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I was just saying this to someone this morning. Iran’s theocracy was the only one that has withstood the Middle East political wars in Jordan, Syria, Afghanista
by reactordev 7mo ago
I was just saying this to someone this morning. Iran’s theocracy was the only one that has withstood the Middle East political wars in Jordan, Syria, Afghanistan, etc.
To rephrase it… if The Middle East was the UK, Iran would be British. If the Middle East was the US. Iran would be California.
- quotz 7mo ago> The Middle East was the UK, Iran would be British. Did you mean England perhaps, not "British"?
- krapht 7mo agoWhy? Is Scotland innocent?
- ndsipa_pomu 7mo agoScotland is almost certainly innocent, though the Scottish people may not be. Anyhow, the worst crimes of colonialism/genocide were mainly conducted by the English (including invading/killing plenty of Scottish, Welsh and Irish people).
- breppp 7mo agoJordan political system is much older than Iran, as well as the Saudis and others. Iran theocracy is a new phenomena in the Middle East, ushering the implementation era of political Islam, later continued by ISIS, Hamas and the milder Qatar and current Turkey
- dotancohen 7mo ago[flagged]
- dj_rock 7mo agoThe Catholic Church exerted strong influence in Quebec until the 1950s. Of course since then Quebec has become the most secular region in North America.
- tomjakubowski 7mo ago> Muslims who move to Christian-majority lands do not assimilate this is a ridiculous and false generalization, disproved by my own experience living in the United States and being friends with Muslim immigrants.
- dotancohen 7mo agoThat's what the French and the a Swedes thought when they had a Muslim population under 10 or 20 percent. Look at any area - any, your choice - where Muslims represent 50 or more or the population and tell me how tolerant they are. Don't let your values and your tolerance blind you to believe that your values and tolerance are universal or axiomic.
- mullingitover 7mo ago> Modern Western Christians are centuries removed from experiencing religion-as-politics. That's news for those of us that are living through the decades-long effort by christian dominionists to take over the US. > Western atheists, who share Christian values It's the other way around: Christians share basic morality with people operating on morality from first principles. Plenty of western christian values are orthogonal to morality. > Muslims who move to Christian-majority lands do not assimilate or convert. This is false and flat-out defamatory. It's also the type of statement that gets used before bad people do a bunch of bad things.
- reactordev 7mo agoNot debating who came first. I’m also not debating that Saudi’s are equivalent to the French to the Iranians (if they were England in my UK analogy, or Texas for the US one). I also don’t think that, in general, there’s any animosity there just talking size and influence over the region. Iran and Saudi are/were it. It’s a really interesting dynamic of faith, tradition, authoritarianism, and manipulation.
- dfc 7mo agoI was with you until you said California. You think that Californians are understand Southern or Midwestern culture?
- reactordev 7mo agoNot about culture. Size and GDP.
- animuchan 7mo agoAnother good analogy would be, said theocracy is (was?) like a very bad piece of legacy code, impossible to refactor, until the entire feature gets thrown in the trash.
- reactordev 7mo agoThat’s a greater analogy