Honestly, stop the BS

[u/Reasonable-Oil6514]

I swear, some of these Turkish people and the crowd that blames everything on Jews don’t know Azerbaijan at all, yet they talk with such confidence, as if they do. We kept saying this isn’t the first time. In the 2010s, there was a hijab ban in schools, mass Ashura gatherings were banned, the volume of the Adzan in mosques was reduced, and the crackdown was even harsher than anything now. Back then, there were actually more religious people than there are nowadays, Salafis, Wahhabis, pro-Iranian Shias, and women walking around in chadras, especially in the Yasamal/Kubinka/Nizami areas and on the outskirts of Baku. But social media wasn’t a thing like it is nowadays, so there wasn’t much fuss, so yeah. Since then, Azerbaijan has secularized rapidly. I mean, the population was always mostly irreligious, but these people are gone too. The mosques are empty, and there aren’t “Quran courses” and “Arabic language courses” on every other corner like there used to be. I doubt anyone who can’t analyze this even lives in Baku or old enough to observe these events lmao.

Yet now they come and explain the country to those of us who were around for those events, who heard with our own ears what was being said in those circles and saw it with our own eyes. In recent years (or shall I say after Khamenei's death?) these people have started growing again, which is very strange and should raise a lot of questions for fellow Azerbaijanis too. Aliyev is indeed an authoritarian, but how ignorant do you have to be to brush off every conversation with “he’s paranoid” or “he’s going crazy”? This negligence is our biggest problem.

Just food for thought below.

[u/Dramatic_Bed9236]

you think hijab ban is something “secular”, “developed” when you’re backward and fascist. going through the same exact thing turkey been through between 70s-90s, and it’s gonna explode in your hands just like it did here.

niqab, burqa ban, hijab ban for children in certain ages is definitely understandable. imprisoning a religious woman to housework because she can’t wear hijab to school or work is fascism.