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Maybe Halo 2 story was written to be a parody to what happened in Iran nowadays. Here is why:
I just played Halo 2 today, and saw how the creators set the Covenant in the very piety position; their faith have lot of similarity to that of Iranian leaders (and big parts of the nation)!!
The Iranian people split to two parts:
One believes in Islam rules and its priests, and trying to explain everything using the Koran. Ali Khamenei, the chief leader is from that kind.
The Second part, are “secret religious sects” (the leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is part of them). They believe that no one can really understand the Koran, and that just the Ma’hadi will bring peacefulness to the world…
The two kinds are friends not because they like each other, but because they have a “great journey” to do together: to defeat the “small demon” (Israel) and the “big demon” (US), not the Chief. For both groups this will implement Jihad and will bring the 12th Imam, it will (as believed) lead to ideal perfection world… For the first group the world will stay with its priests, and for the second new understanding of the Koran by the Ma’hadi will bring utopia. Both of them are promising to their followers: suffer now, pay your money to accomplish the nuclear program and funding terror, and you will get the big praise and honor when the journey will accomplish.
It is s-o-o similar to the Covenant belief! They also believe in a journey against the humans-> killing all of them and activating Halo will bring the best goodness. The Covenant just don’t know that this journey, will wipe any living creature form the galaxy. In surprising comparison, the Iranians say that they have to produce a super nuclear weapon to kill the forfeit Israelis-> they just don’t know that after killing Israel’s civilians they will also get killed by Israel attack (if anyone will stay there to push the buttons) or US attack, so what theyare so trying to do, is the worst thing for them.
The “arbiter” in H2 is very similar to the Shahid in the Islamic world, as it is a underdog that do the unskilled labor for the priests and for that he’ll get a super honor in the next world… The priests and the leaders (-Brutes and prophets in H2) are not going to do the job by themself, rather they promise things to poor followers. If these followers can see the lie they’ll want to rebel: this part didn’t happened in the real world (because the priests uses the frustration of the crowd against their secular leaders), but the story wanted to show this point.
I think that the story writers learn the Islamic faith and wanted to touch the point with their point of view.
Did anyone saw this also?