Ir attacked, Iran says it will attack Israel

[sardus_pater]

http://thechurchforall.org/ChosenPeople.jpg

Now I sit by my window and I watch the tanks go by
I fear I'll do some damage one fine day
But I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers
Still chosen after all these years
Still chosen, still chosen
Still chosen after all these years

:D

[BenReilly]

I've been doing some research on Iran and have discovered this book, which I strongly recommend:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0520066510.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.gif

[ViscaBarca]

but in a democracy there should be a sane leader
you can't have it all...
http://www.holylemon.com/SpeechWriter.html

[JBigjake]

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=42598&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs
"Members of the assembly must be experts in Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence)"

Do they attend Fiqh U.?

[Rostam]

"Members of the assembly must be experts in Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence)"

Do they attend Fiqh U.?

They study a series of topics including philosophy (Greek & Eastern), religion, Fiqh (Islamic Jurisdiction) and other topics. I have heard some computer sciences have been added within the last decade or so, not sure though.

[BenReilly]

I would like to repeat the noble words of Mr. "Beer Hound" of Bikini Magazine, "The other day I had a spiritual re-awakening with my first sip of HE'BREW Beer...It was so good and so tasty that it made me re-examine my religious convictions."

If you drink the Chosen Beer, you could become a chosen person.

[Iranian Monitor]

"Members of the assembly must be experts in Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence)"

Do they attend Fiqh U.?

Traditionally, the clergy in Iran oversaw education in the country. The traditional curriculum from the middle ages was basically kept intact with what little that was added by Islamic civilization afterwards. As the Islamic civilization declined, and the West went through its rennaisance ushering later the enlightment, the curriculum of these Islamic institutions became deficient. Yet, many of the clergy were not willing to adjust their curriculum and teach what was being taught in the land of the infidels.

Modernizers in the Islamic world, including Iran, began instituting secular educational insitutions outside of clerical control. Those institutions, IMHO, had their own deficiencies. They were superficially modeled on Western institutions without having gone through the same evolutionary processes, often preferring form over substance. Superficial things that stood as indicators of progress over its fundamentals. This was especially true in the humanities and social sciences.

The best educational institutions in Iran can still one day be ones that are built on a cornerstone of having the best schools to teach "jurisprudence" as well as separate departments in other fields and disciplines. These institutions, properly invigorated with the best methods of teaching and learning, building on the enormous legacy from the past, discarding features found deficient but not wasting all of it, can still train be places to train the most profound thinkers in Iran and the Islamic world.

If those institutions are transformed, they can then play a role in giving Iran's its version of Platonic guardians. Some say the US has a bevy of Platonic Guardians in its Supreme Court. And the elite American law schools do a decent job for training such Platonic guardians. Maybe our "jurists" can study "jurisprudence", get a liberal education, wear the robes that jurists in the US still wear too, and fulfill a similar function as well. In time, the religious affiliations of their institutions giving away to the force of reason and logic -- both understood in Islamic jurisprudence to be the prime vehicles for God's communication to man. Some argue reason taking precedence over scripture in terms of its reliability in understanding God's intent. But at the same time, the robes our jurists wear cannot be foreign robes, lest they not have the message of legitimacy that those robes need to impart.