Hojjatieh
The Hojjatieh Society ( Persian انجمن حجتیه Hojatie , DMG Ḥojjatiya , also Hojatieh ) is asemi-secret Iranian Shiite organizationthat was founded in 1953 by Sheikh Mahmud Halabi and is oftenclassifiedas extremist .
Goals and development
When the organization was founded, it was directed against the Baha'i in particular , later against the Sunni direction of Islam , and - due to its influence on the Iranian state structure - recently also vehemently against Sufis . The group experienced a considerable boom on the occasion of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, when the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was ousted and driven out. Even in the new legal system of the Velayat-e Faqih (rule of the Supreme Legal Scholar ), the Hojjatieh was too fanatical and apocalyptic for Ruhollah Khomeini , so he banned it in 1983. The Hojjatieh worldview appears exclusive, anti-democratic and deeply anti-Western. Since 2005, with the election of Mahmoud Ahmadineschād , the Hojjatieh seems to be regaining influence.
Basic ideological conceptions
The common view of the Hojjatieh ideology is that chaos and confusion must first be created in order to hasten the return of the Mahdi , the Hidden Imam . According to a popular idea among some of the Shiite clergy, the Mahdi should rise from a dry well in Jamkaran near Qom to take over his rule. For this purpose, an avenue was created with great structural effort. Jamkaran is said to be more important as a pilgrimage site than Mashhad . The return of the Hidden Imam was expected by the followers of the Hojjatieh in 2007 CE. In the 1980s the Hojjatieh represented American Islam, in the 1990s reactionary Islam and from the 2000s onwards it was close to the ideology of Mesbah Yasdi and Mahmud Ahmadineschād, according to the opposition newspaper "roozonline".
Suspected members
President Mahmud Ahmadineschād already had contacts with the Hojjatieh as a student. His mentor Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi is a member, possibly “de facto” head of the Hojjatieh secret society. Of the 21 members of Ahmadineschād I's cabinet , three are said to have a Hojjatieh background, in addition to Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, the former secret service minister and current attorney general Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eschei and the former interior minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi .
Amir Taheri suspects that the Hojjatieh Mohammed Reza Mahdavi-Kani is the gray eminence , Ayatollah Ahmad Dschannati , chairman of the Guardian Council , is said to be a member, as is Gholam Reza Aghazadeh . The Iranian party, the Association of the Fighting Clergy, is, according to Taheri, close to the Hojjatieh. Amir Taheri continues to speak of an oligarchical network of the Hojjatieh that includes 400 Friday preachers from Iran. Ali Meschkini headed the central committee of the mullahs together with the Friday preacher from Tehran, Kashani . The oligarchy would offer a scholarship to 20,000 theology students.
Quotes
“Those who viewed the revolution as a deviation during the time of Imam Khomeini now hold the tools of terror and oppression in their hands. [...] The superficial thinking traditionalists with their Stone Age backwardness now have a powerful organization behind them. "
Web links
- Hojjatieh . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)
Individual evidence
- ^ Encyclopædia Iranica
- ↑ Extremist Society's Resurgence Underlines System's Drawbacks, (Globalsecurity.org, January 20, 2003)
- ↑ Ilan Berman: Understanding Ahmadinejad, June 1, 2006 ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ roozonline.com of October 29, 2010 Hojatieh Society: 57 Years in the Shadow
- ↑ Kasra Naji: Ahmadinejad. The secret history of Iran's radical leader. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-520-25663-7 . Page 15
- ↑ Ilan Berman: Understanding Ahmadinejad, June 1, 2006 ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Asiatimes.com of September 9, 2005 Shi'ite supremacists emerge from Iran's shadows
- ↑ Amir Taheri: The Persian Night: Iran Under the Khomeinist Revolution, 2008 in the Google book search page 273
- ↑ Asiatimes.com of September 9, 2005 Shi'ite supremacists emerge from Iran's shadows
