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UPDATE 3/7/26: The Leftist females defining themselves as “feminists”  are not merely silent about the unthinkable plight of Iranian women but continue to shriek as one voice in opposition to any disruption of the Iranian regime. Their loyalty to Leftism and its alliance with Islam comes first, and women be damned.

Hanoi Jane’s latest attempt to BE Greta Thunberg as she approaches 90. Admittedly this is AI but rings true anyhow. 

Article by Annabel Denham for the Telegraph. Printed out here in full because there is no page link for non-subscribing Telegraph readers. The brazen hypocrisy of Woke Western Women regarding their Iranian “sisters” is a hallmark of Leftists in general: selective outrage; do as I say, not as I do.

This is why Western feminists are silent about Iran.

Progressive opinion has become obsessed with boardroom quotas and microaggressions – rather than the real oppression visited upon women

As Iranian women tear off their hijabs in the streets, defying a regime that has subjugated and brutalised them for decades, much of the Western progressive commentariat has been out to lunch. Where is the support for their glorious defiance? The Instagram carousels, the breathless declarations of “solidarity” from former Harry Potter stars and pouting influencers?

Iran’s women footballers this week refused to sing their country’s national anthem before an Asia Cup match, an act of dissent broadcast to the world. Footage has emerged of motorcyclists riding through Tehran with banners declaring “we can and we must” [overthrow the regime].

These are not virtue-signalling gestures performed from the safety of Western laptops, but dangerous acts of rebellion against a regime that imprisons and murders its critics. I was going to say “executes”, but that suggests some idea of legality. The death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 – beaten by morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly – sparked nationwide protests that were met with bullets, show trials and strangling from cranes. Not “executions”.

Yet there are few hashtags or flag-waving marches through London to assert sisterhood, no viral campaigns in response to the latest uprising. If ever there was a moment to demonstrate that modern feminism was a global movement committed to women’s liberty, surely this was it. But no. Rather, if ever there was lingering doubt about the moral relativism of Western progressives, this muted-to-non-existent response ought to extinguish it.

There was a time when solidarity was less selective. In March 1979, as Ruhollah Khomeini seized control after the Iranian Revolution, the American feminist Kate Millett travelled to Tehran to protest against the regime’s plan to make the hijab compulsory. She marched beside Iranian women against the tyranny of pitiless old men with beards. The protest failed and Millett was arrested and expelled. It was brave and principled. The litany of oppression that followed entrenched female subordination into law, with limitations on employment and education.

Too many Western feminists seem to have bought into a crude Third Worldist narrative in which the US is the origin of all wickedness, Israel the ultimate villain, and consequently anyone or anything opposed to them must be virtuous. To acknowledge out loud and repeatedly the Islamic Republic’s misogyny, brutality and sponsorship of violence abroad would disturb their belief that all injustice stems from Western imperialism. It would require an acceptance that theocratic regimes are perfectly capable of oppressing women all by themselves.

Feminism in Britain has morphed into a performative preoccupation with boardroom quotas, pay gaps and microaggressions. It’s far easier to harangue white male CEOs than challenge illiberal practices justified in the name of culture, even when they are occurring here in the UK. Awkward questions around women’s autonomy within tightly knit immigrant communities are seldom asked, let alone answered. Female labour market participation is similarly ignored: the worklessness rate for those of Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage is much higher than among white women.

What pressures might these women face around marriage, education or sexual independence? How often are abuses dismissed as cultural sensitivities best left untouched? What are their views on the burka – which has been banned in France, Austria and other European nations? Leftie feminists like to claim wearing them is a choice, almost a symbol of empowerment. But when Iranian women were given the freedom to choose, many opted for miniskirts. What about “honour” killings – that foul oxymoron? These poor women did not “choose” their fate.

As for the rape gangs scandal? This exposed what happened when institutions prioritised the avoidance of inflaming “community tensions” over the protection of vulnerable girls. Preserving multiculturalism became more important than preventing the trafficking of teenagers by gangs of predominantly Pakistani men. Our “safeguarding minister” Jess Phillips initially rejected calls for a national inquiry; deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell once dismissed the scandal as a “dog whistle”.

A similar timidity has characterised discussions about female genital mutilation – not a distant atrocity limited to far-off lands but a form of child abuse committed with apparently increasing frequency in modern Britain. At the start of this year, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service claimed that terminating a pregnancy on grounds of foetal sex is not illegal. The suggestion was that deliberately killing foetuses simply because they are female is just another acceptable “choice”.

