#  @sharghzadeh شرقزده sharghzadeh
شرقزده sharghzadeh posts on X about iran, israel, countries, in the the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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### Social Influence
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[countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [finance](/list/finance) #4632 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [stocks](/list/stocks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [currencies](/list/currencies) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)
**Social topic influence**
[iran](/topic/iran) #531, [israel](/topic/israel), [countries](/topic/countries) #1579, [in the](/topic/in-the), [istanbul](/topic/istanbul), [turkey](/topic/turkey), [afghanistan](/topic/afghanistan), [if you](/topic/if-you), [money](/topic/money), [italy](/topic/italy)
**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Why does every article about Iran have some ridiculous photo like this"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1343875301114322948) 2020-12-29T11:03Z 22K followers, [--] engagements
"South Asia was directly colonized for centuries yet people retained their attire. However Iran - which wasn't colonized - willfully abandoned traditional garb because of an inferiority complex. We don't care and worse yet - people snicker at me for wearing cultural clothing"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1347491943291478018) 2021-01-08T10:34Z 22K followers, [---] engagements
"Iran has easily intercepted and assimilated three invading civilizations: The Greeks the Arabs and the Mongols. Alexander Umar Ali Genghis and Timur entered Iran as foreigners but today you find Iranians named after them. Photo: A Persianized Genghis Khan"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1524425515452534786) 2022-05-11T16:25Z 22K followers, [---] engagements
"One of the most interesting things about diasporas is how they are frozen in time. You find Amish and Italian-Americans speaking dialects dead/dying in Europe Chinese-Americans cooking 19th century peasant food long gone in China Iranian-American using 70s slang (Irooni etc)"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1555902969689808896) 2022-08-06T13:05Z 23.1K followers, [----] engagements
"America is the ultimate food meritocracy. Move here open a restaurant cook tasty food market it well and you'll get rich. Simple as that"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1650596842990608399) 2023-04-24T20:25Z 28.9K followers, 19.9K engagements
"The Roman Empire lasted until 1922"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1661866022939262978) 2023-06-30T00:28Z [--] followers, 93.7K engagements
"Today you can't even tell a Middle Eastern community was once there. Everything is ephemeral in this country. Meanwhile Isfahan's Armenian quarter has survived five centuries"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1662512208771792898) 2023-05-27T17:32Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The fact that many people think Nikki Haley is just a tan white woman and are shocked to find out she is a Sikh Punjabi shows how malleable race is in America. When Nikki Haleys father couldnt find a job as a college professor at a PWI because of his ethnicity Voorhees College (an HBCU) hired him. Her mother sold dresses and had a largely Black clientele. I know b/c my grandmother was a customer. Black people saved her family When Nikki Haleys father couldnt find a job as a college professor at a PWI because of his ethnicity Voorhees College (an HBCU) hired him. Her mother sold dresses and"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1671706879385387010) 2023-06-22T02:29Z 21.6K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Salah al-Din literally destroyed pyramids for the sake of. re-using their bricks. Incredible"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1674131654963613721) 2023-06-28T19:04Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@NecktieSalvage Like almost everything else cars have taken an aesthetic downturn to say the least. Signed a Detroiter"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1674536662448197635) 2023-06-29T21:53Z 18.7K followers, [--] engagements
"This is what happens when you cultivate a society where people know one another and fear God. The GCC is famous for its safety"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1677808402897031168) 2023-07-09T09:55Z 18.7K followers, 33.9K engagements
"Some knowledge is required to engage in debate on every topic except guns. Almost everyone knows next to nothing and they also have a very strong opinion"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1677839994797293573) 2023-07-09T00:45Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Really The Qur'n is created *Throws brick*"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1678098729272852480) 2023-07-09T17:52Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"If Islam is not turned over to native locals and children of immigrants who are well in tune with the local American culture it will never become an American religion. It will remain an isolated suburban immigrant phenomenon. Sans immigration American Islam would slowly die"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1678427215749365761) 2023-07-10T15:43Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"American urban centers are where culture is made and spread around the globe. Hip-hop was started as fun and games in the NY projects and now Iranian kids have Tupac memorized. Islam in America can be a lasting urban phenomenon and go global or remain suburban and fade away"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1678428369459838976) 2023-07-10T15:38Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Entire societies can be wrong and resist correct action. Bidets are absent in America and many Americans consider them disgusting and dirty. Instead of smugly mocking we should reflect: What are we doing wrong What are we mistaken about"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1678432658081169408) 2023-07-10T19:19Z 17.7K followers, 15K engagements
"Despite the orietnalism and general Ugly American vibe I am here for clowing France"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1678890795489718272) 2023-07-11T22:57Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Classical architecture didn't die because we lost our good taste. It died because we lost the beliefs that gave birth to it. Gargoyles are not aestheticthey ward off evil spirits. Do people still believe in evil spirits"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1678944937541345280) 2023-07-12T02:58Z 18.7K followers, 20.9K engagements
"@theKill97728949 Does that mean you're. a spirit"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1678957667836997632) 2023-07-12T02:42Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"What are we deprived of NYC and Detroit Metro have about the same percentage of Muslims as London proper. Detroit area masjid (and other cities) have loud azan [---] days a year does London"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1678974304543711232) 2023-07-12T05:15Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"As someone who grew up adjacent to both poor Whites and poor Blacks let me tell you that what online weirdos associate with African American culture is just poverty culture. A larger proportion of Black Americans are poor so it is incorrectly associated with race"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1678976004285497345) 2023-07-12T03:56Z 18.7K followers, 27.3K engagements
"I had White coworkers who were deadbeat dads wasting money on drugs fleeing active warrants driving an uninsured car on an expired license dating strippers listening to harm White people music using (and abusing) welfare/income tax refunds and even had a victim complex"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1678976538216210432) 2023-07-12T03:56Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@ArainGang NYC is 10% at least and Detroit Metro is one of the most heavily Muslim places in the West if not the most"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1678983885659488262) 2023-07-12T04:38Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@aghahqz Interesting meth trailers cocaine and the italian/irish/albanian mob beg to differ. Every ethnic group has drug dealers and gang bangers"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1679005252907933696) 2023-07-12T06:50Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"How intelligible are Yiddish and Pennsylvania Dutch Could you drop an Amish guy in Brooklyn and Brooklynite in Ohio"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1679152042957504512) 2023-07-12T15:43Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@LivinginTehran What's so mind-boggling is that Tehran is still imposing property-line setbacks to further widen streets not at all understanding the principle of induced demand"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1679526607491309569) 2023-07-13T16:31Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Food authenticity is dumb. I am here to have a tasty meal I don't care if it's predictable and boring. Eat your own food and shut up about mine. Only annoying insecure gatekeeping pedant losers care about these things. Sorry"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1680051992087998464) 2023-07-15T03:09Z 18.7K followers, 14.2K engagements
"Right-wingers who care about family values: What is your plan to allow a working-class man to support a wife and two kids again like they did in your favorite decades If you don't have an answer you don't care about family values you care about culture wars"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1680251058856112128) 2023-07-15T22:20Z 18.7K followers, 35.5K engagements
"The worst Islamophobes are not Whites they're the Iranian Diaspora. They will have a tantrum if they see an Iranian woman choosing to cover her hair outside of Iran and instead of defending the lady they posted (the page stole her video) they pin the comment attacking her"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1680667675939201031) 2023-07-17T09:34Z 18.7K followers, 195.6K engagements
"I sympathize with Iranians traumatized by Islamism. That being said the very least we owe our new homeland is to treat it as a clean slate and not import Iranian drama. The Harassing and heckling of random Iranian Muslims (particularly women) in North America is shameful"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1680807571479830528) 2023-07-17T05:12Z 24K followers, 25.6K engagements
"For 9/11 the moon landing etc to be a conspiracy a massive amount of people would be keeping secrets. All it would take is one deathbed confession or leak for an entire national narrative to unravel"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1681071587091521536) 2023-07-18T00:56Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"AVOID THESE THAWB MISTAKES 🧵 For various reasons thawbs have become a uniform for Muslim men in the diaspora and you see many non-Arabs making elementary thawb mistakes"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1681327986945974272) 2023-07-18T15:40Z 22K followers, 180.5K engagements
"Brothers: post your traditional Islamic fit and I will give you tips and pointers to make it look nicer"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1681417339617648641) 2023-07-18T21:35Z 33.6K followers, 43.4K engagements
"Iranians have taken up dogs as personal pets to be more western but they ignore the rules established in the west Poop is left on sidewalks Dogs are not on leashes Dogs are left in hot cars Dogs are generally not properly trained Its a mess just like everything else we do"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1688522858585018369) 2023-08-07T12:09Z 18.7K followers, 30.7K engagements
""Walkable cities can exist in Europe and America where the weather is mild it's too hot to walk in the Middle East." Yes it's too hot under sunlight surrounded by a sea of asphalt. But walking on a car-free street under a canopy made of a cool natural material That's nice"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1688961760449949696) 2023-08-08T17:13Z 25.7K followers, 19.4K engagements
"There are many activities that seemingly only Anglos and the Anglo-adjacent enjoy such as museums. I have never found a museum fun and I only go when White people take me. The brown people I see there are more Anglo-adjacent whether via assimilation or colonial experience"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1689204032651284480) 2023-08-09T09:16Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It's kids. The reason is kids. At that time you had eight nine ten kids in a household. Now you have one or two. Have fun with your demography-induced civilizational collapse"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1689666227558330368) 2023-08-10T15:53Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Many don't understand how wars work. My parents lived through the Iraqi bombing of Tehran. Life goes on as normal until it doesn't. One night you're out living a normal life another night you're huddled in the basement surrounded by bags of rice. It's not 24/7 danger"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1690064542842134528) 2023-08-11T18:16Z 18.7K followers, 28.6K engagements
"Much of what has made Islam great comes from Persians: Major hadith collections Arabic grammar books Islamic mysticism Poetry Architecture The expansion of Islam (Seljuks Ottomans etc were Persianate Turkic people) This burns the eyes of those that hate Persian people"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1690380859528937472) 2023-08-12T15:12Z 18.7K followers, 373.5K engagements
"@Dreama_Land I don't deny this I teach that in my course. I never said that Persians don't appreciate Arabs I as a Persian love the Arabic language and culture. What am I wrong about exactly It seems you decided what I think without asking me"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1690439705181945856) 2023-08-12T19:06Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Not only that: Iran also has the cheapest gasoline in the world while we are suffocating from car pollution in Tehran. Add that to the list of dumb things we do"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1691400473234829312) 2023-08-15T10:44Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"After years of living in the Middle East I came to the conclusion that our wretched situation is first and foremost a result of our own stupid decisions. Colonization and whatever else is a diasporoid talking point"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1691400690441039873) 2023-08-15T10:45Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"The first image is a subway station in Tehran and the second is in New York. Clean reliable safe public transit is not about money. It's about willpower"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1691440799659991040) 2023-08-15T13:24Z 18.7K followers, 44.5K engagements
"Very secular uncle suprises me by saying he listens to the Qur'an every single day for his commute and has read it several times over. "How can you be Muslim and read so much and not God's book" Iranians cannot be easily put in one box"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1691499459744550912) 2023-08-15T17:17Z 18.7K followers, 12.5K engagements
"My uncle: "Everyone is dying to see Europe they save up for the whole year to go and say 'I saw France.' My work offered me a free trip to Paris I didn't go I don't care to see the Eiffel Tower.""
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1691517990250938368) 2023-08-15T18:31Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
""Please don't dump trash here." Love the presence of calligraphy in Iran"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1692287096222826920) 2023-08-17T21:27Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Saudi Arabia is a Muslim nation and our neighbor. We have nothing to gain from enmity and provocations. "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God.""
