Religious Double Standards and Sectarian Exclusion: A Contemporary Observation

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There are sixty-eight mosques in Beijing, and 2,106 mosques in the United States, with 257 in New York alone. France contains 2,260 mosques, twenty-six of which are in Paris. In Britain, there are likewise 2,260 mosques, while London alone accommodates approximately 400 of them. In Moscow, the communist capital of Russia, there are seven mosques, one of which has the capacity to hold 10,000 worshippers. In Cape Town, South Africa, there are ten mosques, despite Muslims constituting only 3 per cent of the population.

Yet, in the Zoroastrian country of the Rāfiḍah, Iran, there is not a single mosque for the (Sunnī) Muslims in any of its major cities with a Shīʿah majority. Not in Tehran, nor in Isfahan, nor in Kirmān. The Iranian authorities prevent the construction of any mosques for the Muslims in Tehran, just as they prevent the establishment of the Friday prayer and the ʿĪd prayers in (Sunnī) places of worship. They have even prevented the Friday prayer from taking place within the Pakistani Embassy in Tehran. This occurs while Jews and Christians practise their religious rituals freely across 151 places of worship, the majority of which are located in Tehran.

What, then, is the nature of the Islam that Iran wishes to impose upon the people, while presenting itself as their leader? Yet this is not enough for them; they even aspire to become the Custodians of the Two Holy Mosques. May Allah ﷻ disfigure them.

Source

Bāzmul, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar, statement published on his official Twitter (X) account @momalbaz, n.d.