Correct. I would add however that in addition to what you rightly observed, we ought not neglect secularized or non-religious audiences and should endeavour to awaken them as well, since although in the minority, they are a reality one needs to take into account.
As you surely know, in the Iranian context there's this additional issue of a certain type of nationalism focused on pre-Islamic history, with a tendency to perceive religion through the "ethnic" prism and therefore to view Islam as a foreign-imposed element alien to and incompatible with Iran. Since the early 20th century, secularists have heavily invested Iranian nationalist discourse and instrumented it as a vehicle to dampen religious fervor on the individual level as well as to promote secularist ideology on the political stage.
There have been religious nationalist currents in Iranian history as well (so-called
Melli-Mazhabiun), but they are actually Islamic for the most part, some of them even liberal and western-appeasing, such as Mehdi Bāzargan's Nehzate Āzādi party, which ended up being sidelined at the beginning of the Revolution due to its problematic positions towards the enemy.
Meaning that those Iranian nationalists who unfortunately turned their backs on Islam, seldom consist of truly practicing converts to Zoroastrianism (despite a very few exceptions) - true to their general non-religious outlook, to them Zoroastrianism is essentially a cultural-civilizational marker, not an animate religion supposed to shape personal and public life. They basically consider religion as entirely subordinate to the concept of nation. Which of course is a modern innovation without historic precedents including in pre-Islamic Iran.
The attitude of the latter current of nationalists (referred to as
Bāstan-Garā in Iranian political terminology) towards Islam ranges from uninvolved acceptance on the grounds of a specific historic-cultural interpretation that depicts Shiaism in particular as a form of unauthentic Islam conceived locally by Iranians in conformity with their pre-Islamic traditions (which ironically echoes anti-Shia narratives typically encountered in the salafist camp), all the way to outright islamophobia including against Shiaism itself.
I cannot think of any equivalent to this in the Maghreb, except maybe for some expressions of Kabyle identitarianism (not all of course), which may have taken on a tinge of islamo-skepticism.
And then we have other groups in society, including completely apolitical ones, which for a variety of reasons attach less importance to their religion. This is in addition to adherents of secularist political movements other than modern nationalism, such as those on the left - socialists, communists etc.
Now, our discourse should be broad enough to appeal to various segments of society to whom religion does not play that much of a role. Even though they're a minority, perhaps a bit more so in Tunisia, their proportion is large enough to make it necessary for us to inform them, lest we let the enemy recruit and mobilize them for its sinister aims.
Politics is a complex and multi-faceted domain of activity, and we have to act accordingly without betraying our beliefs. There is an interesting saying attributed to the Prophet's (s) grandson, seyyed osh-shohada Imam Hossein (a), addressing the army sent to suppress him at Karbala: "If you have no religion, at least be a free man".
By which the Imam meant that every society, whether religious or non-religious, has certain praiseworthy ethical foundations; likewise, some non-religious regulations happen to mirror religious laws and are common to all nations. Arabs despite numerous errancies still had some commendable rules in pre-Islamic times, such as the prohibition to attack women and children during war. It is these principles that those who do not believe in God and his religion should at least try and observe.
See:
https://www.karbobala.com/articles/info/1326
We could refer to this set of rules as natural law. Whoever accepts natural law, whether religious or not, whether pious or even atheist, will be sensitive to these elementary principles necessary to keep society in good working order and to ensure basic decency. Of course we will prefer to see them embrace religion again. But in the meantime, they still qualify as objective allies to us. Hence they should be invited to join us in our struggle against the common foe, which is viciously striving is to destroy the very foundations of natural law through methodical inversion, and thereby to uproot and enslave us all.
In short, it is not just Muslims (and other religious people) who should seriously feel concerned about the imperial
mostakber oligarchy's promotion of homosexualism, its pernicious sexualization of children, and many other such deviancies.
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