Reply #29: It Is Worth Pointing Out, Sir [View All]

[The Magistrate]

That fundamentalism in all religions has tended historically to support ruling classes; one of the reasons socialism and Communism made such scanty imnroad into the Near East in ther esarly portion of the twenmtieth century was owing to the imfluence of conservative religious adherences. It is a recent accident of history that has allowed Islamic fundamentalism to appear as an agency against a ruling class, and take on an anti-colonialist guise. Should the tendency gain sufficient power, the example of Iran, among others, is sufficient to demonstrate its clerical leaders wouyld simply consitiute themselves as a new ruling class steeped in tyranny and corruption indistinguishable in rotteness from its predecessors.