Quote #4

There is no room for play in Islam ... It is deadly serious about everything.

More from Ruhollah Khomeini

  1. In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.
  2. All those against the revolution must disappear and quickly be executed.
  3. In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.
  4. This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.
  5. If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.
  6. Islam's jihad is a struggle against idolatry, sexual deviations, plunder, repression, and cruelty. The war waged by [non-Muslim] conquerors…
  7. We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land…
  8. In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.

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