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[quote=Anonymous]Where are the protests in the West this time?

“As the people of Iran brave another intensifying crackdown by their rulers after another effort to reclaim their basic rights from one of the world’s most repressive regimes, my question is: Where are the protests in the West? Specifically, where are all those defenders of persecuted Muslims who have been so active on the streets of New York, London, Sydney, Rome and elsewhere the past two years? Where are the demands for justice and freedom for the downtrodden victims of a brutally repressive state?

What is so different about the cause they have been espousing in their demonstrations over Gaza and the cause of the millions of innocent coreligionists 1,000 miles to their east? Those kaffiyeh-wearing, banner-waving, slogan-chanting activists say they were moved to protest, sometimes violently and unlawfully, by the plight of Muslims dispossessed of their lands and livelihoods, immiserated, starved, beaten and murdered by a savage regime.

Over the past two weeks, the clash between good and evil has seemed to be approaching a climax, and the brutality has escalated. Where are the student radicals disrupting classes? We all marveled at Queers for Palestine. Why don’t we have Queers for Iran, a country whose official attitude toward homosexuality is similar to Hamas’s? Where are the movie stars and pop icons with their beautifully produced plangent video pleas for justice? Why haven’t we heard condemnations from Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, or Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, pledging solidarity with the Iranians and demanding the end of the theocratic occupation? Why hasn’t dear little Greta Thunberg gotten herself arrested for passionately supporting the Iranian people against their overlords? Where is the International Criminal Court’s crack team of lawyers to investigate crimes against humanity and issue indictments against Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and Masoud Pezeshkian, the country’s president, as they did for Benjamin Netanyahu?”

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/iran-cracks-down-where-are-the-western-protests-791828d3?st=emDVpS[/quote]

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