Is This the End of Political Islam?

About a year after the Iranian revolution in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of the new Islamic government, detailed his plan to govern according to Islam. The bearded, turbaned cleric said the state would support farmers and laborers and distribute land in line with “religious regulations.” Universities and journalists would propagate the divine cause. The courts would serve as “perfect examples of the implementation of God’s religion.”