Calm Down
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By Dr. Daryoush Mohammad Poor | The Twin Wisdoms
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This morning I sent a friend a short video. No note, no comment, nothing. In it Navīd Wahrāmān, a Pakistani writer, asks whether the Iranian diaspora’s hatred of Islam is justified. Pakistan had Zia-ul-Haq making prayer compulsory in government offices, and Afghanistan has a Taliban he calls less tolerant than the Islamic Republic, and neither diaspora turned on the religion in the same way, so repression does not explain it. Then, in his last eleven seconds, he says we should think of the Iranian diaspora as ‘just not being too…
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