FATAH: Why weren't Canada's feminists and leftists at the big Iran protest? Via TarekFatah
The protests followed the death in custody of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, who was visiting Tehran with her brother. As Mahsa and her brother emerged on a Tehran subway platform, she was immediately arrested by a squad of Iran’s notorious “morality police,” whose job is to ensure all women are wearing a compulsory hijab and ‘proper’ body-length black attire that reveals no skin other than the face and hands of a woman.
None of the ayatollahs who have ruled the land they inherited from Cyrus and Darius can come close to even the shadows of Iran’s past glory. And when the people rose against the Shah, it was an Air France jet that flew Ayatollah Khomeini to Tehran to take over the leadership of the 1979 uprising that had been led by the Left in Iran, comprising the Tudeh Party and other socialist groups in Iran as well as nationalists in the regions of Kurdistan and Balochistan.
Not one was in sight. Did Jagmeet Singh and his comrades fear being labelled ‘Islamophobic’ for standing with Canadians protesting an Islamic regime? After all, the party of Ed Broadbent, Tommy Douglas, Alexa McDonough, and Audrey McLaughlin is today run by an orthodox religious Sikh who will be best remembered for propping up Justin Trudeau as our prime minister and promoting the division of India over Khalistan.
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