When was the last time you saw leftists in or out of the United States marching against the ultra-repressiveness of Islamic governments such as (but not in any way restricted to) Iran – particularly in how they treat women?
I apologize for the mistake in my previous question. More accurately, it should have started “when was the first time…”.
Maybe it’s just me, but I find that It rarely happens.
There is no shortage of causes that the POPPOs (Professionally Oppressed, Perpetually Pissed Off) crowd marches against, including almost anything that seems to work for western civilization – capitalism in particular. But Islam? To the left, governments that operate even within sharia law seem to be a protected species.
In that connection, David Harsanyi has just published an excellent, highly insightful article describing and explaining this aberration. Here is how it begins:
The left’s silence on Iran isn’t hypocrisy, it’s consistency
When college students returned from winter break last week, they didn’t find a single encampment supporting the Iranian uprising against one of the world’s most brutal regimes. Not one Keffiyeh-clad Hamas booster had a word to spare for thousands of unarmed protesters gunned down or arrested by the totalitarian state.
There are no flotillas on the way to save Iran, either. No Soros-funded “democracy” groups pressuring Western governments to intervene on behalf of civilians who are being arrested and murdered. No astroturfing movement demanding economic boycotts.
Nor are there any emergency meetings or condemnations from the United Nations. Member states were busy denouncing the United States for removing Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro and Israel for its recognition of Somaliland. The more people might be free, the more the U.N. is distressed.
Outlets such as BBC, which spread virtually every fictitious claim about the Gaza “genocide” and “famine” that was handed to them by Hamas propagandists, could barely spare a segment for the widespread protests in Iran. When the network finally got around to covering the uprising, it framed the story with accusations from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian “Supreme Leader,” that the protesters were nothing more than “vandals” trying to “please” President Donald Trump. American media was barely any better.
A year ago, Mark Ruffalo, Billie Eilish, Guy Pearce, and scores of other moral ignoramuses, were seen wearing red and orange pins featuring a hand around a black heart symbol — referencing a Ramallah lynching of two Israeli reservists in 2000 who drove down the wrong street and were literally torn apart by a Palestinian mob. One of the murderers deliriously displayed his blood-soaked hands from the window to a cheering throng.
This year, the Golden Globes didn’t feature a single celebrity championing the Iranian people.
All the silence is revealing. Not because it’s hypocrisy. It isn’t. It expresses a consistent political position. The progressive Left and Woke Right are on the side of the mullahs. There are many reasons for it.
If you are interested in the “many reasons” that the left seems to have no problem with the murderous mullahs of Iran, I urge you to use the link I’ve provided – here it is again – and read the rest of Mr. Harsanyi’s commentary. It is very, very well worth your while.
Then, please, reflect on how completely so many of our mainstream media aid and abet the left in this aberrent, (if you ask me) insane behavior. And marvel at their seeming obliviousness to the fact that, if these people were to take over, freedom of the press – freedom to publish any material without their full approval – would be among the first things to go.
