Having a Blast in the Past
May 16th, 2010 - 3:43 pm
If you missed the new Week in Blogs — what’s wrong with you? More seriously, one of this week’s picks was a photo essay on everyday life in Iran, before the Islamic Revolution. Happy people. Fun people. People who look a lot like, well, happy fun Western people.
Ed Driscoll was moved by it, and wrote some words you’ll want to read.
These pictures don’t surprise me in the least. Unfortunately, I may be among the very few. Iran was a fairly secular society before the revolution. The Shah was also a close friend of Israel. He was not overthrown primarily because of his so-called anti-democratic behavior—but his unwillingness to embrace Islamic extremism.