Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stomstreet.

Today on Breakpoint, Apologist Abdou Murray, author of the new book, Fake ID, describes how

the war in Iran has exposed two blind spots, one diplomatic, one technological, but both share a common route.

Here's Abdou Murray.

On February 28, 26, the first day of U.S. Israeli strikes on Iran, a Tomahawk cruise missile

hit the Shajara-Tayaba Girls Elementary School in Minab, killing at least 165 people.

Most of them were girls between the ages of 7 and 12. Ironically, women and girls spearheaded Iran's most significant recent

uprisings, and the regime killed thousands in response. Now, in the effort to strike that

regime, it was girls in a classroom who paid the price.

Not deliberately, but tragically.

The regime denies its women dignity.

The fog of war, made foggier by automation, did the same.

As a former Shiite Muslim, I understand the weight these deaths carry in the souls of Tehran's

hardliners.

I fear our leader's ignorance of that weight fosters a critical misunderstanding of how and when this

conflict might end.

In 680 AD, Hussein, Muhammad's grandson, and the third Shiite Imam chose death for himself

and his family over submission to the unjust Umayyad Caliph Yazid at the Battle of Karbalah.

For Shiites, this isn't ancient history. It's a living moral code. Suffering at the hands of a vastly

superior force doesn't signal defeat. It confirms righteousness. This is why some Shiite Muslims

self-flagellate during Ashura, drawing blood in visceral identification with Hussein's sacrifice.

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