“Gaza to Smriti: Islam at war with itself as Arabs reform, neo-covert Muslims regress”, First Post, January 12, 2024:

“Samuel Huntington’s prophecy of a clash of civilisations is playing out in strange ways. In the Islamic world, we now have a clash within a civilisation.

The Arab world, where the source code of Islam was written, is in the crosscurrents of change, brought about by technology and shifting economic realities. Saudi Arabia under Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and the United Arab Emirates led by Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ) — aged 38 and 62 respectively — are leading the transformation.

The Persian world led by Iran, which is also the main seat of Shia Islam, has seen bloody convulsions of a revolution against orthodoxy led by its brave and angry scarf-flinging women. It all started there with the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by the Ayatollah regime’s morality police for not wearing hijab…..”

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