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1692515637426315756) 2023-08-18T12:35Z 18.7K followers, 15.4K engagements
"Very sad to see us import back home drama to the West. Our homelands are ruined for a reason. Let's avoid ruining their countries"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1692530479306572137) 2023-08-18T13:34Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This discourse is tiring. Expat means you intend to return to your home country. It has nothing to do with race"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1692688180988760444) 2023-08-19T00:01Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Exactly. Homelessness is not an economic issue it's cultural. In countries that are far far poorer than America homelessness is a rarity. Americans will deny this and their homeless problem continues to grow"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1693166753486876758) 2023-08-20T07:43Z 18.7K followers, 25.2K engagements
"Fearing a foreign language is a tell-tale sign of an insecure society/person"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1698399828009488821) 2023-09-03T18:17Z 18.7K followers, 72.5K engagements
""MUH FREE HEALTHCARE" is how Euros cope with poverty wages. Any high-paying job in the US has a health care plan better than the declining British NHS. In any case the diaspora can travel east for cheaper services if need be"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1699403942671647189) 2023-09-06T12:47Z 18.7K followers, 31K engagements
"The concept of nationality restaurant is meaningless. I went to a "Persian" restaurant in an Arab country where all the Persians come from Southern Iran. Aside from a couple universally recognized dishes I barely recognized anything on their menu"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1700039079914508786) 2023-09-08T06:51Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Islam doesn't require those things to survive it survives in the heart of every believer. We have been deprived of these things before and we are still here. Regarding apostasy rates Christians should not throw stones from their stained-glass houses"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1702201953659322604) 2023-09-14T06:05Z 18.7K followers, 35K engagements
"The GCC is such an interesting place in a market you can find Bedouin Saudis bartering with Iranian merchants in Arabic while the Iranian speaks Hindustani to his coworker who deals with the English speaking tourists. Is this Muslim cosmopolitanism"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1705279372985356682) 2023-09-22T17:54Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Car-oriented heat-trapping ugly built environment No walking infrastructure (no decent sidewalk no shade no protections) Culture that shames walking as a poor persons activity Awful public transport No one walks in the Middle East because its hot here"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1705559672562794679) 2023-09-23T12:28Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The cost differential for diwan seating in MENA versus America is incredible. In Arab countries you can furnish a living room for $300. In America $3000. Why are they marked up so much How hard is it to ship these things to America"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1708115304604168371) 2023-09-30T13:43Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It's amazing how people all over the world are so invested in American issues even things that have no effect on them whatsoever. The world is full of honorary Americans. They prefer to speak English consume the culture and like burgers more than their native cuisine etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1711429470630846950) 2023-10-09T17:12Z 18.7K followers, 11.7K engagements
"I am amazed he was allowed to speak uninterrupted for so long on a mainstream channel. We are witnessing a paradigm shift. The narrative is no longer one-sided"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1711457827087057254) 2023-10-09T19:05Z 18.7K followers, 14.5K engagements
"New Yorkers: What is the best Muslim community to live in Bay Ridge Jackson Heights Please tell me why"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1713154672255500746) 2023-10-14T11:27Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It aged perfectly fine. In America a Palestinian hangs her national flag in Congress and in Jordan a country where she is probably a citizen she could not do that. In America public school teachers can wear thawbs and niqab. In many Muslim countries that is not true"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1713618819363516559) 2023-10-15T18:12Z 18.7K followers, 46.3K engagements
"This news is so lame. Black flag in Iran sword in Turkey. These are common ceremonies. Turks can't afford rent and Iran can barely run an internet network properly. No one is going to do anything let alone conquer Palestine. Muslim countries can barely make a decent street"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1715345816733220923) 2023-10-20T12:34Z 17.7K followers, 44K engagements
"@mALTOYJI @sadia_habeeb The show of brotherhood is commendable and I have nothing but respect for my Yemeni brothers but the reality is given the current situation Yemen can only offer moral support whereas material is most needed now"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1715372995433164987) 2023-10-20T14:22Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I am begging all hijrah-minded Muslims to actually move to a Muslim country so they can return home and stop talking about it. There is no heaven on earth hijrah will cure five problems but produce ten more. Have fun: 1) missing your family 2) constantly renewing visas and residencies 3) worrying about being deported over something silly 4) facing racism 5) earning lower wages (legally) because you are not a citizen 6) not being treated like a local 7) never getting the citizenship 8) having to leave in old age because your work visa runs out 9) being at the mercy of your job which can cancel"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1715485634834358342) 2023-10-20T21:50Z 17.7K followers, 114.5K engagements
"Do you consider Muslims a little-league soccer team who require constant encouragement I consider them adults who require a reality check however harsh it may be so we can grow up and stop our childish ways"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1715609332744626654) 2023-10-21T06:01Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"As an American Muslim you are born with a special privilege. You have a unique opportunity few have been blessed with: you can establish a Muslim presence in a new land. In that context I feel like my hijrah has been a selfish escape as opposed to a noble act"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1715682161439670363) 2023-10-21T10:51Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I hear talk of Khurasani Arabs but I have never met one nor have I heard of them outside of this type of map. Is there a video on them Is Arabic still their spoken language It reminds me of the Arabs in Central Asia who are thoroughly assimilated and do not speak Arabic"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1717396851182145889) 2023-10-26T04:24Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This Hasan Minhaj drama is crazy"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1717817564653351001) 2023-10-27T08:16Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Does a FENDI thawb count as sunnah too"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1718270232509202792) 2023-10-28T14:15Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The resentment first and second-generation diaspora Muslims feel for their adoptive countries is socially psychologically and spiritually poisonous. Either learn to love your new home or make a home in a place you love. Living with hatred is no way to live"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1723616110346420516) 2023-11-12T08:17Z 17.7K followers, 17.8K engagements
"The social fabric of a place like New York home to large numbers of Muslims and Jews is getting weaker by the day"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1727030625105027460) 2023-11-21T18:26Z 17.7K followers, 13.7K engagements
"There's another element missing in this analysis immigrants actually want to be American. People in Cairo Amman or Tehran are already avid consumers of Americana. Is any child in Pakistan interested by Belgian culture Or the Dutch language Or Swedish food"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1728035136325738750) 2023-11-24T12:57Z 17.7K followers, 14.5K engagements
"We like to tell dramatic narratives the Romans fell in [----] after a siege or the Persians in Qadisiyya but in reality civilizational decline and death is a slow process. We are witnessing that process unfold in at least a few nations. Our descendants will read about them"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1730231069503332856) 2023-11-30T14:23Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Muslims never figured out how to run a modern state. The republic is a technology that emerged from the Western tradition. It's foreign to us. It's a mango tree planted in Alaska. That's why the best Muslim countries are our monarchies not the mickey-mouse republics"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1730235445462675777) 2023-11-30T14:40Z 17.8K followers, 83.3K engagements
"It's funny when people say this to me. They misunderstood my name. I am not gharbzadeh I am gharbi. I was raised in the west by a father who had lived in America since age [--]. I was raised to be an American. I didn't grow up in a Middle Eastern area. I didn't go to jumuah growing up. I had white friends. The name sharghzadeh means I was suddenly influenced by the East but I am fundamentally still a Westerner evidenced by how I view the world"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1730256214645219532) 2023-11-30T16:03Z 17.8K followers, 18.4K engagements
"@azforeman CGP Grey and reddit ruined flags"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1730288380116648279) 2023-11-30T18:11Z 17.8K followers, [---] engagements
"This is something Americans don't appreciate. Your average 300k Midwestern home is a mansion in most of the world. A giant kitchen man-cave basement garage with two cars and a hobby table an upstairs with bedrooms for each child. American prosperity is something else"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1730664349780292076) 2023-12-01T19:05Z 17.8K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Conservative Christians saying "hey but you wouldn't do that to Islam" is so weak. Defend your own civilization without reminding everyone that Islam has more backbone to defend what it considers sacred. By the way we are just as upset when Jesus is ridiculed he is a Prophet of high degree for us (along with Moses Noah and Abraham) peace be upon them all"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1730666191239188962) 2023-12-01T19:12Z 17.8K followers, 12.4K engagements
"Person: "Oh my God Chai tea and Nan bread are so redundant hahaha white people" Same Person: "ATM Machine" "Pizza Pie""
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1731509425314160668) 2023-12-04T03:03Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@MuhacirEfendi The material conditions have also changed for some. I could imagine many Philadelphia or Bronx Italians would experience a higher quality of life if they moved back go Italy. The same might be true for us soon"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1731691143342035199) 2023-12-04T15:05Z 17.8K followers, [---] engagements
"I dislike that people use a shimgh and agl as a symbol of Salafis. First of all most Salafi scholars don't don the agal. Secondly this is just a universal khaliji outfit. Go into a Shi'i masjid in Qatif Ahwaz or Basra and you'll find it. Lame vilification of Arabian culture"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1732364537108595099) 2023-12-06T11:41Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@MHuzaifaNizam What is the name of that robe Looking nice my brother"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1732404555151728836) 2023-12-06T14:20Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"We are all muqallids taking/relating rulings from our respective scholars. Most non-Arabs will struggle to pronounce Arabic words. I dont subscribe to his aqda but these are cheap shots. Even if he didn't speak Arabic it wouldn't change the validity of the point being made. We can do better than this"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1732459135625580998) 2023-12-06T17:57Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"He's a da'i with a few years of talab 'ilm under his belt does anyone expect him to be fluent in Arabic"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1732459279460729225) 2023-12-06T17:57Z 17.7K followers, [---] engagements
"It gets worse; Islam as we know it was spread and established by these same curropted state powers. Sunnis love to remind everyone that Iran was made Shi'i by Safawid state conversion but: Many Sunni schools were marginalized or brought to the fore by opportunistic Salatin as well. The sect or school of thought found in your home country is almost certainly a product of pure political calculation the truth or falsehood of the sect is incidental. As soon as you understand this your paradigm shifts for good"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1732761771729965468) 2023-12-07T13:59Z 17.8K followers, 52.1K engagements
"This is the case in most Muslim countries I have visited. We rarely read and when we do it's predictable crap like this. Maybe a book about marriage sihr and jinn too"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1732773246381002865) 2023-12-07T14:45Z 17.9K followers, 42.1K engagements
"At a local mall. Food court is next to kids area. All the local kids are speaking English to one another. English-medium education is shaping their minds. Welcome to the American empire"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1732800292998045823) 2023-12-07T16:32Z 17.7K followers, 15.9K engagements
"The people who say this have absolutely no idea what is going on in Iran. If Iran is going to change religions it will become atheist. There is zero chance the secular Iranian population of Shi'i background will convert to Sunni Islam. They will sooner become Jewish"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1733230742635717002) 2023-12-08T21:03Z 17.8K followers, 44.9K engagements
"Bidets are a sign of civilization. I hate being out in about in a place without them. They're also banned in many parts of the Detroit area supposedly due to flooding or slipping risks"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1733526804445479157) 2023-12-09T16:39Z 17.8K followers, [---] engagements
"If the MENA population disappeared the rest of the world would hardly care. They are not waiting for our innovations contributions or ideas with bated breath. Instead of thinking about how we got here people get angry at me the messenger. That's part of our problem too"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1733878050146689400) 2023-12-10T15:55Z 17.8K followers, 23.5K engagements
"Will be visiting Lahore from Dec 23rd to 31st inshaAllah If anyone would like to organize an event of any kind please reach out"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1734688105481764872) 2023-12-12T21:34Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"If Dearborn had a decent urban fabric or if Hamtramck was larger/more economically vibrant I'd move and never leave. But alas an urbanist Muslim is forced to look elsewhere"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1734932186787119279) 2023-12-13T13:44Z 17.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Also can they build more housing At the current Dearborn housing prices you can buy something in Troy and get the Birmingham school district. I can't understand why people would pay 300k for a house off Tireman that's [--] blocks away from a crack house"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1734933383522799804) 2023-12-13T13:48Z 17.8K followers, [---] engagements
"No one "kept" the literacy low Iran was actively working on raising the literacy rate before and after [----]. If your standard is women's rights why don't you look up who gave women the right to vote in Iran and also look up who was vehemently against that change. I wish leftists would just stop talking about Iran"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1735348090809237995) 2023-12-14T17:16Z 18.7K followers, 33.6K engagements
"CGP Grey and Reddit ruined flags. This is so lame"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1735942942634778916) 2023-12-16T08:40Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Who when disaster strikes them say Indeed we belong to Allah and indeed to Him we will return. (Quran 2:156) Allah will say to the righteous O tranquil soul Return to your Lord well pleased with Him and well pleasing to Him. So join My servants and enter My Paradise. (Quran 89:27-30)"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1735971642424041503) 2023-12-16T10:34Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The American attitude to social issues is a pendulum swinging from pole to pole. Despite what they say about us Muslims Anglos are extreme by nature. I will not elaborate"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1736458299594145912) 2023-12-17T18:48Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"'Can't kill/deport them all' 1940s Germany and Medieval Spain would like a word"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1736499268649705788) 2023-12-17T21:31Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Go ahead sit in your cafes smoking sipping an espresso or wine glass and laugh about how America has no health care or how we're all fat or how we're uncultured or ignorant but at least America is a living breathing force to be reckoned with. America is alive you are living in a museum"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1736507817429721283) 2023-12-17T22:05Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements
"A good example of popularized Rumi in Iran: Three books by Turkish author Hakan Meng (from left to right: Rumis [--] Wisdoms Being Shams Student Rumis [--] Rules). Though Iranians can read the original most are unwilling to put in the work required to understand Mawlana properly. Therefore pop-Rumi works to fill in the gap. Elif Shafak is a best-seller in Iran"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1736739156288586000) 2023-12-18T13:24Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Yemenis are such a chad people it's so extremely rare for one of them to turn out so lame. God what an embarrassment for their entire population. The problem with people like him is that they don't have our best interests at heart it's obvious to us he's just making Islam-haters happy. No Muslim is interested in him because he's criticizing as an outsider not a concerned member of the tribe"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1736743749110178036) 2023-12-18T13:42Z 17.9K followers, 25.1K engagements
"Iran being Shi'i or Persian is not responsible for the apostasy crisis if that were the case you'd see a similar trend among Shi'i Arabs or Persian-speakers in Afghanistan etc but you don't. Iran's apostacy is a result of expirmentaiton with modern religious governance"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1736752794772636123) 2023-12-18T14:18Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Pretty crazy how some of these guys can commit war crimes and then walk right past me in New York. I did Economics at UofM. We had a lot of NY Jews. A kid sat next to me with an IDF shirt. He had served. I wondered if he had killed anyone with my name. And now he sits next to me in Econ 401"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1736840807380926975) 2023-12-18T20:08Z 17.9K followers, 20.8K engagements
