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Arabs are about 2% of Iran’s population [1], and most of the rest will be insulted if you called them arabs to their face. Many see themselves better than arabs
by fortzi 8mo ago
Arabs are about 2% of Iran’s population [1], and most of the rest will be insulted if you called them arabs to their face. Many see themselves better than arabs, and many more are mad about the arab occupation that brought Islam to take over the then-dominant faith of Zoroastrianism.
The average Israeli doesn’t hate the average Iranian. Israeli social media is full of posts about how people hope to one day visit Tehran. No, not as an occupier, get over yourself.
Your hate blinds you.
[1] https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2014/sep/24/report-arab-minority-faces-discrimination https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2014/sep/24/report-arab-min...
- gambutin 8mo agoIs it fair to call it colonialism instead of occupation?
- JumpCrisscross 8mo ago> Is it fair to call it colonialism instead of occupation? EDIT: Nvm.
- gambutin 8mo agoI was referring to the Arab conquest of Iran after 633.
- reliabilityguy 8mo agoIt’s colonialism. Edit: a modern example of it is the introduction of arabic language in Iranian schools after the revolution because arabic is the language of the Quran. A similar thing is done by China w.r.t. uighurs, which are not allowed to teach their language, and culture in schools, it has to be only Mandarin. Or, in Turkey, where by constitution it is prohibited to use any non-Turkish language as a language of instruction in schools. So yeah.
- JumpCrisscross 8mo agoThat isn’t colonialism or occupation, it’s straight up annexation. Romulus didn’t colonize Remus’s hills, they joined them into the whole as intended (and eventual) equals.