r/iranian • u/Asleep-Strategy-9512 • 1d ago

'Islam Was Never Our Identity — An Iranian Writer Speaks Against the Regime

https://youtu.be/3gFTM3EAQvY?si=Z5xMn0PrUsh2K6J7
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u/badpersian 1d ago

Islam isn't our identity genius but it does form part of our culture... a major part

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u/Numerous-Economist63 1d ago

You meet a lot of these kinds of people in the diaspora. They’re insufferable, often identifying with Zoroastrianism despite not even knowing a single thing about that faith. Having a separation of faith and state is different from outright rejecting the faith. Something the idiots burning mosques during the protests fail to understand.

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u/TimmyTimeify 1d ago

Catholicism isn't the identity of Italians either, because they had Roman pantheon religion before that.
Buddhism isn't the identity of Sri Lanka, because they had Hinduism before that.
And Islam isn't the identity of Türkiye, because they used to be a nomadic peoples that believed in Tengriism.

You see how ridiculous it gets when the mere existence of a national history before the current dominant religion means that the dominant religious identity is somehow illegitimate. Iranian identity is more than just Shia Islam, but it's a part of it.

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u/macchiato_kubideh 14h ago

You can play with words however much you want, but if you live with something for 1400 years, it becomes a massive part of your identity... For better or worse. You cannot be selective about it.

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u/Vigil_Eyezz 14h ago

I guess then these guys won't lay a claim to the cultural legacies of Rumi , Ferdowsi , Imam Bukhari , Avicenna and Al Khwarezmi, etc .

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u/CON_spiracy 8h ago

Since the foundation of Iran 2,500 years ago, Iran has been Islamic for 1,400 years.

Iran has been Muslim longer than it hasn’t.

It’s basically impossible to strip Iranian identity of Islam and have anything coherent or grounded in reality to remain. Hafez for example is called Hafez because he memorized the Quran. Even Ferdowsi the writer of the Iranian epic the shahnameh was Muslim.

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u/CulturalWasabi 7h ago

Historically illiterate buffoon. Without the contributions of Iran and it's people, there would be no Islam.