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Iran Turns George Floyd Into a Shi’ite Muslim Saint

Jun 22, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

My latest at PJ Media:

Dr. Reza Parchizadeh, a political theorist and analyst, recently noted on Twitter that “the Iranian regime has turned the late #George_Floyd into Saint George, Shiite-style!” And sure enough, Parchizadeh posted a painting of Floyd depicting him in the way Shi’ite Muslims often depict their holy figures: in a green robe and surrounded by an aura of holy light.

As incongruous as the image is, it’s perfectly fitting: Floyd, whose murder touched off the rage for destruction that is afflicting America today, is the perfect symbol for the Iranian Islamic regime’s oft-repeated aspiration: “Death to America.”

Floyd’s criminal record and history of violent behavior and drug use may seem at first glance to be incompatible with sanctity, even sanctity as the Iranian mullahs envision it, but actually the canonization of Floyd is entirely reasonable within the context of present-day Iran.

When it ordered the Iranian people to scream “Death to America” every Friday in mosques, the regime already made the destruction of America into a holy act. The destructive riots and ongoing unrest in the United States that began with Floyd’s murder can be seen, through pious Shi’ite eyes, as a manifestation of Allah’s judgment against the Great Satan. So they are holy as well, and therefore their linchpin Floyd is a saint. What else could he be?

Few Americans realize it, but “Death to America” is not just empty sloganeering or braggadocio. It is a deeply-held guiding principle of the entire Iranian regime. Even as Barack Obama’s calamitous nuclear agreement with Iran was being concluded, a decisive majority of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) declared: “The martyr-nurturing nation of Iran is not at all prepared to abandon the slogan of ‘Death to America’ under the pretext of a nuclear agreement.”

Remember also: in an Islamic context, a “martyr” is not simply someone who dies for his faith. It is someone who takes hold of the Qur’an’s promise of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). If the Iranian nation is “martyr-nurturing,” it is raising a generation of killers.

The assembled parliamentarians added that “Death to America” — which according to Agence France Presse is “chanted at the weekly Friday prayers in mosques and at protests” — had “turned into the symbol of the Islamic Republic and all struggling nations.”

Chanting “Death to America” is the “symbol of the Islamic Republic.” A communal desire to destroy the United States and commit mass murder of its citizens is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s very reason for being.

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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  1. Maureen Chaloner says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    Brain dead retards comes to mind. Iran needs a harsh lesson in peeing off Western countries!

  2. Martin says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 5:15 pm

    Yes, and the American citizens and military will sit idly by as they usually do when under attack. I strongly urge the mullahs (soon to be mummies), ayatoilets and others with funny ideas to first have an enlightening chat with the Japanese before considering an attack. The Japanese learnt their lesson the hard way. The Iranians might learn it even a harder way if they do a quick tally of their enemies’ military capacity. I wish them a lot of wisdom.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Jun 22, 2020 at 6:37 pm

      the cowardly ayatollahs will not attack the u.s. directly, since, like most thugs, they only do that to victims who are not as powerful as they are. instead, they will nuke us indirectly.

      one possible way for them to do this would be to take a passenger aircraft out of service, make it look like the plane had crashed, preferably in an ocean (with actual pieces of the plane thrown into a current so that they could be found) so that complete wreckage could not be expected to be found, replace the radar and satellite transponders with ones stolen from other aircraft, then send a refueling aircraft, a jet fighter, and the hidden aircraft, all running without transponders, on the trail of a real passenger jet. the real jet could be shot down mid-atlantic (or -pacific, but the atlantic path is much shorter), after which the hidden aircraft, loaded with a nuclear weapon, could have its stolen transponders turned on, and the dead plane’s flight path could be completed. after flying over or near DC, the nuke could be set off, and the stupid americans would have no idea who had attacked them.

      if *i* can think of this, so can a reasonably-intelligent thug looking for a way to attack us. unless the rulers of pakistan get more pious, or erdogan of turkey gets nukes, i think we can expect our first nuking to come from iran.

      • Cornz says

        Jun 24, 2020 at 7:08 am

        Or just buy a Cesna or crop sprayer, fly it low and boom.

  3. mortimer says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 5:24 pm

    Double taqiyya!

    1) George Floyd wasn’t a Shi’ite, not even a Muslim.
    2) George Floyd wasn’t a saint, but a guy who was unsuccessful at stopping his drug addictions.

