Heartbroken by the horrific incident in Awantipora. A 7 year old child should know only love care & safety. May Allah grant the child strength & healing & may the culprits face the harshest punishment.This is a painful reflection of what is going wrong in our society (Kashmir)๐ญ
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan wants you to believe there are two completely separate schools of Shiโism, the โmoderateโ Sistani wing versus the โradicalโ Khomeini wing, and that he, of course, follows the peaceful, reasonable one.
As always, he is lying straight to your face.
Hereโs what the very same Ayatollah Sistani actually said about Khomeini:
โI asked Ayatollah Sistani: โSir, how many years did you attend the classes of the late Imam Khomeini in Qom?โ
Ayatollah Sistani stood up and said:
โFirst, I must stand out of respect for the late Ayatollah Khomeini. You do not know what a great thing Imam Khomeini accomplished. We who were trapped here in the grip of Saddam understood, and still understand, the value of Imam Khomeiniโs work.
Every night, I listened to all of Imam Khomeiniโs speeches. I had a small radio, and I would go to my library on the upper floor of my house. After the 8 p.m. news, when Imam Khomeiniโs speeches were broadcast, I would listen to them.โโ
Sistani did not just respect Khomeini, he revered him as a towering figure and listened religiously to his speeches while living under Saddam.
So spare us the fake divide, Mehdi. You are not some neutral Sistani follower trying to distance yourself from Khomeiniโs legacy. You are just doing what you always do: sanitizing, misleading, and gaslighting to protect the Islamic Republicโs ideology while pretending to be an objective journalist.
The mask slips every single time.
@patrickbetdavid
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