"...And it was as the interpreter of God's will, the final judge of what was Islamic and what was not Islamic, the (Ayatollah) Khomeini ruled Iran. Some days after I arrived in Tehran, this was what he said on the radio: 'I must tell you that during the previous dictatorial regime (of Shah) strikes and sit-ins pleased God. But now when the government is a Muslim and national one, the enemy is busy plotting against us. And therefore staging strikes and sit-ins is religiously forbidden because they are against the principles of Islam..."
-- V.S. Naipaul, winner of the Nobel prize in literature, "Among the Believers: an Islamic Journey"
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