The Ayatollah Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini was born on September 24, 1902 into a family of Shi’ite religious scholars in the small Iranian village of Khomein. The family claimed to be descendants of the Prophet Muhammad
Ayatollah Khomeini put other clerics to work on writing an Islamic constitution for Iran. He also began iterating more authoritarian sentiments than before: “Don’t listen to those who speak of democracy. They all are against Islam. They want to take the nation away from its mission. We will break all the poison pens of those who speak of nationalism, democracy, and such things.”
Khomeini strongly supported the spread of Islam throughout the non-Muslim world.
“We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry ‘There is no god but Allah’ resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle.”
“Not just as a faith but as a state.
“Establishing the Islamic state world-wide belong to the great goals of the revolution.
“We have often proclaimed this truth in our domestic and foreign policy, namely that we have set as our goal the world-wide spread of the influence of Islam and the suppression of the rule of the world conquerors … We wish to cause the corrupt roots of Zionism, capitalism and Communism to wither throughout the world. We wish, as does God almighty, to destroy the systems which are based on these three foundations, and to promote the Islamic order of the Prophet … in the world of arrogance.”
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is Shi’ite Muslim & is the Caliph of the self-proclaimed Islamic State; previously the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS); located in western Iraq and north-eastern Syria.
He was formerly known as Abu Du’a, uses the aliases Amir al-Mu’minin Caliph Ibrahim and claims he is a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad