He really doesn’t know when to shut the hell up, does he?
Wahid Azal has made yet another enemy, D C Shepard, that like me tried to be friendly with him until it eventually became impossible because they (Shepard is transgender) became disgusted with Azal’s egomania, which is as large as the moon, but a lot uglier.
First, some background. On March 6, 2025, Azal and Shepard collaborated in a podcast:
Watching this, I was reminded of my own experience collaborating with Azal on a podcast.
Then Shepard made an announcement about the podcast in r/exbahai:
And even while watching some of that, I predicted that in a few months, Azal would backstab Shepard just as he did me, and for the same reason: Azal only pretends to be someone’s friend as long as they are useful to him; the moment you stop being useful to him, he turns against you and attacks you in the most vicious and ridiculous terms.
And I was RIGHT!
https://wahidazal303.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-incoherence-of-my-critics-analysis.html
DC Shepard is precisely the kind of texbook white liberal racist that I recently wrote about in the first chapter of The Wretched of the Corporate State. He is also an opportunist and a time-waster from hell.
Speaking of a time-waster, I will jump ahead to the parts that I can directly address and ignore everything else.
Seen through this lens, the pattern I describe is not accidental: that my attackers are always white men. The repeated appearance of white male attackers is not about individual prejudice but about who feels authorized to discipline dissent.
Look who’s talking! As a person of Persian background, Azal is himself a white man, more closely related to Caucasians like myself and D C Shepard than to most people of African or east Asian descent. This is also true of Arabs, BTW, which is why the leftist trend of equating criticism of Islamism with racism is so incredibly ignorant. It needs to end, forever.
And maybe Azal’s attackers are white men because he BEFRIENDS only them thus showing his own racial biases. I’ve never seen him involved on any level with men of color….hypocrite much?
Then Azal goes after Unitarian Universalism…..MY RELIGION!
A further structural layer worth naming is the recurring association of these actors with Unitarian Universalism, an affiliation that is not incidental but philosophically consequential. UU has long positioned itself as the ethical vanguard of liberal modernity: anti-dogmatic, pluralist, inclusive, and post-theological. Yet this very posture has made it a particularly effective carrier of what Mills would call the racial contract in moral form—a space where white liberal reason presents itself as universal conscience.
Azal then goes to attack UU’s liberal, anti-dogmatic stance, using the kind of absurd language I would expect from a religious fundamentalist right-wing BIGOT.
As a narcissist much like Donald Trump, Azal clearly has an authoritarian mindset; great for cult leaders, terrible for anyone who is not easily seduced to join his Bayani/Marxist cult.
Azal also cites Joseph Massad, which is pointless because I already know what a lunatic Massad is. To paraphrase an old saying….
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