I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Conspiracy of silence
It is not often that I find myself agreeing with Neil Clark, but I do, and wholeheartedly, on this point he highlights:
(From the Tehran Times )...
Islamic law prohibits production of nuclear arms: Leader
Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN - Iran’s religious leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has stated that the Islamic Republic has repeatedly said that Iran opposes the production and use of nuclear weapons in principle from an Islamic point of view.
Of course, there'll be some of you respond "well he would say that wouldn't he" but it's something I've long bellieved - it is logically inconsistent with Islam to want to have the means to destroy God's creation so comprehensively as a nuclear weapon would. So? you say, Pakistan has them...but Pakistan has never been ruled specifically by Islamic clerics.
I for one believe them.
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