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[Order Jamie Glazov’s new book, ‘United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas’: HERE.]
It should come as no surprise to anyone that the western media and western Left are not covering or supporting the Iranian protests for freedom. It is anathema for them to give a helping hand to such an ‘Islamophobic’ nightmare. What is transpiring in Iran is a dreadful nightmare for the Left – because it’s oxygen, blood-supply and identity are rooted in its alliance with communism, Islam and every other adversarial totalitarian monstrous genocidal death-cult.
What is transpiring in Iran is a revolution for individual rights, which the Left reviles and detests. It is a revolution against Islam, which the Left worships and adores – and yearns to submit to.
Iranian women are even burning their hijabs! Oh, the horror of it all. This is a horrifying nightmare for the Left, especially for leftist feminists in the West. Poor Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin, what nightmarish sleepless nights they must be having.
I explain the Left’s romance with Islam – and with the hijab – in my new book: United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas. Make sure to read it carefully to see why the Left is so quiet about – and frightened by – the Iranian people protesting in the streets of Iran.
On this occasion, I am rerunning, below, my article, How Vittorio Arrigoni Went to Gaza Hoping to Die, from the April 18, 2011 issue of PJ Media. The piece unveils how and why leftists perpetually shed their own blood in their romance with tyranny and terror. It is an eye-opener to the Left’s ugly, dark and shameful disposition to the Iranian people’s battle for freedom that we are witnessing at this very moment.
Don’t miss it!
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How Vittorio Arrigoni Went to Gaza Hoping to Die.
By Jamie Glazov
“Bit by bit, decorate it, arrange the details, find the ingredients, imagine it, choose it, get advice on it, shape it into a work without spectators, one which exists only for oneself, just for the shortest little moment of life.”
—Michel Foucault, describing the pleasure of preparing oneself for suicide.
The Italian cheerleader for Hamas, Vittorio Arrigoni, has died at the hands of the Islamic terrorism that he venerated throughout his life. The fellow traveler journeyed to the Gaza Strip to prostrate himself before his secular deity, Hamas, and to assist its venture of perpetrating genocide against Israelis. Islamic terrorists, who call themselves “Salafists,” showed their gratitude to Arrigoni by kidnapping, mercilessly beating, and executing him.
This episode was, of course, all part of an expected script: even though the media and our higher literary culture never discuss the reasons, the historical record reveals one undeniable fact: like thousands of political pilgrims before him, Vittorio Arrigoni went to Gaza to die. Indeed, consciously or unconsciously, in their unquenchable quest for sacrificing human life on the altar of their utopian ideals, fellow travelers always lust for death, and if not the death of others, then of their own.
It is no coincidence that a short while before “Salafists” killed Arrigoni, Juliano Mer-Khamis, a cheerleader of terrorism in Israel who, like Arrigoni, dedicated his life to praising the Palestinian death cult and working for the annihilation of Israel, was murdered by Islamic terrorists in Jenin. It is no coincidence that Rachel Corrie, the infamous enabler of the International Solidarity Movement, a group that disrupts anti-terrorism activities of the Israel Defense Forces, committed suicide in protecting Hamas terrorists by throwing herself in front of an Israeli bulldozer. And it is no coincidence that female leftist “peace” activists are routinely raped, brutalized, and enslaved by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria that they come to aid and glorify in their Jew-hating odyssey against Israel. And don’t hold your breath, by the way, waiting for leftist feminists to protest this phenomenon; they are faithfully following in the footsteps of American fellow traveler Anna Louise Strong and the Stalinist German writer Bertolt Brecht, two typical leftist believers who were completely undisturbed by the arrests and deaths of their friends in the Stalinist purges – having never even inquired about them after their disappearance.
