Millions of people in Iran are now united around the hope of destroying the Islamic Republic and removing its leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
Iran has seen huge protests before, many of them heralded--prematurely--as the regime's last gasp. Yet unless Ayatollah Ali Khamenei decides (and is able) to deploy extensive brute force, his options are narrowing
-- The Economist (@economist.com) Jan 10, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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#2 What makes you think that Iranians will abandon their religion, onepigironheadedbrainaut?
- A_MORON
You must be a government numbers guzzler, makes sense.
Surveys from groups like GAMAAN and the World Values Survey indicate a significant rise in non-religious Iranians (atheists, spiritual) and a shift away from Shia identity, with some surveys showing Shia identity under 40%.
Related to A_MORONs moronic government numbers guzzling statement....
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 world.
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Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it.
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. .....
By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them"or ignores them entirely.
There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues.
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Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically.
Western liberal media and A_MORON prefers not to hear reality. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape.
That is what terrifies Western liberal media and A_MORON. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored.
So the silence and ignorance of A_MORON continues.
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Legacy media would never want to tell you why the Iranian people are burning down mosques.
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A_MORON thinks Muslims would burn mosques....
#3 Just thought I would let you know that there's some unsightly dribble running down your virtual chin, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut.
You're welcome.
Hey, onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut , when are you going to respond to your lie about the Federal government?
Or are you just a trolling coward: Drop a lie, get schooled on your lie, and then disappear ? ? ? ?
#33 Well, more than 40 minutes later ...
The silence and ignorance and incompetence of onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut continues, unabated.
I don't suppose that onepigironheadedsmoothbrainaut will own up to his other lie, either.
But one can always hope. :-)
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