"@DomeIngenito I'm sure you must have come across it ustad 'Agha Iran khube vali bargard Italia Urupa behtare'"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1737033921202733090) 2023-12-19T08:55Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The West argues Iran cannot be reasoned with because it is a religious-extremist state that is obsessed with bringing about the apocalypse and wiping Israel off the map in preparation for the Mahdi. But then isn't Israel also religious-extremist when major government figures openly call for the flattening of Gaza based on 'killing Amalek' and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank because of the Bible preparing the State of Israel for the return of the Messiah which religious Jews consider imminent"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1737533274614804602) 2023-12-20T17:59Z 17.9K followers, 10.6K engagements
"Part of the reason red-blooded Americans support Israel is because they are living vicariously through it: A frontier state conquering land from savages killing in the name of Western civilization owning the brown Muslims not apologizing for its existence or actions. Israel is what they wish America was"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1737534518959992934) 2023-12-20T18:04Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Fun fact: Iran's southern coast is full of 'khaliji Arabs' many of them have distant cousins that are GCC citizens people used to travel back and forth before rigid borders. In a way Iran's coastal villages are a look at the GCC before oil money and development"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1737569228817866771) 2023-12-20T20:22Z 17.9K followers, 13.7K engagements
"When Christianity became the religion of Europe it was more foreign to Europeans than Islam is today. If Christianity could be thoroughly integrated into Europe Islam can do the same. The missing ingredient is local converts. Without them Islam will be a persecuted ethno-religion like Judaism"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1737881363821326585) 2023-12-21T17:03Z 18.7K followers, 17.9K engagements
"This is true but one semester in the summer I had the oddest experience: I took Arabic [---] and I was the only non-Omani. I didn't even know we had Omani international students at UofM but we did and somehow they all decided to take Arabic together fulfilling their language requirements. That was also when I a naive 18-year-old realized how sensitive ethnicity can be in the GCC. Our professor put us in groups to work together and my partner had the last name 'al-Blsh.' I said "Oh Baluchi You're Iranian like me." Suffice it to say she was offended by that notion because to call a GCC citizen of"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1738104631362818418) 2023-12-22T07:50Z 18.7K followers, 19.5K engagements
"Poetic registers of our language require bilingualism Want to learn Ottoman/Urdu You should learn Persian too Want to learn Persian You should learn Arabic too"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1738301663398580678) 2023-12-22T20:53Z 18.7K followers, 20.9K engagements
"There's an important distinction here: Arabs (1) know what their names mean and (2) maintain their historic spelling. Does a Westerner named "Carter" know what that name means Or Tyler Both are just descriptions of working-class professions (a person who carts and tiles respectively). Naming your child such a thing is meaningless. At least Arab names aspire to noble character traits. Westerners also have a plethora of nonsense made up names like Nevaeh Kyler Kayleigh Tiffany Lamere etc. When we name our children elders warn us to be cautious because the name will effect our child. How does a"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1738905839606403160) 2023-12-24T12:53Z 18.7K followers, 24.2K engagements
"Them: Saying "merry Christmas" is congratulating the Christians for their shirk Them: Make hijrah to the Middle East to protect your children from Western kufr The Middle East we make hijrah to:"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1738980739222302852) 2023-12-24T17:51Z 18.7K followers, 48.1K engagements
"@ohyeahmister2 The native Christians of this country celebrate Christmas in January. This Christmas stuff will be down before then. It has nothing to do with accommodation"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739055437813793014) 2023-12-24T22:48Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It's astonishing their grandparents didn't even know who Santa was but now their grandkids are waiting in line to sit on his lap. Isn't he supposed to be delivering gifts right now anyway"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739306947890032661) 2023-12-25T15:27Z 18.7K followers, 43.7K engagements
"Western Muslims consider Christmas Christian and mostly stay away Muslims in Islamdom see it as part of the Americana cornucopia along with McDonald's Jeans Hollywood movies etc. I don't think any of these parents consider it a religious practice. @sharghzadeh I take your word for it but it sounds bizarre. I dont know if even the most liberalized Muslims in the West would be into that. @sharghzadeh I take your word for it but it sounds bizarre. I dont know if even the most liberalized Muslims in the West would be into that"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739309267172422064) 2023-12-25T15:36Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"If you ever needed proof that our education system is failing: look how many people totally misunderstood this tweet (replies and quotes). Them: Saying "merry Christmas" is congratulating the Christians for their shirk Them: Make hijrah to the Middle East to protect your children from Western kufr The Middle East we make hijrah to: https://t.co/OpZTOMi0XM Them: Saying "merry Christmas" is congratulating the Christians for their shirk Them: Make hijrah to the Middle East to protect your children from Western kufr The Middle East we make hijrah to: https://t.co/OpZTOMi0XM"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739310628865790188) 2023-12-25T15:42Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm not even necessarily disapproving of the Christmas set-up it's a secular country with a sizable native Christian population. I'm just pointing out that there is no escape from secular American modernity in livable places. Sure you can go live in Mauritania or Yemen but otherwise you're in America's world"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739316408956424399) 2023-12-25T16:05Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"If a culture can excel at just one thing it has done well. Desi culture has two things perfected: food and fashion. No cuisine or clothing culture comes close to what you can find in South Asia"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739317331598418366) 2023-12-25T16:09Z 18.7K followers, 47.1K engagements
"Similar vibe as when I saw McDonald's at the forbidden city. I was too young to appreciate what that signified. In a 99% Muslim country the local mall has a Santa meet and greet for the kids. Total American cultural victory. There is no escape from it. In a 99% Muslim country the local mall has a Santa meet and greet for the kids. Total American cultural victory. There is no escape from it"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739506860871569462) 2023-12-26T04:42Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I don't differentiate myself by not celebrating Christmas I differentiate myself by dressing like a 13th century Persian. @sharghzadeh Mohammed Salah enjoys xmas you just want to be different dont you @sharghzadeh Mohammed Salah enjoys xmas you just want to be different dont you"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739687624036782173) 2023-12-26T16:40Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Muslims cannot brag about the pre-modern dhimmi situation ("We are so tolerant to minorities Islamdom had Jews" etc we have all heard it before) because secular modernity has created a more appealing solution for religious minorities. Would one rather be a Christian or Jew in Islamdom or America Even we prefer to be Muslims in America No one will accept the status of tolerated minority when America and Canada offers them (theoretical) equality. Muslims have not put serious thought into how we can address this issue in the context of a modern state"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739694970863563101) 2023-12-26T17:09Z 18.7K followers, 164.7K engagements
"@UmarLeeIII @Danielsrotaryo1 Probably an Arab country where Christians are well established and native with no serious barriers to participation in society Jordan Lebanon maybe"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739696560102047849) 2023-12-26T17:15Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@bookishlogs India has become inhospitable because it is abandoning secularism and going towards Hindu majoritarianism. Indian Muslims seem to be having a decent time in Toronto and Dallas"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739716088446038022) 2023-12-26T18:33Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Not just there in every Muslim country I've been to. Sometimes my thawb/shalwar qamis is a reason to deny me entry into a posh spot but as soon as I say "Oh sorry I don't understand Arabic/Persian/etc what did you say" they apologize and escort me in. @sharghzadeh In PK anything AMERICAN is considered PEAK culture. @sharghzadeh In PK anything AMERICAN is considered PEAK culture"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739717739961631132) 2023-12-26T18:40Z 18.7K followers, 18.5K engagements
"Why are we stuck in this Middle Ages debate Sure maybe a Jew in [----] would prefer Islamdom but we aren't in [----] we're in [----] where both Islamdom and the West offer some limit to religious rights but the West offers him *more* rights and economic prosperity security etc. I think a Jew born&raised in the West today would definitely want to live in the US instead of the Islamic Emirate of the Middle Ages. But a Jew from the Middle Ages would definitely want to live under the Islamic Caliphate where he is free to practice his religious law ENTIRELY I think a Jew born&raised in the West today"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739859955292000643) 2023-12-27T04:05Z 18.7K followers, 14.7K engagements
"@Alf97489215 @MazMHussain Pro Wrestling was on the TV in the Cafe I was in as I saw the Santa meet and greet"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739860827728232522) 2023-12-27T04:08Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"If our situation was so preferable to what Europe had to offer why would they betray us (If they did) Christians & Jews were well protected under Islam rule but they betrayed that trust. When the British or French came to North Africa they were quick to double cross and betray Muslims. A dhimmi situation could be impossible today as we know the true colours of Christians & jews Christians & Jews were well protected under Islam rule but they betrayed that trust. When the British or French came to North Africa they were quick to double cross and betray Muslims. A dhimmi situation could be"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1739874032550584482) 2023-12-27T05:01Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@hsyyed88 I'll try my best to record it"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1740054548960641349) 2023-12-27T16:58Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Another thing the hijrah crowd mises is that you can end up living in a society where the dominant Islam is quite different from what diaspora people practice. The interviewer asks Muslims on the street about Christmas and trees https://t.co/yXBcx8o56i The interviewer asks Muslims on the street about Christmas and trees https://t.co/yXBcx8o56i"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1740227600491180239) 2023-12-28T04:26Z 18.7K followers, 39.9K engagements
"Not celebrating Christmas has nothing to do with Salafiyya. It is the normative Muslim opinion. As your muft or marja. Lebanese Muslims celebrate Christmas because it is a very Westernized country. It has nothing to do with coexistence either. You had a mutli-decade civil war and every other year there is talk of another one. So much for coexistence. Proud Lebanese 🥰 fuck all you salafis. thats why in Lebanon we can co exist 😀 Proud Lebanese 🥰 fuck all you salafis. thats why in Lebanon we can co exist 😀"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1740382851928117486) 2023-12-28T14:43Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Not celebrating Christmas has nothing to do with Salafiyya. It is the normative Muslim opinion. Ask your muft or marja. Lebanese Muslims celebrate Christmas because it is a very Westernized country. It has nothing to do with coexistence either. You had a mutli-decade civil war and every other year there is talk of another one. So much for coexistence. Proud Lebanese 🥰 fuck all you salafis. thats why in Lebanon we can co exist 😀 Proud Lebanese 🥰 fuck all you salafis. thats why in Lebanon we can co exist 😀"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1740385006382645668) 2023-12-28T14:51Z 18.7K followers, 65.9K engagements
"Pakistan has been so much fun. I haven't had such a good time traveling in ages"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1740796290286616748) 2023-12-29T18:05Z 18.7K followers, 24.3K engagements
"Is anyone here in Oman Please reach out I'll be in Muscat tomorrow inshallah"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1741164651034099733) 2023-12-30T18:29Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"You were very gracious dear Talha Thank you. Yesterday it was a great pleasure meeting @sharghzadeh and showing him a few places. We prayed Asr at a Mughal era Saleh Kamboh Mosque (built in the late 1600s) located at the Mochi Gate (of the walled city of Lahore) Its decorative features resemble those of Wazir Khan Mosque https://t.co/D2VBQaBTIF Yesterday it was a great pleasure meeting @sharghzadeh and showing him a few places. We prayed Asr at a Mughal era Saleh Kamboh Mosque (built in the late 1600s) located at the Mochi Gate (of the walled city of Lahore) Its decorative features resemble"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1741170730866544664) 2023-12-30T18:53Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm starting to realize how Indo-Pak restaurants abroad are not representative of the food culture here in the subcontinent. So far I have not found any restaurants that offer the menu you find at American restaurants which offer foods Westerners enjoy such as Butter Chicken Biryani. I found Biryani is mostly sold in places that focus on Biryani and I didn't see Butter Chicken on a single menu"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1741182422879006724) 2023-12-30T19:40Z 18.7K followers, 31.5K engagements
"Childcare costs are a red herring. The poorest nations have the highest birth rates. It's something deeper. what if instead of making dogs and cats part of a new culture war people figure out ways to lower childcare costs https://t.co/cvTegvWPyo what if instead of making dogs and cats part of a new culture war people figure out ways to lower childcare costs https://t.co/cvTegvWPyo"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1741559375326527752) 2023-12-31T20:38Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"White converts are often perceived as leaving their culture and society behind. The conversion itself de-legitimizes them. It's a non starter. This is just my opinion but I believe that white/European converts to Islam not all but most of them have been poor ambassadors for this religion in terms of persuading people from their ethnic backgrounds about its beauty. Non-Muslim Blacks at one point used to engage with This is just my opinion but I believe that white/European converts to Islam not all but most of them have been poor ambassadors for this religion in terms of persuading people from"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1741565371180621867) 2023-12-31T21:01Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"For Western Muslims with transferrable jobs hijrah to the GCC countries is a good option. You can secure a competitive salary (or even better given tax benefits) free housing (sometimes) and generally enjoy a Western quality of life but there's one deal-breaking issue: The weather. It's [--] degrees and sunny right now. The air conditioning is still on in most places in the coldest months of the year. I would not want to be here come summertime"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1742103015627092439) 2024-01-02T08:38Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This might be true for the city-states but a country like Oman or Saudi can offer endless things to do. Oman seems like heaven for someone interested in outings/camping/hiking/water activities Saudi would be great for Makkah/Madina then you have plenty of places to explore as well. @sharghzadeh Another issue is that the GCC countries are a glitzy wasteland with little culture. Hanging out at shopping malls and stuffing your face with cheap American fast food gets boring after a while. @sharghzadeh Another issue is that the GCC countries are a glitzy wasteland with little culture. Hanging out"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1742112696198111332) 2024-01-02T09:16Z 32.7K followers, 12.1K engagements
"There's a reason our salaries are double theirs i cant believe Italians take a whole month off to celebrate August and we in the US only get a week off to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ i cant believe Italians take a whole month off to celebrate August and we in the US only get a week off to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1742172361762156711) 2024-01-02T13:13Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"To give you a sense of the trauma and brain rot prevalent in Iran; just look at our social media. A mosque Imam is killed in Newark and the top comments are all celebratory. Iranian society is deeply sick"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1742828811471765995) 2024-01-04T08:42Z 18.7K followers, 117.4K engagements
"@FADCLDN I expect them to be mature and not celebrate a hate crime () against a Black American who has absolutely nothing to do with Iran or Iranian clerics. We need to stop making excuses and face the reality that we are an immature childish people"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1742832787676127404) 2024-01-04T08:58Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@FakeNewsTroll We don't have organizations or institutions with lasting power. In a few generations Iranian Americans will be totally assimilated without a trace of Iran save an inherited rug and kebabs"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1742833684951023941) 2024-01-04T09:01Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"As I grow older and think about the things that matter I really respect the community Arabs have built in Dearborn. I wish we Iranians had something similar in America"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1743216303580574090) 2024-01-05T10:22Z 18.7K followers, 19.5K engagements
"The same is true for Tehran Cairo etc. Will build hellscape cities (freeways pollution brutalism unwalkable) and then wonder why we retreat indoors growing more fat and mentally unhealthy by the day. Istanbul is an excellent exception to this rule. One thing I noticed while in India is how little time people in urban cities spend outdoors. Because of how crowded dirty and polluted it is they stay indoors for the most part. I can imagine this plays a meaningful role in the declining metabolic health of Indians. One thing I noticed while in India is how little time people in urban cities spend"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1743596116283691213) 2024-01-06T11:31Z 18.7K followers, 14K engagements
"Iranian monarchists have always considered him weak. He can't even rein in the antics of his would-be queen. Khumayni was able to topple a two-thousand-year-old monarchy using cassette tapes meanwhile Pahlavi is feckless despite his huge built-in name recognition nostalgia for Pahlavi Iran Western support etc. Something that will never not be funny to me is that the would-be Shah of Iran identifies as Shiite Muslim and goes on Hajj (despite every incentive weighing to do the opposite) and doesnt want the monarchy restored Something that will never not be funny to me is that the would-be Shah"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1744051121532903563) 2024-01-07T17:39Z 18.7K followers, 20.9K engagements
