ELSEWHERE I HAD THAT argument made to me, that as a Gay man I'd be hanged in Iran. So, I take it the implicit argument in that is that the Israeli-American war on Iran is being done for the rights of LGBTQ+ People. I think it was Vijay Prashad who answered the similar implication that the war against Iran and, by implication, the genocide against the Palestinians was justified because Women were required to wear hijab. He pointed out that those very Women were being killed by Israel in its genocide and would be murdered by Israel and the U.S. in an attack on Iran.
Prashad's criticism of the arrogance of those who claim the superiority of "Western civilization" when it is a major source of the racist violence in the world is certainly worthy of universal discussion but, of course, in the "free press" of the west such points will never be permitted more than the most marginal of dissemination and discussion, not even the kind of rigged Bill Maher - Piers Morgan style of pseudo discussion that even such forbidden ideas are given in the "civilized west."
A gay Iranian or Palestinian man who is murdered by an Israeli or American bomb or by an American soldier is as dead as a gay Iranian or Palestinian man murdered by the Iranian regime or under the rule of Hamas. Only I'll bet that a lot more end up dead by the hand of "western civilization" than by the Islamic republic or under Hamas.
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