@Siegfried881@IbrahimMajed aggression. His aim wasn’t Shia domination of Lebanon, but an empowered Shia community contributing to the defence and dignity of Lebanon as a whole.
@Siegfried881@IbrahimMajed I think “National-Socialist” is an interesting way of framing it, although I’d describe Imam Musa al-Sadr’s vision as distinctly Islamic: social justice for the dispossessed, national unity above sectarianism, protection of all communities, and organised resistance to foreign
@elonmusk At least the Shia are not selling young girls to rich people in power like you for their pleasure eh? Shouldn’t we all be focussing on the Epstein files?
The recording of "Sunni and Shi'a?" featuring Shaykh @YasirQadhi and Shaykh Mahdi Rastani will premiere live on Youtube at 6 pm, cst, today!
Watch here: https://t.co/VWBiV8inZ2
The West isn't a "civilisation" it's a parasitical, lobby captured, sanction wielding empire of satanism that architects poverty, overthrows governments, funds endless slaughter, then lectures and does public relations about "human rights" while celebrating war crimes in Iran. All for oil and Israel. International law is a Zionist-American joke, if it existed, every bomb, every F-35, every drop of blood money would be seized tomorrow.
1978, before Imam Khomeini and before Hezbullah
The Lebanese state told Lebanese in the south: Work with Israel or we will abandon you.
The only reason Lebanon wasn't the first Arab state to normalize with Israel is because the Lebanese in the south sacrificed their present
O Leader! We pledge allegiance to you, but not because you're the son of our martyred Leader. Although, that is an honor itself. We pledge allegiance to you because we believe Imam Mahdi himself takes part in choosing the Wali Faqih (Guardian Jurist). Others are intermediaries.
The answer is not that complicated: Iranians are highly educated. And I’m not just talking about formal education (which many Westerners have), I mean on an everyday societal level. Iranian TV and radio are full of intellectual religious/philosophical debates and discussions, history, classical music, poetry readings, and so on. Iranians value literature and the arts, and they inherit thousands of years of civilisation, not just found in beautiful historic palaces and mosques, but also in their own homes, from hand-knotted rugs to intricate marquetry and ceramics.
Of course, not everything in Iran is so highbrow, but contrast that with the constant slop and brain-rot that Westerners consume daily, from late night talk shows to other types of filler programming, and the revulsion that Westerners display towards anything that isn’t mass-produced, monotonous capitalist junk. No doubt, there is cultural programming in the West, too, and – especially in Europe rather than the US – there are traditional crafts that are valued, but these no longer percolate widely on a cultural level. They are mostly dead and the reserve of older generations and the ‘eccentric’ (as they are viewed).
Ultimately, these societies and cultures are not the same.
Many of today’s Iranian politicians are also veterans of the Iran-Iraq War, and they have lived through severe difficulties in their lives. They are not like the pampered career politicians you find in the West.