SubhanAllah! Reading about the intercepted missile in Kuwait that killed an 11-year-old girl stopped me to think.
These Gulf regimes are so committed to protecting US military bases on their soil that they are actively intercepting missiles, and in doing so, sending debris and shrapnel raining down on their own civilians, their own citizens.
This girl did not die from the missile. The child died from the interception of that missile. That distinction matters because it tells you
where the loyalty of these regimes belong.
When the moment of choice arrives, they choose the US military base over their own citizens. They choose the foreign military presence over the child sleeping in their own country. The priorities are not hidden, they are very structural. It is not an isolated incident.
And to be clear, this is not a defense of Iran. Iran is its own nationalist project with its own machinery of oppression, especially from what it has done in Syria. Holding these regimes accountable does not mean that the Islamic Republic of Iran represents some liberating alternative as a system. It does not. Only righteous khilafah on the minhaj of the prophethood ﷺ when re-established peacefully in muslim lands, re-uniting them all under one banner will liberate mankind from these shackles of oppression inshaAllah.
Criticism must go where the evidence points. Someone very knowledgeable has rightly said that Israel is the shadow of Arab regimes. SubhaAllah! The more you look at how these regimes function, who they protect, who they sacrifice, and whose interests they ultimately serve, the harder that line becomes to dismiss.