Mamdani should know what’s wrong with globalizing the intifada. But he won’t disavow it or condemn it; he just says it’s not the language that he uses.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been a brutal dictatorship from its beginning, and the recent massacres were a crazy and organized bloodbath involving the government slaughtering its own people.
This is not the first time the Islamist theocracy has slaughtered its own people.
If we take the literal purported lives of certain historical religious figures like Muhammad as a way to live our own lives, then that leads to immoral and barbarous behavior. It is better to see them as inspirations in some spiritual or mystical way.
Islamic sacred writings were written hundreds of years after the life of Muhammad, and Muhammad claimed to have received revelations from God that conveniently allowed him to do things that were politically expedient for him, and would change as his political needs changed.
“Islam is a militaristic political system that preaches the subjugation of all of humanity and their submission to Allah who created all humans just so they worship him”
Europe was the second-fiddle Christian land until Muslims conquered the heart of Christianity. The Crusades were a delayed response to these invasions as well as continued invasions of lands controlled by Christians.
Muslims from where Algeria is now, raided and enslaved Europeans for hundreds of years. Algeria demands reparations for French colonialism, but hypocritically ignores 300 years of Algerians raiding and enslaving Europeans.