It is one of the most bizarre romances of the past decades: The love of many leftists for Islam.

If their ideological ancestors once maintained that "There is no better being, no god, no emperor or tribune", as sung in the famous socialist anthem "The Internationale" , the wind has now shifted. The stanzas have been rewritten.

Leftists are protesting alongside Islamists who scream "Allahu Akbar" against the nation of the Holocaust survivors and their descendants, they view the apocalyptic Iranian cutthroat regime as the ideal anti-imperialist power and chant: "Hijab is Empowerment."

When Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to more than 30 years imprisonment and 148 lashes, among other things, for "sinful behavior in public without a headscarf," those people remained silent. When her compatriot Vida Movahed was sentenced to one year in prison for her famous 2017 anti-hijab protest for so-called incitement to "corruption," there was hardly a murmur.

Is it civilization fatigue? Maoism-masochism? Stockholm Syndrome? One can only wish that these leftists will emigrate to live in the society that they are rooting for.


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