    75

    Lord; on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve." (Al-Baqara--62)  The

    apologists then ignore literally dozens of passages like the following: "The Jews call

    Uzair a son of Allah and the Christians call Christ the son of  Allah.  That is a saying

    from their mouths; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say.

    Allah's curse be on them...." (At-Tauba--30); "O ye who believe! take not the Jews

    and the Christians for your friends and protectors...Verily Allah guideth not a people

    unjust." (Al-Maida--51).  Most important, the Koran is explicit in its pronouncement

    that Christians are, indeed, "those who believe in God's partners":

    They do blaspheme who say: "Allah is Christ the son of Mary."  But said Christ: "O children

    of Israel! worship Allah my Lord and your Lord." Whoever joins other gods with

    Allah Allah will forbid him the garden and the Fire will be his abode.  There will for

    the wrong-doers be no one to help. (Al-Maida--72)

    They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except

    One Allah.  If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy) verily a grievous

    penalty will befall the blasphemers among them. (Al-Maida--73)

    44. Shaul Bakash, The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution, p.

    233.    As R.K. Ramazani, the Harry Flood Byrd, Jr. professor of government and

    foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, put it, "Khomeini believes that the export

    of revolution is obligatory" in the interests of "an overarching concept of Islamic

    world order."  Ramazani pointed out that Khomeini "rejected...the very idea of the

    [secular, non-Islamic] nation-state.... In other words, in Khomeini's ideal Islamic

    world order there would be no room for the modern secular... international system."

    Khomeini, in Ramazani's words, felt "it is Iran that is uniquely qualified as a nation

    to pave the way for the ultimate founding of world government....  In Khomeini's

    words, '...the Iranian nation must grow in power and resolution until it has

    vouchsafed Islam to the entire world.'"  (R.K. Ramazani, Revolutionary Iran:

    Challenge and Respect in the Middle East,  pp. 20-24.)

    45.  Ruhollah Khomeini, Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam

    Khomeini, Hamid Algar trans., Mizan Press, Berkeley, California, 1981, pp. 35, 219.

    Khomeini's view of Christ may become a little clearer if you realize that standard

    Islamic doctrine asserts the Old and New Testament are insidious corruptions of

    God's word, and that these perversions were later "corrected" by the Koran.

    46.  Mark Indyk, "Watershed in the Middle East," Foreign Affairs, America and the

    World, Winter, 1991-1992, p. 70.  For additional information on the progress of

    Islamic Fundamentalism, see: "Islam Resumes Its March," by the editors of The

    Economist, reprinted in The National Times, May 1992, p. 9.

    47.  John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: myth or reality, Oxford University Press,

    New York, 1992, p. 8.

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