The West has betrayed the women of Iran

The unwillingness of our self-styled social-justice elites to grapple with the horrors in Iran was summed up in the fact that England’s footballers kept on taking the knee, in the post-Floyd BLM fashion, while uttering not a word about the murder of women in Iran for the sin of wanting to show their hair. Have you ever witnessed such moral emaciation as when the England team took the knee in November 2022 while playing Iran? There they were genuflecting against police brutality in the US while staying shamefully silent about police brutality in Iran.

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Well, they wouldn’t want to be branded phobic, would they? This was the root of the silence about the Iranian rebellion – a fear of being thought a bigot, a blasphemer, one of those wicked ones who says untoward things about Islam. Kids in the West are educated from an early age that one only marvels at Islam, never dishonours it. British schoolchildren get ‘Islamophobia awareness’ training. They understand early on that severe punishment awaits those who express profane thoughts about this religion. You can be suspended from your job, like the celebrated gymnast, Louis Smith, or blacklisted from university campuses, like Richard Dawkins and Maryam Namazie.

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