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Excellent analysis, helped me connect a lot of dots. I hadn’t realized that the 1979 revolution in Iran was not confined to Islamists, because, in Egypt, I also consumed the same media content, it seems. But of course it wasn’t just Islamists in a diverse complex society like Iran, once you think about it, and also in addition to Dr. Hatem’s clarification and the context.
In my mind, it’s similar to how the West vilified and helped topple the democratically-elected government in Egypt in 2013, because it was deemed too “Islamist”. Funny enough, during the Egyptian revolution in 2011, one of the tropes by the regime against protestors was that they were egged on by Iranian elements.
I remember Dr. Hatem in RIS Toronto in 2017 speaking about Islamophobia and warning about the vilification of Iran. He said that some people want us to think that Iran is more dangerous than the US, and the hall erupted in applause. It’s a comment that aged well.
I happened to write some thoughts about “the good Muslim” in media same day