Beneath the leftist believer’s veneration of the despotic enemy lies one of his most powerful yearnings: to submit his whole being to a totalist entity. This psychological dynamic involves negative identification, whereby a person who has failed to identify positively with his own environment subjugates his individuality to a powerful, authoritarian entity, through which he vicariously experiences a feeling of power and purpose. The historian David Potter has succinctly crystallized this phenomenon:
… most of us, if not all of us, fulfill ourselves and realize our own identities as persons through our relations with others; we are, in a sense, what our community, or as some sociologists would say, more precisely, what our reference group, recognizes us as being. If it does not recognize us, or if we do not feel that it does, or if we are confused as to what the recognition is, then we become not only lonely, but even lost, and profoundly unsure of our identity. We are driven by this uncertainty into a somewhat obsessive effort to discover our identity and to make certain of it. If this quest proves too long or too difficult, the need for identity becomes psychically very burdensome and the individual may be driven to escape this need by renouncing his own identity and surrendering himself to some seemingly greater cause outside himself.
This surrender to the totality involves the believer’s craving not only to relinquish his individuality to a greater whole but also, ideally, to sacrifice his life for it. Lusting for his own self-extinction, the believer craves martyrdom for the idea. As Eric Hoffer points out in his classic The True Believer, the opportunity to die for the cause gives meaning to the believer’s desire to shed his inner self: “a substitute embraced in moderation cannot supplant and efface the self we want to forget. We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are ready to die for it.”
Thus, Vittorio Arrigoni, Juliano Mer-Khasin, and Rachel Corrie were simply just faithfully continuing the long suicidal tradition of their political faith. We are well aware, after all, of the dark fate of the believers who journeyed to Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to build communism; we are well versed of what happened to the leftist Iranians who returned to their country after the 1979 Iranian Revolution to aid Khomeini in building the Islamic paradise. Only those who cannot accept the true motivations of utopian believers can still deny what those political pilgrims were searching for in their odyssey to shed themselves of their own unwanted selves.
Does one need to excessively explain why “progressive” feminist Naomi Klein called out for bringing “Najaf to New York” in her infamous 2004 column in The Nation, in which she reached her hand out in solidarity to Muqtada al-Sadr and his Islamofascist Mahdi Army in the Iraqi Shi’ite stronghold of Najaf? Bringing Najaf to New York would mean that the Iraqi Shi’ite stronghold, where Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army at one time ran their torture chambers and sowed their terror, would be replicated on America’s shores. What could Naomi Klein possibly see admirable in the vicious nihilistic terror of the Mahdi Army? Would she remain alive for more than sixty seconds upon contact with it?
Is it possible that Klein’s impulses are related to those of Noam Chomsky, a Jew, who has distinguished himself, among other intriguing ways, by traveling to Lebanon to personally embrace the leaders of Hezbollah, whose stated top priority is to rid the world of Jews?
The murder by Iraqi terrorists of American hostage Tom Fox in March 2006 was a perfect example of this pathological phenomenon. Fox was among four members of the leftist group Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) who were kidnapped by Islamic terrorists in Iraq in November 2005. Aside from voicing support for the terrorists, one of the group’s most powerfully articulated themes entailed the longing for death. In the 1984 speech, “God’s People Reconciling,” for example, which gave rise to the formation of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, Mennonite minister Ron Sider urged his listeners: “We must be prepared to die by the thousands.”
It is not unsurprising that when British and American troops rescued the other three CPT hostages and saved their lives, the freed captives refused to thank their liberators — who had risked their own lives participating in the rescue — or to cooperate in a critical debriefing session with intelligence officers. Doug Pritchard, the co-chairman of CPT, went out of his way to tell the world that the kidnapping itself (and by implication Fox’s murder) was _America’s _fault, not the kidnappers’ or the executioners’. “The illegal occupation of Iraq by multinational forces,” he affirmed, was the “root cause” of the kidnappings. In other words, the devil made them do it.
The freed captives resented the fact that they had been liberated by the very forces they despised. And the rescuers had robbed the remaining hostages of the idealized fate suffered by Fox. Jan Benvie, an Edinburgh teacher who was getting ready to go to Iraq with the group in the summer of 2006, learned the lesson well. She announced before her departure: “We make clear that if we are kidnapped we do not want there to be force or any form of violence used to release us.”
