I don't have a major objection with what you wrote, and yes, a major change is needed all over ME.
If you have that view, it's appreciated, but it should not come with double standards.
You called a man terrorist who led various successful operations against Daesh and had absolutely nothing to do with any 'terrorism' activity. He was a Iran-Iraq war veteran who went on another mission in Iraq to lead the fight against Daesh. You called him a terrorist purely because of a double standard, him being Iranian or a Shia. Why? Because if the same guy had a Saudi citizenship, he'd be a hero to you. Few months ago, some Saudi guards were killed by AQ and despite my disagreement with your regime, I did wish them to RIP because they were killed by pure evils. Many other Iranians also did the same here. Now that isn't the case for Many Arab members here, including yourself, because you cursed that guy for obvious reasons. No one appreciates that at all, and to be honest with you, you are the one among many.
Maybe you wrote that because you were angry or something, but if that's your real belief, then it's a whole another story.
Ok, that's good.
I have not shown any double standards recently at all. Meaning for most of 2014. When I first joined PDF I was like many of you Iranian users and many Arab users. Trying to defend my regime (LOL, like I ever chose those people to rule "me" or others) at any given opportunity (almost). I am past that as I started to look at this more objectively.
I don't know that man at all.
I am not against him fighting against Daesh. I am against the regime that he represents, their policies in the Arab world, the militias the regime supports and the crimes that they have committed. You just told me that he was an Iranian Arab. In fact I could guess that form his surname. So I don't view him as an Iranian.
To tell you honestly (now I might sound like a radical according to some) then people working for the regimes of the ME are sometimes legitimate targets and not much better than the terrorist groups. They are part of the regime apparatus that are killing innocent people and oppressing whole nations. Exclude the youngsters here and those just in the army to make a living. I am talking about the convinced ones here. Now I don't really know if I believe this but a part of me things that they are part of the problem.
Why do you think that I have a problem with Shias? I have not at all. Time and time again I have spoken for the need for Iraqi Arabs, Yemenis, Lebanese etc. to unite and I am a proponent of Saudi Arabian Shias as long as they are loyal to the state. I got a problem with the branch of Shia Islam (Wilayat al Faqih) just like you might have a problem with our Najdi dominated clergy rather than Sunnis as a whole. Hope you got the point now.
Look that guy killed is not some ordinary young Iranian soldier. He is part of the IRGC. The most hardcore loyalists that are keeping your regime alive. They are the elite Basij.
I see those people as invaders of Arab lands and as people who are only pursuing their regimes agenda in the region which I find as a harmful agenda. I also know that those Shia militias have committed massacres and crimes and they are backed by your regime and they do not hide it.
You also have called Saudi Arabians and other foreigners killed fighting for FSA, the Islamic Front etc. for terrorists while most of us anti-Assad regime members do not see them as terrorists.
While those joining Daesh and Al-Nusra are scum that we openly cheer for when they die. Not in the literal sense but you got my point.
I do agree that the mentality of "cheering" when ones "enemies" are dying is part of the problem in the ME but that's another discussion altogether.
I tell you now if he was only fighting Daesh and nothing more then I will "take my comment back" despite him being part of the most hardcore military regime wing of the regime that currently controls Iran.
Link to thread?
Don't remember what the thread is called. It was 1.5 years ago during the summer when I was back in Hijaz. I remember that some Indian user that lived in USA had an insane collection of semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, various pistols (old and new) etc. I think that I need to relocate to Texas. I heard that both Americans and Saudi Arabian students living there call us the Texans of the Arab world.
Where is
@Yzd Khalifa when we need him?
@Falcon29
I meant semi-automatic. My MacBook "wrote" that. What is it called when you are in the middle of writing a word in English and then the program proposes you a word before you have written it fully? It also happens when using a iPhone. Sometimes I notice that it happens when I am writing here on PDF. I notice words that make no sense in a otherwise perfectly "normal" sentence.