Nuclear theocracy
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Theocracy is and should be a frightening term. History and current events clearly demonstrate that the autocratic and unilateral application of religious dogma is a most efficient method of bloodletting. It can be argued that the Inquisition would have been as effective as Al Qaeda if they had modern machinery and were not so found of slow torture.
Government gets an equally strong rap given how systematically some have isolated and destroyed people in genocidal campaigns. Government is a more efficient killing machine than Al Qaeda due to the nearly unlimited financial resources available (Al Qaeda only has ideology and hatred for raw materials).
Indeed, the last time mankind whelped the unholy union of church and state, Crusades and Inquisitions were the units of production. It is for this and more philosophic reasons that modern republics and democracies erect iron barriers between faith and governance. The dangers of such a pairing are real, predictable, and if left unchecked can only be resolved through warfare.
This logical separation of church and state does not exist in Iran, and is dangerously close to reality in other heavily Islamic countries. As the Church before, this combined power now exists for the primary mission of subjugating the heathen/infidel masses to an alleged supreme authority (though how the henchmen atop Iran were appointed to this position of delegated dominion is unclear).
If Al Qaeda is more effective than the Inquisition thanks to the tools of modern mayhem, we must shudder at the inevitable outcome of a true theocracy — Iran — with the ultimate in lethal weaponry — the nuclear bomb. Unrestrained by conventional wisdom or humanity, Iran with the bomb will at some future date choose to use it. Their target is irrelevant, and could as easily be Jersey as Jerusalem.
The equally inevitable result is a radioactive Iran. Retaliation would be swift, complete, and numbing in scope.
There is but one path to prevention, which entails Islam cleansing itself of theocratic members and mindset — the revelation that Islam does not speak for Allah any more than Jerry Falwell speaks for Jesus. For Islam, the cancer of egotistical creed has yet to metastasized, but the body-Islam is clearly infected and ready for surgery.
Like communism and fascism before it, theocratic Islam is the failed notion that one people with one set of ideals has the authority to dominate others. And like communism and fascism, those who are more enlightened and crave freedom will reluctantly hoist their swords and march unblinkingly into battle.
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