Salaam alaykum wa rahmatullah,
They say even a broken clock is right twice a day and Shaytanyari, on his Facebook page, has spoken some truth.
Here is his latest post.
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"We Shi’a, if we want to survive, must realize the following:
1. The Iranian regime under Khamenei, and before him under Khomeini, has been using the Shi’a faith to mobilize the Shi’a populations in other countries in order to further its own political and military dominance in the region. This is a misuse of religion. It has no religious justification. It harms the Shi’a minorities in the neighboring countries.
2. The Iranian regime uses Shi’a populations of the neighboring countries to destabilize those regimes or to exert pressure on them.
3. Whenever there is instability in a neighboring country, Iran recruits local Shi'a as militia and proxies to fight on its behalf.
4. The above 1, 2, and 3 are very bad for the Shi’a. It has forced the Saudi and Gulf states to heavily invest in the counter-Shi’a ideology of takfeer. It has led the US and the Europeans to align themselves with the Salafees against the Shi’a. The West has no shared value with the salafees. The Shi’a, because of the sheer stupidity of their leadership, have pushed the West and the Salafees into a bond of brotherhood.
5. The above 1, 2, and 3 are the main causes of contemporary anti-Shi’a jihadi movements.
6. Iran is ruled by the idea of Wilayat al-Faqih (which itself is a blasphemy in Shi’a faith), which declares Khamenei the ruler of the whole world, not just Iran or the Muslim countries. This ideology, enshrined in the Iranian constitution, simply declares all governments not ruled by Khamenei as illegitimate. According to Wialyat al-Faqih, the whole world is one country with Khamenei as its ruler and all the countries of the world are its provinces. This theoretically puts Iran at war with every other country in the world.
7. The Iranian regime has been leading Shi’as worldwide into confrontation with the United States and Europe. I am not saying that the US or Europe are angelic beings...far from it. However, we Shi’a do not have any pressing conflict of interests with the US or Europe. We can live peacefully with the US and European powers and should do so. Palestine is not our fight. Just as the plight of Uighurs in Xinjiang and Chechens in the Caucuses is not our fight.
8. The Iranian regime is extremely repressive, specially against Shi’a religious figures who dare to dissent. It kills, it assassinates, it imprisons and it tortures—it does so not only to the dissenter personally but also to his family. This has led to Shi’a faith becoming captive to the Iranian regime. Maraje’, speakers of the minbar and the pulpit, and religious writers cannot criticize the Iranian regime.
They either sing the songs of the regime's praise or at minimum are careful not to say something to the regime's dislike. Any critic the regime cannot kidnap or assassinate is labeled as Zionist or CIA agent by its humongous propaganda machine, which includes the throngs of well-organized and paid Internet comment writers.
9. The Iranian regime uses Shi’a faith as a tool. It does not promote Shi’a faith. Worst sort of anti-Imamah ideology is freely preached from the seminary in Qum by the likes of Kamal Haidari. Another nasibi Asef Mohseni was awarded the book of the year award a few years back. Writing books or giving speeches, even intellectual and research based ones, against Abu Bakr and Omar are severely punished. Virtues of Abu Bakr and Omar are commonly preached from the state controlled media. Questioning the infallibility of the Holy Imams (عليهم السلام) and even their imama is tolerated and even promoted. Scholars who graduate from the Iranian seminaries are mostly devious in their beliefs let alone being able to defend Shi'a against the salafees or secular thinkers.
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10. Instead of creating militia in the neighboring countries and thus making Shi'a the targets of jihadi persecution, if Iran wants to serve the Shi'a, it should,
a. Create universities and institutions that provide the best education for Shi'a youth
b. Create banks that gives loans to Shi'a businesses
c. Promote the Wilaya of Amir al-Mumineen and the Twelve Imams (عليهم السلام) on a global scale.
e. Treat its own citizens with respect, provide them with decent economic opportunities and be a model government that respects human rights and cares about the welfare of its own people."
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What I have highlighted (emboldened and underlined) puts the current issue in perspective. If there is to be a sectarian war, la samah Allah, it is clear who initiated it.