"America is just about the only country where a foreign-raised person like Hasan Piker can make an extremely lucrative career talking about how awful America is while being cheered on by an American audience. The inverse of that would not happen in his native Turkey or most other countries in the world"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1744370112151400484) 2024-01-08T14:46Z 33.8K followers, 49.8K engagements
"He can just as easily run his streaming career from Istanbul. Or maybe he loves living in the comforts that the US system he despises so much afford him"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1744370406063030479) 2024-01-08T14:48Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Istanbul. There's no rush and I prefer to give other places a chance first. Most Muslim countries are extremely restrictive when it comes to residency options. You're required to work in the country (so I'd have to drop/reduce my Persian Poetics online work) and you can't retire there. @sharghzadeh Where do you want to live @sharghzadeh Where do you want to live"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1744383816104321322) 2024-01-08T15:41Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"You know our education system is failing when people don't understand why indigenous Mexicans look like people in Asia. Hint: where did those Mexicans come from how comes those two vietnamese dudes have [--] mexican bloodine and already look like random mexican how comes those two vietnamese dudes have [--] mexican bloodine and already look like random mexican"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1744634448618860910) 2024-01-09T08:17Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Yet another proof that America is the most powerful engine for your culture. Asian Chicanos exist because of Los Angeles not Mexico City. Pizzerias are popular globally because of New York not Naples. Many such examples. Pachuco style is becoming popular in Vietnam https://t.co/kCDh2AGSt8 Pachuco style is becoming popular in Vietnam https://t.co/kCDh2AGSt8"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1744648086528417963) 2024-01-09T09:11Z 18.7K followers, 27.1K engagements
"We are all about growth and change not stagnation and fossilization. Pizza is a food not a secret society. The highest-regarded Pizzerias on earth are almost all run by Italian-Americans in New York and New Haven. The most powerful engine to promote and degrade your culture. If you ever ate a pizza in Napoli you'd never be able to eat a pizza in New York again. "Do not cast your pearls at pigs" said Jesus culture should remain an indigenous beautiful secret. The most powerful engine to promote and degrade your culture. If you ever ate a pizza in Napoli you'd never be able to eat a pizza in"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1744667176512917545) 2024-01-09T10:27Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Immigrants in America can experience a quick period of growth for the first and second generation because we come from societies where saving is the norm. Most Americans spend almost everything (Consumer economy) so we're playing the economic game on easy mode. Combine that with family networks community etc and you have a recipe for success. It only lasts a bit though your descandants will become mindless consumers as well. This is insane. People really have no control of themselves https://t.co/EmYBv7OMvR This is insane. People really have no control of themselves https://t.co/EmYBv7OMvR"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1744789536066912535) 2024-01-09T18:33Z 18.7K followers, 14.2K engagements
"This type of blatan anti-Persian racism (which is par for the course among many Arab Sunnis) will not be widely condemned. There's no use in trying to be their friends. They hate us for who we are not what we believe and nothing we do will fix that. Imagine if someone asked a Muslim convert: May I inquire about how many acts of fornication your parents committed https://t.co/0eBKLYjIej Imagine if someone asked a Muslim convert: May I inquire about how many acts of fornication your parents committed https://t.co/0eBKLYjIej"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1744917121807622274) 2024-01-10T03:00Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"It doesn't matter how Sunni you are or how much you denounce Iran there is a segment of Arabs who dislike us for our Persianness which they associate with Shi'ism. Mind you many of these people's problem is not what Iran has done their problem is that a Shi'i did it. I have long said that if Iran were Sunni many of the Sunnis who hate Iran would be cheering Iran on or at least make excuses or not criticize as much. Otherwise whatever they hate Iran for doing it is also par for the course when it comes to Sunni armies/groups/leaders they mostly support or make excuses for. I can't tell you how"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1744918013478932971) 2024-01-10T03:04Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Spot on. The Jewish conspiracy theories would be more believable if they were constructed by people who understood Jewry. These Hassids are the Amish of Jews they're religious nutters essentially cut off from our everyday world. They have zero sway over even secular Jewish life let alone the larger society. Hassidic Jews stick to their tiny insular communities and any meeting with politicians is a result of goodwill and earning their votes (which are cast as a block). Saying Jews control the world is obviously antisemitic but to insinuate that its Hasids calling the shots is beyond laughable"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745028603908137058) 2024-01-10T10:23Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Neo-Zoroastrianism is a LARP and goes nowhere for the following reasons: 1) Traditions have to emerge and live organically. Zoroastrianism as a state religion in Iran is long gone and is not coming back. The direction is overwhelmingly toward secularism. People have little appetite for any type of religion. If Iran became Zoroastrian the priestly class would start their own akhund-bazi (like they did before Islam) and people would begin to hate Zoroastrianism as well. 2) Established Zoroastrianism is not a converting/proselytizing religion. When I was a researcher in college we interviewed an"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745101031543816623) 2024-01-10T15:11Z 18.7K followers, 149.8K engagements
"All of this is said with all due respect to my Zoroastrian compatriots. I have nothing against them or their religion. It's a part of our history and their right to religious freedom should not be infringed nor should they be made to feel as second class citizens"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745101541776805931) 2024-01-10T15:13Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Losers with no rebuttal resort to racism. There is nothing wrong with being Pakistani. Any Pakistani with a pure heart is my brother and any racist Iranian is a stranger to me. You are a paki and your opinion is irrelevant. You are a paki and your opinion is irrelevant"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745113202671726593) 2024-01-10T15:59Z 18.7K followers, 155.7K engagements
"Unlike most of these teenager identity crisis Zoro-LARPers I was actually aware of and interested in my pre-Islamic heritage at a young age and in an organic way not as a reaction to an Iranian diaspora identity crisis"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745370905545408727) 2024-01-11T09:03Z 18.7K followers, 55.6K engagements
"You're such a simpleton that I really don't want to reply to you any further but perhaps some onlookers can learn something (you to be sure can't) [--]. All opinions are relevant and judged on the basis of their truthfulness not their authorship. If anything foreigners can often reveal something that you would never notice. Identity politics is lame. [--]. I am Iranian on both sides and unlike most of you diaspora LARPers I went back to Iran on my own lived there for years became mamnu'l-khurj (I bet 99% of you would be too scared to live through that) and endured the difficulties of everyday life"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745372751630577861) 2024-01-11T09:11Z 18.7K followers, 16.8K engagements
"@AhmedHoutBaloch The funniest thing about this entire interaction is that you yourself are Balochi probably from Guwadar or something you should be the last person to call anyone Pakistani in an insulting way"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745411014760243362) 2024-01-11T11:43Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"You're just salty because I have drip and you don't It's ok you are among many All that to play dress up like an Arab. You cant call anyone a larper. https://t.co/AwrPOoMRwn All that to play dress up like an Arab. You cant call anyone a larper. https://t.co/AwrPOoMRwn"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745430823170425182) 2024-01-11T13:01Z 18.7K followers, 28.1K engagements
"The funniest thing about people accusing me of pretending to be Iranian: Why would anyone pretend to be Iranian Is it our amazing reputation Or our strong economy Is it a powerful passport What exactly makes being Iranian so great that it's worth pretending None of us want to be in Iran or remain Iranian anyway. Everyone copies Western culture and curses the country day and night. Almost all of us wish to leave and not look back. The lucky few who do move abroad mostly assimilate into Whiteness. We mangle our Persian noses and bleach our beautiful hair butcher or change our dignified names"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745463063841833396) 2024-01-11T15:09Z [--] followers, 114.6K engagements
"This is true for most of our countries except the difference is it seems only Iranians are afflicted with this self-important egotism wherein they think being Iranian is the best thing on earth. No it's not. We're doing manual labor in Arab countries. We're running to every corner of the globe begging for residency visas. We're selling our bodies in Europe and Arabia. All because we turned our beautiful country into a garbage heap"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745464063755485271) 2024-01-11T15:13Z [--] followers, 15.2K engagements
"I have lived in Iran for long stretches throughout my life. My last stay was [--] years and only ended because of marriage. @sharghzadeh You havent lived in Iran - your voice isnt relevant @sharghzadeh You havent lived in Iran - your voice isnt relevant"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745525932822086078) 2024-01-11T19:19Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Living in Iran has come at a serious personal cost as well. I have lost thousands due to shut down bank accounts and I was also unable to leave the country for almost two years depriving me of my parents and friends back in America. You lot know nothing about life in Iran"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745526623800095030) 2024-01-11T19:22Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The 'Persian supremacist mythical revisionist rhetoric' and lame attempt to pass as white stem from the same insecurities. It's all from our deep inferiority complex. Many mistakenly attribute this to the revolution but it's actually much older. This trend began over a century ago. Im very confused by this. The Iranians I encounter who are most into Persian supremacist mythical revisionist rhetoric all have bleached hair nose jobs and Anglicised names. They also love it when they pass as other nationalities. Im very confused by this. The Iranians I encounter who are most into Persian"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745552517843280203) 2024-01-11T21:05Z 18.7K followers, 17.8K engagements
"The difference between Iran and Afghanistan is a matter of modernization not centralization or strong leadership. Iranian is a modernized state complete with all of the requisite institutions and contemporary notions of nationalism. We have founding and unifying myths a national language and a national religion (remember the Pahlavis were avowed Shi'a) etc. It's possible to have a state that is modern democratic and functional in this region such as Turkey and it's also possible to have a non-democratic monarchy that's an utter mess. Afghanistan was also a monarchy why did it not become a"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745940180257640493) 2024-01-12T22:45Z [--] followers, 20.1K engagements
"Many times you will see second-generation diaspora born abroad absorb orientalist talking points about the Middle East and then as if they were unadulterated native voices simply regurgitate them on behalf of the locals who reject such notions. People in the Middle East: We need more of a say in our governments please. The West: No you Middle Easterners are too tribal and savage to have a say. We will install dictators on your behalf. Second-gen in diaspora: No you see our region is so complex we really just need monarchs to stabilize things"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745942365947269222) 2024-01-12T22:54Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Another issue they don't understand is that strong leaders create the illusion of stability when they are in power (Saddam Reza Shah) but their leadership style produces a ticking time bomb that will go off as soon as they're gone dooming the country for the next few generations. Then in hindsight the future generations will look back at the leader with nostalgia for his (relatively) stable era not realizing that it's exactly that ruler they have to blame for their current mess. Countries thrive on strong transparent democratic institutions. Strongman countries will fail sooner or later."
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745943567799841168) 2024-01-12T22:59Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Try talking to them in person I have never talked to a Saudi or Emirati national who had any sort of political consciousness you criticize their country and they either call you a rafidhi or they boast about how rich they are I have never talked to a Saudi or Emirati national who had any sort of political consciousness you criticize their country and they either call you a rafidhi or they boast about how rich they are"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1745952118073106472) 2024-01-12T23:33Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I love that South Asians and GCC Arabs call Westernized locals 'Burgers' and 'Chicken nuggets.'"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746095719402840376) 2024-01-13T09:03Z 18.7K followers, 11K engagements
"Total American cultural victory Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China and its first in Southern China today This is what the line looked like with people waiting hours to get in 😲https://t.co/sTiVU66pVC Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China and its first in Southern China today This is what the line looked like with people waiting hours to get in 😲https://t.co/sTiVU66pVC"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746367420183298505) 2024-01-14T03:03Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"For someone like me who was raised in an Anglo society hyper self-conscious about anti-Black racism the casual way people talk about Black people in other cultures can be shocking: . 🤍 https://t.co/odKor34v9a . 🤍 https://t.co/odKor34v9a"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746376411995050289) 2024-01-14T03:39Z 18.7K followers, 21.5K engagements
"Imagine being so self-hating and Islamophobic that it makes you deny all the achievements of Islamo-Persianate civilization. Islamic-Iranian poetry and architecture are easily top-notch worldwide"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746727613878399355) 2024-01-15T02:54Z 22K followers, 27.4K engagements
"If hatred for Afghans could be excused by experiences with crime I should be the first person to hate them: my apartment was robbed by Afghan construction workers from the building next door when I was fifteen which resulted in the theft of my most precious possession: my laptop. You know why that experience didn't turn me into a xenophobe and racist even at that age Because I also knew that my local grocer was Afghan our building caretaker was Afghan along with many other wonderful people I have known. I refuse to judge an entire nation by the actions of its most destitute desperate people."
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746807232321176034) 2024-01-15T08:11Z 18.7K followers, 19.5K engagements
"This is pure anachronism and revisionism. There was no duress the important Persian scholars were not the convert generation. Abu Hanifa Ghazzali Muslim Tirmizi etc had been Muslim for generations and they were often zealous believers too. The same goes for our poets. Even a cursory reading of Sa'di Rumi etc will clarify this. Furthermore the Persian scholars themselves would reject the notion that they 'changed' Islam (which would be a reprehensible bid'a) rather they would probably say that it was Islam that changed them for the better and if they did contribute anything it was simply to"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746822241478640036) 2024-01-15T09:10Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Secular Iranians are so insulated and distant from their historical culture that if someone like Sa'di was brought back to life they would find that they have almost nothing in common with him from their religious beliefs the way they speak Persian their dress etc whereas someone from Herat would be totally able to relate to Sa'di in those ways"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746823155182682535) 2024-01-15T09:14Z 18.7K followers, 40.4K engagements
"@thezindiqphilo That's precisely why I choose Sa'di as my example. He was a zealous Muslim unlike Hafiz for example"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746891708787196121) 2024-01-15T13:46Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This is an ahistorical and anachronistic view of the Shahnama. By the time Firdawsi came along Iran was under the control of Turko-Persianate empires and there was no threat of Arabization. Firdawsi was chronicling narratives about Iranian history for a patron continuing the work of other Muslims. If he was writing a text against Arabization he would be better off changing his name to Pards and writing a political treatise. @sharghzadeh The greatest persian poem was written as a explicit resistance to arabification @sharghzadeh The greatest persian poem was written as a explicit resistance to"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746903287306023167) 2024-01-15T14:32Z 18.7K followers, 44.1K engagements
"An Iranian that uses academic transliteration schema. Firdawsi hiself would have pronounced it that way. Furthermore his patron was based in modern Afghanistan. Lastly if I was Afghan at least I wouldn't have to deal with cringe anti-Islam compatriots. @sharghzadeh Youre an Afghan. What Iranian writes Shahnameh like that and Ferdowsi like that @sharghzadeh Youre an Afghan. What Iranian writes Shahnameh like that and Ferdowsi like that"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746910462699077780) 2024-01-15T15:01Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"It's so funny that ultranationalist Iranians first claimed I was Pakistani a few days ago and now they claim I am Afghan. Perhaps they are too small minded to imagine that their compatriot once thought just like them but left Iran and saw the world broadened his horizons re-kindled his relationship with Islam etc. Instead of being angry with me try to rise above the gutter nonsense discourse and ideologies that Iranians have been subjected to. Living with a closed mind and nationalist/Islamist fantasies is a terrible unexplored life. Broaden your horizons"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746913051230560372) 2024-01-15T15:11Z 18.7K followers, 16.2K engagements
