Exposing 4 Lies of Iran: Mawlana Afzal Ismail
Lie 1: Iran is the only country truly helping Palestinians by attacking Israel Truth: Iran frames its actions as resistance, but its engagement has largely served its own interests. For decades after 1948, despite Israel’s murderous wars and genocide in Palestine, Iran did not confront Israel militarily. Iran has never bombed Israel in defense of Palestinians despite the advanced military capabilities we are now seeing from Iran. The only occasions when Iran did bomb Israel, is when Iran was attacked. Lie 2: Opposing Iran is sowing sectarian differences in the Ummah Truth: Instead of framing criticism of Iran as sectarian, we need to understand that it was the Iranian Shia regime that has caused some of the worst sectarian violence imaginable. Iran declared the Syrian conflict as a war between Islam and kufr (disbelief) resulting in the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslims. Iran suppressed Islam in Iran through the murder of countless Muslims and the ab...