By Vehap Kola
You are mistaken when you think that people accept a religion simply for its doctrine. People embrace a religion above all for its ethical superiority and character.
Iran's resistance in the face of two superpowers has increased sympathy for Shiism to levels that would have seemed unimaginable until yesterday.
What for many of us was seen as a dark, distant theology, even as a product of a bloody theocracy, is today being read by many eyes around the world as an ethic of liberation, resilience, and dignity.
And this should be enough of a lesson for the imams, preachers, and intellectuals who cool down a corrupt and unjust government, with the tired excuse that they are avoiding greater harm.
No, not at all!
With that choice, you have agreed to be identified in the eyes of Albanians as part of the system of oppression, or at least as its crutch.
How can you then expect your call for faith, morality, and justice to be heard with respect by the majority of the citizens of this country?
No one is inspired by a religion that aligns itself with injustice.
No one wholeheartedly follows those who preach virtue but bow their heads before tyranny and injustice.
And history has always shown that when the official bearers of a morality sell it in exchange for comfort, security, or interest, then the ethical flame is not extinguished, but passes into other hands.
Another religious call will come, another ideology, another movement, that will hold that torch in its hand and give people the moral language that you did not have the courage to give them.
And then, your names will be written not on the pages of honor, but on the list of those who sold their faith for a low bargain.