To the end of his life, the French philosopher Michel Foucault, who supported and adored Khomeini’s killing fields, adamantly defended “everyone’s right to kill himself.” Suicide, he boastfully wrote in a 1979 essay, was “the simplest of pleasures.” Is it a coincidence that Foucault, who had attempted to kill himself several times out of guilt feelings regarding his homosexuality, passionately supported an Islamic death cult that murdered homosexuals?
Gaza terrorists have a long history of kidnapping and abusing, raping and killing those who come to aid and abet them.
Vittorio Arrigoni knew that very well.
In the end, Arrigoni’s story is the story of the Left – a story best summarized by the dictum of Goethe’s devil, which Marx perpetually invoked, as he did in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon: “All that exists deserves to perish.”
Arrigoni is the contemporary poster boy for the political pilgrims who traveled to despotisms to help build the paradises in which they hoped to shed themselves of their own unwanted selves. They paid the ultimate price. And no lesser cost must be paid for the momentous transformation of sterilizing the unclean earth. Such disinfection can be made possible only by the purifying power of human blood — blood which, in the utopian enterprise, must, in the final chapter, become one’s own.
Breaking News, this is madness.
INSANITY! President of Austria warns that ALL women might soon be required to wear hijabs
January 8, 2026 by BareNakedIslam
His deranged rationale is that because of increasing “Islamophobia” (aka justified fear of Islam) non-Muslim women could be ordered by the government to wear Islamic headscarves (hijabs) in solidarity with women who wear them for religious reasons.
Dipshits like Jug-eared Barry & Hillary lecture us that islamic women have the right to wear hijabs or potato sacks.
What leftist fools won’t stand up for is for those same women who chose NOT wear them.
Right now in Iran women are taking off those chickenshit rags and burning them.
When islamic women gladly wear them here, it’s only to display their seething contempt for conservative America.
(They love the welfare checks. They bitterly hate the ones mailing them.)
That looks like the sort of news item that could be submitted to Jihad Watch.
So, while several European nations are banning the damn garments, Austria is embracing them. I guess the Left will have one place to run to for barbarian behavior; one place the 7th Century throwbacks will have to crowd into if they still wish to remain in Europe.
Bravo. As timely as it is enlightening.
“Christian Peacemaker Teams, Mennonite minister Ron Sider urged his listeners: “We must be prepared to die by the thousands.”
Christianity and Islam, both, are nihilistic at their core. Christianity views life on earth as a punishment for Original Sin and that every human being is born evil by virtue of Original Sin. And the goal is to escape this life and try to gain entrance into the utopian Kingdom of Christ after death. The Christian too wants to lose himself in Christ and have Christ be his ruler and tell him what to do.
Baptism washes away Original Sin.
I always get the feeling that you get most of the time the wrong end of the stick, & you have more down than up votes. That tells me a lot.
Nihilistic hogwash!
I see you have your usual collection of upvotes from your mommy and the Piehole Peikoff losers. I certainly wouldn’t want an Objectivist pinhead like you telling me what to do. What a nice collection of downvotes you have accumulated today. 12 and no doubt counting.
Nah. Christianity views sickness, pain, and death as punishments for Original Sin. The world as it is now is not what God wanted for us, and He sent His only Son to die for us and restore us to Him. Christianity creates and builds, as it did with Western civilization, in science, medicine, education, and the saving of knowledge to pass along from when Rome fell. Thank the Benedictine Order for that last one.
Christianity is consonant with the whole human person, including our reason. It is a surprisingly reasonable faith and has love for creation, including the material world. Its members are warned not to adopt the evil things of this world but to try to bring the goodness of God to it.
Islam is dualistic in a way that Christianity avoided when it condemned Gnosticism back in the Apostolic age. This dualistic mentality unfortunately destroys. For a short time, Islam went a better route, but then its leaders returned to destruction instead of creation. Its view of God is that Allah must be blindly worshiped. That is not how Christianity views God,
In brief, your comment shows unfortunate prejudices and a lack of historical knowledge.
