Iranian protesters are showing courage in the face of tyranny — but Israel-obsessed liberals don’t seem to care

As the Iranian uprising continues to escalate, it’s been reported that hundreds of protesters have been killed by the regime’s security forces.

The internet, phone signals and lighting have been cut, and it’s feared the killings are intensifying behind the blackout.

Yet the Iranian people have increasingly poured onto the streets to confront the regime’s murder and torture squads. There’s never been such a mass display of raw courage in the teeth of such vicious repression.

If the regime does fall, this will be a seismic event, reshaping the region and world politics. The insurrection might be the most consequential global event so far this century. Yet from Western liberals, there’s been little more than pursed lips.

There have been no demonstrations in support of the embattled protesters. People who screamed falsehoods about Israel’s “massacres” of women and children in Gaza have been struck totally dumb about the carnage of civilians being deliberately wrought in Iran.

Most Western media initially ignored the Iranian insurrection, then downplayed it as mere “cost of living” protests, and then began to amplify regime propaganda claims.

Uprising

The reason is that the uprising is not just against the regime but against the repressive tyranny of Islam itself. This is intolerable to Western liberals, because it gets in the way of their fixed narrative that, when Islamists commit mass murder against the innocent, it’s justified resistance against Western-backed imperialism.

Such liberals simply cannot acknowledge the reality of Islamic terrorism and repression.

Their belief that the Israelis and Western imperialism are always the villains, and Muslims are always their victims, is essential to their self-image as morally virtuous people.

It may sound incredible, but Islam has become synonymous with conscience itself among Western progressives.

This is because the Palestinian cause has become their signature motif.

The Palestinians are viewed as the ultimate oppressed people, dispossessed of their rightful inheritance and victims of Israeli “genocide,” “apartheid” and war crimes in Gaza.

Every part of that is a lie. But among liberals it’s an article of faith.

So they’ve failed to grasp how this cause has been leveraged by the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood bent upon the conquest of the West. This is particularly true of Qatar, which has patiently spread its influence throughout Western universities and even bought up various Western media personalities.

The Palestinian cause has embedded into the Western mind the inversion of truth and lies, victim and aggressor, justice and tyranny, which is a hallmark of the Islamic world and has found such fertile ground in the post-truth, post-moral Western intelligentsia.

So the keffiyeh-clad classes have been cementing Islamic control over Western streets and public space.

In Britain this is far advanced, with the Labour government under Keir Starmer refusing to outlaw genetically damaging Muslim cousin marriage and dragging its heels over dealing with the mainly Muslim rape and grooming gangs.

The police in Birmingham are so under the thumb of local Islamists that they banned and defamed Israeli football fans for allegedly posing a threat to the city’s Muslims, who in fact posed a threat to them.

In America, this insidious process is also making inroads, particularly in New York where the Islamist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has issued only a belated and half-hearted criticism of the intimidatory Hamas chants outside a Queens synagogue last Thursday night.

This steady Islamist encroachment into Britain and America has been made possible by the connivance of liberals who believe the Muslim world is the historic victim of the West.

When the mullahs came to power in Iran in 1979, those liberals cheered what they viewed as a revolution against US-backed repression by the shah.

Ever since, they’ve ignored the Islamic regime’s hanging of gay people and dissidents from cranes, its murder of young women for exposing too much of their hair, and the global terrorism of its self-declared war on the free world.

Pray for victory

They have instead marched shoulder to shoulder with Islamists in a common cause against Israel and America.

In fact, the Islamic holy war against the West was itself detonated by the 1979 Iranian revolution. Those Shia clerics electrified the entire Muslim world by being seen to have created in Iran an Islamic caliphate. This galvanized Sunni Muslims to believe that they could bring this off elsewhere.

That belief was given rocket fuel by the Hamas-led onslaught against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Yet that resulted in Israel’s decimation of Hezbollah, its destruction of Iranian air defenses and America’s final eradication of Iran’s nuclear program.

This severe weakening of the feared regime led directly to the popular uprising which could now finally bring it down.

If that happens, it will be a blow to Islamists around the world and a powerful move towards peace and freedom. No wonder those who are anti-America, anti-West and anti-Jew are so aghast. But all decent people should pray that the heroic Iranian protesters achieve their victory over a scourge that menaces the entire world.