The history of political struggle is nothing but the continuous process of humanity’s disillusionment and disenchatment. Some people try to cling on to the status quo fearing that the worst is yet to come; they might be right. But what they’re doing would still be stupid. Take Iran for example, even if I knew that khomeini would take power and turn the country into a tyranny worse than the Shah’s I would have still supported it; for keeping the Shah would have strengthened his rule and increased his tyranny to a point where people will be completely uncapable of resisting or revolting against the regime because by then it would’ve had grown much stronger instituitionally and would’ve been dedicated more and more as an unalterable reality in people’s minds. What happened was because of the society’s and the individual’s capacity to accept bullshit, and the tyranny there is unfortunately necessary for people to stop believing in collective bullshit, especially in the natural incapability of individuals to scrutinize and philosophize. That doesn’t always happen very soon but at some point people will wake-up, usually/mostly just to sleep on another stupidity borrowed from other countries, just like in Egypt now, or like Bahraini shia who sometimes now use Khomeini quotes or actions as an inspiration for them. (i’m not saying oh they want iranian rule or whatever if you’re thinking that) but at the same time I’m saying that there certainly is something wrong going on in their cultural relationship with the Iranians on the intellectual level but not to the extent of having a conspiracy or whatever. It’s a vicious cycle!! Deluded people like the sunna in bahrain (due to their pre-existing prejudices and their capacity to believe what the govt and their sheiks say and other reasons) can only look at the “wrongful” intellectual relationship thinking that it’s a conspiracy and so on, of course being able to see their own intellectual and actual wrongful relationships and attitudes. Also, I forgot to mention something, the problem with entities like Alwefaq is not that they take orders from Iran or anything stupid like that, but the problem is structural, yes they want a “civil country” and not a theocracy but then Alwefaq itself is an islamic entity and their ideology as we have seen is that they cannot not abide religious teachings in the political arena, so if they take power they will probably take instructions from isa qasim (no he wont tell them do this or that) but as they all in Alwefaq look up to him as the spiritual father of shia in bahrain all it takes is a Friday speech after the prayers and what he says will be done. Now, as I said it’s a viciuous cycle, regimes/entities like the US/Saudi in case of Bahrain or Iran/Russia/hizbulla in the case of Syria like to keep their interests by supporting countries which abide their orders or meet their interests so then the people of these countries will eventually hate the countries that tried to preserve their interests, and call them “satanic” and then these countries would respond with counter-measures and so on.

الأوسمة: Ali salman, Alwefaq, Democracy, Egypt, Hizbulla, Hizbullah, Iran, khomeini, political struggle, Russia, Salafists, Saudi Arabia