And then, last week, the quieter erosion of women’s civic liberties through “family voting” burst into the open at the Gorton and Denton by-election. Men instructing their wives how to vote is illegal, immoral, and an affront to democratic freedom.

The progressive instinct to avoid cultural offence has trumped the need to defend women’s autonomy. It’s easier to rage at the corporate patriarchy – and pretend it can be resolved with fatuous HR “training” and endless guilt-inducing seminars – than admit we have amongst us hundreds of thousands of people that view women as second-class citizens and are often hostile to 21st century notions of equality.

Many of us resist the label of “feminist”. Perhaps we can readopt the term if it ever again means what it’s supposed to.

UPDATE 3/6/26: Prior to Jimmy Carter’s betrayal of the Shah delivering the country to the medieval barbarity of the Ayatollah, Iran was a place an American might feel at home. Apparently, the sophisticated Left (and some surprising figures from the Right) 50 years later thinks Carter did a great thing that mustn’t be undone.

 

UPDATE 2/26/26: Jamie Glazov, long an indispensable part of David Horowitz’ Freedom Center, is the author of “United in Hate,” a clear primer on the natural alliance of the Left with the tyranny and terror of radical Islam. 

UPDATE 1/23/26: Ayaan Hirsi Ali offers a reasonable assessment of who are the bad guys and who are the REALLY BAD guys in this world on the edge. Homegrown Leftists come off as comparatively manageable compared to radical Islam which in its overt savagery has proven to have NO checks on its goals of global conquest.

 

UPDATE 1/15/26: Leftism and radical Islam remain united in their shared hatred of all things Western, principally America and Israel. Nowhere is the core corruption of both ideologies most evident as in the striking disinterest shrieking feminists in free countries have taken regarding the treatment of women in Islamic culture. Wealthy, celebrated females, free to harangue and virtue signal nonstop without consequence, have made no secret of their unjustified outrage about fictional mistreatment in Gaza at the hands of brutal, cruel Israel, yet as Iranian women, routinely tortured and murdered by the Mullahs, are fighting back in Iran, those same loud voices are strangely…silent. Can’t be sympathizing with anyone who might actually support the NON-Leftist way of life enjoyed by Americans and Israelis.

A pair of pampered American girls, bubble-wrapped in chic, fashionable feminism:  Gloria Steinem, shoulder to shoulder with Islamic fanatic Linda Sarsour. The enemy of my enemy (USA, Israel) is my friend. Not a lot to say from either about women dying in Iran or enslaved Muslim women in general. 

UPDATE 11/13/25: Prager U explanation of the natural alliance between the radical Left and radical Islam. In a nutshell, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and the US/Israel/The West is that enemy common to both.

 

UPDATE 11/6/25: As stated repeatedly on this post going back a decade, the blindness of American Jews and garden variety liberals in general to the lethal alliance of Islam & Marxism, now represented by Mamdani’s takeover of our greatest city, is the answer to those waking up in a shocked, dark future asking “But why? How?!!”

No one dares say in 2025 we haven’t been warned by the European examples of London, Paris, Scandinavia, Germany…

UPDATE 11/5/25: It’s bad enough when the Left is given the power to lay waste to formerly great American cities like Detroit and San Francisco. It’s guaranteed suicide when that Leftism is allied with Islam in their shared hatred for all things American/Western. So it seems to be going for our major cities, currently NYC and nearly Minneapolis. NYC is in for a guaranteed ride through hell for the foreseeable future. The good news (who’d have ever dreamed this could ever be “good news) the far Leftist incumbent won in Minneapolis over the Islamic fanatic. Like Wes says, it was a choice between food poisoning and. Ebola.

 

UPDATE 10/10/25: Mamdani’s appeal is a deliberately confusing intersection of secularized Islam with Marxism, the latter being the driving force providing him with the necessary support from Leftists, including clueless Jewish liberals. And regardless of the terrible results, don’t ever expect those of the “educated” classes  to change course. In the absence of traditional Judeo-Christianity,  atheistic Marxism is the religious faith that has taken its place, too deep-seated ever to be unraveled by logic or reality.

UPDATE 9/29/25: It matters little any more the how and why. What is vital now is acknowledgment that undisguised antisemitism has become perfectly acceptable in the educational institutions of the great Western cities, including Brussels. 

Could be America or Europe these days. Note heart-shaped glasses. Can you feel the love? 

