Ted Rall for June 29, 2002
Transcript:
Live from the floor of the Iranian parliament, it's I-Span. Man 1: Gavel to gavel, it's all Allah, all the time! Man 2: The mullah from Mashad graciously yields 6 minutes of his time to the secular gentleman from Teheran. Man 3: Thank you, Mr. Ayatollah- speaker. As we all know, the Supreme Court has ruled that the phrase "in Allah we trust" on Iranian coins is unconstitutional. Similarly, the long-standing practives of swearing in witnesses with a Koran, pledging allegiance to a unified Islamic state and wishing the best for the people by saying "Allah bless Iran" have been overturned. Some would say that Islam is our national culture, that the founders of the Republic were Muslim, that we should ignore the concerns of infidels. What is this- an American theocracy?