Thread by @hwmaqbul

For some time I've been watching exchanges between people with regards to Iran and israel.

There are a theological dimensions in political dimensions to different opinions.

If a person says that they would ally with Iran for political reasons, I personally see great danger...

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in that, given the treachery bloodletting that the Iranians have consistently been engaged in since the late Middle ages when a fanatical sect of Shī'ah essentially converted the population through genocidal inquisition, by force.

This is the reason you see most Iranians are

very Muslim with their attitudes in general about the Qur'ān, prophet ﷺ & symbols of Islām, but otherwise virulently anti-Islam in practice.

It is because a dysfunctional model of Islam was forced on them through violence.

So if you want to ally with them politically, I

don't agree that much good will come out of it, but you have a right to your opinion.

However, if the idea is that we have common cause with them in religion, their religion is a different religion that masquerades as Islām.

It is so abhorrent that they have to lie to their

own laypeople about it.

I personally wouldn't believe what the Sunnī scholars would tell me, one day exposed the beliefs that they have in their most cherished books.

Then I learned Arabic and actually open their books in read what's there.

When I would ask laypeople from

Iran how they can justify such crazy things, they would deny any knowledge of it. At this point they were either truly ignorant or lying. Both states are highly problematic.

A political alliance is by its nature ad hoc: in order for it to be fruitful people need to know what

the parameters of the alliance are.

This alliance can only be for the sake of combating a common enemy. For it to be useful, there needs to be a sober assessment as to when that is happening & when that is not happening, rather than mindless repetition of propaganda.

As for

the idea that somehow Iran is standing up for Palestine, or Islam, this is complete lunacy.

If they're standing up for Palestine they would have fired their missiles when Gaza was getting killed instead of only firing when they were being fired at.

If they were standing up

Islam, we would not see millions of Syrian, Iraqi & Yemeni, refugees, 100,000's of dead & Iranians proxy militias causing havoc & Pakistan & Afghanistan.

If you don't agree, fine.

But don't bury your head in the sand.

I welcome comment:
@YasirAlHanafi
@MrAdnanRashid