London is finally about to show its support for a free Iran |
Over the years, on the streets of London, I have heard so much praise for the Iranian regime and its brutish proxies. I’ve seen witless radicals cry: ‘We are all Hezbollah!’ I’ve seen leftists cheer the Houthis, that avowedly anti-Semitic army that does the mullahs’ bidding in Yemen. I’ve seen Islamists with placards featuring the face of Ayatollah Khamenei, praising him for being ‘on the right side of history’, as if he were some kind of god rather than a ruthless religious dictator.
There is a silent majority here that is sickened by Islamist tyranny. On Sunday, that silent majority will make some noise
Every time, I have felt mortified. Mortified that my city, this great, sprawling, modern metropolis, could be stained by such sick love for Islamist tyrants. Mortified that leftists who call themselves anti-racist are happy to laud an expressly racist movement like the Houthis, whose flag is emblazoned with the words ‘Curse on the Jews’. Mortified to see privileged genderfluid kids calling Hamas’s violence ‘resistance’, when Hamas would hurl them off the top of a tall building without a second thought.
But mostly mortified at how treacherous this must all seem to Iranians who long for liberty. There they are, sporadically rising up against their oppressors, only to look to London........