• AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml
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      9 hours ago

      @Jabril@hexbear.net

      Something I notice about all these spaces. When I post facts about Islamic resistance, instead of people asking something “wow thats actually incredible, do you know how they did this incredible thing?” We end up stuck in a pattern of having literally the same conversations trying to explain basic concepts.

      I know that I’m impressed when I see these statistics. Maybe thats because hijab made me stupid and oppressed 🤪 🫠

      • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        The reality of the Islamic resistance is so shrouded in mystery due to Islamophobia that it’s impossible for many to see their accomplishments as nothing more than a coincidence, which is ironically an anti-materialist way of viewing the world.

        • AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml
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          7 hours ago

          which is ironically an anti-materialist way of viewing the world.

          Right. Couldn’t have said it better myself. The leadership of the resistance is way more rooted in real existing circumstances.

          For example, one might ask about how the Islamic Revolution improved womens literacy so much in such a short period of time. Well, the leadership was aware that Iranian women of all ages and social/economic classes attended the mosque. So they set up womens reading programs in all the mosques, urban and rural. And women teachers were paid to run these programs for everyone from kids to grandmother’s. Seems pretty smart to me. Using the character of the masses as a way to promote social good rather than trying to mold them into whatever westernized ideation. Seems pretty rooted in materialism to me!

          As you said though, such a thing gets shrouded in myth. The Iranians, the Palestinians, the Lebanese… portrayed as simultaneously magically resilient and well organized while also backwards in need of secularization. I dont have the words for this dualism but maybe you see what Im getting at.

          • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            6 hours ago

            I dont have the words for this dualism but maybe you see what Im getting at.

            It reminds me of the noble savage trope, but perhaps there is a more apt comparison.

            I was getting at it in the news mega thread where Shia Islam was discussed but until people take time to study the history of Islam at large, as well as of Shia specifically, it is impossible to have an accurate analysis of the resistance movement. Shia history has revolutionary sentiment built into the lineage, it reminds me a lot of Juche, with generations of revolutionaries passing down a revolutionary history long before marx was around to describe dialectical materialist analysis. The conditions demanded a revolutionary sentiment and a revolutionary analysis and that is within the DNA of the movement, continuing on into today. Repression has prevented Marxism from being as popular in the Ummah as it once was and will be again but revolutionary and liberatory sentiment within Islam predates Marxism and can be repressed but never removed.

          • AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml
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            10 hours ago

            You see, a democracy 😇 is when a country is operating as a forward military base for the US empire. 15 military bases and 55,000 US troops in Japan and 28,000 US troops in S Korea are just there to protect democracy 😇 from authoritarian China 😡 And DPRK 😡

            And fake settler colony that has been committing genocide with US-made weapons since its invention is also very good democracy 😇

            Anyways. Comparing health outcomes of countries that are economic beneficiaries of imperialist looting with a country under siege from imperialism is not making the point you think it is making.

            Please take your zionism and leave.

          • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            11 hours ago

            If you’re going to say Iraq and Pakistan are dictatorships then you’d have to be an unashamed hypocrite to say Japan, functionality a one party state, isn’t.