Luke Warzecha: False muslim Allies

When the plane was found in Iran's airspace, the morning light revealed the snow-covered summit of Demawend volcano. Chomejni slept on the level in the surviving room, in the advanced first-class cabin. He prayed morning prayer on the blanket of the Air France line, then sat at the window, stroking his beard and smiling pleased for the first time in months, or possibly even years. American reporter Peter Jennings and his ABC News squad were admitted to the first class and were allowed to ask the question, “Ajatollahu, would you be kind adequate to tell us how you feel erstwhile you are in Iran?”53. Radiated Sadegh, in tie and jacket, sat at the side of Ayatollah to translate. ‘Hiczi’ – nothing – was the answer. Sadegh silenced, smiled and repeated like an echo, with a shade of disbelief: “Hiczi?”.

Chomejni repeated. "Hiczi ehasasi nadaram". "I feel nothing at all." Sadegh did precisely what he and the others did in France for weeks: he softened the focus of this statement. "He did not comment," said Sadegh. Jennings insisted: “Is he happy or excited?” Sadegh said again that Ayatollah has no comment. But the real meaning of the hichi could not stay unnoticed for long – besides many people watched this few-second scene erstwhile the ABS recording was aired in the States and around the world. Ajatollah's words were a sign, variously analysed and understood by followers and enemies, at that time and in retrospect.

Reza Pahlavi, the boy of an exiled chess player who trained as a pilot at the Texas Air Force Base, was shocked by the deficiency of emotion he saw on the video on TV.

This is simply a passage from the book "Black Wave" by Lebanese writer Kim Ghattas, published in 2020, 1 of the most interesting summaries of the conflict in the mediate East. He speaks of the minute erstwhile the architect of the violent coup returns to his native country in 1979, ajatollah Ruhollah Chomejni.

Ghattas' homeland is 1 of the most and cruelly affected countries, in which a immense share, in addition to Israel, had the theocratic Iran. The 'Black Wave' treats the 1979 muslim Revolution as an apogee of the story, which first speaks of how, in fact, the provincial cleric Chomejni headed a nation of large tradition and wonderful culture, and then, as from Iran, the black wave of fanaticism and aggressive Shimism spread to a large part of the world.

The scene on the plane that Khomejni was returning to Iran to triumph was forgotten due to the fact that it was symbolic. It is hard to deny that Ajatollah's motivation was profoundly rooted in his faith, as were the motivations of his successor, Ajatollah Chamenei, who had just been killed in the American attack. But it was besides an highly fanatical motivation, and it was passionate. hichi It perfectly shows this cold senselessness, typical of fanatics.

Both top leaders were besides politicians. They were able to be highly ruthless, and erstwhile it had to be, they sent their nation to be executed (as during an highly devastating eight-year war with Iraq erstwhile Chamenei was the president of the state) or massacred him, as happened during fresh protests against the Iranian dictatorship.

Iran is simply a theocracy, which is due to the very form of Islam, which, unlike Christianity, does not make a discrimination between spiritual and state reality, while in the case of Christianity it was made very clearly by words: to give to God what is divine, and to Caesar what is imperial. A large group of people seem to forget about this fundamental difference. In a Catholic state, like Poland, the Church of course has the right to carry out its mission as a peculiarly important, even privileged actor of social life – and it does so. But even the most traditionalist Catholics would only look forward to the possible of organizing the state as Iranian, with Catholicism being replaced by Islam.

Iran is formally called an muslim republic, but with republicanism understood as we realize it in the West, especially in Poland, it has small in common. The government passed various railroads, and had moments of comparative liberalisation. However, he has never offered his citizens – as far as the concept can be utilized at all – full of self-determination and choice. And this is not only about the existence of countless prohibitions and warrants, but besides about the brutal enforcement of them. besides about the position of women who play a unique function in our Western tradition: they are respected, complimented. Islam objects them.

For anyone who has even a brief cognition of the past of global relations in the mediate East and not only there and Islam, all of this must be clear. Like the current isolation of Iran, due to the fact that by a large part of the Muslim states of the region this Shiite dictatorship was not seen as an ally, but as a rival, and above all a country generating tensions and unrest. A problemmaker. However, as it turns out, this must be recalled, due to the fact that the attack on Iran – which is undoubtedly a violation of global law – revealed the existence of a group with very limited knowledge, but very emotionally and in the superlatives themselves expressed about Iran as a theocratic state. Especially grotesque was the entry by associate of the Confederation of the Polish Crown Vladimir Skalik, who wrote on X: “The spiritual leader of Iran Ali Chamenei was murdered along with many members of his family. It is worth recalling erstwhile many were silent, he had the courage to condemn the blasphemous >>Last Supper at the beginning of the Olympics in France. The enemy number 1 Zionists, for many years, had not succumbed to Israel's terror. Will there be a worthy successor? I hope so."

Here, for the sake of order, it must be recalled that indeed the terrible staging of the fresco and Vinci of Milan was besides condemned by the leader of the French utmost left, the La France Insoumise party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Would his associate besides praise?

I besides do not know what courage you are talking about. This message from the enemy of the West, surviving like a doughnut in butter in his own country in the position of his leader, did not require the least courage. The claim that the Islamist cleric, as a substance of rule the enemy of freedom and, let us not be deceived, besides the enemy of the West, not only in his present, but besides in his conventional form, was a shining figure just due to the fact that he made any ritual motion against Western laicism, is foolish. extremist Islam is not a friend – it is an enemy of the West. besides Western Christian tradition, cathedrals, Rafael and da Vinci, “Songs of Roland”.

Mr Skalik's attitude, but besides very many of his followers, is very akin to the attitude of any towards Russia. There is simply a immense difference between criticizing rusophobia or pointing out that Russia will not destruct itself by force of will and someway it will should be arranged with it and claiming that it is simply a country that respects and guarantees freedom, and in addition protecting tradition and conservative – just due to the fact that Vladimir Putin forbids LGBT organizations. No, Russia is not a paradise and a country of freedom or a state that upholds tradition – it is simply a small pleasant dictatorship with the appearances of democracy, as is the theocratic Iran under Ali Chamenei was not an ally of Western Conservatives. The planet is truly more complicated.

Luke Warches

Between Iranian Theocracy and Demoliberism. Prof. Bartyzel on events in the mediate East