UPDATE 6/24/25: A central tenet of both Islamics and Leftism is a hatred of all things Western. Since Sharia is not saleable in the free world, it has cunningly put on a mask of solidarity with all things Woke. We see this in the person of Zohran Mamdani and now can comprehend the perplexing refusal of affluent, White, Western feminists (and their dumb brothers) to condemn Islam, particularly its barbaric treatment of women.

 

UPDATE 2/25/25: The revolution that appears to be taking place with Trump’s restoration happily extends to the Middle East where chances are now better for the one fully civilized nation in the region to live without perpetual fear of being annihilated by a surrounding culture of savagery. Removing terrorism from Gaza and rebuilding it as a Western-friendly society, deemed madness by the TDS crowd, is actually the best and only solution. Those still set on apologizing and running cover for these assassins will despair, but “frankly Margaret, I don’t care.”

Got a better idea?

UPDATE 6/13/24: Restating the obvious: blame for the ongoing, escalating war on Israel and America by radical Islam can easily be placed squarely in the lap of each and every Democratic administration from Carter on, obsessively currying favor with, subsidizing and groveling before Iran. Reagan’s deterring presence immediately sprang the hostages back in 1980, but the Dems insist that the entire Middle East remain locked in the Mullahs’ cages.

UPDATE 5/17/24: The Leftist mob’s seemingly “new” enthusiasm for killing Jews (and Israel in particular) is nothing new at all but just a continuation of that longtime shared antisemitic (and all-encompassing hate-filled) bond between the Left and radical Islam. 

Marx’s Brain Children, his inclusive/diverse Big Terror Tent, certainly including Radical Islam.

UPDATE 2/22/24: The Democrat Party has forged a 21st century Axis of Evil, an alliance of the growing radical pro-Hamas Squad in Congress and those Party “moderates” [from Joe on down) who persist in secretly subverting Israel at every turn.  Quarrel as they might appear to do, this is minor contention between two like-minded predators after the same innocent prey.

UPDATE 12/5/23: Every other day there is a new article on what, to some, seems to be the newly discovered alliance between the Left and radical Islam. It’s no news that Islam has always specifically hated infidels-ALL non-Muslims-but the Left has never discriminated among which group it hates so long as that group functions freely and healthily and, therefore, merits infiltration and destruction. The Left exists to kill all free, healthy life, so joining hands in hatred with Islam has always been a natural.

UPDATE 11/21/23: The natural bond between radical Islam with Leftism comes as news to many, but sharing the same hatred for Western civilization is a natural in this modern age of “intersectionality.”

UPDATE 11/14/23: The Biden administration and those who continue to insist it provides the proper approach to keep America and Israel safe are living under the dangerous delusion that there IS some substitute for victory in this war. For the entire post WWII era, the modern Democrat way of waging half-assed war against a foe that exists entirely to destroy free, peaceable life has yielded only wasted American lives and emboldening of whatever omnipresent evil force exists in the vacuum left by American inaction and indifference. During the 1930s and 40s, ordinary citizens of the Free World were fully aware of the life-and-death threat posed by the Germans and Japanese. Since that decisive, two-front victory, the descendants of those same, sensible ordinary folk have come to believe that the bad guys just went away forever with V-E/V-J Day, determined to ignore the very real combined threat of present-day Communism and Islam. Despite those tens of millions murdered and billions enslaved and even 9/11 over the last century, we are supposed to believe that our greatest concerns now should be “climate change” or “personal pronouns.”

A terrible reckoning is nigh for those stuck on this unsurpassed stupidity, not to mention the rest of sane, sensible society helplessly watching the world going to hell.

The Watermelon has already been the perfect visual description for Green tyranny and now has become as “a symbol of Palestinian resistance.” Why not? The shared hatred of pluralistic, free societies and overall goals of global control are identical. Green outside/Red inside. Perfect.

UPDATE 11/9/23: The Left and Islam’s shared hatred of all things free and healthy explains this philosophical marriage-made-in-hell.

UPDATE 11/1/23: China is yet one more Communist regime forging a kinship with violent, America/Israel-hating Islam. As repeatedly stated and verified by reality, the natural bond there is a shared hatred of all things free and healthy in this world.

UPDATE 10/28/23: The Gaza attack on Israel is just one of a whole history of direct assaults that happens to be the bloodiest thus far. None of it would be possible without the enablement by the American Wokesters, once a fringe influence, now firmly established at the very center of American political power. To the obtuse intellectual, radical Islam and Leftism are considered opposite sides of the political spectrum, but they are in fact joined at the hip by their mutual hatred of freedom, America and Israel specifically.