No, what you are describing is the task of the Messiah. He must sacrifice himself in a torturous death in order to save humanity. No doubt, these self-sacrificing fools have more than a bit of a messianic complex.
Jesus is certainly Lord of a Christian’s life, but He is never tyrannical. And your claim that Christianity is nihilistic rather falls down when you read of His prayer in Gethsemane – by your logic, he should have been glad about being about to die by slow torture. As Tony Campolo put it “Christianity isn’t just pie in the sky when you die, it’s also cake on a plate while you wait”.
Has anyone ever noticed that a palpable difference between conservative women and liberal women is that conservative women focus their time and energy on things that they love whereas liberal women focus their time and energy on things that they hate?
Liberal women seem to hate to love and love to hate. They’re the most morbid, hateful, angry and joyless people you’ll ever meet on this earth.
That’s been my observation.
I’m a Christian, but here is an observation: our Lord Jesus, the Maker of heaven and earth taught us to “love [our] neighbor as [ourselves]” (Leviticus 19:18) and to “give to the person that asks of you and from the one who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away” (Matthew 5:42).
I know some, I believe, liberal women, who intellectually do not seem to be Christian, but who seem to be self-sacrificing for the needs of others. On the other hand there seems to be a danger among us conservative “evangelicals” in the United States to be tempted to make an idol of clean, “pretty” lives – perhaps even to prioritize serving the “American dream” over obeying Christ.
But I also believe God is patient with us and that He will save, perfect, and conform to the image of Christ all who believe that Jesus is the Messiah (Romans 8:29, 1 John 5:1). We are still at the beginning of the beginning of our good God’s plans for eternity (1 Corinthians 2:9)!
The Citizens of Iran and fed up with living in the past they want to move into the 21st Century
The most important thing is that most cannot afford the bare necessities while the ayatollah is sitting on 95 billion dollars of money he stole from the people! A religious leader who watches kids starve. Nice religion (not)!
Leftists democrats also want to live in the past. They want to go back to a time before America existed. A time when governments around the world were either monarchies, tyrannical dictatorships and everything in between. A space where totalitarianism fits comfortably in. Liberty and freedom and the US Constitution are impediments to the democrats/leftists agenda.
I honestly believe that prior to WW2, if democrats at the time had their druthers, they would’ve sided with the Nazis. Democrats also tacitly supported Stalin, Mao and Castro (their goals are pretty much aligned.)
What would genocidal-palestine Islamic regime do with these libs., they think?
An amazing description of the suicidal passion of the pro-jihadi leftists. Self-destruction is their goal. This seems to be a common denominator for the jihadist And the left.
Marxist/Communists are terrified of what is happening in Iran because they are witnessing power being taken away from a brutal dictatorship they themselves wish to create in the West.
Watching a people, honed through multiple generations of suffering, repeatedly retracting from the governmental violence while searching the globe for allies to their cause for freedom and self determination, they have evidenced their deepest desires while continuing to be brutalized by the viciousness and barbarity of the sitting ayatollah for whom justification resides within the pages of the Quran.
They are heroes and heroines against the systemic misogyny and the horrors of the unmitigated savagery of the moral police and the militant soldiers who so easily continue bludgeoning their fellow citizens without respite from the worst possible, unwarranted conduct one human being can inflict against another.
We are global witnesses to the volcanic desires within the Iranian people. A multitude of its’ citizens, from multiple generations, whose bravery and courage can no longer be dismissed. The flame of freedom, having become a passionate wildfire seeking to dethrone a totalitarian monster and those in his service. This is the evident beauty and destiny of a people unwilling to continue living in totalitarian created poverty and the relentless repression they continue to experience in their once beautiful nation with a rich, complex history as expressed in their prior achievements in higher education, science, music, architecture, the arts, technology and as a people deeply hospitable and generously welcoming to others.
