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Make no mistake: the scourge of Pakistani terrorism emanates more from the country’s Scotch whisky-sipping generals than from the bead-rubbing mullahs.
The Calvinists of Geneva, or Cromwell's Puritans, were - like the mullahs of Teheran - biblio-centric, with a Holy Book as their model for the ideal society.
Its mullahs bicker constantly, seeming to reflect the country’s broader cleavages.
The military and hardline mullahs, who believe that Iran should produce a nuclear weapon, faced off against the bulk of the business community and reformist mullahs, led by Rouhani and former President Mohammad Khatami, who believe that it should not.
These pit the “honest radicals”- led by Ahmadinejad and supported by younger, second-generation revolutionaries known as the Abadgaran, or Developers, who are strong in the Iranian parliament, the Majlis- against the more corrupt and pragmatic mullahs who head the Party, led by Expediency Council Chairman and former President Hashemi Rafsanjani.
For the religious right and the mullahs, he is an agent of America, the great Satan, and has thus betrayed the cause of Islam.
Scenes of wild-eyed mullahs demonstrating in the streets of Pakistani cities are a boon to his position.
At one moment he is the “responsible” world leader who speaks charmingly to the international media about moderate Islam; at the next, he is the cunning conspirator who rigs elections, destroys political opponents, breaks promises on relinquishing power, enters into mutually beneficial relationships with mullahs, and castigates human-rights activists as “Westernized fringe elements” that “are as bad as the Islamic extremists.”
Through the bonyads, the mullahs have their say in most production and trade deals.
The void created by the shortcomings of Western aid programs has produced homegrown solutions in places like Pakistan, where socially minded, entrepreneurial religious leaders – mullahs – are increasingly making their presence felt.
People relate to mullahs and believe in what they are offering.
In Pakistan, mullahs raise funds from their communities and from official and private donors in the wealthy oil-producing countries.
Throughout the Muslim world, self-motivated, entrepreneurial mullahs have operated without bureaucrats and hardship allowances, five-star hotels, or business-class tickets.
That, I would argue, is exactly what mullahs are doing in the Islamic world.
They are then quickly pressured to become “bad Taliban” through money, propaganda, and pressure from Pakistani mullahs.
With fewer students from Afghanistan going to Pakistan, Pakistan could turn its attention to the country’s own madrassas and to the mullahs who convert students into suicide bombers.
There is not much that public outrage can do about the behavior of Iranian mullahs or Syrian thugs.
If it fails, the radical Salafists who will assume power in Riyadh will make the Iranian mullahs look like liberals.
The answer lies in a finely honed strategy, perfected over years, that juggles US demands and the interests of local intelligence chiefs, mullahs, tribal leaders, venal politicians, and a host of fortune seekers.
Musharraf cannot permit the mullahs to become too strong.
The mullahs, on the other hand, consider Musharraf an agent of the great Satan, America, and thus a traitor to Islam.
EU countries even refused to sever diplomatic relations after the Berlin verdict; true, with the exception of Greece, they recalled their ambassadors briefly, but more to placate their publics than impress Iran’s mullahs.
So it was not Mohammad’s intent to build a theocratic or religious state under the rule of mullahs.
Iran’s theocratic mullahs allowed the election of Hassan Rowhani, a man who announced in his first speech as President-elect that his victory is “the victory of wisdom, moderation, and awareness over fanaticism and bad behavior.”
And, given the determination of both the Israeli and Iranian governments to use each other’s intransigence as an excuse for their own, Europe must also be prepared to use its economic muscle on Iran if and when the mullahs reject Obama’s extended hand.
So, too, have protestors around the world made George W. Bush resemble Hitler, and mullahs throughout the Islamic world ritualistically harangue US presidents as earthly Satans, simultaneously noting their basic affection for the American people.
The US has found it much safer, it seems, to focus on mortal threats that remain more notional than real – be it Saddam Hussein or Iran’s Shia mullahs.
If they succeed, the Arab world may finally have an alternative to rule by generals or mullahs.
Neither moved the country’s ruling mullahs.
Rapprochement with Armenia stalled; no significant progress was made on Cyprus, especially after a less-accommodating leader was elected in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (an entity that only Turkey recognizes); the opening to Iran did not soften the mullahs’ position on nuclear development (and strained relations with the United States); the Syria-Israel talks failed; and Turkey’s participation in the 2010 flotilla to Gaza, and Israel’s brutal response to it, signaled an end to decades of close Israeli-Turkish cooperation.