Sunday, October 26, 2014

The recent execution in Iran: when a murderer becomes a feminist heroine

There is no question that the foreign policy propaganda of the US government (any administration) determines the media coverage of all the enemies and foes of the US around the world.  You can rarely trust the coverage by US media of, say, Hamas or Hizbullah or Iran or Russia or Cuba.  The coverage becomes a thinly disguised form of crude propaganda.  Let us talk about the recent execution of a woman in Iran.  First, I would like to say that there is nothing--I mean, nothing--that a leftist can or should admire about the political system in Iran.  I have been opposed to the Iranian regime when Khumayni was plotting for its construction from his exile in France.  Secondly, regarding executions around the world, we know that the US, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq (after the US invasion) now lead the world in the number of executions and that the number of executions in Saudi Arabia and Iran are thought to be much higher than announced.  Thirdly regarding the recent case: how did the murderer who killed the Iranian surgeon becomes a feminist heroine? Do you know that this was arranged by what is called in the media "Iranian activists"?  Are those activists as reliable as those Syrian activists in Syria who fed the US media only lies and fabrications in the last three years?  And the Iranian woman murderer did not even stick to one version of her story, and later said in court that there was another man in the apartment who killed the surgeon. So which is which? Is she the woman is allegedly is trying to rid Iran of rapists or is she not?  Can you stick to one version of a story?  There was also evidence presented in court that the knife used in the stabbing (she stabbed the man in the back, incidentally) was purchased two days prior to the stabbing. Why is that not presented in Western media coverage?  Also, maybe I missed it, but is there something in Western laws that allow women to kill their rapists?  Did I miss that element in the law?  This case just like all cases pertaining to Iran and Syria are examples of US propaganda efforts to focus on their enemies, and where the UN jumps to attention when ordered by the US.  And how come the UN does not say a world about the fifty beheading ore more in Saudi Arabia this year alone?  Was one voiced raised in that regard? And why is the voice of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch always higher when discussing human rights violations by enemies of the US? Coincidence? Hardly.

PS There is another reason why Gulf regimes want the US to raise its voice on this matter. Someone alerted me that the Qatari regime media, like Aljazeera, are referring to the murderer as "a Sunni woman".