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Know them by whom they weep for. If Lutheran churches in Allied nations had held funeral services mourning the death of Adolf Hitler, they’d likely have been smoking ruins a day later. Yet, across Australia, dozens of mosques are openly mourning the death of a monstrous anti-Semitic theocratic dictator, who not only murdered tens of thousands of his own people in just the last few weeks, but oversaw a global network of terror whose tentacles reached deep into Australia.
Scores of mosques across Australia held memorial services for Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following his assassination by Israel on Saturday.
El Zahra Centre in Melbourne announced a Majlis [gathering] in commemoration of Khamenei.
Khameini, whom they described as “the pious scholar, the foremost martyr of the Islamic Revolution”, was, the centre proclaimed, was “killed in the way of Allah”.
Arrahman Islamic Centre in Sydney held a mourning gathering for the “pure soul” of Khamenei and “for the souls of the martyrs who rose in the face of the American-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
The Flagbearer Foundation in North South Wales referred to Khamenei as “the Imam of Our Time” and will hold three nights of recitations for him.
Husaineyat Sayeda Zaynab in NSW, Al Zahra Mosque in Sydney, Taha Association, Hossaini Society Community Centre, and Muhammad Rasulallah Islamic Centre all held similar services.
Hossaini eulogized the Ayatollah as “a towering leader of faith, resistance, and unwavering devotion to Islam and humanity.”
Is this that ‘moderate mainstream Islam’ we’re constantly finger-wagged about, again?
Anthony Albanese has backed US and Israeli missile strikes against the “brutal” and “oppressive” Iranian regime, declaring there was no reason to mourn the death of the Islamic Republic’s killed supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
And yet, here they are, mourning away.
Should this surprise any of us? Remember, for months, ‘pro-Palestinian’ mobs have been proudly paraded Khameini’s likeness on massive placards. That includes at the massive Bigots’ Day Out, where tens of thousands of Muslims and leftists, including the Sydney Lord Mayor, a former premier and Labor powerbroker, and conspiracy darling Julian Assange, marched in front of Khameini’s larger-than-life photo, as well as symbols of Hezbollah and the ISIS flag.
The death of their golden idol has Australia’s far-left politicians all in a tizz as much as their Muslim fellow-travellers.
Greens leader, Larissa Waters, said: “The Greens condemn these illegal, abhorrent and unilateral attacks.”
Their outrage is in direct and inverse proportion to their utter silence over the last few weeks, when Khameini’s regime was crushing dissent, with possibly tens of thousands of Iranians dead – the same silence they observed over decades of Khameini’s brutal oppression of women. Not to mention their complete failure to admit that Iran recently orchestrated two terror attacks in Melbourne, including the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue.
And where the far-left and the Islamic community drag their knuckles, you can be sure the taxpayer funded leftist collective laughingly dubbed ‘our’ ‘national broadcaster’ is running, bleating, after.
Enter the ABC’s Americas editor, John Lyons, with exactly the sort of take you’d expect an ABC ‘journalist’ to have.
“Another interesting thing about Anthony Albanese, Penny Wong and Richard Marles’ statement; that first sentence, ‘Australia stands with the brave people of Iran in their struggle against oppression’, to me, that is political propaganda,” Lyons pronounced during the ABC’s live coverage.
“What they actually mean, they don’t say it, but what that sentence should say, if they’re being accurate, if the Prime Minister of Australia is telling the truth, it should say: ‘Australia stands with Israel and the US in their new war on Iran’. So that is absolute, in my assessment, political propaganda.”
Remember, this is the taxpayer-funded broadcaster, which, by law, is obliged to make sure its “presentation … of news and information is accurate and impartial according to the recognised standards of objective journalism”.
Meanwhile, people who actually lived under Khameini’s murderous regime and managed to escape to the West aren’t mourning his dispatch to Jehannum in the least.
In Sydney and Melbourne, planned anti-regime rallies on Sunday became celebrations of the leader’s death, with thousands attending.
In Canberra, a few hundred people celebrated outside the now-closed Iranian embassy to cheer the death of the Ayatollah and praise Israeli and US leaders.
Champagne was sprayed over the dancing crowd, as people prayed for a liberated Iran and the safety of their families there.
In Melbourne, members of Australia’s Iranian diaspora gathered in Federation Square and on the steps of parliament to celebrate after years of violence, most recently culminating in the regime’s brutal crackdown on protests, with up to 30,000 people estimated to have been killed.
Suren Edgar, the vice president of the Australia Iranian Community Alliance (AICA), says hearing of Khamenei’s death was the “best morning of my life”.
“He destroyed our country, our culture, killed our people and pushed the ideology of terror to other countries,” he says.
Of course, they’re under no illusions that difficult times lie ahead for a potentially freed Iran, but, unlike the Greens and the ABC, they look forward with hope.
Kambiz Razmara, the vice-president of the Australian-Iranian Society of Victoria, says there’s “quiet anticipation” in the Iranian Australian community.
“Years of oppression are coming to a head, and so people see what’s likely to come about, or what could possibly happen after, and they’re choosing to celebrate that,” he says […]
But he says some community members would only accept [Reza Pahlavi] as a transitional leader. Others hope Pahlavi will eventually head a constitutional monarchy.
“During ‘woman, life, freedom’ [protests], there was no identifiable leadership. Now there is, and there seems to be a much greater motivation for … change to come,” Razmara says.
“People have, in Reza Pahlavi, someone who can propose and offer some kind of transitional arrangement to democratic rule.”
Iranian Australian Mohammad Hashemi accepts there’s uncertainty about what will happen in the coming weeks – but for now he is celebrating the death of the supreme leader.
Unlike the ‘pro-Palestine’ movement.
