An interesting video with lots of good stuff and with a couple of utter howlers - like severe myopia happening -
Firstly,
tying deep humilty and living simply and in alignment with Islam = a good and just leader
is hilariously off the mark.
Two counter-examples - In Central Asia, Tamerlaine who built pyramids of skulls of his enemies;
Second, the Moghul Emperor Aurangzeb who ruled most of India for nearly 50 years and whose narrow mindedness (a kind of Islamic Calvinist worldview
) left almost nothing worthwhile as a legacy
Persian Islamic history is full of leaders who have walked their talk in this way and who have been horrors - they had *their* very own version of the Illuminati , a mystical Sufi order that became the Safavid Empire
Secondly, his view of Persian society is to me very very superficial - he is taking it as a "What you see is what you get" culture and it really is not like that at all. I am interested in how business practices vary across cultures and from what I have researched Iran has the most 'game playing' negotiation cultures on Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaarofHaving said that, I absolutely did NOT take away that he was conflating Zionism with Judaism, but I think he is NOT on the money regarding who is controlling America - it sure as fuck isnt AIPAC. The last few minutes where he did was just standard Alex Jones territory I thought.
On a personal purely intuitive level, I felt he has been deeply emotionally scarred by what he has witnessed and that this trauma was affecting his perceptions in ways probably outside his conscious awareness. Seeing the IDF murder people in front of one is pretty horrific.
Thank you for the video, it was worth watching.
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