Iran 1979

The Ayatollah Khomeini led the Islamic revolution in Iran. It was promised – and most people believed – that if the country was governed by the Koran and the Sharia law, a good and just society would emerge. In 1979 Iran started to be ruled by Islam through Islamic leaders. What has been the result of 30 years of Islamic rule? Let me mention just 10 things: 1. Iran has become an active supporter of terrorism around the world, like Hezbollah and Hamas.
2. Iran has perhaps the highest proportion of drug users in the world.
3. Due to economic failures and Islamic laws of "temporary marriages" hundreds of thousands of women have been forced into prostitution.
4. Iran is one of the worst Human Trafficking countries in the world. (www.state.gov/g/tip)
5. Iran is among the biggest threats to world peace: nuclear weapons and Shia beliefs in the 12th Imam is really a bad and dangerous synergy.
6. Mullahs are detested and people have turned against Islam.
7. Hundreds of thousands have left Islam and have become followers of Isa / Jesus.
8. Christians are being persecuted.
9. Women are being treated as 2nd class citizens.
10. Iran is a world leader when it comes violating human rights The list can be made longer. The Islamic revolution has brought about rampant unemployment, world pariah status, lack of freedoms, persecution of dissidents and other miseries. But it has also brought about one of the biggest Christian revivals in the world – in a Muslim country. This is what the 1979 revolution has brought. What will come out of the 2009 uprising? It is too early to tell. But we do know that all dictatorships fall – it is just a matter of time. But we also know that some revolutions and changes of governments fail because they replace one oppressive system with another. Poland, for example, went from Nazi oppression to a Communist oppression. But when and where there have been leaders with democratic ideals and personal integrity, changes of governments have been benefited the people, like South Africa & Nelson Mandela and Czechoslovakia & Vaclav Havel. We need to pray for the people of Iran and that freedom may come, freedom which respects human dignity and human rights.