When the world looks at groups like ISIS or the Islamic regime in Iran, the word “extremist” is often thrown around as if these groups are deviating from their faith. In reality, they are simply literalists. They are not interpreting the data in a vacuum; they are following a blueprint that leaves very little room for imagination. This is the primary difference between the Bible and the Quran. While the Bible reads like a collection of scattered short stories, the Quran functions as a structured textbook. It is a manual for conquest that details exactly how to bring the world to submission. It is not a “holy book” in the sense of moral guidance; it is a tactical manual for 7th-century colonial expansion.

If your God instructs you that a woman’s life is worth less than a man’s genitalia, following that instruction is not extremism in your mind. It is obedience. We see this same pattern in pre-Enlightenment Christianity. Without that period of intellectual secularization, the atrocities committed in the name of the Biblical God would have continued unabated. The difference is that today, the world doesn’t have the luxury of waiting centuries for another round of Enlightenment or a new set of Crusades. As I argued before, civilization is a choice, and relying on a 7th-century desert scripture is objectively the wrong one. Since we are short on time, military force remains the only language a regime of this nature actually respects.

The Scriptural Blueprint

The following points (not an exhaustive list) constitute the core legal components of the framework currently enforced by any Islamic regime following Sharia law. This is raw data, and I highly recommend you read various English translations of the same wording to understand how they have been whitewashed to keep the “Islamophobia” industry in business. You will see why the whitewashing is essential in advancing their agenda, where I explain what “Taqiyya” is.

  • Marriage Discipline (Quran 4:34): Command to beat disobedient wives as the final step. The Arabic word literally translates to “beating.” Some translations shamelessly added “gently” as if there is a compassionate way to physically assault your spouse.
  • Legal Testimony (Quran 2:282): Two women are required to equal one man’s witness because, according to this textbook, one woman will surely forget.
  • Inheritance (Quran 4:11): A daughter’s share is legally fixed at exactly half of a son’s.
  • War Captives (Quran 4:24): Permission for sex with married women captured in war.
  • The Veil (Quran 33:59): Mandating covering so women are recognized and not “molested,” effectively putting the burden of men’s lack of self-control on the woman’s wardrobe.
  • The “Tilth” (Quran 2:223): Defining women as “farmland” for men to “use as they will.”
  • Child Marriage (Quran 65:4): Establishing the waiting period for girls who have not yet menstruated, implying menstruation (not age) as the green light to consummate the marriage.
  • Cross-Amputation (Quran 5:33): Cutting off hands and feet from opposite sides as punishment for “mischief.”
  • Slavery (Quran 23:5-6): Explicitly permitting sex with those “whom your right hands possess.” (More on slavery below.)
  • Apostasy (Hadith Bukhari 6922): The direct order: “Whoever changes his religion, kill him.”
  • Leadership (Hadith Bukhari 7099): The declaration that a nation led by a woman will never succeed. The prophet was butthurt seeing a female Persian queen.
  • Intellectual Status (Hadith Bukhari 304): Labeling women as “deficient in intelligence and religion.”
  • Refusing Sex (Hadith Muslim 1436): The claim that angels curse a woman until morning if she refuses her husband.
  • Stoning (Hadith Bukhari 6830): The prescription of death by stoning for adultery.
  • Human Value (Fiqh Tahrir al-Wasila): Legal rulings valuing a man’s testicle higher than a woman’s entire life.

The Weapon of Deceit: Taqiyya

To understand how this regime maintains its grip, one must understand the concept of Taqiyya. While lying is generally considered a sin in Islam, Taqiyya permits and even encourages Muslims to lie to non-Muslims to advance an Islamic agenda. This is exactly how Khomeini orchestrated Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. He fooled Jimmy Carter and secured Western backing by appearing as a moderate cleric who just wanted to pray in peace. Once his power was absolute, he discarded the mask and used the West’s own naivety to wipe out his opposition. The embarraced West claimed he was “radicalized,” but in reality, he simply stopped lying!

The 1988 Massacre

The ultimate realization of this ideology was the summer of 1988. Based on a fatwa from Khomeini, the regime executed 30,000 political prisoners in a single summer. There were children as young as 13 among them. The volume of victims was so massive that prisoners were loaded onto forklift trucks and hanged in batches of half a dozen every half hour. While the world remained quiet, this purge solidified the regime’s control.

