Aafreen

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Salaam sister. I just wanted to stop by to congratulate you on Ashura. I am sure you enjoyed this occasion very much.

... So I think the best counter to propaganda is to refer to many sources, and more importantly, to not get lost in books. Experience will go long way in deconstructing propaganda. Western education establishments try to put their pupils in bubbles; isolate them from the world. They completely sever "education" from "life," when the two should be inexorably tied. But that's all I will say for now.

... through much study and observation. One main thing I noticed, as I read the writings and musings of Western authors and Iranian traitor authors, were the inconsistencies. I saw that their arguments not only conflicted with reason, but that they conflicted with the reality I saw in Iran. This caused me to question their legitimacy, and ultimately this caused me to reject them outright. ...

Ultimately, I think propaganda is based on repetitions. All propaganda can be effective simply if it has as many repetitions as possible. The only way for an individual to undermine this propaganda is to constantly refer to diverse sources. Now, I was once not as faithful in my Islamic motherland as I am today. I have reached the position I am today (as hard as you may find it to believe) ...

... East to be some kind of Samuel Huntington. I have told you before that Huntington means nothing to me, and that i have contempt for most "intellectuals" and "academics" (in the West, East, North, or South). You, too, do your fair share of labeling. Just as I (in my mind, correctly) have determined you to be a taqlidi, you have determined me to be the other side of the Huntington coin. ...

My labels are not important to you. But theirs certainly are. When they use buzz words like "democracy," "fundamentalism," "human rights abuses," "sponsor of terror," etc... y'all are quick to listen. Anyway, just because the West didn't emerge in a vacuum (as if anything does) does not mean there is no West. You seem to think that anyone who falls short of denying the existence of West and ...

... ideology or the basic principles of the political culture. Meanwhile, Iranians, Muslims, Easterners (whatever) are all divided on this matter. There are always some who want to support domestically developed ideology, and there are always other who want to do taqlid. There are no such 'difference of opinion' in the West as we have in the East.

It's more than a difference of opinion, my friend. That is what yall fail to see. You won't find a single person Westerner -- whatever supposed 'faction' (in fact, I do not believe there to be true political factions in the West) they are a part of -- question the legitimacy of their basic political system. They may have problems with this or that policy, but they do not reject the basic ...

And just because you say words like 'adjective,' doesn't make you smart.

We both know what I am talking about. There is no point in saying it. You are a taqlidi. Your Muslimness has no effect whatsoever on your identity. You would be no different as a non-Muslim than you are now. Your ideology and beliefs would be exactly as they are now.

What's wrong with you is the basic core of your thinking, which is why I did not say anything specific.