UPDATE 7/9/23: Explaining the riots in France, you have two blights on society in evidence: socialism and radical Islam. Government handouts as a corrupted way of life and inherent hatred of things Western.  Blending the two, what could possibly go wrong?

UPDATE 4/20/22: Logical the Left that identifies and allies itself with Islam loathes the Jews, so no surprise the NY Times would publish an article on the eve of Passover & Easter proposing the cancellation of God and the Bible.

UPDATE 9/10/21: The admirable, invincibly courageous Ayaan Hirsi Ali restates the obvious regarding the natural alliance of the totalitarian Left with radical Islam.  The devastating Afghan surrender ending in an American rout is the perfect scenario demonstrating how the former continues to give new life to the latter.

UPDATE 6/25/21: An article asks the question, “What do the Cancel Culture and Islamaphobia have in common?” Look no further than the natural alliance between the synergistically compatible tyrannies of the Left and Radical Islam. Some would opine it’s a matter of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” and both hate America, Israel, every incarnation of freedom on this planet with equal intensity.

UPDATE 6/13/21: The romance of the Left with Islamic terrorism and its attendant anti-Semitism is showcasing a new happy alliance: 120 Gender Studies departments have come out for Hamas in their war of annihilation on Israel! Any objection from these “Gender Warriors” to the systemic Islamic subjugation and enslavement of women? Nah. Details. Hating Israel (and its penchant for freedom over “equity”) comes first.

UPDATE 5/29/21: To understand the life-and-death politics of the world’s two freest, most productive nations, look no further than the  BLM/Hamas/PLO axis of evil. In both theory and practice, these poisonous entities are natural allies, counterparts of one another in their respective wars on America and Israel. The last century’s bloody history provides a precedent with the Hitler-Stalin pact. How much damage these evildoers accomplish in mutual support and how long they last before they turn on one another remains to be seen.

A good start in fighting them is recognizing the self-hating traitors within Israel & America enabling their lethal mischief. In America’s case, it’s today’s anti-Semitic Congressional Squad now calling the tune to which nice ol’ Joe and his whole Party is currently dancing. Less obvious and more disturbing is the blind following of mainstream Democrats down whatever evil path their mad leadership takes them. Democratic Party loyalists righteously think of themselves, after all, as the Party of FDR and JFK, Hubert Humphrey, social consciousness and all-round, big-hearted niceness.

Why does hearing their “moderate” figurehead praise and pander to a sworn anti-Semite NOT give them doubt or pause? To quote our discerning Puppet Prez  addressing Congress’ vicious anti-Semite Rashida Tlaib directly, “I admire your intellect, I admire your passion, and I admire your concern for so many other people…”

Is there something confusing here? The sudden nationwide physical assaults on Jews in our major cities coincides with Biden’s destruction of Trump’s solid peacemaking progress in the Middle East. Is it stretching the point to think that hating Israel goes hand in hand with hating Jews?

Anyone with a pulse and little in common with sociopaths would be wise to cut through the fog surrounding the phony narrative [Settlements!! Colonialism!! Apartheid!!]  of these vocal Israel haters in Congress and recognize their indifference and deliberate denial of the atrocities of Hamas and the Palestinian terrorists against not only Israelis but against their own people.  Don’t take my partisan word for it. Ask an Israeli Arab unimpressed with Tlaib’s “intellect” and more clued-in to the lies and hypocrisy surrounding her projection of Hamas atrocities onto Israel.

Sound familiar? Think BLM and its Democratic Party enablers projecting their own created & perpetuated Inner City crime and poverty onto “White Supremacy,” law enforcement in particular. It’s Israel’s fault over there; in America it’s “systemic racism.”

The evil Unholy Alliance viewed through an Orwellian lens as “freedom fighters” continues to obscure the origins  and motives for manufactured chaos here and abroad. Hooray! Antisemitism is back in all its genocidal glory, and many of its most prominent enablers and advocates are Jews, not to mention ALL those blind mainstream Democrats with very few exceptions who just won’t admit their Party has literally gone to the devil.

We approach a point of no return for both America and Israel. Unlike Jews fleeing Europe either for America or Israel in the last century, there is no longer anywhere else to go. It is fight or perish.  

ORIGINAL POST 12/13/15: The contradictions of Liberal/Left/Progressives apologizing, capitulating, even championing Islam are utterly lost on them. One needn’t waste good breath pointing out how none of them could tolerate life under Sharia’s restrictions for 5 minutes. Apparently their shared hatred for America, the West, Judaeo-Christianity and anything civilized in this world overrides all else, even their own survival. For example, take Barack Obama. Please.