Why bring this info to light?
Because history repeats itself when we do not learn our lessons. It is not to make ourselves isolationists and be overly-suspicious. It is not to stop us from building bridges. It is only to stop our willful blindness to concrete, tangible red flags.
A friend of mine told me that in the UK, a few people learned that Catherine Perez Shakdam, the "israeli" spy who infiltrated Iran, was found to have been publicly listed online as an employee for the "israeli" think tank WikiStrat, working as a "political risk analyst."
They sounded the alarm but it was met with willful blindness and silencing. It was so suppressed that I didn't hear this info until after Shakdam publicly outed herself. This info should have spread like wildfire back in the day, but it didn't. Perhaps it would have reached the ears of Iran and Lebanon if it wasn't for the domestic silencing within the UK.
I did get a weird vibe from her after she removed her hijab. Like most Shias at the time, I had mild/minimal online contact with her. However, I removed her as a friend on Facebook after we were both guests on an Iranian YouTube talk show. This was after she removed her hijab.
The topic of the show was the Zionist regime's discrimination against African migrants. Naturally, I had brought up the Jewish Talmud and all its racist, anti-black polemics related to the Curse of Ham and how that justifies intra-Judaic hierarchies and discrimination, even against black Jews, let alone against black gentiles, slaughtered in the millions in the 400+ years of African slavery.
Naturally, I hit a nerve with Perez. Instead of discussing the actual topic, she spent most of her time publicly humiliating me, accusing me of having lost my humanity. For what, for being an equal opportunity anti-racist, including against Jewish racism derived from Judaism? I reiterated that my argument is not against anyone's race, but their actions, and I also mentioned that I come from a Jewish background as another piece of evidence to demolish her venomous public character assassination against me.
I wondered to myself, 'how could a regular Anglo woman be so triggered by discussing Jewish supremacy?' I literally had zero idea she was Jewish. She hid it well — even though there is no need to, as Islam opposes racial determinism and is not against the ethnicity of Jews, but the ideology of Judaism, which is the distortion of the original religion of Moses (a). Therefore, a sincere Muslim who follows Islamic teachings would not give a damn about what her race is. The fact that she deliberately lied about it is the red flag, not the fact that she comes from that background.
Once she outed herself, I then realized why she got so triggered at me: she was upset that I exposed the truth about the "chosen" tribe.
According to Qwen AI:
"Public sources confirm that Catherine Perez-Shakdam worked for Wikistrat, an Israeli-American geostrategic analysis and intelligence firm, for seven years (2007-2014). She converted to Islam for her marriage to a Yemeni Sunni Muslim man. This marriage ended in divorce in 2014. This means her professional affiliation with Wikistrat was publicly documented during the very period she was converting to Islam. It was only later, particularly from 2017 onward, that journalists and investigators publicly exposed and scrutinized her prior employment at Wikistrat, linking her intelligence-adjacent background to her 'Muslim convert' cover story."
This is not about being elitist, purist, or nit-picking every tiny thing about a person's life. Especially if it is something that truly remains in their past and they have sincerely evolved and repented for it. No one is perfect and perfection is not the standard; sincerity is.
However, working for WikiStrat, hiding one's Jewish identity deliberately, etc. is a red flag.
Serving in a Pentagon-backed, Mossad-aligned Kurdish militia is a red flag. Especially when there is no indication of a sincere trajectory of evolution and repentance from such a past, which for the sake of justice should be left on the table even if the probability is low.
These are reasonable red flags to at least have a degree of skepticism about.
Unfortunately, those who raise the sirens are once again silenced. "Muhammad, the Apostle of Allah, and those who are with him are hard against the faithless and merciful amongst themselves." (48:29) Unfortunately, the opposite of this verse's instructions are followed: harsh against the actual Shi'a Muslim devotees who sound the alarms using concrete facts and not baseless suspicious, and merciful among the sketchy grifter with past ties to anti-resistance armed groups.
The case has been made. Allah guides those who seek truth and want to be guided. Wasalaam.