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Expansion of the Sphere of Power of Dictatorial Governments in Islamic Societies

The ruling system as well as the theoreticians of the
ruling powers in the Islamic countries had well realized that the alien concepts
did not enjoy an historical and cultural background in the Islamic countries. As
a result they lacked any theoretical backing and firmness of interpretation.
Therefore in a crafty measure they changed their nature and through combination
of these concepts with their own legitimizing issues transformed them into new
instruments for the legitimization of their own authoritarian rules. They
expanded the sphere of their dictatorship and hid their violent face under the
veneer of deceiving masks. Such concepts as progressive dictatorial rule, guided
democracy, superior civilization and such strategies as extremist nationalism
(chauvinism) pan Arabism, pan Iranism, etc. are among the most prevailing ones
during this stage of political history of the Islamic world.

“Self-centeredness of authoritarian rulers in the world of
Islam stems from this fact. For instance, self-centeredness in development
justifies the political order through referring to economic disorderliness;
nationalist self-centeredness on its part justifies relies on the role of the
leader by referring to the need to resist foreign factors and military
self-centeredness which previously used to rely on the justification of
conquest, now emphasizes on the necessity of preservation of order through
resort to the force.”

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Imam Khomeini states: “In our time, the words and logics
have been misplaced, open political atmosphere is in fact the very suppression
and all-out censors. The “great civilization” is in fact savageries worse than
that of the medieval ages. The reconciliation government kills the people with
tanks, cannons and machineguns.
Independence
is military, economic and cultural dependence.”

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