In Shia Islam, the hidden imam is predicted to reappear in Mecca and herald a new dawn of justice after the world has been torn asunder by violence and oppression.
And perhaps most importantly of all, this argument fails to see the links between these different forms of oppression and violence.
It's not just physical violence, it's psychological oppression and control, too.
It deals with the sense of oppression of living with a overprotective single mum, as evidenced by the lines quoted by jforbes: "Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true / Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you".
Nationalists believe it is a site of centuries of oppression - including the massacre of unarmed civil rights protesters by British paratroopers during Bloody Sunday.
"The world simply could not believe the pyramids were build without oppression and forced labour, but out of loyalty to the pharaohs".
In the spring of 2011, while other Tahrir protesters showered Scaf with praise, Seif led calls against the military's emergent oppression, in particular against the trial of civilians in military courts.
Joining together to offer support and advice in the face of oppression is a powerful act of resistance.
After colonisation, after European theft, after forms of state-created horror, it promised a world free from state oppression.
Morsi supporters detest the field marshal for presiding over a campaign of oppression that has seen over a thousand Morsi supporters killed, and thousands more arrested.
When we hear today's politicians offering us a choice between liberal freedom and fundamentalist oppression, and triumphantly asking the rhetorical question, "Do you want women to be excluded from public life and deprived of their rights?
