Succession Crisis 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.
Pasha Muhammed Ali was the Ottoman Overlord of Egypt and Syria. He is an unusual example of a leader who was a realist relative to the skills and abilities of his family for succession. His family indeed could not hold Egypt.
He was captured and executed shortly thereafter by the King’s troops.
The consequence was just the opposite. The Mormons have thrived in America despite vicious Anti-Mormon violence and discrimination.
Peter was totally unusual as a Russian monarch in that he personally worked very hard at being a ruler. He read profusely, traveled to get new ideas, talked to learned people throughout Europe, did not trust heavy drinkers. His son, brought up in the Kremlin was more like the traditional Russian nobility—alcoholic spendthrifts. When Peter threatened to disinherit his son, Alexis fell in with plotters against the Czar. When Peter discovered this, he had his own son executed in July 1718.
