tear down the traitorous, rotten, unjust, and tyrannical administrative

    systems that serve them.... If Islamic civilization had governed the

    West, we would no longer have to put up with these barbaric

    goings-on unworthy even of wild animals....[Western governments

    are] using inhuman laws and inhuman political methods... Misdeeds

    must be punished by the law of retaliation: cut off the hands of the

    thief; kill the murderer instead of putting him in prison; flog the

    adulterous woman or man.  Your concerns, your 'humanitarian'

    scruples, are more childish than reasonable."  Khomeini had a

    prescription for such problems: "All of humanity must strike these

    troublemakers [the governments of the West] with an iron hand....

    Islam has obliterated many tribes because they were sources of

    corruption [i.e. sources of non-Islamic influence]...."  Judging from the

    Ayatollah's rhetoric, the next tribes he would have liked to see

    obliterated were those in Europe and America.87

    Allah is rapidly providing Khomeini's followers with a sword to

    carry out their master's wishes.  He has offered Islam the fire in which

    the Koran says those who follow false faiths are destined to burn:

    nuclear weaponry.  He has also provided the long range missiles

    needed to use it.88  According to the late imam's logic, there may be

    only one just and righteous thing to do: employ this technology to

    wipe out recalcitrant heathens like you and me.

    The modern growth of Islam is the coalescence of a

    superorganism drawn together by the magnetic attraction of a meme.

    But this meme has an advantage: The social body it is trying to pull

    together has existed as a unified social beast in the past.  The old

    reflexes of solidarity are still there, waiting to be aroused.  The meme of

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