The Legacy of Slavery and Submissiveness

The Quran includes specific instructions on treating slaves and sex captives. While many focus on the Trans-Atlantic trade, the Trans-Saharan slave trade was way more devastating (search “castrated” in that page). Unlike the West, the Arab Muslim world has not truly abolished the cultural framework of slavery because doing so would mean admitting their God was wrong.

Furthermore, Islam does not want smart people. It wants submissive ones. As I noted in my post on the bogus Islamic Golden Age, the structure of the faith is designed to suppress critical thinking in favor of total obedience while taking credit for the scientific achievements of the civilizations they conquered and eventually bled dry.

The Irony of the Host

There is a massive irony in how different groups of refugees interact with the West. Iranians assimilate, contribute, and grow with their hosts while respecting their heritage. Contrast them with the Palestinian and Muslim refugees in Europe who try to dominate their host countries. This brings to mind the Scottish-Korean influencer (find him on Instagram, he’s amazing) who consistently and rightfully asks the obvious question: there are over 50 Muslim countries in the world, so why did you leave if you wanted to live under Sharia? It’s a comedic masterpiece watching people flee a burning building only to try and set fire to the new one.

The answer is: that was the grand plan. They didn’t run away from Sharia law; they left their country to spread it. They lied in their asylum applications using the holy art of Taqiyya, claiming they were running away from “prosecution.” They weren’t running; they were “exported” to spread the seeds of Islam and bring all non-believers into submission. It follows the “Incubate, Multiply, Dominate” methodology of Muslim Arab colonialism I described in my previous post on Colony Wars.

Sophisticated Strategy, Not Naivety

The exceptional educational and economic standing of the Iranian diaspora proves that their calls for outside assistance are rooted in a sophisticated understanding of global leverage. With nearly 60% of Iranian-Americans holding a bachelor’s degree or higher and leading companies with a market cap exceeding $600 billion, these are not uninformed observers. They are CEOs, scientists, and policy experts. When they appeal for international intervention, it is a calculated recognition that the regime’s actions constitute a systematic destruction of a nation’s potential. They aren’t asking for a handout; they are asking for the removal of an occupier so they can rebuild their own country.

Why Iran is Not Iraq or Afghanistan

Critics often claim that intervention will turn Iran into the next Iraq or Afghanistan. This is a failure of pattern recognition. Iraq and Afghanistan are inherently Muslim countries. They were Muslims killing each other before the US arrived, and they remained Muslim countries killing their own after the US left. Nothing changed because the underlying disease remained the same.

Iran was a secular country before the Islamic Revolution. Islamists took over and started the slaughter. All that is required to fix the “problem” in Iran is the removal of theocracy. Once that 7th-century parasite is gone, the secular foundation is still there waiting to be reconnected to the modern world.

The “Selective Empathy” of the Left

While Iranians have been slaughtered by the tens of thousands over the last two months, the Western Left remained silent. We see activists with more pronouns than braincells screaming “Hands off the Middle East” now, but they were absent when the IRGC was filling the streets with blood. Groups, like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, are branded as “resistance” by Western leftists who are either uneducated or morally bankrupt.

Under the Geneva Convention, a hospital is a protected site. However, the moment it is used as a military base or a weapons cache, that protection is nullified. Hamas has used that strategy in Gaza, and now the IRGC is using the exact playbook. The Left ignores the human shields and blames the person pulling the trigger.

Even the media like the New York Timeswill mourn the death of a tyrant like Khamenei, calling him a “Cleric Who Made Iran a Regional Power,” while ignoring the fact that he was leading a systematic genocide against his own people. That’s like saying “Führer Adolf Hitler, Dog-Loving Artist Who Made Germany a World Power, Is Dead at 56” on April 30, 1945.

The Nuclear Paradox and the Price of Liberation

The regime’s followers believe they are good people because they want to send everyone to heaven according to their God’s order, as discussed in my post on Heaven: The Enemy of Justice. This is the ultimate danger of a nuclear-armed theocracy. If you believe this life is a shadow, pressing a button to send everyone to heaven is an act of salvation. They aren’t “evil” in their own heads; they are “saints” trying to fast-track your entry into paradise.

