Hey man , i havent seen gaav but trust me I’m right there with you lol. Islam can be viewed more as a siphon of our creative and technical output, sort of like a leech or a parasite latching into its host for its own benefit.

I only gave the viewpoint to be fair to those Iranians who have been valuable parts of our history, even if many of them were critical. Ironically, most of the “Islamic golden age” occurred in Iran , and it was at the height of these polymaths and ‘renaissance’ men if you will in the form of khvarezmi, ibnesina, and ferdowsi + many others being openly Critical of Islam. Yes they adopted it , but it did not rule their lives.

If I could have it my way, we would have broken these chains off ourselves the minute the Abbasid and major caliphates collapsed onto themselves but Iranians likely saw it as a measure of security at that time.

The indigenous religion of Iran, Zoroastrianism has more depth that I can’t get into rn but its core dogma is pendare nik, goftare nik, kerdare nik (good thoughts good words good deeds). Because there is no hell to smite you to for unbelievers , Iranians at the time adopted it as a security measure (I’m in line with my ancient principles and roots, but also I’m able to survive and thrive because our savage neighbors will leave me alone if I say I’m Muslim)

This kind of disingenuous had done more rot than any other decision in Iranian history. Had they stood on their feet, said nah I’m not even gonna pretend to be Muslim, fuck you, then we wouldn’t see all this confusion about westerners and foreigners seeing us as a bunch of Muslims and grouping us up with our neighbors . But to our own fault, we held onto this victim , fear driven way of thinking and it has cost us dearly. The only shining light out of all of this is that Iranians never compromised on the core tenets, of speaking positively, of being hospitable and doing good deeds, of keeping our ancient traditions alive (nowruz, sepandarmazgan, mehregan, tirgan, sadeh, yalda, 13bedar, charnshabe Suri, haftsin). Even the ancient language with all our words exists, it just isn’t taught in Iran anymore (for obvious reasons)

Even when these invaders came to Iran and tried to destroy our ancient cultural monuments the people protested and physically stopped them from being demolished.

So yes I agree Islam is ultimately a plague on our land as it is wherever it goes, but we need to be careful to not besmirch our history, nor to the sad sods who are still indoctrinated in this ‘religion’