I am a complete skeptic viz. Islam. I think you make a terrible mistake drawing parallels between the totalitarianism of utopianist communist totalitarians, and the current manifestations of the religious/political monster of Islam. Those Iranian “protesters” are chanting “Allahuakbar” — and the stylish Western narrative asserts this is “mockery” of the Mullahs.

But since nobody in Iran seems to be willing or able to speak out directly against Islam — indeed, since NO Muslim in the West (with the exveption of a mere handful of three or four odd individuals) can even bring himself to target Islam, I posit that these chants are just as likely counterrevolutionary re-assertions of the doctrine which has supposedly been corrupted by the Mullahs. I believe that because of their brutal mental conditioning, Muslims love Islam, and Islam will remain victorious over them until it is exterminated from the earth. This will ONLY be done by non-Muslims — and only a mere handful of us are telling the rest of you. you would prefer to believe that a 1400 year old perpetual totalitarianism is akin to one which both was born and which died well within the confines of a mere single century. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think so. Muslims cannot ever be our allies in the fight we must wage.

The Muslim’s “love” for Islam keeps him from understanding the truth about Islam. Your “love” of threadbare narratives keeps you from understanding the truth about Islam.

In telling the tale of Cassandra, it is often said that Apollo cursed her for not requiring his love. Bit it was the Trojans who Apollo really punished, for it was they who could not understand her dire warnings about their looming destruction. Cassandra knew she spoke the truth.