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This was a religious war launched by Israel during Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrating the mass murder of Persians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim https:/
by spaghetdefects 7mo ago
This was a religious war launched by Israel during Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrating the mass murder of Persians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim
- rayiner 7mo ago[flagged]
- spaghetdefects 7mo agoSaying that your enemy "plans" to do something, is never justification for mass murdering civilians. It's interesting that this is basically the same playbook Zionists are currently using. Hurl some accusations, then start killing civilians.
- rayiner 7mo agoHaman’s plans weren’t theoretical. He had taken steps to put them into action, just like Iran has taken steps for decades in attacking Israel. Likewise, the people that were killed weren’t civilians. They were supporters of Haman. Undoubtedly, some innocent people were killed. That’s just how war works.
- spaghetdefects 7mo ago> modern scholarship generally regards it as a historical novel with legendary elements, not a reliable account of Purim’s origins. It's fiction.
- rayiner 7mo agoYou're the one who brought up Purim!
- spaghetdefects 7mo agoYes, that's the whole thing with theocracies, they base their decisions on fiction.
- tgma 7mo agoI don't see the relevance of history and mythology to the point I was making. I am suggesting that even within the Shia framework, if we were to take it at face value, the religious ruling that the GP mentioned is non-binding because they are allowed to lie out of expediency to life or existential threats to the Islamic establishment (Taqiyya); it won't count as a sin or hypocricy within their own framework, objectively.
- k33n 7mo ago[flagged]