March 03, 2004

Listen to the Iranians, They Know

Monday night, following the gruesome massacres in Najaf and Baghdad at Shiite holy places, Iranians took to the streets all over the country: Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz above all. The demonstrations had a double-pronged message. First, that the people care more about freedom than about the celebration of Ashoura, the grave day of mourning for the murder of Hossein, the grandson of Mohammed, and dozens of his followers. And second, to accuse the regime of having orchestrated the slaughter in Najaf and Baghdad. The first reports even suggest that some of the security forces were fighting on the side of the demonstrators, although such reports are often wrong.

To surmise that the double bombings in Iraq on Monday were Iranian-backed works for me*[*In fact, 15 suspects have been picked up and 4 of them appear to be Iranian.--Jen], (although it could have been Baathist Sunnis), but all the mullahocracy knows now is that its existence is imperilled and a hit on the Middle East country that is currently occupied by the "Great Satan" is a blow for their jihad.
Unfortunately, the occasions when Muslims kill Muslims are the greatest advertisements for freedom and secular democracy that I know.
Keep striving for Liberty, Iranians, and to the rest of the Islamic world, I urge you to throw off the chains of IslamoFascism!
And as Mr. Ledeen himself always says, "Faster, please."