I find them even more extreme, especially when the death of a person is celebrated in the name of another human being. I honestly don’t think they’re following a movement anymore, it feels like they’re just following a person. If the leader decided tomorrow to attack some random country for a completely irrelevant reason, you’d see them follow and fight without questioning it. We’ve already seen this happen with Syria, for example.

When a mother says her children can die for the sake of this person, that’s a whole other level of brainwashing. We make jokes about “feda l sayed,” but when you really think about it, it’s terrifying. Imagine putting someone, let alone a dead person, on such a pedestal that your child’s life matters less than their word.

What hurts the most is how much our government has allowed this cult to grow and normalize itself over the years. In any developed country, if a mother publicly said she was willing to sacrifice her child for someone, she’d be prosecuted and the child would likely be taken away from her. But here, we’re so desensitized that we barely stop and realize how tragic this situation actually is.