For months, Iranians have been up against a government armed to the teeth. The plea for outside help wasn’t born of naivety, but of necessity. Iranians are a sophisticated people. They know that outside military intervention comes with a heavy price and devastating collateral damage.

However, much like France in World War II, there comes a point where no amount of internal strength is enough to dislodge a genocidal occupier. When the choice is between a systematic slaughter by your own “divine” leaders or the messy, painful intervention of outsiders, the choice is clear.

Khamenei followed every bloody step of Khomeini, but the mask has finally slipped. Iranians are currently celebrating his death all over the world. This celebration is the natural reaction of a people finally seeing the end of a regime that has used 7th-century divinity to justify 21st-century genocide. The transition has begun. The only question left is whether the world will help them finish the job or keep making excuses for the executioners.

The Final Mandate: Finish the Job

The world must understand that there is no “middle ground” with a wounded theocracy. If the US and Israel pull out now, or call for a premature ceasefire before the IRGC is completely dismantled, they are not “bringing peace.” They are handing a knife back to a cornered killer. The IRGC is currently a wounded wolf, and a wounded wolf is at its most “divine” when it is backed into a corner. If they are left with even a fragment of their power, they will spend it all on a systematic massacre of the Iranian people that will make 1988 look like a rehearsal.

A ceasefire at this stage is a death warrant for every Iranian who dared to dance in the streets at the news of the dictator’s death. Civilization is a choice, but so is survival. The job is not done until the IRGC as an institution is erased from the earth. To stop now is to invite a genocide in the name of God.

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Some useful links:

  • Human Rights Watch (January 16, 2026): Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres. This report documents evidence of security forces carrying out large-scale killings starting on January 8, 2026, with many victims suffering gunshot wounds to the head and torso.
  • Center for Human Rights in Iran (February 25, 2026): Iran’s Machinery of Repression Escalates. Detailed reporting on the surge in arbitrary arrests, torture, and enforced disappearances following the January massacres. The report highlights the systematic use of death sentences as a tool of political suppression.
  • GeoConfirmed (2026): Iran Conflict Tracking. Provides geospatial verification of military strikes and civilian massacres. Recent data geolocated strikes on IRGC infrastructure and documented civilian casualties in residential areas during the 2026 conflict.

7 responses to “Divine Barbarism and the Future of Iran”

  1. You’re going to think I’m mad, but my honest feeling is that violence will never end unless we breed it out of ourselves. And at the same time eradicate poverty. My experience with by now highly advanced meditation has shown me that we can change. My own route has been time intensive and excessive but it has worked. If I had a brain scan, my amygdala would be shown to be smaller than average by now and my default mode network far less active. I have never had violent tendencies but I have become ever more reluctant to engage in hostility.

    So change can occur if we want it to. And that’s really what I mean by a different long term solution. Changing our very DNA.

    And of course I’m not talking forced genetics. That would be every bit as horrendous as what we are seeing today.

    But we are a bunch of atoms, and above that, chemicals. When I sit to do yoga or pilates, my mind is flooded by endocannabinoids – a peace inducing effect if ever there was one.

    I’m not suggesting “putting something in the water” but slowly engineering our race. As we are increasingly able to do given the huge advances in medical science.

    Just by way of example take a look at Harvard’s advanced meditation research efforts under Dr Mathew Sacchet. Change is certainly possible given the will.

    I am aware this sounds outlandish. But perhaps no more so than the violence and torture which has been practiced for countless millennia.