    The pathologist found hypertensive heart disease, fentanyl intoxication, and recent methamphetamine use as “other significant conditions” contributing to his death. In the full report, the toxicologist listed several psychoactive substances or metabolites were found in Floyd’s system.

    He was trying to help others, but he was not helping himself by taking dangerous street drugs.

    Drug addiction is very selfish and hurts the family horribly.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jun 22, 2020 at 6:19 pm

      mortimer says,

      “George Floyd wasn’t a saint..”

      An understatement…

      He had a VERY serious felony criminal record.

      • mortimer says

        Jun 22, 2020 at 11:31 pm

        I’ve known drug addicts. Drugs turn otherwise nice humans into selfish devils who degrade themselves shamelessly and do many different horrible things to betray virtually everyone who crosses their paths including their families. One out of five drug addicts dies every year, meaning that they have a rather short life span while taking drugs on the street.

        If there is a group of 100 drug addicts this year, within five years, most of them will be dead from drug-related causes.

        • James Lincoln says

          Jun 23, 2020 at 9:34 am

          mortimer,

          You are correct about drug addicts. Street drugs and the misuse / improper prescribing of prescription drugs can result in the addict doing horrific things to themselves and others.

          That being said, intensive treatment involving all aspects regarding bio / psycho / social of the addict has the possibility of some very promising results. Still, these addicts – for multitude of reasons – are very difficult to treat.

          I personally have treated alcoholics for alcohol withdrawal but have referred drug addicts, after patient stabilization, to a addiction specialists. Useful drugs include Methadone, Suboxone, and Naltrexone combined with intensive psychotherapy.

          Still, even under the best of circumstances, drug addicts are notoriously noncompliant – and are unable or unwilling to take personal responsibility.

  4. nicu says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 5:34 pm

    why nobody talks about Aracely Henriquez who was kidnapped by Floyd and 5 other men they wanted to rob her – beat her up and he put a gun on her belly : she was pregnant at that time ??? well Iran , yes : Muslims are criminals – why not him ? ~ sarc off ~

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 22, 2020 at 7:24 pm

      Yes–very, very ugly stuff.

    • katherine says

      Jun 23, 2020 at 5:25 am

      It is crystal-clear to me now. So this is exactly how the greatest murderer and rapist in human history was turned into a Prophet.

      Floyd doesn`t even come close : that`s why he can only be anointed a Saint – not mean enough by Islamic standards. Wait for the next return of the prophet.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 23, 2020 at 11:00 pm

        You are right, Katherine–and to turn this around, Floyd actually *was* a saint compared to the vicious “Prophet” Muhammed.

  5. gravenimage says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    Iran Turns George Floyd Into a Shi’ite Muslim Saint
    ………….

    Just ludicrous. If Floyd had been in Iran with his counterfeiting and drug use and violence, he would have ended up tortured in Evin Prison.

    • Battle says

      Jun 22, 2020 at 8:05 pm

      gravenimage: Good post.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 22, 2020 at 8:05 pm

        Thank you, Battle.

        • Wellington says

          Jun 22, 2020 at 9:46 pm

          Thank you, gravenimage.

  6. RichardL says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    I read somewhere that his fentanyl level was 3 times what is needed to cause respiratory failure. Is that what is required for a shite saint?

    • dhans says

      Jun 23, 2020 at 10:06 pm

      Well, there does seem to be something of the supernatural here.

  7. Templer says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 8:32 pm

    Islam lie ring Iran santic Floyd was a evil man nowonder Iran made him a saint funney that eventhugh he was a chirstain a kafer so how the f does that work🤥💯

    • mortimer says

      Jun 22, 2020 at 11:34 pm

      It’s a case of a horrible, lengthy drug addiction. The addiction was too strong for him.

  8. curious george says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    This is the new normal: up is down and down is up, white is black and black is white. The U.S.A. has been an accident waiting to happening for several decades now. Like the Titanic, the question isn’t if we will hit the iceberg but when.

  9. JDow says

    Jun 22, 2020 at 11:25 pm

    Saints? Isn’t that polytheism?
    {o.o}

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 22, 2020 at 11:32 pm

      The Sunnis certainly think so. They consider this sort of thing heresy.

  10. Marigold says

    Jun 23, 2020 at 7:41 am

    Muslims are on the left of politics so together with the BLM , Antifa and many Democrats in the US they will have quite an effect on US .

  11. roberta says

    Jun 23, 2020 at 3:01 pm

    Im good with it, they can have the piece of dirt.

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