"It's a bit complicated. My dad saw Islam as part of my cultural identity so we attended an Iranian mosque about every Friday but he stopped taking me when he thought it was making me too religious as I was becoming a teen. He feared it would hamper my ability to live a normal life in America. My grandparents had a level of practice that was average for small-town folks in their generation. But overall my younger relatives and peers were not religious in any remarkable way aside from the standard religiosity all Iranians have (aversion to pork dislike of pre-marital sex etc). @sharghzadeh May"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746918696780542077) 2024-01-15T15:34Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"By the way Muhammad Ali is a very common name in Iran and I've met several people with the last name 'Mujarradi' from various cities in Iran and furthermore you can just photoshop my name into any stupid document really it's amazing how dumb this lot are"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746936421577846927) 2024-01-15T16:44Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Nothing about my life is hidden. All of my social media accounts are public. I have been interviewed about my life story several times. My Instagram stories document my travels and interactions. All of my views are stated openly and without reservation. I am not embarrassed or ashamed of anything I've done and if I was a member of any group I would say so openly. I fully and unreservedly dissociate myself from any political movement or group in Iran America or elsewhere. I am not part of any sect cult organization militia government and I never will be"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1746937298334224630) 2024-01-15T16:48Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I tend to use these points as a litmus test for if someone is worth conversing with. Languages are so complex that a single person cannot kill or revive a widespread language on their own especially not before modernity. Similarly anyone who has observed attempts to revive Native American languages or read about Hebrew knows that saving or reviving languages is a Herculean task to say the least. That seems easy enough to understand. If someone is at the level where they really believe Persian was about to die and a single poet came along and reversed the tide of its destruction they are"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1747007163019469235) 2024-01-15T21:25Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"There are two Muslims in America generally speaking: 1) Muslims in places like Dearborn Detroit Philly and New York: Mostly Arab with a (shrinking) contingent of African-American converts. Working-class refugees first-gen etc. Their mosques are run down former offer space in an urban area. Their dream is to be a barber run a gas station restaurant etc. 2) Muslims in places like LA Texas suburbs etc: Mostly Desi with some affluent Arabs like pre-2011 Syrians mostly doctors engineers etc. Already wealthy in their home country. Their masjid is a [--] million dollar purpose-built structure"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1747276587244859582) 2024-01-16T15:16Z 18.7K followers, 15.1K engagements
"Istanbul is the most pleasant Muslim city. It's really not even a close comparison. stanbul'da gn batm. https://t.co/YhIgmoqgKg stanbul'da gn batm. https://t.co/YhIgmoqgKg"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1747549065837977877) 2024-01-17T09:18Z 18.7K followers, 26.5K engagements
"Tajiks don't really care much about Iran or living there. I met several Tajiks living and working in Turkey but I have only met one in Iran. A little-known fact I learned from speaking to a few Tajiks inside the country is that their government portrays Middle Eastern civilization as backward legitimizing their pivot to the Russosphere. @sharghzadeh If it gave them to tajiks no problem. But not the mongol hazaras @sharghzadeh If it gave them to tajiks no problem. But not the mongol hazaras"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1747568691351306543) 2024-01-17T10:36Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"If I move to Istanbul this is how I want to be posted up with my twitter mutuals"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1747639072267391345) 2024-01-17T15:16Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I wish we had maintained and modernized this traditional urban form. What we have now is an ugly mess. [----] [----] [-----] https://t.co/PtJl6ep4Cn [----] [----] [-----] https://t.co/PtJl6ep4Cn"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1747922114106024222) 2024-01-18T10:01Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"GCC Persians (whether they are local citizens or Iranian expats who have been there for generations) are a very interesting window into Iranians sans the nuttery of the last century. Seeing ethnically Iranian people in Kuwait who have been here since the Qajar era looking at their religiosity their Persian dialect how they view their identity etc gives you a good window into how Iranians would be if a century of modernization secularization revolutions wars and then Islamization wasn't imposed upon them"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1748080024681435558) 2024-01-18T20:28Z 21.5K followers, 16.9K engagements
"Yes but they stopped passing the language down in the mid-20th century because of Arab nationalism. Thanks Egypt. @sharghzadeh Are there Kuwaiti citizens of Persian origins If so do they still speak Farsi @sharghzadeh Are there Kuwaiti citizens of Persian origins If so do they still speak Farsi"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1748082882306859163) 2024-01-18T20:40Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"It's tragic because the variant of Persian spoken in Kuwait was actually very distinct and only present here so it's death (which is sure to happen in our lifetime) represents the loss of a truly unique element of the local culture. Nationalism is cancer"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1748083543425622421) 2024-01-18T20:42Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@WDLD0712 This is actually very wrong. In fact Bahrain is the only GCC country where the Persians still pass down their language on a large scale. You're thinking of Hawala/Khudmuni people"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1748084235150262426) 2024-01-18T20:45Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@abrarr_82 My understanding is that it is no longer passed down. I have never heard a person my age speaking 'Iymi"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1748087410829709807) 2024-01-18T20:58Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"I've said this before and people got angry but it's true. In the modern context it's either misyr/simple low-stakes marriage or zin. People used to marry just after puberty only a few generations ago. Now we ask people to wait from age [--] to [--]. It's unrealistic. Ideally we could encourage kids to meet someone at the MSA and let them have a simple nikkah with no expectations of moving in or childbearing until after college. Any other scenario is zin. Anyone who went to college knows what's up. @sharghzadeh But in this cultural climate living as religious minorities and influenced by the"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1748098854560346369) 2024-01-18T21:43Z 18.7K followers, 224.6K engagements
"Pre-modern Muslims married and divorced several times before thirty but a modern Muslim is unmarried at thirty and isn't even allowed to masturbate. Victorians called us licentious. Now we are more Victorian than the Victorians"
[X Link](https://x.com/sharghzadeh/status/1748102599641797102) 2024-01-18T21:58Z 18.7K followers, 30.8K engagements
"I think Western Muslims from the first and second generations don't understand how dire the situation will become for generations three and four. Zina is widespread and as we are more generations removed from Islamdom it will become more normal. Remember many of our values are held together by our tenuous connection to back home"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1748245200860758273) 2024-01-19T07:25Z [--] followers, 59K engagements
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"Why does every article about Iran have some ridiculous photo like this"
X Link 2020-12-29T11:03Z 22K followers, [--] engagements
"South Asia was directly colonized for centuries yet people retained their attire. However Iran - which wasn't colonized - willfully abandoned traditional garb because of an inferiority complex. We don't care and worse yet - people snicker at me for wearing cultural clothing"
X Link 2021-01-08T10:34Z 22K followers, [---] engagements
"Iran has easily intercepted and assimilated three invading civilizations: The Greeks the Arabs and the Mongols. Alexander Umar Ali Genghis and Timur entered Iran as foreigners but today you find Iranians named after them. Photo: A Persianized Genghis Khan"
X Link 2022-05-11T16:25Z 22K followers, [---] engagements
"One of the most interesting things about diasporas is how they are frozen in time. You find Amish and Italian-Americans speaking dialects dead/dying in Europe Chinese-Americans cooking 19th century peasant food long gone in China Iranian-American using 70s slang (Irooni etc)"
X Link 2022-08-06T13:05Z 23.1K followers, [----] engagements
"America is the ultimate food meritocracy. Move here open a restaurant cook tasty food market it well and you'll get rich. Simple as that"
X Link 2023-04-24T20:25Z 28.9K followers, 19.9K engagements
"The Roman Empire lasted until 1922"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:28Z [--] followers, 93.7K engagements
"Today you can't even tell a Middle Eastern community was once there. Everything is ephemeral in this country. Meanwhile Isfahan's Armenian quarter has survived five centuries"
X Link 2023-05-27T17:32Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The fact that many people think Nikki Haley is just a tan white woman and are shocked to find out she is a Sikh Punjabi shows how malleable race is in America. When Nikki Haleys father couldnt find a job as a college professor at a PWI because of his ethnicity Voorhees College (an HBCU) hired him. Her mother sold dresses and had a largely Black clientele. I know b/c my grandmother was a customer. Black people saved her family When Nikki Haleys father couldnt find a job as a college professor at a PWI because of his ethnicity Voorhees College (an HBCU) hired him. Her mother sold dresses and"
X Link 2023-06-22T02:29Z 21.6K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Salah al-Din literally destroyed pyramids for the sake of. re-using their bricks. Incredible"
X Link 2023-06-28T19:04Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@NecktieSalvage Like almost everything else cars have taken an aesthetic downturn to say the least. Signed a Detroiter"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:53Z 18.7K followers, [--] engagements
"This is what happens when you cultivate a society where people know one another and fear God. The GCC is famous for its safety"
X Link 2023-07-09T09:55Z 18.7K followers, 33.9K engagements
"Some knowledge is required to engage in debate on every topic except guns. Almost everyone knows next to nothing and they also have a very strong opinion"
X Link 2023-07-09T00:45Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Really The Qur'n is created Throws brick"
X Link 2023-07-09T17:52Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"If Islam is not turned over to native locals and children of immigrants who are well in tune with the local American culture it will never become an American religion. It will remain an isolated suburban immigrant phenomenon. Sans immigration American Islam would slowly die"
X Link 2023-07-10T15:43Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"American urban centers are where culture is made and spread around the globe. Hip-hop was started as fun and games in the NY projects and now Iranian kids have Tupac memorized. Islam in America can be a lasting urban phenomenon and go global or remain suburban and fade away"
X Link 2023-07-10T15:38Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Entire societies can be wrong and resist correct action. Bidets are absent in America and many Americans consider them disgusting and dirty. Instead of smugly mocking we should reflect: What are we doing wrong What are we mistaken about"
X Link 2023-07-10T19:19Z 17.7K followers, 15K engagements
"Despite the orietnalism and general Ugly American vibe I am here for clowing France"
X Link 2023-07-11T22:57Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Classical architecture didn't die because we lost our good taste. It died because we lost the beliefs that gave birth to it. Gargoyles are not aestheticthey ward off evil spirits. Do people still believe in evil spirits"
X Link 2023-07-12T02:58Z 18.7K followers, 20.9K engagements
"@theKill97728949 Does that mean you're. a spirit"
X Link 2023-07-12T02:42Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"What are we deprived of NYC and Detroit Metro have about the same percentage of Muslims as London proper. Detroit area masjid (and other cities) have loud azan [---] days a year does London"
X Link 2023-07-12T05:15Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"As someone who grew up adjacent to both poor Whites and poor Blacks let me tell you that what online weirdos associate with African American culture is just poverty culture. A larger proportion of Black Americans are poor so it is incorrectly associated with race"
X Link 2023-07-12T03:56Z 18.7K followers, 27.3K engagements
"I had White coworkers who were deadbeat dads wasting money on drugs fleeing active warrants driving an uninsured car on an expired license dating strippers listening to harm White people music using (and abusing) welfare/income tax refunds and even had a victim complex"
X Link 2023-07-12T03:56Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@ArainGang NYC is 10% at least and Detroit Metro is one of the most heavily Muslim places in the West if not the most"
X Link 2023-07-12T04:38Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@aghahqz Interesting meth trailers cocaine and the italian/irish/albanian mob beg to differ. Every ethnic group has drug dealers and gang bangers"
X Link 2023-07-12T06:50Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"How intelligible are Yiddish and Pennsylvania Dutch Could you drop an Amish guy in Brooklyn and Brooklynite in Ohio"
X Link 2023-07-12T15:43Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"@LivinginTehran What's so mind-boggling is that Tehran is still imposing property-line setbacks to further widen streets not at all understanding the principle of induced demand"
X Link 2023-07-13T16:31Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Food authenticity is dumb. I am here to have a tasty meal I don't care if it's predictable and boring. Eat your own food and shut up about mine. Only annoying insecure gatekeeping pedant losers care about these things. Sorry"
X Link 2023-07-15T03:09Z 18.7K followers, 14.2K engagements
"Right-wingers who care about family values: What is your plan to allow a working-class man to support a wife and two kids again like they did in your favorite decades If you don't have an answer you don't care about family values you care about culture wars"
X Link 2023-07-15T22:20Z 18.7K followers, 35.5K engagements
"The worst Islamophobes are not Whites they're the Iranian Diaspora. They will have a tantrum if they see an Iranian woman choosing to cover her hair outside of Iran and instead of defending the lady they posted (the page stole her video) they pin the comment attacking her"
X Link 2023-07-17T09:34Z 18.7K followers, 195.6K engagements
"I sympathize with Iranians traumatized by Islamism. That being said the very least we owe our new homeland is to treat it as a clean slate and not import Iranian drama. The Harassing and heckling of random Iranian Muslims (particularly women) in North America is shameful"
X Link 2023-07-17T05:12Z 24K followers, 25.6K engagements
"For 9/11 the moon landing etc to be a conspiracy a massive amount of people would be keeping secrets. All it would take is one deathbed confession or leak for an entire national narrative to unravel"
X Link 2023-07-18T00:56Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"AVOID THESE THAWB MISTAKES 🧵 For various reasons thawbs have become a uniform for Muslim men in the diaspora and you see many non-Arabs making elementary thawb mistakes"
X Link 2023-07-18T15:40Z 22K followers, 180.5K engagements
"Brothers: post your traditional Islamic fit and I will give you tips and pointers to make it look nicer"
X Link 2023-07-18T21:35Z 33.6K followers, 43.4K engagements
"Iranians have taken up dogs as personal pets to be more western but they ignore the rules established in the west Poop is left on sidewalks Dogs are not on leashes Dogs are left in hot cars Dogs are generally not properly trained Its a mess just like everything else we do"
X Link 2023-08-07T12:09Z 18.7K followers, 30.7K engagements
""Walkable cities can exist in Europe and America where the weather is mild it's too hot to walk in the Middle East." Yes it's too hot under sunlight surrounded by a sea of asphalt. But walking on a car-free street under a canopy made of a cool natural material That's nice"
X Link 2023-08-08T17:13Z 25.7K followers, 19.4K engagements
"There are many activities that seemingly only Anglos and the Anglo-adjacent enjoy such as museums. I have never found a museum fun and I only go when White people take me. The brown people I see there are more Anglo-adjacent whether via assimilation or colonial experience"
X Link 2023-08-09T09:16Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It's kids. The reason is kids. At that time you had eight nine ten kids in a household. Now you have one or two. Have fun with your demography-induced civilizational collapse"
X Link 2023-08-10T15:53Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Many don't understand how wars work. My parents lived through the Iraqi bombing of Tehran. Life goes on as normal until it doesn't. One night you're out living a normal life another night you're huddled in the basement surrounded by bags of rice. It's not 24/7 danger"
X Link 2023-08-11T18:16Z 18.7K followers, 28.6K engagements
"Much of what has made Islam great comes from Persians: Major hadith collections Arabic grammar books Islamic mysticism Poetry Architecture The expansion of Islam (Seljuks Ottomans etc were Persianate Turkic people) This burns the eyes of those that hate Persian people"
X Link 2023-08-12T15:12Z 18.7K followers, 373.5K engagements
"@Dreama_Land I don't deny this I teach that in my course. I never said that Persians don't appreciate Arabs I as a Persian love the Arabic language and culture. What am I wrong about exactly It seems you decided what I think without asking me"
X Link 2023-08-12T19:06Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Not only that: Iran also has the cheapest gasoline in the world while we are suffocating from car pollution in Tehran. Add that to the list of dumb things we do"
X Link 2023-08-15T10:44Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"After years of living in the Middle East I came to the conclusion that our wretched situation is first and foremost a result of our own stupid decisions. Colonization and whatever else is a diasporoid talking point"
X Link 2023-08-15T10:45Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"The first image is a subway station in Tehran and the second is in New York. Clean reliable safe public transit is not about money. It's about willpower"
X Link 2023-08-15T13:24Z 18.7K followers, 44.5K engagements
"Very secular uncle suprises me by saying he listens to the Qur'an every single day for his commute and has read it several times over. "How can you be Muslim and read so much and not God's book" Iranians cannot be easily put in one box"
X Link 2023-08-15T17:17Z 18.7K followers, 12.5K engagements
"My uncle: "Everyone is dying to see Europe they save up for the whole year to go and say 'I saw France.' My work offered me a free trip to Paris I didn't go I don't care to see the Eiffel Tower.""
X Link 2023-08-15T18:31Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
""Please don't dump trash here." Love the presence of calligraphy in Iran"
X Link 2023-08-17T21:27Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Saudi Arabia is a Muslim nation and our neighbor. We have nothing to gain from enmity and provocations. "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God.""
