“Israel is far from the only country in the Middle East that would like to see the (Shia) Islamic Republic of Iran out of the way.”

No, Israel (which has sadly turned into a militaristic extension of the U.S. (Pentagonian) Empire) is the main country in West Asia that wants Iran “out of the way”. It’s irrelevant if it’s the “only one” on Planet Earth or not - the point is that it’s currently the main vassal of the U.S. Empire on the Asian continent against Iran. Whereas the vast majority of the (more independent) Asian continent is more neutral about Iran (with some exceptions like the Saudis who are in bed with the Colonialist U.S. Empire). I’m a mixed-race part-Asian woman, born in Asia with Muslim Sunni family. There’s no need to make this about Shia vs Sunni - Americans & Western Europeans love to “divide & conquer” Asia in this way, but in reality many big Sunni-population Muslim countries like Kazakhstan are neutral towards “Shia” Iran. My Sunni friends went to study in Tehran and had no inherent animosity towards Shias.

“I think that Masih Alinejad, who comes from Iran where Shia Islam is the state religion, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is from a part of Africa where Sunni Islam is the rule, have every right to speak out about Islam & the other matters they focus on.”

Of course they can. They can “speak out” on whatever they want. However, the point is that it’s self-sabotage to condemn one’s own native country / homeland (Iran) exactly at at crisis time when one’s HOMELAND is being besieged, INVADED and even b0mbed by a foreign genocidal Army (!) (U.S. Pentagonian Empire). It’s astounding that Americans & Europeans don’t seem to notice what the war-mongering, mass-murdering U.S. Empire & its vassals are doing to West Asia. For heaven’s sake, U.S General Welsey Clark has already openly admitted that the “plan” of North American Pentagon’s (Racist, Genocidal) War against the Asian Continent is to invade & conquer 7 countries, culminating with invading oil-rich Iran (which entails North American male & female ‘soldiers-of-fortune’ b0mbing and killing Iranian women & children as “casualties of war”). True to his words, the U.S. Empire has now systematically taken actions to prepare a War Invasion against Iran. The U.S. has orchestrated an economic siege & embargo (“siege warfare”) against Iran (in order to demoralise, impoverish & exhaust Iran’s besieged population, including its women & children - which statistics show suffer the most from siege sanctions). However, that didn’t bring the desired result (Iran refused to obey the American ‘Master Race’), so the U.S. Empire started directly militarily attacking Iran (to bait Iran into a full-on War). However, those Machiavellian actions by the U.S. didn’t achieve the desired result again - Iran refused to take the bait. So now the U.S. has started to (mentally) prepare its naïve, gullible population for a bigger war strike against Iran: this includes promoting & broadcasting only & solely the negative aspects of Iranian society, and thereby vilifying West Asia (the East), portraying it as unredeemably barbaric and uncivilised as opposed to the so-called ‘comparatively more enlightened’ & ‘relatively more human-rights-loving’ Western U.S. Empire.

Recently, the U.S. even attacked & blocked Iranian news domains - in order to silence any positive or balanced information about Iran. The U.S. intentionally wants only voices like "Alinejad" to be heard. Alinejad may be sincere in her activism, however her timing is total self-sabotage, given that her entire country (incl. millions of defenceless women & children) is at the brink of being invaded AGAIN & carpet-b0mbed by pscyhopathic foreign Western-Supremacist Pentagonian Soldiers-of-Fortune. The intended result of the mass-murdering American Empire’s current info-war against Iran is not to better the lives of women here in Asia, but instead to generate a Pavlovian reflex in Americans and Europeans so that even the name “Iran” is now instinctively associated in the minds of most average Americans with “Evil”. So that when Pentagon b0mbs Iran again, Americans will be ‘conditioned’ to instinctively feel it’s somehow “justified” and will “better” the lives of “oppressed” people there. The U.S. Empire has already used this manipulative trick over and over (using local “activists”) to justify pillaging & plundering multiple Muslim countries.

Given the brewing, impending WAR situation and the existential threat that her Homeland faces from Racist North American Conquerors, Alinejad comes across as a ‘useful tool’ for the relentless, never-stopping U.S. War Machine, which has already OPENLY DECLARED that Iran is it's prime enemy and that it wants to invade Alinejad’s homeland - and will likely gleefully use people like Alinejad as justification for why 'evil' Iran needs to be 'neutralised' as a "threat" to 'superior (supremacist) American values'. The U.S. did the same sh*t with almost all Asian countries that they invade, plunder & destroy (Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc) - they “focus” on some 'oppressed victim', pretend to “care” about them and then proceed to exploit that victim to justify invading and killing thousands of women as “casualties of war” (that’s how the U.S. War Machine enriches itself - through Neo-Colonialist rapacious plunder of far-away continents).

“you have repeatedly sung the praises on this sub of Abigail Shrier, a conservative American woman who is very pro-Israel. As I asked back then & you never answered, why the double standard? Why does Shrier merit you enthusiastic endorsement but Alinejad and Hirsi Ali warrant your scorn, suspicion & condemnation?”

I’m not the OP / BEB, but Westerners rape & pillage my continent and then draw such disingenuous apples-to-oranges comparisons. Abigail Shrier is exactly an AMERICAN. She has the relative luxury of talking about whatever the heck she wants - because the United States is NOT UNDER SIEGE. Her country (‘Murica) is NOT facing an imminent invasion from THE biggest & most murderous military Empire on the Planet (the U.S. will not invade itself).

Whereas Alinejad is on Twitter and therefore primarily appealing to the ‘Anglosphere’ (to U.S. / UK / Canadian readers) to condemn Iran (meanwhile it’s exactly the U.S. and its NATO vassals who have openly declared “siege warfare” against Iran and even openly admitted to a plan to INVADE & b0mb Iran (!)). So, as a mixed-Asian women with Muslim family, I’m really questioning those women’s priorities - our continet is being invaded left and right by the Pentagonian Empire, the U.S. has orchestrated a crippling, choking economic SIEGE against Iran, and yet these women are appealing to (primarily) NATO readers to … condemn Iran! I mean: JFC.

I’ll try to explain it this way: Let’s imagine for a second that e.g. Brazil decided to b0mb the United States to take over its resources. And let’s imagine while Brazilian Soldiers are b0mbing or prepping to b0mb New York City (and kill thousands of people in air raids), “activist” American women decide to “speak up” about … how American religious customs/laws are oppressing some American women (meanwhile the Brazilians are merrily dropping b0mbs on American land and threatening a “plan of invasion” of the entire United States and its cities). Would you say to those American women: “Gee, girls, of course, your timing is so great, it’s most important to talk about religious problems inside the U.S. while Brazil is freakin' B0MBING us!”. Here’s the deal: when you repel the RACIST INVADERS and get rid of the choke-like economic SIEGE, then it’s time to move on to talk about internal problems and criticise men on your own side. But when one’s country is under siege (when your survival as an independent NATION is at stake) - you focus on your country overcoming that first, as a priority. You don’t go appealing to the racist FOREIGN ENEMY to condemn your OWN people - that’s not only treasonous, that’s self-sabotage. Because the foreign enemy will just exploit that to their manipulative advantage and treat you FAR WORSE when they INVADE (psychopathic, racist American soldiers don't give a sh*t about Iranian women and their survival in a war-siege situation) - those b0mbs that they drop on your head are worse than any headscarf.