Khomeini on fear of Western immorality
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Khomeini declared 'We are not afraid of sanctions. We are not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of Western immorality', Žižek takes this literally: the true threat felt by Muslim fundamentalists is cultural, specifically the challenge to fixed sexual difference.
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“We are not afraid of sanctions. We are not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of Western immorality.”
“we do not fear western military superiority... we do not fear western economic imperialism... what we do fear is the dissolute western way of life.”
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Khomeini declared 'We are not afraid of sanctions. We are not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of Western immorality', Žižek takes this literally: the true threat felt by Muslim fundamentalists is cultural, specifically the challenge to fixed sexual difference., illustrating sexual difference as political,fundamentalism and cultural war
Khomeini stated that Iran does not fear Western military superiority or economic imperialism, only the dissolute Western way of life. Illustrates how sexuality/lifestyle becomes the primary site of anti-Western political resistance., illustrating sexuality becomes political,anti-Western political Islam,cultural fear vs. military fear