X Link 2023-08-18T12:35Z 18.7K followers, 15.4K engagements
"Very sad to see us import back home drama to the West. Our homelands are ruined for a reason. Let's avoid ruining their countries"
X Link 2023-08-18T13:34Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This discourse is tiring. Expat means you intend to return to your home country. It has nothing to do with race"
X Link 2023-08-19T00:01Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Exactly. Homelessness is not an economic issue it's cultural. In countries that are far far poorer than America homelessness is a rarity. Americans will deny this and their homeless problem continues to grow"
X Link 2023-08-20T07:43Z 18.7K followers, 25.2K engagements
"Fearing a foreign language is a tell-tale sign of an insecure society/person"
X Link 2023-09-03T18:17Z 18.7K followers, 72.5K engagements
""MUH FREE HEALTHCARE" is how Euros cope with poverty wages. Any high-paying job in the US has a health care plan better than the declining British NHS. In any case the diaspora can travel east for cheaper services if need be"
X Link 2023-09-06T12:47Z 18.7K followers, 31K engagements
"The concept of nationality restaurant is meaningless. I went to a "Persian" restaurant in an Arab country where all the Persians come from Southern Iran. Aside from a couple universally recognized dishes I barely recognized anything on their menu"
X Link 2023-09-08T06:51Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Islam doesn't require those things to survive it survives in the heart of every believer. We have been deprived of these things before and we are still here. Regarding apostasy rates Christians should not throw stones from their stained-glass houses"
X Link 2023-09-14T06:05Z 18.7K followers, 35K engagements
"The GCC is such an interesting place in a market you can find Bedouin Saudis bartering with Iranian merchants in Arabic while the Iranian speaks Hindustani to his coworker who deals with the English speaking tourists. Is this Muslim cosmopolitanism"
X Link 2023-09-22T17:54Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Car-oriented heat-trapping ugly built environment No walking infrastructure (no decent sidewalk no shade no protections) Culture that shames walking as a poor persons activity Awful public transport No one walks in the Middle East because its hot here"
X Link 2023-09-23T12:28Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The cost differential for diwan seating in MENA versus America is incredible. In Arab countries you can furnish a living room for $300. In America $3000. Why are they marked up so much How hard is it to ship these things to America"
X Link 2023-09-30T13:43Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It's amazing how people all over the world are so invested in American issues even things that have no effect on them whatsoever. The world is full of honorary Americans. They prefer to speak English consume the culture and like burgers more than their native cuisine etc"
X Link 2023-10-09T17:12Z 18.7K followers, 11.7K engagements
"I am amazed he was allowed to speak uninterrupted for so long on a mainstream channel. We are witnessing a paradigm shift. The narrative is no longer one-sided"
X Link 2023-10-09T19:05Z 18.7K followers, 14.5K engagements
"New Yorkers: What is the best Muslim community to live in Bay Ridge Jackson Heights Please tell me why"
X Link 2023-10-14T11:27Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It aged perfectly fine. In America a Palestinian hangs her national flag in Congress and in Jordan a country where she is probably a citizen she could not do that. In America public school teachers can wear thawbs and niqab. In many Muslim countries that is not true"
X Link 2023-10-15T18:12Z 18.7K followers, 46.3K engagements
"This news is so lame. Black flag in Iran sword in Turkey. These are common ceremonies. Turks can't afford rent and Iran can barely run an internet network properly. No one is going to do anything let alone conquer Palestine. Muslim countries can barely make a decent street"
X Link 2023-10-20T12:34Z 17.7K followers, 44K engagements
"@mALTOYJI @sadia_habeeb The show of brotherhood is commendable and I have nothing but respect for my Yemeni brothers but the reality is given the current situation Yemen can only offer moral support whereas material is most needed now"
X Link 2023-10-20T14:22Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I am begging all hijrah-minded Muslims to actually move to a Muslim country so they can return home and stop talking about it. There is no heaven on earth hijrah will cure five problems but produce ten more. Have fun: 1) missing your family 2) constantly renewing visas and residencies 3) worrying about being deported over something silly 4) facing racism 5) earning lower wages (legally) because you are not a citizen 6) not being treated like a local 7) never getting the citizenship 8) having to leave in old age because your work visa runs out 9) being at the mercy of your job which can cancel"
X Link 2023-10-20T21:50Z 17.7K followers, 114.5K engagements
"Do you consider Muslims a little-league soccer team who require constant encouragement I consider them adults who require a reality check however harsh it may be so we can grow up and stop our childish ways"
X Link 2023-10-21T06:01Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"As an American Muslim you are born with a special privilege. You have a unique opportunity few have been blessed with: you can establish a Muslim presence in a new land. In that context I feel like my hijrah has been a selfish escape as opposed to a noble act"
X Link 2023-10-21T10:51Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I hear talk of Khurasani Arabs but I have never met one nor have I heard of them outside of this type of map. Is there a video on them Is Arabic still their spoken language It reminds me of the Arabs in Central Asia who are thoroughly assimilated and do not speak Arabic"
X Link 2023-10-26T04:24Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This Hasan Minhaj drama is crazy"
X Link 2023-10-27T08:16Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Does a FENDI thawb count as sunnah too"
X Link 2023-10-28T14:15Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The resentment first and second-generation diaspora Muslims feel for their adoptive countries is socially psychologically and spiritually poisonous. Either learn to love your new home or make a home in a place you love. Living with hatred is no way to live"
X Link 2023-11-12T08:17Z 17.7K followers, 17.8K engagements
"The social fabric of a place like New York home to large numbers of Muslims and Jews is getting weaker by the day"
X Link 2023-11-21T18:26Z 17.7K followers, 13.7K engagements
"There's another element missing in this analysis immigrants actually want to be American. People in Cairo Amman or Tehran are already avid consumers of Americana. Is any child in Pakistan interested by Belgian culture Or the Dutch language Or Swedish food"
X Link 2023-11-24T12:57Z 17.7K followers, 14.5K engagements
"We like to tell dramatic narratives the Romans fell in [----] after a siege or the Persians in Qadisiyya but in reality civilizational decline and death is a slow process. We are witnessing that process unfold in at least a few nations. Our descendants will read about them"
X Link 2023-11-30T14:23Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Muslims never figured out how to run a modern state. The republic is a technology that emerged from the Western tradition. It's foreign to us. It's a mango tree planted in Alaska. That's why the best Muslim countries are our monarchies not the mickey-mouse republics"
X Link 2023-11-30T14:40Z 17.8K followers, 83.3K engagements
"It's funny when people say this to me. They misunderstood my name. I am not gharbzadeh I am gharbi. I was raised in the west by a father who had lived in America since age [--]. I was raised to be an American. I didn't grow up in a Middle Eastern area. I didn't go to jumuah growing up. I had white friends. The name sharghzadeh means I was suddenly influenced by the East but I am fundamentally still a Westerner evidenced by how I view the world"
X Link 2023-11-30T16:03Z 17.8K followers, 18.4K engagements
"@azforeman CGP Grey and reddit ruined flags"
X Link 2023-11-30T18:11Z 17.8K followers, [---] engagements
"This is something Americans don't appreciate. Your average 300k Midwestern home is a mansion in most of the world. A giant kitchen man-cave basement garage with two cars and a hobby table an upstairs with bedrooms for each child. American prosperity is something else"
X Link 2023-12-01T19:05Z 17.8K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Conservative Christians saying "hey but you wouldn't do that to Islam" is so weak. Defend your own civilization without reminding everyone that Islam has more backbone to defend what it considers sacred. By the way we are just as upset when Jesus is ridiculed he is a Prophet of high degree for us (along with Moses Noah and Abraham) peace be upon them all"
X Link 2023-12-01T19:12Z 17.8K followers, 12.4K engagements
"Person: "Oh my God Chai tea and Nan bread are so redundant hahaha white people" Same Person: "ATM Machine" "Pizza Pie""
X Link 2023-12-04T03:03Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@MuhacirEfendi The material conditions have also changed for some. I could imagine many Philadelphia or Bronx Italians would experience a higher quality of life if they moved back go Italy. The same might be true for us soon"
X Link 2023-12-04T15:05Z 17.8K followers, [---] engagements
"I dislike that people use a shimgh and agl as a symbol of Salafis. First of all most Salafi scholars don't don the agal. Secondly this is just a universal khaliji outfit. Go into a Shi'i masjid in Qatif Ahwaz or Basra and you'll find it. Lame vilification of Arabian culture"
X Link 2023-12-06T11:41Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@MHuzaifaNizam What is the name of that robe Looking nice my brother"
X Link 2023-12-06T14:20Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"We are all muqallids taking/relating rulings from our respective scholars. Most non-Arabs will struggle to pronounce Arabic words. I dont subscribe to his aqda but these are cheap shots. Even if he didn't speak Arabic it wouldn't change the validity of the point being made. We can do better than this"
X Link 2023-12-06T17:57Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"He's a da'i with a few years of talab 'ilm under his belt does anyone expect him to be fluent in Arabic"
X Link 2023-12-06T17:57Z 17.7K followers, [---] engagements
"It gets worse; Islam as we know it was spread and established by these same curropted state powers. Sunnis love to remind everyone that Iran was made Shi'i by Safawid state conversion but: Many Sunni schools were marginalized or brought to the fore by opportunistic Salatin as well. The sect or school of thought found in your home country is almost certainly a product of pure political calculation the truth or falsehood of the sect is incidental. As soon as you understand this your paradigm shifts for good"
X Link 2023-12-07T13:59Z 17.8K followers, 52.1K engagements
"This is the case in most Muslim countries I have visited. We rarely read and when we do it's predictable crap like this. Maybe a book about marriage sihr and jinn too"
X Link 2023-12-07T14:45Z 17.9K followers, 42.1K engagements
"At a local mall. Food court is next to kids area. All the local kids are speaking English to one another. English-medium education is shaping their minds. Welcome to the American empire"
X Link 2023-12-07T16:32Z 17.7K followers, 15.9K engagements
"The people who say this have absolutely no idea what is going on in Iran. If Iran is going to change religions it will become atheist. There is zero chance the secular Iranian population of Shi'i background will convert to Sunni Islam. They will sooner become Jewish"
X Link 2023-12-08T21:03Z 17.8K followers, 44.9K engagements
"Bidets are a sign of civilization. I hate being out in about in a place without them. They're also banned in many parts of the Detroit area supposedly due to flooding or slipping risks"
X Link 2023-12-09T16:39Z 17.8K followers, [---] engagements
"If the MENA population disappeared the rest of the world would hardly care. They are not waiting for our innovations contributions or ideas with bated breath. Instead of thinking about how we got here people get angry at me the messenger. That's part of our problem too"
X Link 2023-12-10T15:55Z 17.8K followers, 23.5K engagements
"Will be visiting Lahore from Dec 23rd to 31st inshaAllah If anyone would like to organize an event of any kind please reach out"
X Link 2023-12-12T21:34Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"If Dearborn had a decent urban fabric or if Hamtramck was larger/more economically vibrant I'd move and never leave. But alas an urbanist Muslim is forced to look elsewhere"
X Link 2023-12-13T13:44Z 17.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Also can they build more housing At the current Dearborn housing prices you can buy something in Troy and get the Birmingham school district. I can't understand why people would pay 300k for a house off Tireman that's [--] blocks away from a crack house"
X Link 2023-12-13T13:48Z 17.8K followers, [---] engagements
"No one "kept" the literacy low Iran was actively working on raising the literacy rate before and after [----]. If your standard is women's rights why don't you look up who gave women the right to vote in Iran and also look up who was vehemently against that change. I wish leftists would just stop talking about Iran"
X Link 2023-12-14T17:16Z 18.7K followers, 33.6K engagements
"CGP Grey and Reddit ruined flags. This is so lame"
X Link 2023-12-16T08:40Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Who when disaster strikes them say Indeed we belong to Allah and indeed to Him we will return. (Quran 2:156) Allah will say to the righteous O tranquil soul Return to your Lord well pleased with Him and well pleasing to Him. So join My servants and enter My Paradise. (Quran 89:27-30)"
X Link 2023-12-16T10:34Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The American attitude to social issues is a pendulum swinging from pole to pole. Despite what they say about us Muslims Anglos are extreme by nature. I will not elaborate"
X Link 2023-12-17T18:48Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"'Can't kill/deport them all' 1940s Germany and Medieval Spain would like a word"
X Link 2023-12-17T21:31Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Go ahead sit in your cafes smoking sipping an espresso or wine glass and laugh about how America has no health care or how we're all fat or how we're uncultured or ignorant but at least America is a living breathing force to be reckoned with. America is alive you are living in a museum"
X Link 2023-12-17T22:05Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements
"A good example of popularized Rumi in Iran: Three books by Turkish author Hakan Meng (from left to right: Rumis [--] Wisdoms Being Shams Student Rumis [--] Rules). Though Iranians can read the original most are unwilling to put in the work required to understand Mawlana properly. Therefore pop-Rumi works to fill in the gap. Elif Shafak is a best-seller in Iran"
X Link 2023-12-18T13:24Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Yemenis are such a chad people it's so extremely rare for one of them to turn out so lame. God what an embarrassment for their entire population. The problem with people like him is that they don't have our best interests at heart it's obvious to us he's just making Islam-haters happy. No Muslim is interested in him because he's criticizing as an outsider not a concerned member of the tribe"
X Link 2023-12-18T13:42Z 17.9K followers, 25.1K engagements
"Iran being Shi'i or Persian is not responsible for the apostasy crisis if that were the case you'd see a similar trend among Shi'i Arabs or Persian-speakers in Afghanistan etc but you don't. Iran's apostacy is a result of expirmentaiton with modern religious governance"
X Link 2023-12-18T14:18Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Pretty crazy how some of these guys can commit war crimes and then walk right past me in New York. I did Economics at UofM. We had a lot of NY Jews. A kid sat next to me with an IDF shirt. He had served. I wondered if he had killed anyone with my name. And now he sits next to me in Econ 401"
X Link 2023-12-18T20:08Z 17.9K followers, 20.8K engagements
"@DomeIngenito I'm sure you must have come across it ustad 'Agha Iran khube vali bargard Italia Urupa behtare'"
X Link 2023-12-19T08:55Z 17.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The West argues Iran cannot be reasoned with because it is a religious-extremist state that is obsessed with bringing about the apocalypse and wiping Israel off the map in preparation for the Mahdi. But then isn't Israel also religious-extremist when major government figures openly call for the flattening of Gaza based on 'killing Amalek' and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank because of the Bible preparing the State of Israel for the return of the Messiah which religious Jews consider imminent"
X Link 2023-12-20T17:59Z 17.9K followers, 10.6K engagements
"Part of the reason red-blooded Americans support Israel is because they are living vicariously through it: A frontier state conquering land from savages killing in the name of Western civilization owning the brown Muslims not apologizing for its existence or actions. Israel is what they wish America was"
X Link 2023-12-20T18:04Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Fun fact: Iran's southern coast is full of 'khaliji Arabs' many of them have distant cousins that are GCC citizens people used to travel back and forth before rigid borders. In a way Iran's coastal villages are a look at the GCC before oil money and development"
X Link 2023-12-20T20:22Z 17.9K followers, 13.7K engagements
"When Christianity became the religion of Europe it was more foreign to Europeans than Islam is today. If Christianity could be thoroughly integrated into Europe Islam can do the same. The missing ingredient is local converts. Without them Islam will be a persecuted ethno-religion like Judaism"
X Link 2023-12-21T17:03Z 18.7K followers, 17.9K engagements
"This is true but one semester in the summer I had the oddest experience: I took Arabic [---] and I was the only non-Omani. I didn't even know we had Omani international students at UofM but we did and somehow they all decided to take Arabic together fulfilling their language requirements. That was also when I a naive 18-year-old realized how sensitive ethnicity can be in the GCC. Our professor put us in groups to work together and my partner had the last name 'al-Blsh.' I said "Oh Baluchi You're Iranian like me." Suffice it to say she was offended by that notion because to call a GCC citizen of"
X Link 2023-12-22T07:50Z 18.7K followers, 19.5K engagements
"Poetic registers of our language require bilingualism Want to learn Ottoman/Urdu You should learn Persian too Want to learn Persian You should learn Arabic too"
X Link 2023-12-22T20:53Z 18.7K followers, 20.9K engagements
"There's an important distinction here: Arabs (1) know what their names mean and (2) maintain their historic spelling. Does a Westerner named "Carter" know what that name means Or Tyler Both are just descriptions of working-class professions (a person who carts and tiles respectively). Naming your child such a thing is meaningless. At least Arab names aspire to noble character traits. Westerners also have a plethora of nonsense made up names like Nevaeh Kyler Kayleigh Tiffany Lamere etc. When we name our children elders warn us to be cautious because the name will effect our child. How does a"
X Link 2023-12-24T12:53Z 18.7K followers, 24.2K engagements