    1. Man, you mentioned possibility of hostility in our DNA and it reminded me of an abandoned draft that I wrote a while back, probably when I was reading Harari’s Sapiens… what if our current hostility exists simply because the hostile ones were the fittest to survive? I had to dig through a bunch of drafts to find it. It’s just a bunch of brain droppings and I didn’t think anything thru so take it with a grain of salt 🙂

      https://cognitiveshifter.com/2026/03/04/survival-of-the-most-hostile/

  2. And what of the Israeli treatment of the people of Gaza? Of course the Iranian Theocracy is an abomination but so is the Israeli government. So is the budding fascism in the US. In the end as with all US intervention, no good will come if this. The good guys in WW2 killed endless innocent civilians. Thousands of innocent civilians will be killed in Iran and throughout the middle east. The Theocracy is indeed a dark age atrocity. As was the regime in Syria, Iraq, Libya. As is the government and ruling class in Saudi Arabia. As, increasingly, the fascist regime in the US which gets worse day by day. Masked ICE thugs aren’t very different to Revolution Guards. I’m sorry but I can not agree with your assessment. But that’s OK – a hallmark of civilization is the right to disagree in a polite and reasoned manner. Violence begets violence and always will.

    1. I appreciate the civil tone, Zeno. To be honest, I was exactly where you are for a long time, leaning on “whataboutism” to justify my views.

      The turning point for me was when I stopped following one-sided media narratives and started asking “what if.” I found that a good way to test if my view was objective was to remove the person at the top from the equation. Whether it’s Trump, Netanyahu, or the Islamic regime’s supreme leader… if you stop focusing on the individual and instead look at the historical sequence of events, the picture changes. For instance, not reaching a peace treaty never justifies violence, but we have to acknowledge that Palestinian leadership was offered a two-state solution multiple times and rejected them all. Those opportunities would have been their only chance of finally having a country instead of each side citing a holy book as “proof” of “owning” the land.

      When one evaluates the situation regardless of who is in power, they see that the Iranian theocracy’s funding of extremist groups is the actual barrier to peace. I agree that violence is tragic, but there is a moral obligation to intervene when a massacre is occurring. If we focus only on the current “player” (like assuming one leader is the cause of it all) rather than how the board was set, we miss the point. Realizing that the source of the fire needs to be addressed isn’t being pro-war, it’s being pro-solution.

      Man, we should be talking about this over a beer 🙂

    2. And no need to apologize for disagreeing with me, but you will be so sorry if you ever meet an Iranian and tell them an IRGC goon is “not much different” than an ICE agent lol

      If you want to understand the scale of what we are talking about, watch this report to see the difference. It has captions, but you really don’t even need them to understand the gravity of it. Also, be warned, this is definitely not a “kid-friendly” video:

  3. The trouble is that no act of violence, no war, ever, has stopped the endless repetition of barbarism. New methods are needed. Kicking the shit out of the hideous Dark Age Theocracy is not going to solve any long term problems for the human race. I preferred Obama’s efforts to those of the Ginger Fuhrer and the murderous Likud.

    1. The “diplomacy” you’re referring to has a body count in the tens of thousands. Iranians remember 2009, when millions took to the streets begging for support, literally chanting, “Obama, are you with us or with them?” while his administration chose silence to protect nuclear negotiations. To someone being beaten by a Basij or IRGC thug, that silence felt like a green light for the regime to finish the job.

      The 2015 JCPOA was not a “new method” for peace. It was a massive infusion of cash that subsidized the theocracy. While the West celebrated the “success,” Iranians watched billions in unfrozen assets fund the IRGC’s endless atrocities. I honestly thought Obama was different from the rest of the naive Democrats, but that day proved me wrong. Not because what he did was necessarily wrong, but because it wronged the Iranian people, who have been held hostage by an illegitimate government that the CIA helped bring to power in 1979.

      Think about the level of desperation it takes for a nation to thank the US and Israel every time a missile lands on its own soil, even when it destroys their own homes. With the Iranian-American diaspora now a political force, I highly doubt the US will see another Democrat president any soon. Democrats had their chance to make it work over the past half century, and they failed monumentally. This wasn’t just about Iranians losing hope in Democrats. Iranians felt so betrayed by the left (of any kind) that they turned to the exiled Shah’s son as a potential leader and sidelined leftists inside Iran, despite once standing on the same side against the Islamic regime.

      About the current situation, this is not a war. It is a rescue mission that began when the internal resistance ran out of strength and begged for international help. Like France in WWII, Iran needs outside force to end this. After decades of systemic torture, many people prefer the risk of bombs to the certainty of state-sponsored agony. When a government hangs children in batches, negotiating with the executioner is not diplomacy.

      Of course, so much can (and quite possibly will) go wrong in the process. One can only wait and see.

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