Outside of Egypt, support for the overthrow of the Mubarak regime was universal across every political affiliation and stripe. For once Muslims and Islamists, the left and the right cheered on the activists in Maidan Tahrir in downtown Cairo. But last year, we saw no support coming from the far-left and total ambivalence from Muslims and Islamists for the pro-democratic Green Movement as it was being brutally suppressed by the Islamic Regime of Iran.
But then Iran is an Islamic regime which bases its foriegn policy on anti-western doctrine and anti-semitism. These are all factors that the ‘far-left/Islamic-right’ nexus can get behind.
To prove the point: Have you ever heard of a terrorist attack perpetrated by Muslims to protest the way the Iranian regime imprisons, rapes and kills thousands of working class Muslims - which was then subsequently defended by the liberal-left on the west’s “misguided” foreign policy? No, it’s very unlikely that you will.
