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| Banisadr in a campaign photo |
Abulhassan Banisadr was the moderate, non-clerical face at the inception of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was officially the head of state for a little over a year until the Ayatollah Khomeini figured it was safe to dispose of him. First, the good cleric had Banisadr impeached by the Parliament. Luckily for the dismissed president, however, he was able to abscond to Paris in the hold of a Boeing 707 flown by a sympathetic pilot. It turned out that Banisadr got away by the skin of his teeth, as his modern-day hijra took place just before an Islamic kangaroo court was set to administer appropriate punishment on him for annoying the ayatollahs. (By the way, why do Moslems so often seek refuge in the West instead of in other Moslem countries?) If Mohammed El Baradei reaches the presidency of Egypt, I would wager all the riches of the pharaohs that his service will be of similar duration and outcome, unless of course, it turns out that he is a closet Islamist himself.
Furthermore, I opine that Mecca and Medina must be destroyed.
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