ABSTRACT
Radical Islam in power was perversely advancing the secularization of the Muslim mind. Except for the death edict against Salman Rushdie—an outrageous and successful intimidation of the West—Iran's Islamic revolutionaries had lost everywhere. In Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Gulf, and even in the Shi'ite strongholds of Lebanon, they'd been isolated or ejected. Among themselves, Iranians were meaner, more hypocritical and duplicitous than they'd been before. Persians no longer thought they had a mandate from God. Worst of all, sixteen years after the revolution, America was more idealized than before. The Islamic revolution was a guerrilla action against the inevitable separation of church and state in the Muslim mind. It was a male scream against the gradual, irreversible liberation of women and the Westernization of the Muslim home.
