We have previously noted the idiocy of those holding a “Queers for Palestine” banner, something that even the homosexual activist publication The Advocate said was stupid.

But the image of te guy on the right? You can tell that he’s an American or Brit, because the signs are in English for English readers, and he’s enjoying his Western civilization world of freedom of speech, because if he wore that shirt in Tehran or Cairo or just about anyplace in the Muslim Middle East, he’d be taken straight to jail, doubtlessly beaten, and could well be prosecuted for blasphemy.

Well, maybe not. Try wearing a shirt which proclaims “Allah is Gay” in Riyadh, and you might not even make it to jail, you might well be beaten to death even before the police got there.

Then there’s this:

Saudi Arabia sentences woman to 11 years for supporting women’s rights

Manahel al-Otaibi was sentenced in a counter-terrorism court after allegedly speaking out against male guardianship laws and “her choice of clothing.”

by Danielle Greyman-Kinnard | Saturday, May 4, 2024 | 1:09 PM

Manahel al-Otaibi was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by a secret court in Saudi Arabia for “her choice of clothing and support for women’s rights,” according to international media reports from the last week.

Saudi officials confirmed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights that al-Otaibi had been sentenced on January 9 for what the officials described as “terrorist offenses,” the Guardian reported.

Al-Otaibi was sentenced in a counter-terrorism court under a law that criminalizes the use of websites for “broadcasts or publishes news, statements, false or malicious rumors, or the like for committing a terrorist crime.”

The fitness influencer and artist was arrested in November 2022 after making numerous social media posts about female empowerment.

Amnesty International claimed that one of the charges related to the young woman shopping without a male guardian.

There’s more at the original.

Then there was this, purportedly “A group of woke students at UCLA converted to Islam on the spot and are praying in campus.”

And this, pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas protesters supposedly converting to Islam. At least three, and probably four, of these young, new Muslims appear to be women; do they have any flaming idea to what they have just made obeisance? Probably liberal, probably abortion-supporting, women wearing clothing perfectly acceptable in the United States or democratic Europe, but which would draw the attention and wrath of the religious police in Saudi Arabia or Iran.

The student protesters are, to be frank about it, just boneheadedly stupid. How can anyone who has matriculated into college not know that the Muslim Middle East is not part of the Western civilization culture in which they live, that the things they do and take for granted are just no allowed in Islamic cultures. You’d think that they’d be appalled that Hamas’ guerrillas deliberately used rape to terrify their victims on October 7th, but the Usual Suspects are not just ignoring the fact that Hamas terrorists deliberately used rape as a tactic, but many of the pro-Hamas idiots have simply denied that it ever happened:

In the weeks after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Rep. Jamaal Bowman not only publicly cast doubt on reports that Israeli women were raped, but also called those accusations “propaganda.”

“There was propaganda used in the beginning of the siege,” Bowman (D-N.Y.) told a Nov. 17 rally of about 50 pro-Palestinian protesters in Westchester, according to a post on TikTok reviewed by POLITICO. “There’s still no evidence of beheaded babies or raped women. But they still keep using that lie [for] propaganda.”

In Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll wrote:

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’

I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

And thus it is with the pro-Hamas demonstrators: they are choosing to believe things which simply are not true, things which they know are not true, all to support a people and culture which laugh at them and would throw them in jail — or worse — if they lived under Hamas rule.