"Them: Saying "merry Christmas" is congratulating the Christians for their shirk Them: Make hijrah to the Middle East to protect your children from Western kufr The Middle East we make hijrah to:"
X Link 2023-12-24T17:51Z 18.7K followers, 48.1K engagements
"@ohyeahmister2 The native Christians of this country celebrate Christmas in January. This Christmas stuff will be down before then. It has nothing to do with accommodation"
X Link 2023-12-24T22:48Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It's astonishing their grandparents didn't even know who Santa was but now their grandkids are waiting in line to sit on his lap. Isn't he supposed to be delivering gifts right now anyway"
X Link 2023-12-25T15:27Z 18.7K followers, 43.7K engagements
"Western Muslims consider Christmas Christian and mostly stay away Muslims in Islamdom see it as part of the Americana cornucopia along with McDonald's Jeans Hollywood movies etc. I don't think any of these parents consider it a religious practice. @sharghzadeh I take your word for it but it sounds bizarre. I dont know if even the most liberalized Muslims in the West would be into that. @sharghzadeh I take your word for it but it sounds bizarre. I dont know if even the most liberalized Muslims in the West would be into that"
X Link 2023-12-25T15:36Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"If you ever needed proof that our education system is failing: look how many people totally misunderstood this tweet (replies and quotes). Them: Saying "merry Christmas" is congratulating the Christians for their shirk Them: Make hijrah to the Middle East to protect your children from Western kufr The Middle East we make hijrah to: https://t.co/OpZTOMi0XM Them: Saying "merry Christmas" is congratulating the Christians for their shirk Them: Make hijrah to the Middle East to protect your children from Western kufr The Middle East we make hijrah to: https://t.co/OpZTOMi0XM"
X Link 2023-12-25T15:42Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm not even necessarily disapproving of the Christmas set-up it's a secular country with a sizable native Christian population. I'm just pointing out that there is no escape from secular American modernity in livable places. Sure you can go live in Mauritania or Yemen but otherwise you're in America's world"
X Link 2023-12-25T16:05Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"If a culture can excel at just one thing it has done well. Desi culture has two things perfected: food and fashion. No cuisine or clothing culture comes close to what you can find in South Asia"
X Link 2023-12-25T16:09Z 18.7K followers, 47.1K engagements
"Similar vibe as when I saw McDonald's at the forbidden city. I was too young to appreciate what that signified. In a 99% Muslim country the local mall has a Santa meet and greet for the kids. Total American cultural victory. There is no escape from it. In a 99% Muslim country the local mall has a Santa meet and greet for the kids. Total American cultural victory. There is no escape from it"
X Link 2023-12-26T04:42Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I don't differentiate myself by not celebrating Christmas I differentiate myself by dressing like a 13th century Persian. @sharghzadeh Mohammed Salah enjoys xmas you just want to be different dont you @sharghzadeh Mohammed Salah enjoys xmas you just want to be different dont you"
X Link 2023-12-26T16:40Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Muslims cannot brag about the pre-modern dhimmi situation ("We are so tolerant to minorities Islamdom had Jews" etc we have all heard it before) because secular modernity has created a more appealing solution for religious minorities. Would one rather be a Christian or Jew in Islamdom or America Even we prefer to be Muslims in America No one will accept the status of tolerated minority when America and Canada offers them (theoretical) equality. Muslims have not put serious thought into how we can address this issue in the context of a modern state"
X Link 2023-12-26T17:09Z 18.7K followers, 164.7K engagements
"@UmarLeeIII @Danielsrotaryo1 Probably an Arab country where Christians are well established and native with no serious barriers to participation in society Jordan Lebanon maybe"
X Link 2023-12-26T17:15Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@bookishlogs India has become inhospitable because it is abandoning secularism and going towards Hindu majoritarianism. Indian Muslims seem to be having a decent time in Toronto and Dallas"
X Link 2023-12-26T18:33Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Not just there in every Muslim country I've been to. Sometimes my thawb/shalwar qamis is a reason to deny me entry into a posh spot but as soon as I say "Oh sorry I don't understand Arabic/Persian/etc what did you say" they apologize and escort me in. @sharghzadeh In PK anything AMERICAN is considered PEAK culture. @sharghzadeh In PK anything AMERICAN is considered PEAK culture"
X Link 2023-12-26T18:40Z 18.7K followers, 18.5K engagements
"Why are we stuck in this Middle Ages debate Sure maybe a Jew in [----] would prefer Islamdom but we aren't in [----] we're in [----] where both Islamdom and the West offer some limit to religious rights but the West offers him more rights and economic prosperity security etc. I think a Jew born&raised in the West today would definitely want to live in the US instead of the Islamic Emirate of the Middle Ages. But a Jew from the Middle Ages would definitely want to live under the Islamic Caliphate where he is free to practice his religious law ENTIRELY I think a Jew born&raised in the West today"
X Link 2023-12-27T04:05Z 18.7K followers, 14.7K engagements
"@Alf97489215 @MazMHussain Pro Wrestling was on the TV in the Cafe I was in as I saw the Santa meet and greet"
X Link 2023-12-27T04:08Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"If our situation was so preferable to what Europe had to offer why would they betray us (If they did) Christians & Jews were well protected under Islam rule but they betrayed that trust. When the British or French came to North Africa they were quick to double cross and betray Muslims. A dhimmi situation could be impossible today as we know the true colours of Christians & jews Christians & Jews were well protected under Islam rule but they betrayed that trust. When the British or French came to North Africa they were quick to double cross and betray Muslims. A dhimmi situation could be"
X Link 2023-12-27T05:01Z 17.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@hsyyed88 I'll try my best to record it"
X Link 2023-12-27T16:58Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Another thing the hijrah crowd mises is that you can end up living in a society where the dominant Islam is quite different from what diaspora people practice. The interviewer asks Muslims on the street about Christmas and trees https://t.co/yXBcx8o56i The interviewer asks Muslims on the street about Christmas and trees https://t.co/yXBcx8o56i"
X Link 2023-12-28T04:26Z 18.7K followers, 39.9K engagements
"Not celebrating Christmas has nothing to do with Salafiyya. It is the normative Muslim opinion. As your muft or marja. Lebanese Muslims celebrate Christmas because it is a very Westernized country. It has nothing to do with coexistence either. You had a mutli-decade civil war and every other year there is talk of another one. So much for coexistence. Proud Lebanese 🥰 fuck all you salafis. thats why in Lebanon we can co exist 😀 Proud Lebanese 🥰 fuck all you salafis. thats why in Lebanon we can co exist 😀"
X Link 2023-12-28T14:43Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Not celebrating Christmas has nothing to do with Salafiyya. It is the normative Muslim opinion. Ask your muft or marja. Lebanese Muslims celebrate Christmas because it is a very Westernized country. It has nothing to do with coexistence either. You had a mutli-decade civil war and every other year there is talk of another one. So much for coexistence. Proud Lebanese 🥰 fuck all you salafis. thats why in Lebanon we can co exist 😀 Proud Lebanese 🥰 fuck all you salafis. thats why in Lebanon we can co exist 😀"
X Link 2023-12-28T14:51Z 18.7K followers, 65.9K engagements
"Pakistan has been so much fun. I haven't had such a good time traveling in ages"
X Link 2023-12-29T18:05Z 18.7K followers, 24.3K engagements
"Is anyone here in Oman Please reach out I'll be in Muscat tomorrow inshallah"
X Link 2023-12-30T18:29Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"You were very gracious dear Talha Thank you. Yesterday it was a great pleasure meeting @sharghzadeh and showing him a few places. We prayed Asr at a Mughal era Saleh Kamboh Mosque (built in the late 1600s) located at the Mochi Gate (of the walled city of Lahore) Its decorative features resemble those of Wazir Khan Mosque https://t.co/D2VBQaBTIF Yesterday it was a great pleasure meeting @sharghzadeh and showing him a few places. We prayed Asr at a Mughal era Saleh Kamboh Mosque (built in the late 1600s) located at the Mochi Gate (of the walled city of Lahore) Its decorative features resemble"
X Link 2023-12-30T18:53Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm starting to realize how Indo-Pak restaurants abroad are not representative of the food culture here in the subcontinent. So far I have not found any restaurants that offer the menu you find at American restaurants which offer foods Westerners enjoy such as Butter Chicken Biryani. I found Biryani is mostly sold in places that focus on Biryani and I didn't see Butter Chicken on a single menu"
X Link 2023-12-30T19:40Z 18.7K followers, 31.5K engagements
"Childcare costs are a red herring. The poorest nations have the highest birth rates. It's something deeper. what if instead of making dogs and cats part of a new culture war people figure out ways to lower childcare costs https://t.co/cvTegvWPyo what if instead of making dogs and cats part of a new culture war people figure out ways to lower childcare costs https://t.co/cvTegvWPyo"
X Link 2023-12-31T20:38Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"White converts are often perceived as leaving their culture and society behind. The conversion itself de-legitimizes them. It's a non starter. This is just my opinion but I believe that white/European converts to Islam not all but most of them have been poor ambassadors for this religion in terms of persuading people from their ethnic backgrounds about its beauty. Non-Muslim Blacks at one point used to engage with This is just my opinion but I believe that white/European converts to Islam not all but most of them have been poor ambassadors for this religion in terms of persuading people from"
X Link 2023-12-31T21:01Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"For Western Muslims with transferrable jobs hijrah to the GCC countries is a good option. You can secure a competitive salary (or even better given tax benefits) free housing (sometimes) and generally enjoy a Western quality of life but there's one deal-breaking issue: The weather. It's [--] degrees and sunny right now. The air conditioning is still on in most places in the coldest months of the year. I would not want to be here come summertime"
X Link 2024-01-02T08:38Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This might be true for the city-states but a country like Oman or Saudi can offer endless things to do. Oman seems like heaven for someone interested in outings/camping/hiking/water activities Saudi would be great for Makkah/Madina then you have plenty of places to explore as well. @sharghzadeh Another issue is that the GCC countries are a glitzy wasteland with little culture. Hanging out at shopping malls and stuffing your face with cheap American fast food gets boring after a while. @sharghzadeh Another issue is that the GCC countries are a glitzy wasteland with little culture. Hanging out"
X Link 2024-01-02T09:16Z 32.7K followers, 12.1K engagements
"There's a reason our salaries are double theirs i cant believe Italians take a whole month off to celebrate August and we in the US only get a week off to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ i cant believe Italians take a whole month off to celebrate August and we in the US only get a week off to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ"
X Link 2024-01-02T13:13Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"To give you a sense of the trauma and brain rot prevalent in Iran; just look at our social media. A mosque Imam is killed in Newark and the top comments are all celebratory. Iranian society is deeply sick"
X Link 2024-01-04T08:42Z 18.7K followers, 117.4K engagements
"@FADCLDN I expect them to be mature and not celebrate a hate crime () against a Black American who has absolutely nothing to do with Iran or Iranian clerics. We need to stop making excuses and face the reality that we are an immature childish people"
X Link 2024-01-04T08:58Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@FakeNewsTroll We don't have organizations or institutions with lasting power. In a few generations Iranian Americans will be totally assimilated without a trace of Iran save an inherited rug and kebabs"
X Link 2024-01-04T09:01Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"As I grow older and think about the things that matter I really respect the community Arabs have built in Dearborn. I wish we Iranians had something similar in America"
X Link 2024-01-05T10:22Z 18.7K followers, 19.5K engagements
"The same is true for Tehran Cairo etc. Will build hellscape cities (freeways pollution brutalism unwalkable) and then wonder why we retreat indoors growing more fat and mentally unhealthy by the day. Istanbul is an excellent exception to this rule. One thing I noticed while in India is how little time people in urban cities spend outdoors. Because of how crowded dirty and polluted it is they stay indoors for the most part. I can imagine this plays a meaningful role in the declining metabolic health of Indians. One thing I noticed while in India is how little time people in urban cities spend"
X Link 2024-01-06T11:31Z 18.7K followers, 14K engagements
"Iranian monarchists have always considered him weak. He can't even rein in the antics of his would-be queen. Khumayni was able to topple a two-thousand-year-old monarchy using cassette tapes meanwhile Pahlavi is feckless despite his huge built-in name recognition nostalgia for Pahlavi Iran Western support etc. Something that will never not be funny to me is that the would-be Shah of Iran identifies as Shiite Muslim and goes on Hajj (despite every incentive weighing to do the opposite) and doesnt want the monarchy restored Something that will never not be funny to me is that the would-be Shah"
X Link 2024-01-07T17:39Z 18.7K followers, 20.9K engagements
"America is just about the only country where a foreign-raised person like Hasan Piker can make an extremely lucrative career talking about how awful America is while being cheered on by an American audience. The inverse of that would not happen in his native Turkey or most other countries in the world"
X Link 2024-01-08T14:46Z 33.8K followers, 49.8K engagements
"He can just as easily run his streaming career from Istanbul. Or maybe he loves living in the comforts that the US system he despises so much afford him"
X Link 2024-01-08T14:48Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Istanbul. There's no rush and I prefer to give other places a chance first. Most Muslim countries are extremely restrictive when it comes to residency options. You're required to work in the country (so I'd have to drop/reduce my Persian Poetics online work) and you can't retire there. @sharghzadeh Where do you want to live @sharghzadeh Where do you want to live"
X Link 2024-01-08T15:41Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"You know our education system is failing when people don't understand why indigenous Mexicans look like people in Asia. Hint: where did those Mexicans come from how comes those two vietnamese dudes have [--] mexican bloodine and already look like random mexican how comes those two vietnamese dudes have [--] mexican bloodine and already look like random mexican"
X Link 2024-01-09T08:17Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Yet another proof that America is the most powerful engine for your culture. Asian Chicanos exist because of Los Angeles not Mexico City. Pizzerias are popular globally because of New York not Naples. Many such examples. Pachuco style is becoming popular in Vietnam https://t.co/kCDh2AGSt8 Pachuco style is becoming popular in Vietnam https://t.co/kCDh2AGSt8"
X Link 2024-01-09T09:11Z 18.7K followers, 27.1K engagements
"We are all about growth and change not stagnation and fossilization. Pizza is a food not a secret society. The highest-regarded Pizzerias on earth are almost all run by Italian-Americans in New York and New Haven. The most powerful engine to promote and degrade your culture. If you ever ate a pizza in Napoli you'd never be able to eat a pizza in New York again. "Do not cast your pearls at pigs" said Jesus culture should remain an indigenous beautiful secret. The most powerful engine to promote and degrade your culture. If you ever ate a pizza in Napoli you'd never be able to eat a pizza in"
X Link 2024-01-09T10:27Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Immigrants in America can experience a quick period of growth for the first and second generation because we come from societies where saving is the norm. Most Americans spend almost everything (Consumer economy) so we're playing the economic game on easy mode. Combine that with family networks community etc and you have a recipe for success. It only lasts a bit though your descandants will become mindless consumers as well. This is insane. People really have no control of themselves https://t.co/EmYBv7OMvR This is insane. People really have no control of themselves https://t.co/EmYBv7OMvR"
X Link 2024-01-09T18:33Z 18.7K followers, 14.2K engagements
"This type of blatan anti-Persian racism (which is par for the course among many Arab Sunnis) will not be widely condemned. There's no use in trying to be their friends. They hate us for who we are not what we believe and nothing we do will fix that. Imagine if someone asked a Muslim convert: May I inquire about how many acts of fornication your parents committed https://t.co/0eBKLYjIej Imagine if someone asked a Muslim convert: May I inquire about how many acts of fornication your parents committed https://t.co/0eBKLYjIej"
X Link 2024-01-10T03:00Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"It doesn't matter how Sunni you are or how much you denounce Iran there is a segment of Arabs who dislike us for our Persianness which they associate with Shi'ism. Mind you many of these people's problem is not what Iran has done their problem is that a Shi'i did it. I have long said that if Iran were Sunni many of the Sunnis who hate Iran would be cheering Iran on or at least make excuses or not criticize as much. Otherwise whatever they hate Iran for doing it is also par for the course when it comes to Sunni armies/groups/leaders they mostly support or make excuses for. I can't tell you how"
X Link 2024-01-10T03:04Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Spot on. The Jewish conspiracy theories would be more believable if they were constructed by people who understood Jewry. These Hassids are the Amish of Jews they're religious nutters essentially cut off from our everyday world. They have zero sway over even secular Jewish life let alone the larger society. Hassidic Jews stick to their tiny insular communities and any meeting with politicians is a result of goodwill and earning their votes (which are cast as a block). Saying Jews control the world is obviously antisemitic but to insinuate that its Hasids calling the shots is beyond laughable"
