The widespread protests featuring antisemitism, violence, and pro-terrorist rhetoric on American college campuses have raised alarm in the past week. Hundreds of Pro-Hamas protestors have been arrested as encampments continue to spread like a virus through universities, leaving Jewish students unsafe to pursue their educations.
These occurrences are disturbing, but they are also vastly disconnected from the ongoing realities of Sharia law and the Iranian regime that backs Hamas in Gaza. The progressive American students are quiet on the civil rights issues of the day, or of the millennia, in Iran.
Elica Le Bon, a self-described "Daughter of Iran," released a video speaking in defense of Israel and the Israeli people against the attacks waged against them by the Islamic Republic. In the video, Le Bon asks Iranian-regime sympathizers very important questions:
When we were screaming for the past two years that they were lynching us, where were you? When we were screaming that they were killing Iranian women for not wearing a hijab, where were you? When they were lynching Iranian men from cranes for protesting, where were you?
Le Bon is speaking of protests that erupted in Iran after the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who was murdered in police custody after allegedly wearing an "improper" hijab.
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Two years ago, I was hearing the cries from civilians in Iran and can say that I often posted on the internet in support of Iranian protestors, as they faced executions.
For example, I spoke out about a teenager executed by the Iranian regime for online protest activities:
#SoheilKoshdel is a 17 year old Iranian sentenced to death by hanging for “wars against God” (regime sees themselves as deity) for online activism during protests. Coerced confession after inhumane treatment.
— BrutalBrittany💕 (@BrutalBrittany2) November 29, 2022
Iran plays USA in soccer tomorrow please tweet #StopExecutionsInIran
But, that wasn't my first rodeo, either. In 2020, I faced a suspension and potential ban from X, then Twitter 1.0:
I’m back! Decided to give into Twitter’s blatantly punitive tactics they deployed against me to protect Tehran Rose from my words about the realities of Iran’s oppressive policies. I was urged to drop my appeal so I could come out & play in twitterverse. Thanks for that, friend!
I’m back! Decided to give into Twitter’s blatantly punitive tactics they deployed against me to protect Tehran Rose from my words about the realities of Iran’s oppressive policies. I was urged to drop my appeal so I could come out & play in twitterverse. Thanks for that, friend!
— BrutalBrittany💕 (@BrutalBrittany2) January 10, 2020
Nearing four and a half years later, I think it's a fair question to ask our college students "Where have you been?" in the face of Iranian human rights violations, oppression and slaying of women, and atrocities against demonstrators? While they occupy our campuses spouting rhetoric in support of extremist ideology, Iran isn't done executing civilians who protest.
On Wednesday, an Iranian rap music artist was sentenced to death, according to his lawyer. Toomaj Salehi used his music to support the 2022 protests.
Salehi was first arrested in October 2022 after making public statements in support of the protests. In July 2023, he was sentenced to six years and three months in prison after avoiding a death sentence due to an Iranian Supreme Court ruling. Following this sentencing, he was released on bail in November but rearrested a few days later because Salehi had posted a video claiming to have been tortured.
The new charges included sharing "false claims without evidence." The charges Salehi has been found guilty of include several counts of corruption on earth, "Baghi" (armed rebellion), assembly and collusion, propaganda against the ruling establishment, and inciting riot.
On Thursday, journalist Samira Mohyeddin shared a video on social media of Salei recounting his torture, writing:
'I was tortured a lot. They broke my arms & legs. I was injected with adrenaline, so I don’t pass out from the torture.'
Death sentence given to Toomaj Salehi is because he said what was done to him. Regime in Iran depends upon silence; he didn’t give them that.
#توماج_صالحى
— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) April 25, 2024
“I was tortured a lot. They broke my arms & legs. I was injected with adrenaline, so I don’t pass out from the torture.”
Death sentence given to Toomaj Salehi is because he said what was done to him. Regime in Iran depends upon silence; he didn’t give them that. pic.twitter.com/ZjfPqmXV2B
Salehi's lawyer will be appealing the death sentence within the required 20 days to do so.
It may be the height of virtue signaling to play dress up and pretend to be oppressed on the campuses of the most elite American universities while overlooking the grave human rights violations that Iran imposes on its own protestors.
Democrat Congresswoman from Minnesota Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, claims that her suspension from Columbia's Barnard College following her protest-related arrest at Columbia University in New York has left her without the means of survival. And yet, the regime they implicitly support through their Hamas-loving activities denies protestors the means of survival in actuality by continuing to execute them.
As support for Hamas grows on university campuses, the crackdowns on dissent under Sharia Law paint the leftist American students as both ignorant and disconnected from reality.
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