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Source: https://spectator.com/article/irans-uprising-and-the-moral-bewilderment-of-western-youth/
Iran's Uprising and the Moral Bewilderment of Western Youth
(Spectator-UK) Brendan O'Neill - The shameful, tight-lipped caginess of activists in response to the glorious revolt in Iran is more than cowardice - it's pathology. These people are so lost in the maze of moral relativism that they can't bring themselves to criticize an Islamic regime. The sight of young women throwing their hijabs on to open fires is more likely to baffle than excite them. They're so drunk on anti-Westernism that the first calculation they make when a people rises up is: "Will this help or hurt America?" Fearing that the fall of the Islamic Republic would benefit the U.S., they balk at the thronging freedom fighters who are hell-bent on bringing about just such a fall. Hurting the white, privileged, colonialist West matters far more to these fools than freeing Iranians from the bondage of Islamist diktat. The extraordinary valor of the young in Iran has exposed the moral bewilderment of the young in the West. Inculcated with that cruel, truthless idea that "All cultures are equally valid," this new generation is struck dumb by a fiery foreign revolt against an Islamic government. Solidarity struggles to take root in soil defiled by the cult of relativism. We are witnessing one of the most important feminist revolts in history and yet many feminists are silent. Feminists who think being called "sweetheart" is a patriarchal crime seemingly have nothing to say about a staggeringly valiant uprising of women against the crushing of their rights by religious bigots. The revolt in Iran is a world event of extraordinary proportions. If this regime falls - and those of us still in possession of our moral faculties sincerely hope it does - it will prove to be the most consequential event of the 21st century so far. It will ripple far beyond Iran's borders, radically changing the Middle East and the world itself. If the ayatollah classes fall, Hamas and Hizbullah, already battered by the Jewish nation's resistance against their regime of terror, will be starved of resources. Israel will breathe easier. Russia's wings will be clipped as its ally in the Middle East is laid to rest by the very people it oppressed.