X Link 2024-01-10T10:23Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Neo-Zoroastrianism is a LARP and goes nowhere for the following reasons: 1) Traditions have to emerge and live organically. Zoroastrianism as a state religion in Iran is long gone and is not coming back. The direction is overwhelmingly toward secularism. People have little appetite for any type of religion. If Iran became Zoroastrian the priestly class would start their own akhund-bazi (like they did before Islam) and people would begin to hate Zoroastrianism as well. 2) Established Zoroastrianism is not a converting/proselytizing religion. When I was a researcher in college we interviewed an"
X Link 2024-01-10T15:11Z 18.7K followers, 149.8K engagements
"All of this is said with all due respect to my Zoroastrian compatriots. I have nothing against them or their religion. It's a part of our history and their right to religious freedom should not be infringed nor should they be made to feel as second class citizens"
X Link 2024-01-10T15:13Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Losers with no rebuttal resort to racism. There is nothing wrong with being Pakistani. Any Pakistani with a pure heart is my brother and any racist Iranian is a stranger to me. You are a paki and your opinion is irrelevant. You are a paki and your opinion is irrelevant"
X Link 2024-01-10T15:59Z 18.7K followers, 155.7K engagements
"Unlike most of these teenager identity crisis Zoro-LARPers I was actually aware of and interested in my pre-Islamic heritage at a young age and in an organic way not as a reaction to an Iranian diaspora identity crisis"
X Link 2024-01-11T09:03Z 18.7K followers, 55.6K engagements
"You're such a simpleton that I really don't want to reply to you any further but perhaps some onlookers can learn something (you to be sure can't) [--]. All opinions are relevant and judged on the basis of their truthfulness not their authorship. If anything foreigners can often reveal something that you would never notice. Identity politics is lame. [--]. I am Iranian on both sides and unlike most of you diaspora LARPers I went back to Iran on my own lived there for years became mamnu'l-khurj (I bet 99% of you would be too scared to live through that) and endured the difficulties of everyday life"
X Link 2024-01-11T09:11Z 18.7K followers, 16.8K engagements
"@AhmedHoutBaloch The funniest thing about this entire interaction is that you yourself are Balochi probably from Guwadar or something you should be the last person to call anyone Pakistani in an insulting way"
X Link 2024-01-11T11:43Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"You're just salty because I have drip and you don't It's ok you are among many All that to play dress up like an Arab. You cant call anyone a larper. https://t.co/AwrPOoMRwn All that to play dress up like an Arab. You cant call anyone a larper. https://t.co/AwrPOoMRwn"
X Link 2024-01-11T13:01Z 18.7K followers, 28.1K engagements
"The funniest thing about people accusing me of pretending to be Iranian: Why would anyone pretend to be Iranian Is it our amazing reputation Or our strong economy Is it a powerful passport What exactly makes being Iranian so great that it's worth pretending None of us want to be in Iran or remain Iranian anyway. Everyone copies Western culture and curses the country day and night. Almost all of us wish to leave and not look back. The lucky few who do move abroad mostly assimilate into Whiteness. We mangle our Persian noses and bleach our beautiful hair butcher or change our dignified names"
X Link 2024-01-11T15:09Z [--] followers, 114.6K engagements
"This is true for most of our countries except the difference is it seems only Iranians are afflicted with this self-important egotism wherein they think being Iranian is the best thing on earth. No it's not. We're doing manual labor in Arab countries. We're running to every corner of the globe begging for residency visas. We're selling our bodies in Europe and Arabia. All because we turned our beautiful country into a garbage heap"
X Link 2024-01-11T15:13Z [--] followers, 15.2K engagements
"I have lived in Iran for long stretches throughout my life. My last stay was [--] years and only ended because of marriage. @sharghzadeh You havent lived in Iran - your voice isnt relevant @sharghzadeh You havent lived in Iran - your voice isnt relevant"
X Link 2024-01-11T19:19Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Living in Iran has come at a serious personal cost as well. I have lost thousands due to shut down bank accounts and I was also unable to leave the country for almost two years depriving me of my parents and friends back in America. You lot know nothing about life in Iran"
X Link 2024-01-11T19:22Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The 'Persian supremacist mythical revisionist rhetoric' and lame attempt to pass as white stem from the same insecurities. It's all from our deep inferiority complex. Many mistakenly attribute this to the revolution but it's actually much older. This trend began over a century ago. Im very confused by this. The Iranians I encounter who are most into Persian supremacist mythical revisionist rhetoric all have bleached hair nose jobs and Anglicised names. They also love it when they pass as other nationalities. Im very confused by this. The Iranians I encounter who are most into Persian"
X Link 2024-01-11T21:05Z 18.7K followers, 17.8K engagements
"The difference between Iran and Afghanistan is a matter of modernization not centralization or strong leadership. Iranian is a modernized state complete with all of the requisite institutions and contemporary notions of nationalism. We have founding and unifying myths a national language and a national religion (remember the Pahlavis were avowed Shi'a) etc. It's possible to have a state that is modern democratic and functional in this region such as Turkey and it's also possible to have a non-democratic monarchy that's an utter mess. Afghanistan was also a monarchy why did it not become a"
X Link 2024-01-12T22:45Z [--] followers, 20.1K engagements
"Many times you will see second-generation diaspora born abroad absorb orientalist talking points about the Middle East and then as if they were unadulterated native voices simply regurgitate them on behalf of the locals who reject such notions. People in the Middle East: We need more of a say in our governments please. The West: No you Middle Easterners are too tribal and savage to have a say. We will install dictators on your behalf. Second-gen in diaspora: No you see our region is so complex we really just need monarchs to stabilize things"
X Link 2024-01-12T22:54Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Another issue they don't understand is that strong leaders create the illusion of stability when they are in power (Saddam Reza Shah) but their leadership style produces a ticking time bomb that will go off as soon as they're gone dooming the country for the next few generations. Then in hindsight the future generations will look back at the leader with nostalgia for his (relatively) stable era not realizing that it's exactly that ruler they have to blame for their current mess. Countries thrive on strong transparent democratic institutions. Strongman countries will fail sooner or later."
X Link 2024-01-12T22:59Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Try talking to them in person I have never talked to a Saudi or Emirati national who had any sort of political consciousness you criticize their country and they either call you a rafidhi or they boast about how rich they are I have never talked to a Saudi or Emirati national who had any sort of political consciousness you criticize their country and they either call you a rafidhi or they boast about how rich they are"
X Link 2024-01-12T23:33Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I love that South Asians and GCC Arabs call Westernized locals 'Burgers' and 'Chicken nuggets.'"
X Link 2024-01-13T09:03Z 18.7K followers, 11K engagements
"Total American cultural victory Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China and its first in Southern China today This is what the line looked like with people waiting hours to get in 😲https://t.co/sTiVU66pVC Costco $COST opened its 6th store in China and its first in Southern China today This is what the line looked like with people waiting hours to get in 😲https://t.co/sTiVU66pVC"
X Link 2024-01-14T03:03Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"For someone like me who was raised in an Anglo society hyper self-conscious about anti-Black racism the casual way people talk about Black people in other cultures can be shocking: . 🤍 https://t.co/odKor34v9a . 🤍 https://t.co/odKor34v9a"
X Link 2024-01-14T03:39Z 18.7K followers, 21.5K engagements
"Imagine being so self-hating and Islamophobic that it makes you deny all the achievements of Islamo-Persianate civilization. Islamic-Iranian poetry and architecture are easily top-notch worldwide"
X Link 2024-01-15T02:54Z 22K followers, 27.4K engagements
"If hatred for Afghans could be excused by experiences with crime I should be the first person to hate them: my apartment was robbed by Afghan construction workers from the building next door when I was fifteen which resulted in the theft of my most precious possession: my laptop. You know why that experience didn't turn me into a xenophobe and racist even at that age Because I also knew that my local grocer was Afghan our building caretaker was Afghan along with many other wonderful people I have known. I refuse to judge an entire nation by the actions of its most destitute desperate people."
X Link 2024-01-15T08:11Z 18.7K followers, 19.5K engagements
"This is pure anachronism and revisionism. There was no duress the important Persian scholars were not the convert generation. Abu Hanifa Ghazzali Muslim Tirmizi etc had been Muslim for generations and they were often zealous believers too. The same goes for our poets. Even a cursory reading of Sa'di Rumi etc will clarify this. Furthermore the Persian scholars themselves would reject the notion that they 'changed' Islam (which would be a reprehensible bid'a) rather they would probably say that it was Islam that changed them for the better and if they did contribute anything it was simply to"
X Link 2024-01-15T09:10Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Secular Iranians are so insulated and distant from their historical culture that if someone like Sa'di was brought back to life they would find that they have almost nothing in common with him from their religious beliefs the way they speak Persian their dress etc whereas someone from Herat would be totally able to relate to Sa'di in those ways"
X Link 2024-01-15T09:14Z 18.7K followers, 40.4K engagements
"@thezindiqphilo That's precisely why I choose Sa'di as my example. He was a zealous Muslim unlike Hafiz for example"
X Link 2024-01-15T13:46Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This is an ahistorical and anachronistic view of the Shahnama. By the time Firdawsi came along Iran was under the control of Turko-Persianate empires and there was no threat of Arabization. Firdawsi was chronicling narratives about Iranian history for a patron continuing the work of other Muslims. If he was writing a text against Arabization he would be better off changing his name to Pards and writing a political treatise. @sharghzadeh The greatest persian poem was written as a explicit resistance to arabification @sharghzadeh The greatest persian poem was written as a explicit resistance to"
X Link 2024-01-15T14:32Z 18.7K followers, 44.1K engagements
"An Iranian that uses academic transliteration schema. Firdawsi hiself would have pronounced it that way. Furthermore his patron was based in modern Afghanistan. Lastly if I was Afghan at least I wouldn't have to deal with cringe anti-Islam compatriots. @sharghzadeh Youre an Afghan. What Iranian writes Shahnameh like that and Ferdowsi like that @sharghzadeh Youre an Afghan. What Iranian writes Shahnameh like that and Ferdowsi like that"
X Link 2024-01-15T15:01Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"It's so funny that ultranationalist Iranians first claimed I was Pakistani a few days ago and now they claim I am Afghan. Perhaps they are too small minded to imagine that their compatriot once thought just like them but left Iran and saw the world broadened his horizons re-kindled his relationship with Islam etc. Instead of being angry with me try to rise above the gutter nonsense discourse and ideologies that Iranians have been subjected to. Living with a closed mind and nationalist/Islamist fantasies is a terrible unexplored life. Broaden your horizons"
X Link 2024-01-15T15:11Z 18.7K followers, 16.2K engagements
"It's a bit complicated. My dad saw Islam as part of my cultural identity so we attended an Iranian mosque about every Friday but he stopped taking me when he thought it was making me too religious as I was becoming a teen. He feared it would hamper my ability to live a normal life in America. My grandparents had a level of practice that was average for small-town folks in their generation. But overall my younger relatives and peers were not religious in any remarkable way aside from the standard religiosity all Iranians have (aversion to pork dislike of pre-marital sex etc). @sharghzadeh May"
X Link 2024-01-15T15:34Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"By the way Muhammad Ali is a very common name in Iran and I've met several people with the last name 'Mujarradi' from various cities in Iran and furthermore you can just photoshop my name into any stupid document really it's amazing how dumb this lot are"
X Link 2024-01-15T16:44Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Nothing about my life is hidden. All of my social media accounts are public. I have been interviewed about my life story several times. My Instagram stories document my travels and interactions. All of my views are stated openly and without reservation. I am not embarrassed or ashamed of anything I've done and if I was a member of any group I would say so openly. I fully and unreservedly dissociate myself from any political movement or group in Iran America or elsewhere. I am not part of any sect cult organization militia government and I never will be"
X Link 2024-01-15T16:48Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I tend to use these points as a litmus test for if someone is worth conversing with. Languages are so complex that a single person cannot kill or revive a widespread language on their own especially not before modernity. Similarly anyone who has observed attempts to revive Native American languages or read about Hebrew knows that saving or reviving languages is a Herculean task to say the least. That seems easy enough to understand. If someone is at the level where they really believe Persian was about to die and a single poet came along and reversed the tide of its destruction they are"
X Link 2024-01-15T21:25Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"There are two Muslims in America generally speaking: 1) Muslims in places like Dearborn Detroit Philly and New York: Mostly Arab with a (shrinking) contingent of African-American converts. Working-class refugees first-gen etc. Their mosques are run down former offer space in an urban area. Their dream is to be a barber run a gas station restaurant etc. 2) Muslims in places like LA Texas suburbs etc: Mostly Desi with some affluent Arabs like pre-2011 Syrians mostly doctors engineers etc. Already wealthy in their home country. Their masjid is a [--] million dollar purpose-built structure"
X Link 2024-01-16T15:16Z 18.7K followers, 15.1K engagements
"Istanbul is the most pleasant Muslim city. It's really not even a close comparison. stanbul'da gn batm. https://t.co/YhIgmoqgKg stanbul'da gn batm. https://t.co/YhIgmoqgKg"
X Link 2024-01-17T09:18Z 18.7K followers, 26.5K engagements
"Tajiks don't really care much about Iran or living there. I met several Tajiks living and working in Turkey but I have only met one in Iran. A little-known fact I learned from speaking to a few Tajiks inside the country is that their government portrays Middle Eastern civilization as backward legitimizing their pivot to the Russosphere. @sharghzadeh If it gave them to tajiks no problem. But not the mongol hazaras @sharghzadeh If it gave them to tajiks no problem. But not the mongol hazaras"
X Link 2024-01-17T10:36Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"If I move to Istanbul this is how I want to be posted up with my twitter mutuals"
X Link 2024-01-17T15:16Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I wish we had maintained and modernized this traditional urban form. What we have now is an ugly mess. [----] [----] [-----] https://t.co/PtJl6ep4Cn [----] [----] [-----] https://t.co/PtJl6ep4Cn"
X Link 2024-01-18T10:01Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"GCC Persians (whether they are local citizens or Iranian expats who have been there for generations) are a very interesting window into Iranians sans the nuttery of the last century. Seeing ethnically Iranian people in Kuwait who have been here since the Qajar era looking at their religiosity their Persian dialect how they view their identity etc gives you a good window into how Iranians would be if a century of modernization secularization revolutions wars and then Islamization wasn't imposed upon them"
X Link 2024-01-18T20:28Z 21.5K followers, 16.9K engagements
"Yes but they stopped passing the language down in the mid-20th century because of Arab nationalism. Thanks Egypt. @sharghzadeh Are there Kuwaiti citizens of Persian origins If so do they still speak Farsi @sharghzadeh Are there Kuwaiti citizens of Persian origins If so do they still speak Farsi"
X Link 2024-01-18T20:40Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"It's tragic because the variant of Persian spoken in Kuwait was actually very distinct and only present here so it's death (which is sure to happen in our lifetime) represents the loss of a truly unique element of the local culture. Nationalism is cancer"
X Link 2024-01-18T20:42Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@WDLD0712 This is actually very wrong. In fact Bahrain is the only GCC country where the Persians still pass down their language on a large scale. You're thinking of Hawala/Khudmuni people"
X Link 2024-01-18T20:45Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@abrarr_82 My understanding is that it is no longer passed down. I have never heard a person my age speaking 'Iymi"
X Link 2024-01-18T20:58Z 18.7K followers, [---] engagements
"I've said this before and people got angry but it's true. In the modern context it's either misyr/simple low-stakes marriage or zin. People used to marry just after puberty only a few generations ago. Now we ask people to wait from age [--] to [--]. It's unrealistic. Ideally we could encourage kids to meet someone at the MSA and let them have a simple nikkah with no expectations of moving in or childbearing until after college. Any other scenario is zin. Anyone who went to college knows what's up. @sharghzadeh But in this cultural climate living as religious minorities and influenced by the"
X Link 2024-01-18T21:43Z 18.7K followers, 224.6K engagements
"Pre-modern Muslims married and divorced several times before thirty but a modern Muslim is unmarried at thirty and isn't even allowed to masturbate. Victorians called us licentious. Now we are more Victorian than the Victorians"
X Link 2024-01-18T21:58Z 18.7K followers, 30.8K engagements
"I think Western Muslims from the first and second generations don't understand how dire the situation will become for generations three and four. Zina is widespread and as we are more generations removed from Islamdom it will become more normal. Remember many of our values are held together by our tenuous connection to back home"
X Link 2024-01-19T07:25Z [--] followers, 59K engagements
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