Imperialism And Resistance

A very good historical overview of Iran’s foreign policy (a must viewing for Muslims to counter the North American/Euro./Zionist right-left propaganda against the Islamic Republic). The video below is a “playlist” – please wait for a few seconds after each segment for the next to start …

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Rarely are the victories of the Islamic Revolution so clearly expressed in the Western world as a February 2010 NewScientist article which gives deep burial to a long campaign against Islamic Fundamentalism.

It might be the Chinese year of the tiger, but scientifically, 2010 is looking like Iran’s year. Scientific output has grown 11 times faster in Iran than the world average, faster than any other country.

It comes as no surprise: Under the Ahmadinejad administration, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been topping the rankings of scientific output growth for the past several years.

Dynamic messianism

Though widely demonized by Anglo-Pharisee propaganda, the uniqueness of the messianic view of Shia Islam plays a major role in this: The concept of waiting for Imam Mahdi to come and establish a perfect Islamic government on earth – defined by Justice ruling – is not a passive crossing of arms, but an urgent responsibility that must be enacted by believers towards improving the condition of the world.

One could thus say that the idea of luxurious resorts and skyscrapers in Dubai bringing us closer to a paradise on earth, regardless of how many millions of brethren in kind die at the doorstep as an associated cost of the pompous infrastructure, is as alien to Shia Muslims as the minority of minorities in Iran who question the legitimacy of Ahmadinejad’s government: Not even the 30% who didn’t give him their vote in the last elections, but a yet smaller percentage of them who carried on gladly backing an obvious coup attempt against their own nation. Such Burj Al-Dubai fantasies are precisely what their dissent craves for, and what their commanders promise them.

Science – or rather our modern simplification of it – is one of the great side-beneficiaries of such a world view, since empty pride in such applied academicism is not seen as an end on itself, as is the case of our secular West. Such crippled concept lacking any regards for the Divine – an inevitable dimension of human existence in the sight of any traditional wisdom – is never valued more in the core of the Islamic Revolution’s Weltanschauung than the practical tool it is, with its own limited purposes. It is interesting to notice that the same is the case for money, but that is the topic for another post.

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via Venezolana de Television: Dossier

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By now, the standard claims about Iran’s “stolen election” have been repeated so many times by the establishment Western media, as well as by those on the left who took the bait, that almost everybody is hooked on it and unable to wiggle free. Undoubtedly, many foreign activists sincerely believe that they are supporting democracy inside Iran, and large numbers of Iranian dissidents truly are struggling for a more open and decent society and political order. But if Iran’s 2009 official election result is valid, and if there is strong majority support among Iran’s citizens for the structure and general character of its Islamic Republic, then these foreign activists, including the collection of Nobel laureates gathered around Wiesel, and those on the left who like to invoke “solidarity with the anti-Ahmadinejad movement,” clearly are not aligned with majority opinion inside Iran. We are not quite sure what to call this toxic mix of opposing the majority will of a foreign country’s citizens and doing so in the name of “democracy,” while feeding into the regime-change program of the United States and Israel. But strong currents of Orientalism as well as imperialism are clearly running through it.

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