Inside the viral video trend that made Houston-area school children the face of Iranian propaganda
Iranian state-sponsored media and pundits have been sharing a video of Houston-area children singing a popular new religious song that includes references to Iran’s supreme leader — and mentions soldiers and martyrdom.
The video, which was removed from YouTube on Friday afternoon, showed young children and teens in traditional Islamic dress standing in a choreographed formation and singing a trending Iranian religious song in English and Farsi.
Some opponents of the Iranian government have criticized the video, especially the references it makes to child soldiers and the supreme leader of Iran. Meanwhile, news sites and pundits affiliated with the Iranian government are pointing to the Houston video as evidence of the regime’s influence in the United States.
In the video, which was posted on the Islamic Education Center of Houston’s Facebook page earlier this week, children sang in English and Farsi with lyrics that included, “Come back, reappear. I will be your soldier. I will be your supporter.”
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Iranian state-sponsored media and pundits have been sharing a video of Houston-area children singing a popular new religious song that includes references to Iran’s supreme leader — and mentions soldiers and martyrdom.
The video, which was removed from YouTube on Friday afternoon, showed young children and teens in traditional Islamic dress standing in a choreographed formation and singing a trending Iranian religious song in English and Farsi.
Some opponents of the Iranian government have criticized the video, especially the references it makes to child soldiers and the supreme leader of Iran. Meanwhile, news sites and pundits affiliated with the Iranian government are pointing to the Houston video as evidence of the regime’s influence in the United States.
In the video, which was posted on the Islamic Education Center of Houston’s Facebook page earlier this week, children sang in English and Farsi with lyrics that included, “Come back, reappear. I will be your soldier. I will be your supporter.”
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"