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Sunni Muslims hate the Iranian regime and consider Shia to be heretics
by UltraSane 8mo ago
Sunni Muslims hate the Iranian regime and consider Shia to be heretics
- inglor_cz 8mo agoThis is not completely true. The Iranian regime gained some credibility in the Sunni world by strongly supporting the Palestinian cause. You can bet that every anti-war demonstration in the West now will have as many Palestinian flags as flags of the Iranian Islamic Republic. Stranger coalitions have been put together by politics...
- UltraSane 8mo agoOh boy flying the flag of the Islamic Republic in the US would get so much blowback. Everyone knows how incredibly evil it is. It recently killed at least 20,000 protestors to stay in power.
- chasd00 8mo agoThere were Hamas flags in the streets of NYC on Oct 8th 2023. Some people will gladly support anything.
- mfru 8mo agoI hope the people doing the blowback also blowback against flying US flags, a country that is famously responsible for so, so many deaths.
- UltraSane 8mo agoYou think flying the US flag INSIDE the US will have blowback?
- Cipater 8mo agoEvery single one of them? There are many Sunnis who view their leadership as "traitors to the cause" and respected Iranian defiance especially against Israel. It's far from black and white.
- UltraSane 8mo agoPromising to destroy Israel is a lot more than just "defiance". Israel's existence has no significant effect on Iran but Iran is strangely obsessed with destroying it to Iran's own detriment.
- esalman 8mo agoI am Sunni and I condemn the attack. Having said that, I also condemn Iranian regime killing (reportedly) 30000 protesters. So he probably had it coming. I'm more concerned about what happens to US now, because I think the attack indicates a complete failure and collapse of the legislative branch of the US government.
- bsenftner 8mo agoOh, there is no effective US Government beyond Trump's demands. he's decimated anyone that could challenge, and the general public was manufactured without the critical analysis to understand. The USA is over and gone, the US is a headless zombie nation operated by 7th graders, pedos, and drug addicts. All they need is a social following and loyalty, and they are part of the government.
- nerdyadventurer 8mo agoCannot believe so called great country, elected a convicted felon.
- koolba 8mo ago> I'm more concerned about what happens to US now, because I think the attack indicates a complete failure and collapse of the legislative branch of the US government. Why now? Why not when they took out Soleimani in 2020? Or when they invaded and took out Gaddafi in 2011? Can keep going all the back to Truman invading Vietnam.
- esalman 8mo agoI don't know. Have Congress and Senate always been this ineffective? I don't remember Obama, Biden or even Trump 45 act with this much impunity. I obviously can't go further back because I have been here since Obama's second term.
- amalcon 8mo agoThe Iran-Contra scandal from the Reagan administration comes to mind. Congress explicitly de-authorized the executive from funding the Contras in Nicaragua. The executive kept doing it anyway. Nobody faced any consequences, though Congress at least made a lot of noise about it. That's kind of ineffective, but not to this level where Congress is just fine with blatant illegality.
- hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 8mo agoOnly people who live on social media believe these extreme views to be true. Most muslims hardly even know the difference or care.
- Cipater 8mo agoWhile the comment you replied to was "extreme", it is impossible for any muslim to not know the difference when the difference defines everything about how they practice their religion.
- hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 8mo agoAre you muslim? In the real world most muslims are not that religious and hardly follow what is taught to perfect precision. They would not be able to answer the difference except in vague terms at best.
- cindyllm 8mo ago[dead]
- Cipater 8mo agoNo, I am not muslim. Every single muslim, whether devout, practicing, lapsed or whatever, knows whether they are/were Sunni or Shia. They are literally born into it. It determines who is seen as the authority in matters of their faith, the way they pray, the sites they consider holy, the religious days they observe. Even Ramadan starts and ends on different days depending on which you are. It's such a fundamental thing that I question whether you have any idea about what you're saying here.
- Marsymars 8mo agoI don't know much about Islam, but what's being described isn't uncommon for lapsed Christians. I know plenty of people in my orbit (including me) who went to mass on Christmas Eve and Easter as children, but literally wouldn't be able to answer if the curch they went to was Catholic or Protestant.
- newyankee 8mo agoWell if you take religious interpretations to do the extreme they hate all 'non believers'. I am assuming that even the Sunni Muslim countries' average population might not be that happy with the bullying (their perception)