Posted on 01/18/2026 4:35:50 AM PST by MtnClimber
Events in Europe, the Middle East, and here are moving so quickly, it seems that decades of deceit, corruption, and just plain stupidity are nearing their end sooner than we could have imagined. Here’s a sample of the tremors this week which promise to undo the near past.
Iran
Credible reports indicate 23,000 civilians have been murdered by the mullahs’ forces, and videos (again made public due to the extraordinary efforts of Elon Musk’s teams to work around the mullah's blackouts) reveal incredible brutality. Corpses with catheters and heart monitors still attached support accounts of persons being snatched from hospitals and left to die of untreated bullet wounds. A major bazaar was set on fire and those who sought escape from the flames were machine-gunned.
Khalid Umar reflects on the protest culture’s silence.
No “Free Iran.”
No marches.
No slogans.
The absence is not accidental. It is revealing.
SELECTIVE MORALITY, PERFECTED
The modern protest industry is not driven by universal ethics. It is driven by alignment. Iran does not fit the approved script of oppression -- because condemning Tehran would mean indicting the very ideological ecosystem that has been protected, rationalised, and indirectly funded for decades.
Iran is not an inconvenience.
Iran is the source.
Only the U.S. and Israel have come to the aid of the suffering Iranians, he notes, and explains in detail why “there are no emergency UN sessions, no campus occupations, no celebrity tears.” It is, he argues, because Islam is killing Muslims, and neither Islamophobia nor colonialism, nor the Jews, nor, indeed, any outside force can be blamed.
THE UMMAH IN COGNITIVE SHOCK
Sunni and Shia alike stand frozen.
Voiceless & Paralysed.
There is no script for this moment. No victim card to play. No external enemy to blame. Iran has ripped the mask off political
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Yep.
Clarice Feldman bump!
Worldwide run-down.
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Voiceless & Paralysed.
There is no script for this moment. No victim card to play. No external enemy to blame. Iran has ripped the mask off political Islam from the inside and the Ummah does not know how to respond. Soulless men walking. Living ghosts.
A CIVILISATIONAL RUPTURE
An entire nation — larger than the UK, Germany, France, and Spain combined — is attempting something unprecedented: abandoning a theocratic death cult en masse.
After fifty years of enforced darkness, Iranians are not reforming Islam.
They are rejecting it. They are leaving it. Telling Islam can’t be reformed; it can only be banished.
This is not a protest. It is a declaration of freedom.
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