Monarchy Abolition Quotes
Khomeini was a politician as well as a cleric. He was not always consistent depending on his audience. This book was the publication of 17 different speeches with different audiences. Here he opposes all monarchy, but there is little doubt that his main target was the monarchy of Saudi Arabia. In {620335} he suggests that monarchy would be acceptable if the monarch followed Islamic law. Here he leaves no room for monarchies of which there were and are a number in the Muslim world. And at the height of Islam there was a Caliph who not only had absolute rule of ALL Muslim countries, but he was the absolute ruler of the religion. The Caliph and later the Islamic Sultan held more absolute power than any king or Pope ever had. Most of the Islamic fundamentalists claim that they want a return to having a Caliph with absolute power. And even in Iraq today, the “Supreme Leader” exercises more autonomous power, than any monarch or dictator does in his own country.
The Ambassador without any authority from the State Department or the Congress engineered a group that staged a coup in Hawaii which overthrew the popular government monarchy and then “asked” to be ruled by the United States. Hawaii had been a stable independent nation, but many American businessmen and adventurers had designs on the valuable Hawaiian land. President Cleveland tried to remedy the situation {643147}, but it was too late. Haraii had become a U. S. territory and there was no going back.
He was captured and executed shortly thereafter by the King’s troops.
Constitutional Bishops in Revolutionary France were elected by the people, not appointed by a hierarchy. Upon hearing the motion, the assembly rose to its feet and passed it by acclamation. This was the end of the French Monarchy and the nobility—for a while.
