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How do you feel about this woman?

Today, I take to the streets. I have no fear, no worries. I want my right.” Those were Mehdi Zatparvar’s last words on his instagram, and yesterday the Islamic Republic answered those words with bullets. They killed a world-champion athlete for demanding something simple: his right to live with dignity. This is how the regime responds to courage. This is why Iranians are in the streets. Here is Mehdi with his mother. Look at them. Remember them. This crime must not be buried in silence. 💔

Bill Clinton: “Palestinians were offered a state on the entire West Bank and east Jerusalem as its capital. Israel accepted, but Palestinians refused. They did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. All they wanted was to kill Israelis" This must be shared every day.

@DeTahmineh ❤️💪🏼🙏🏽❤️

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world. Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime. Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it. Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine. This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased. By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely. There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues. As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises. Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically. This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language. Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape. That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored. So the silence continues.

@realMaalouf ❤️🙏🏽💪🏼❤️

We are witnessing one of the biggest feminist revolutions in history, and for some reason, Western feminists are completely silent.

If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies.

@VividProwess 💔💔🙏🏽

Heartbreaking 💔 Elkana, who was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza for more than two years, visited the Nova music festival memorial and saw photos of his friends who were murdered on October 7. He broke into tears.

@ldkop @realMaalouf Genius 🤣🤣

@realMaalouf I can’t believe McDonald’s murdered Mr. FAFO!

Palestinian activists are very angry and say that if you don’t boycott these brands, you will be punished by Allah. What do you think?

@realMaalouf They are quite subjective; it is evident that they do not mention the following things: GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, discovery of DNA, The Theory of Relativity (Einstein); jeans, whats app, pacemaker, defibrillator and much more

@DalesGeert63675 @NOS Handen af van Maduro?! Wie gilt en protesteert er voor handen af van de gewone bevolking aldaar die gemarteld en vermoord worden in Venezuela? En dan hebben we het nog niet eens over Iran!

We weten dat @NOS Journaal een links propagandakanaal is. Toch is het verbijsterend dat het opent met een marginale anti-Trump optocht van een stel irrelevante linkstypes in Amsterdam en de massale vreugdeuitbarstingen van Venezolanen over de hele wereld geen enkele aandacht krijgt.

@Youssef719950 @Symphony_res Iedereen die hard werkt ?! Complete naïviteit evident geen realistische stelling

@TjardaTes @Symphony_res Bijna iedere mens is een gelukzoekers. Wie zoekt er nou geen geluk? Ik zei " iedereen die hard werkt" kan een huis vinden. Niet van vandaag op morgen. Je moet er wel naar toe werken.

Deze vrouw benoemt simpelweg de werkelijkheid. Dat is geen racisme, dat is realiteitszin. De wereld lijkt soms volledig op z’n kop te staan.

@NoaMagid 🙏🏽💔🙏🏽

The body of Charlotte Needham, the 15-year-old Israeli who went missing after the deadly New Year’s Eve bar fire in Crans-Montana, has been identified. May her memory be a blessing🕯️

@Youssef719950 @Symphony_res Goed dat u het woord asielzoekers schrijft…. Merendeel is voortaan gelukzoekers en nee niet iedereen kan een huis “vinden”

Domrechts lult maar door. Het lult zoveel, dat er niemand iets van aantrekt. En maar zeiken over asielzoekers, omdat ze zelf te lui zijn om iets van hun leven te maken. Zeiken over 7 euro zakgeld per week wat een asielzoeker krijgt, maar zelf de hele uitkering aan sjek uitgeven uit Luxemburg of Duitsland. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Iedereen die hard werkt in Nederland kan prima leven, kan een huis vinden en kan doen en laten wat zijn of haar hartje begeert.

@RJKonrad Deze mevrouw snapt het niet ! Een AZC is voor asielzoekers ! Niet voor gelukzoekers ….. en merendeel zijn het de kanspareltjes ….. heeft niets met haat te maken; alles met waarden /normen cultuur en mentaliteit . Net zoals de media nagenoeg niets vermeld over Iran …

Deze mevrouw heeft helemaal gelijk:

Ik ga de column van @nausicaamarbe nogmaals posten. Zo steengoed! Leest deze allen!! Verplchte kost voor mijn volgers.

@EgbertEgberts64 @HammersteinO @nausicaamarbe Ogenschijnlijk ook nog een 7de en 8ste keer nodig 🙏🏽💪🏼

@HammersteinO @nausicaamarbe Dit is al de zesde keer, Ossie? Aan het dementeren?

@Marianasoux Ongelooflijk ……@POL_OostBrabant duidelijk zichtbaar en duidelijk zonder enige reden wordt een man mishandeld ! Daar gaan jullie toch zeker wat aan doen ?! Of moeten er eerst doden vallen ……

Wie zei er ook weer dat er vrijheid van religie was in NL? Moslim probeert de man agressief te stoppen...

Nieuws Flash: Troepen van de Islamitische Republiek openen het vuur op Iraniërs die massaal de straat op gaan tegen het regime. Sander Schimmelpenninck? Stil. Rutger Bregman? Stil. Asha ten Broeke? Stil. Sylvana Simons? Stil. Tim Hofman? Stil. Jesse Klaver? Stil. Marijnissen? Stil. Arjen Lubach? Stil. Eva Jinek? Stil. Sinan Can? Stil. Clarice Gargard? Stil. Nazmiye Oral? Stil. Gijs Rademaker? Stil. Hasna El Maroudi? Stil. Abdelkader Benali? Stil. De Nederlandse media? Overwegend stil. Geen trending hashtags. Geen morele verontwaardiging. Geen college over mensenrechten. Want Iraniërs die opstaan tegen een theocratische dictatuur passen niet lekker in het vertrouwde linkse frame. Dit is geen toeval en geen onwetendheid. Dit is selectieve morele verontwaardiging. En stilte is een keuze.

An Arab man from Saudi Arabia in a message to Palestinians: "Who are you trying to fool? You have no land and no case. This land belongs to Israel for the people of Israel. You Palestinians are evil in any country you set foot on!" This must be shared every single week.

@MichaelVis_ Nederland wordt steeds mooier en inclusiever 🙈

Syrische AZC-jeugd bij vuurwerkshow Rotterdam gisternacht. Tweede van links is vast aardappelschilhobbyist.