Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, dies in police custody three days after her arrest on a hijab infraction. Once again the streets erupt in protest, according to The New York Times, because Iranians have nothing left to lose. It’s not just that “morality police” have killed another young woman, but that she was arrested in the first place. Will the U.S. and her allies respond forcefully this time, or (once again) mumble admonitions as when Neda Soltan was slaughtered on camera in 2009?
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12 replies on “Iranian Martyr: Will U.S. Stand Up After Mahsa Amini Killing, or Repeat Neda Soltan Response?”
A country’s politics are always representative of the morality and ethics of it’s citizens. Given recent presidential administrations that have been duly elected (present company excluded), I am unsurprised that we are not currently standing in support of the Iranian people who are subjugated by the so-called religious leaders. As Jordan Peterson has so eloquently rephrased a biblical parable in one of his 12 rules for life, we must clean our own room before we attempt to point fingers by others for failing to do so.
Martyr to what? Female self serving narcissism? Yeah empowering women has really worked out well for America. Think about that when your Prius gets carjacked by some illegal during your morning drive to drop your tranny kid off at elementary school.
I’m tired of hearing anything out of biden’s mouth, last time he said “it’s just their culture”. By the way, my “pronoun” is Non-bidenary!
Satan’s rule over Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea, is much more obvious than it is over the rest of the world’s nations. Tragically, it is utterly absurd to expect “moral clarity” from the Biden Regime. If not for our late Constitution, “our” scums in Washington, DC, would be doing this to all MAGA supporters. The depth of evil is equal. ONLY the breadth of their ability to implement their tyranny lags… so far.
All over the world since WWII our pro-communist media and State Dept declare imperfect but pro-American governments ‘corrupt’ and bleat about ‘secret police tactics’ and eventually undermine and abandon them only to be replaced by anti- American regimes. China, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam and various central and South American counties. Same technique over and over, right now they hate Orban,Meloni, Bibi etc. , notice the pattern.
Moral clarity begins at home. What should the world make of the fact that American law enforcement officers murdered American citizens protesting their loss of confidence in their election processes? Allow me to defend that question. First, I have no confidence in our election processes. I lived in California for approximately 47 years and watched the the state descend into the tyranny of a one party system culminating in the 2018 midterms when every Congressional seat in South Orange County, a Republican enclave, flipped when truckloads of harvested ballots arrived in the middle of election night. Then, in 2020, I witnessed the election of Joe Biden as the California example was repeated in battleground states. Had I lived closer to Washington, I would have joined the Jan 6 protests. Secondly, I have watched videos of the murders I mentioned. A woman who had attempted to stop protestors from breaking windows separating the crowd from the Speakers Lobby, is pushed through one of them and shot by a police detective who is now proclaimed as a hero by the Jan 6 committee despite the fact that there was no ordinary follow up investigation of the shooting. Where do we now have the right to point fingers at the Iranians?
Democrats have no problems pointing fingers at Iran, but it’s just to point where the pallets of cash to fund their nuclear program are to be dropped off. As for Republicans, you and I seem to be on the same page
Not to make light of this story, but maybe before we worry about how the uncivilized government of Iran treats its people, how about if we investigate the regime that murdered Ashley Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland? Or the regime that has been holding political prisoners for nearly two years now and with guns drawn dragged citizens like Mark Houck out of his home in front of his children?
It’s time we exercised some moral clarity as a nation right now.
Funny, but as I was attempting to post a very similar response, you were able to post yours. Thus, I not only posted mine but up-voted yours.
and in America the “morality” police IN America with drag you to a reeducation camp, jail, for not wearing a seatbelt or having a “drivers” which LEGALLY mean business, license.
It seems as if, at least from the outside, these Muslims are trying to stifle any normal male response to a beautiful woman by hiding their sexuality. Then you get this astonishingly seductive eye makeup from the women as a backlash. Then you add an exposed lock of hair or, Allah forbid!, a visible ankle, and any attempt at resisting the normal male response is hopeless. So, of course, to remain pure of thought, murder is required. FUBAR.
I’ve often thought the same thing, that Muslim men are unable to restrain their own sexual impulses and so to avoid any sort of stimulus they make their women look like sacks of potatoes.
This opinion is reinforced where Muslim men move to western nations and consider any female not disguised as a sack of potatoes as someone begging to be raped. So they rape them. Sweden has found this out the hard way and many western countries are not far behind Sweden in this.
This isn’t a racial thing either. Many different races (Indonesians, Arabs, Persians, Turks etc.) are adherents of Islam. It’s definitely an Islamic thing.
Very ancient religious beliefs take things too far in support of ‘piety’. In the Bible it says not to boil a kid (goat) in its mother’s milk. Orthodox Jews take this to mean that you should never, ever eat any sort of dairy product with the meat of any mammal. It’s OK to have milk or cheese with chicken or fish but not OK to have a cheeseburger or to drink cow’s milk with roast lamb. They adhere to this practice quite strictly among themselves but … They don’t beat people to death for breaking that rule either.
Islam is an example of this sort of thing taken to extreme. The Qur’an actually admonishes BOTH men and women to dress modestly and to be chaste and modest in “gaze, gait, garments and genitalia”. So this sort of persecution of women in and out of Muslim nations is more a matter of exercising control over others than it is actually adherence to the teaching of Islam.
Putting women in burqas and hijabs that completely cover every strand of hair and men not wearing scarves that completely cover their hair are both not technically demanded by the Qur’an. In fact, men who are following the edicts of Islam should be ‘modest in their gaze’ so much that they don’t see something that they might find sexually arousing. Instead any exposed tress or square inch of skin on a female is most definitely something they notice and take action over.
So this is more of a control thing than a legitimate religious thing. As I have often said, Islam is really a political system and the religious aspect is only a beard on the face of the prophet.
OK, now all of that said the reason I point this out in this detail is that not only is this sort of thing not required for strictly religious grounds, the men who practice the persecution up to and including the rape and murder females have no excuse. They are in fact uncivilized animals using religion as an excuse for their barbarism. They should be viewed as such.