Behind every horror perpetrated by an enemy of the West, in Italy there is always a multitude of justificationists ready to manipulate reality to prove the tyrant right. Putinism is the senile disease of irreducible communists, and in these months of war it has already given many acrobatic tests of itself, even going so far as to certify the regularity of the farce referendums imposed by Moscow in the four occupied Ukrainian regions. But these stubborn supporters of the tsar hardly make the news, as the illogical syllogism that blames the Ukrainian resistance for prolonging the conflict and the massacres is already known and worn out.
That’s why his deception that “nobody talks about peace” sounds as false as the deliberate attempt to overturn responsibility. Furthermore, the ideological pacifism born after the Second World War never changed direction. Oriana Fallaci hated him fiercely: “They never said a word,” she said, “for the rights of the poor Chinese who are in prison or in concentration camps, and they never said anything to defend women with burqas. Some accuse me of having a fixation on the chador and the burqa, and it’s true, it has become a fixation: but how is it possible that all these progressives, these fake feminists have never said a word about the theocratic regimes that rule every moment of the world? life of those poor people?’ Words that were always extremely current in the years of the Islamic renaissance, and are even more so today, in the days when the murder of poor Mahsa Amini, the girl who symbolized the revolt against the veil, provoked a wave of protests repressed in blood and many they remembered the courage of Oriana who dared to tear her burqa in front of Khomeini. But no convinced movement of solidarity took place in relation to the Iranian women of the generation that clandestinely photocopied Fallaci’s books: on the contrary, the enemies of the West that we keep shocked like snakes inside did not miss the opportunity to defend the regime of the Ayatollahs even on this tragic occasion.
Denying that the veil is a repression of the freedom to show oneself and accusing “the Islamophobic machine” of masking itself behind the struggle for women’s rights, to the point of defining the Florentine writer’s “Anger and Pride” as a true “manifesto of Islamophobia”. It is a current of thought, very rooted in the radical-chic left, which considers female submission admissible in the name of the cultural and spiritual value of Islam, theorizing the oxymoron of women’s freedom to renounce freedom, pretending to ignore that the veil is a code society that has nothing spiritual about it. And on the basis of this false and ignoble assumption, the existence of a moral police along with its documented atrocities becomes legitimate. Thus, Mahsa’s death is downgraded as an unfortunate fate into which the highest Iranian authorities “immediately ordered the investigation”, fueling the usual conspiracy narrative according to which the manipulation of the American Satan, in action to bring about regime change in Tehran. The positions are eerily similar to those who insist on accusing the West of not understanding Putin’s reasons, despite the fact that the ruinous war in Ukraine is proving to be a crazy gamble that puts the world at risk with the nuclear threat. Italy’s Putinians would like to hear words of peace, but they don’t care to hear those who utter them in Russia and end up in prison or, worse, die at the front. I’m just the rearguard of the red army of shame.
Source: IL Tempo
Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
