I remember thirty years ago, when all the Democrats who’d backed the wrong side in the Cold War got very, very quiet when the crimes of the Soviets over the previous seven decades became too clear to miss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They ducked, weaved and deflected – but they ultimately got quiet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we speak, Iranian police and “Basij<\/em>” – the Iranian version of Brownshirts, ZOMO or government-sanctioned “Anti”-Fa – are gassing, beating and shooting people protesting the death of a woman who was beaten to death, not for not wearing a hijab, but for not wearing it right. <\/em>Up to 400 have died, and the demonstrations – which the Biden Administration hasn’t thrown under the bus quite <\/em>yet – aren’t slowing down yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Seeing how the most stridently Muslim members of the Democrat Party, and 3\/5 of “The Squad”, are doing exactly the same thing re Iran<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is obscene that the Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar have failed to say anything about these brave Iranian women, let alone offer their moral support.<\/p> Sarsour and Omar continue to glorify their wearing of hijab as a protest against white racism and alleged “Islamophobia.”<\/p> U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib posted a statement Sept. 23\u00a0expressing solidarity<\/a>\u00a0with the protesters “as they fight for a woman’s right to bodily autonomy and against police brutality in the wake of the horrifying murder of\u00a0#MahsaAmini<\/a>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I’m so looking forward to sitting on the right side of history and heckling Omar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I remember thirty years ago, when all the Democrats who’d backed the wrong side in the Cold War got very, very quiet when the crimes of the Soviets over the previous seven decades became too clear to miss. They ducked, weaved and deflected – but they ultimately got quiet. As we speak, Iranian police and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83498,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83497\/revisions\/83498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}