While the leftist minions of self subjugation to these communist-Islamic dictates bathe themselves in their hatred of freedom, the people of Israel, the United States and others championing freedom, send the Iranian people our prayers and our commitment embracing and supporting them fighting for freedom. We also encourage you as you as seek the return of the Shah Reza Pahlavi II to temporarily sit upon the throne while re-establishing and administering this ancient land. We support the urgent mandates of the Persian people to a future governance of, by and for the people in order for them to imbue their futures with opportunities rooted in love, hope and the independence necessary in them achieving their most precious hopes and dreams.
May G-d Almighty be with you all!
Shalom Aleichem!
Well if they remain Muslims they are still the problem.
Completely off topic, if you haven’t already, you should do something with your gift for writing – there’s a real lyricism about your contributions.
Good for this young Iranian women burning the picture of that despicable tyrant.
That Islamic tyranny of Iran supports forcing females to wear the burqa is demeaning and degrading to females , both girls and women.
Likewise, the burqa is one of the many aspects of the oppressive misogyny of Islam.
To state the obvious ,Islam is based on Islam which is religion of brutal cruel misogyny.
Furthermore, A scholar of Islam with it’s Sharia had revealed the disturbing horrible truth in her book “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islam ideology.” Furthermore, the author also exposed that `” Women is Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 171,172.
The weird thing is that Muhammad may possibly have been a hen-pecked husband early on. His first wife, Khadijah, was about 15 years his senior, and a rich widow. Their marriage seems to have been monogamous, and (unfortunately for the rest of the world), he returned to the cave in which he had encountered Jibreel on her advice. Highly speculative, of course, but one wonders if his later misogyny had its roots in the possible humiliation of such a union.
That ruthless cruel brutal heinous Islamic regime of Iran that is so unfittingly has the word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I].
That brutal cruel Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran is full of ruthless malicious misogyny.
On the topic of this Islamic tyranny of Iran a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home” This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be.
In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .”
This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
That Islamic regime’s horrendous abuse of young women leads to murderous violence. For example, that heinously cruel and murderous Islamic tyranny of Iran is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women.
The murder of Mahsa Amini is very sad and tragic and that horrendous evil of her being murdered is because of the oppressive vicious brutal cruel and deadly misogynistic Islamic regime of Iran.
That action of male Muslim who are officials murdering defenseless, helpless women in cold blood is a heinous and hideous has occurred before and if that murderous Islamic regime isn’t overthrown such wicked killing will continue.
Another example of such callous despicable heartless anti-female evil is when a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1]
That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
What’s those leftists bottom feeders have against Freedom, Liberty and Independence?
Among other things, “feminists” in the West are silent while women in Iran are risking their lives for freedom.
This was an interesting piece. However it can be summed up rather quickly. The great schism in life occurs at puberty. The cool kids decide who to allow in the club. You are in or out.
If you have great talents that appear after puberty, then the doors can be reopened but not often.
The kids that have no redeeming social values resent and will always resent being ostracized. The younger and stricter it was creates harder leftists that can never forgive or forget and probably shouldn’t. It also explains why these people can never admit that their dogma is incorrect as they have nowhere else to turn. Now you don’t need to buy the book.
Oh dear, what will the moderator say?
They are protesting the theocratic authoritarian rule under Islam as it has existed since 1979 – not Islam itself.
They were burning mosques. That looks like protesting Islam to me.
AS PROTESTERS ARE SLAUGTERED ON IRANIAN STREETS BY ISLAMOFASCISM…
THUS, EVEN BEFORE AND REGARDLESS OF A MILITARY STRIKE.
Trump should send camera drones over Iran so the world can see what the mullahs are really doing to their people. For decades, the regime has controlled the narrative by suppressing journalists, silencing dissidents, and hiding its abuses behind closed borders. Independent aerial footage would strip away the propaganda and expose the reality of repression, corruption, and brutality. Transparency is a threat to authoritarian power, and letting the world witness these crimes could increase international pressure and give a voice to the Iranian people who have been denied one.
He should also send camera drones into occupied Tibet to show the world the cultural genocide going on there by the Chinese Communist Party.
Not to mention the Uyghurs.