No opinion justifies physical violence. It is therefore easy to understand that the attack on Salman Rushdie triggered a wave of outrage.
HYPOCRISY
What is incomprehensible, however, is the hypocrisy of certain pseudo-freedom knights who passionately denounce the fatwa against the writer but remain silent in the face of the almost daily attacks on freedom of expression.
Admittedly, our regime is fortunately out of proportion to the Iranian dictatorship. However, the West also has its right-thinking fundamentalism. It is wokism and its great architects.
Iranians live in a theocracy. We have a “wocracy” in the making with its priests worshiping feelings and emotions and denying biological and scientific evidence.
They have ayatollahs. We have awakened fundamentalists who want to impose their worldview on society as a whole and censor ideas they see as deviant.
They have fatwas. We have the culture of annulment that condemns to instant social and professional death anyone who challenges the ideological ukas of awakened obedience.
You have the deputy police. We have anti-racism “experts”, a kind of speech and thought police, who see “satanic verses” everywhere and practice censorship of words, expressions, books and films.
They have leaders who spread fear. We have intellectual terrorists who use brutal intimidation to enforce their racist policies and privilege system.
You have the Revolutionary Guards. We have a brotherhood of neurotics who cling to “social deconstruction.”
VITRIOL
It is good to take great lyrical flights to denounce the censorship of a distant regime. But becoming aware of the devastating effects of rampant wokism on our own freedom of expression and the organization of our society is better! An exercise in introspection and self-criticism would do us very good.
