I am very interested in learning. Returning to the original post I quoted, please educate me.
How did a fringe extremist cult without external and internal support just up and seize power and subjugate the VAST majority that is supposedely so strongly contrasted to them? Level of dichtomy, like Tomice said.
How did a fringe extremist cult without external and internal support just up and seize power and subjugate the VAST majority that is supposedely so strongly contrasted to them? Level of dichtomy, like Tomice said.
The reason I made that statement earlier was you bringing up Safavid era, which is the best example of a cult taking over. When Shah Ismail took over Tabriz he was told that 2/3rd of the city are Sunni Muslims. Yet he converted them all by force. It’s been told that he even persecuted whoever heard someone cursing Omar, and didn’t utter the phrase “bish bad o kam mabad” (more and not less).
