
Mathias Hassan
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Mathias Hassan
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If we’re forced to choose between Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims in today’s geopolitical landscape, then as a former Sunni, I can tell you, I wouldn’t hesitate for a second: I would choose the Shia every single time. Hezbollah has devastated Lebanon for over 30 years. They’ve hijacked the country’s sovereignty, dragged it into needless wars with Israel, dealt drugs across continents, and trained militias from Syria to Yemen. Iran’s regime has exported chaos to the entire region. I am not here to sanitize the destruction caused by Shia Islam. But there is no comparison, none, between Sunni jihad and Shia jihad when it comes to the barbarity, monstrosity, and nihilism at their core. Shia wilāya is a political-theological project rooted in eschatological hope, the belief in a coming world of justice, peace, and divine order under the awaited Mahdi. This doesn’t make their actions justifiable, but it does mean their violence is directed, however twistedly, against what they interpret as tyrannical regimes or ideological threats. When they target civilians, it’s typically selective, an assassination of a perceived enemy of the movement, not wholesale slaughter for religious cleansing. This vision stems from their Muʿtazila-influenced theology, which still gives weight to human reason and moral evaluation alongside the sacred text. Sunni jihad, by contrast, is a black hole. It recognizes no moral hierarchy, no ethical filter, no gradation of violence. There is no distinction between soldier and child, between combatant and teacher, between state and street. Any non-Muslim, or even any “wrong” kind of Muslim, is a legitimate target. Bombing a wedding, beheading an aid worker, enslaving Yazidi girls, torching churches, shooting up schools, this is not collateral damage. It is the goal. Sunni Islam’s dominant theological school, Ashʿarism, rejects reason as a tool for understanding good and evil. Morality, in this view, is whatever Allah commands, even if it contradicts logic, conscience, or compassion. If the Qur’an says to kill the unbeliever, then killing is not just allowed, it is good. Period. This is why Sunni jihadis can burn people alive, blow up their own children, or massacre entire villages, because they believe Allah said so, and that’s the end of the story. Shia Islam, for all its flaws, is still institutional, hierarchical, and clerically mediated. You don’t see Shia suicide bombers popping up in random countries every week because violence is still (relatively) controlled from above. But Sunni jihad is chaotic, decentralized, and viral. Sunni theology is deontological, Shia theology is teleological. Sunni terrorism is a Frankenstein of Wahhabism, Deobandism, Salafism, and Muslim Brotherhood ideology that teaches followers to reject all modernity, all compromise, and all mercy.




















