Pre-Khomenist revolution Iranian flag

If there is one thing that a study of Islam should tell you it is that sometimes in history the bad guy wins and that sometimes the bad guy wins by hiding his true intentions. This hiding of intentions certainly seems to be what happened in Iran when the Islamists whom the Left and the Feminists thought could be controlled, instead massacred and oppressed their opponents.

I cannot view the film linked below without a profound sense of sadness and also a sense of fear. The women depicted in the film helped to unseat the corrupt and oppressive Shah of Iran only to find that the Islamists who they had, in their desperation, helped to bring to power, almost immediately set about restricting what women could wear and how they could live their lives.

Looking at these brave women filling the streets of Tehran to protest against mandatory Hijab and other religious restrictions on women I cannot help but wonder what happened to these women? Did they leave and find safety elsewhere? Did they stay and try to shrink into the shadows because of fear? Or did they meet their ends in one of the Islamic regime’s prisons or were hanged in the street?

So on this International Women’s Day, think about these brave and principled Iranian women, who took on the might of the Ayatollahs and have so obviously lost. Freedom and equality doesn’t come free and if we in the West are not prepared to pay the price that defending freedom and equality requires, then enslavement and gendercide will be the ultimate fate of women in the West as well as women in the benighted Islamic world.

Defend women’s rights, defend human rights, defeat Islam.