Tahmineh Dehbozorgi, a lawyer based in D.C., provides a very inciteful analysis of the ignorance of the western chattering classes concerning what appears to be a genuine popular revolution in Iran, destroying their perception of Islam to boot.
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… https://t.co/4G0UEvL0YO
— Tahmineh Dehbozorgi (@DeTahmineh) January 9, 2026
One part I particularly wanted to emphasize:
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.
the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself
ReplyDeleteWell now, maybe the grass is finally kicking out the snakes!
**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.**
ReplyDeleteHow do they explain all those white Muslims in places like Bosnia and Kosovo?
Western liberal media: "Meh. We just make 'em honorary brown people".
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