I tend to avoid talking about Iran because it attracts the most insane people. The reality is that religiosity is down, but Iran is not majority atheist or secular or whatever else. The reality is in the middle, meanwhile, crazies on both sides cannot accept that reality.

I really don't know what religious Sunni Muslims want Iranians to do, in any case. If they're secular or lost their religion, then they'll say: "Look! These rafida/kuffar/mushrikun lost their religion!!!" But if they're religious and observant, they'll be angry that they're…

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@sharghzadeh Yup this is the right take. Except I'm not sure why you're using voting numbers to approximate religiousity, there really isn't any correlation

@websterkaroon I think it's safe to assume anyone who votes for the most right-wing candidate is religious.

@sharghzadeh “Every society has religious and irreligious people. Life goes on, everyone is fine.” Exactly, just live and let live!

@AsadFromNYC My fast is not the least bit threatened by secular Turks drinking beers or atheist Iranians drinking coffee. Everyone is accountable for their own sins in the afterlife.

@sharghzadeh Do you think that it will ever return? Or is religiosity on a downward trajectory?

@arahmed3109 The trajectory is downward, but it's impossible to tell what the future holds. These things can ebb and flow. In the early 20th century, female Azhar graduates were unveiled. Now Egyptian women wear niqab.

@sharghzadeh I think religion forms a lot of the basis for our ideas of right and wrong… even among those that aren’t religious. There is a difference between an irreligious Christian and an irreligious Muslim. You can be agnostic and still behave like a Christian.

@sharghzadeh Such a honest tweet. I was in tehran recently and it had a very liberal relaxed feel

@sharghzadeh We pay so much attention to what the mass of people think or do, yet perhaps our search for truth validly looks for a different kind of evidence.

@sharghzadeh The last election turnout, based on IR numbers (highly duped), was 41%. Additionally, many in the government and military need to show up to keep their jobs. I agree overall, but I don't agree with the percentage you're depicting. It's even worse.

@sharghzadeh Ik someone in Iran rn. The majority identify as Muslim & are really religious when you go outside North Tehran.

@sharghzadeh During shah’s time Shiism was becoming what christianity is in Europe. A cultural thing more than spiritual. What IR has done is made people disconnect, but also deeply resent Islam. The “upside” for the ummah is that Sunni community is taking less hits than Shia households

@sharghzadeh the freedom people has in Iran to skip prayers and to openly not to fast just shows how eroded is that old western cliche of “religious dictatorship”.

@sharghzadeh @MazMHussain In 5 years of my experience in Europe, never met a single Iranian person who is practicing or even Muslim. They all have left Islam.

@sharghzadeh I’m from Turkey, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that people who don’t fast are not religious. In my university, there are Muslims who either don’t fast at all or partially fast. Personally, I fast fully, but I don’t pray, for example(Insha’Allah, I will fix it.).