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* Daniel Greenfield: Jamal Khashoggi vs. Marc Bennett: Whose Life Matters?


** Effective Ways to Support the Iranian Protests ([link removed])
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by Hamid Bahrami • October 13, 2022 at 5:00 am
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* [T]he Biden administration, even during the Iranian regime's current brutal crackdown on its own citizens, and the US Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, are still seeking to revive the lethal "nuclear deal" -- allowing the regime to enrich uranium to acquire an arsenal of nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them -- and reassuring the mullahs that the US has no "policy of regime change."
* While the West is unwilling to hold Iran's regime to account, the IRGC, officially designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the US Department of State, does its best to reinstate repression, sparking grave concerns about further bloodshed in Iran and abroad. If that is how Iran treats its own citizens, why would anyone expect it to treat others any better?
* Sadly, the US and its allies are still using every diplomatic and political resource to revive the lethal nuclear deal, which would permit the Iranian regime to enrich uranium for an arsenal of nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver it in just a few years -- all to safeguard the West's economic interests and energy supply, which the US already has in abundance.
* President Joe Biden and his foreign policy team's failure in Afghanistan, and their preliminary message to Russian President Vladimir Putin that a "minor incursion" would be acceptable, undermined any credible deterrence to Putin to discourage him from invading Ukraine. Now, the policies of the Biden administration seem to be repeating similar disasters in Iran and Taiwan.
* To support the Iranian people, the White House should announce that the Iran nuclear deal will not be revived and end the negotiations – which are not even being conducted by the US, but by Russia - which has most gallantly offered to hold Iran's "excess" enriched uranium, presumably for future use.
* Biden also should replace Malley with someone who understands the Iranian regime's malevolence not only to its own people, but to other countries as well, both in the Middle East and throughout Latin America.
* Canada needs to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization, as the US did in 2019...
* [T]he new government of [British] Prime Minister Liz Truss would do well to support the peaceful protests in Iran and impose punitive measures on the Iranian regime's military and security forces.

President Joe Biden and his foreign policy team's failure in Afghanistan, and their preliminary message to Russian President Vladimir Putin that a "minor incursion" would be acceptable, undermined any credible deterrence to Putin to discourage him from invading Ukraine. Now, the policies of the Biden administration seem to be repeating similar disasters in Iran and Taiwan. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Historically, political confusion has led to inadequate responses to international crises, and with disastrous consequences. Today, the West's ties to Iran are overshadowed by the widespread anti-regime protests across the country. Now, as it looks as if the dust does not intend to settle, and it seems clear that the conflict inside Iran will only deepen.

After the suspicious death 22-year-old Mahsa Amini -- who was taken into custody by Iran's "morality police" apparently for a hijab violation, was reportedly beaten, fell into a coma, and died three days later on September 19 -- the Iranian people began pouring out onto the streets.

At the time of writing, at least 185 protestors have been killed by security forces. Bloodbaths in the provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan, in southeastern Iran, killed 63 peaceful protestors.

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by Daniel Greenfield • October 13, 2022 at 4:00 am
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* "Jamal Khashoggi's murder 4 years ago was also an attack on freedom of expression everywhere," Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted. There's no such thing as "freedom of expression" among Khashoggi's Qatari employees. Khashoggi was not fighting for any kind of freedom, but for an Islamist tyranny of the kind practiced by Qatar's fellow Islamists in Iran. Had he gotten his way, liberals in Saudi Arabia would be the ones being brutally murdered.
* As they are in Iran.
* This year, the annual Khashoggi passion play coincides with information about Qatar's murder of Marc Bennett, a British citizen who was brutally tortured without a word of protest from the West.
* If Blinken has expressed a word of concern about Bennett's killing by Khashoggi's backers, I have yet to find it. The British government closed the case and has shown no interest. The Washington Post has never allowed Bennett's name to appear in its pages. That might offend its Qatari masters.
* Unlike Khashoggi's death, Bennett's death was not political. He was just one of the many foreign workers whom Qatar's slave masters considered their personal property. When Bennett tried to leave Qatar Airways, he was treated like any of the other foreign workers, mostly Indian, Asian and African, who are routinely beaten, tortured and worked to death in the Islamic tyranny.
* The only difference between the thousands of foreign workers who have died to erect the glittering towers of Doha, who prepare for the World Cup, and who attend to the needs of the slave masters of Qatar, is that Bennett was a westerner. But to the Islamic slave masters of Qatar and others in the region, all non-Arabs and non-Muslims are inferior subhuman slaves.
* His alleged crime was trying to leave Qatar Airways which, like most of the major organizations, including Al Jazeera, is controlled by Qatar's ruling family. According to the Qataris, Bennett later "committed suicide" in a hotel room in Doha on Christmas Day. The timing must have amused his Islamist killers. According to his wife, his clothes had been laid in his hotel room as if he were preparing to go out and the circumstances of the crime scene don't comport with those of a suicide. British investigators noted, "no specific evidence of suicidal intent".
* The British government has issued multiple statements about Khashoggi's death even though the Bin Laden pal was never a British citizen or related to the UK in any meaningful way. It has shrugged at Bennett's death and then gotten on with the business of asking Qatar for cash.
* Last year, the British government declared that it continues to raise the "terrible crime" of Khashoggi's death with Saudi Arabia. No such efforts have been made to raise the death of Marc Bennett, a Briton who was not an associate of Islamic terrorists or an enemy agent.
* The relative silence over Bennett's death and the hysterical fury over Khashoggi's demise reveal more than a double standard, but the deep level of political control Qatar wields over the West.
* Khashoggi's death was indeed revealing. And what it revealed is that our countries are rotten with politicians and media outlets who willingly serve as the tools of an Islamic terrorist state.
* That is why they won't talk about Bennett's death.

This year, the annual Jamal Khashoggi propaganda ritual coincides with information about Qatar's murder of Marc Bennett, a British citizen who was brutally tortured without a word of protest from the West. (Image source: iStock)

In an annual propaganda ritual, the heads of foreign governments and media operatives marked the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's death by tweeting condemnations of the killing of the old friend of Osama bin Laden who had been recruited by an Al Qaeda financier to promote Jihad.

It is a testament to the unchallenged power of the Islamic tyranny of Qatar that everyone in Washington D.C. unquestioningly takes a knee and pays tribute to its martyred operative.

"Jamal Khashoggi's murder 4 years ago was also an attack on freedom of expression everywhere," Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted. There's no such thing as "freedom of expression" among Khashoggi's Qatari employees. Khashoggi was not fighting for any kind of freedom, but for an Islamist tyranny of the kind practiced by Qatar's fellow Islamists in Iran. Had he gotten his way, liberals in Saudi Arabia would be the ones being brutally murdered.

As they are in Iran.

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