The Iranian Uprising the Media Refuses to Cover

Summary

Episode Overview

Podcast: The Isabel Brown Show
Episode: The Iranian Uprising the Media Refuses to Cover
Date: January 12, 2026
Host: Isabel Brown (The Daily Wire)

This episode centers on the large-scale, youth-led uprising in Iran against the Islamic government—a movement the host argues is largely ignored by Western mainstream media. Isabel Brown explores the origins, motivations, symbols, and global impact of these protests, contrasts them with the response in Western society, and offers bold commentary on the relationship between Islam, freedom, and Western civilization.

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Main Discussion Points

1. Introduction: A Seismic Uprising Unseen (00:32 - 03:10)

• Isabel opens by highlighting the unprecedented scale of the Iranian protests, emphasizing that “tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets in Iran to draw a hard line in the sand and say never again to government authoritarianism, to the Islamic regime, and to radical Islam itself.”
• She notes the Western media's near silence: “Why no one is paying attention to this is beyond me.”

2. Catalyst for Protest: Economic Crisis to National Reckoning (03:11 - 06:00)

• The protests began with an economic crisis: soaring inflation, currency devaluation, and shopkeepers in Tehran organizing.
• The movement quickly spread, transcending social, economic, and generational divisions in all 31 provinces.
• Isabel emphasizes the lack of centralized leadership: “Totally organic... enough with the Ayatollahs, enough with radical Islam, enough with authoritarian governance.”

3. Brave Visuals & Government Crackdown (06:01 - 13:00)

• Footage circulated on social media shows crowds lighting up cell phone flashlights during government-imposed blackouts to demonstrate unity:
  • “To literally be a light in the darkness and to say, never again will we continue to live under this type of radical Islamic authoritarian regime.” (07:19)
• The regime’s response:
  • Violent crackdowns with live ammunition, mass arrests, and severe internet blackouts.
  • Use of legal justifications: “Anyone protesting... is going to be criminally charged with the crime of being an enemy of Allah, which literally carries the death penalty.” (12:07)
• Despite repression, protests only grow: “If anything, the protests are only getting stronger, louder, more resilient...” (12:45)

Notable Quote (11:10):

“Quite literally, thousands upon thousands of people have been brutally beaten, imprisoned, or killed by the Islamic regime, by the Ayatollahs, for simply speaking their mind and trying to fight back for freedom.” — Isabel Brown

4. Global Ripple Effects & Symbolic Acts (13:01 - 18:00)

• The uprising inspires solidarity protests worldwide, from London (flag replacement at Iranian Embassy) to Los Angeles (counter-protester drives U-Haul into the crowd, immediately stopped by demonstrators).
• The movement is “mostly led by young people,” who have “never experienced a life without radical Islam ... authoritarian, communistic style regime.” (15:17)
• Powerful symbolism: burning down mosques in Iran, tearing off hijabs, and viral videos of women dancing and refusing the veil.

Notable Quote (16:22):

“In Iran, our generation has never experienced a life without radical Islam and without the Ayatollahs... You’re watching young people say there has to be something more out there and I am willing to lay my life down for this cause. It’s shudderingly inspiring... It gives me goosebumps.” — Isabel Brown

5. Women at the Forefront: True Feminism in the Streets (18:01 - 23:00)

• “Actual feminism”: Iranian women publicly remove hijabs and dance as acts of defiance; burning images of the Ayatollah has become iconic.
• Mahsa Amini as a symbol: murdered for exposing a sliver of hair, her death galvanized previous women’s rights movements.
• Viral video: Iranian defector in Canada burns a photo of the Ayatollah and lights her cigarette with it, inspiring others globally.

Notable Quote (20:44):

“How dare we call ourselves a feminist society? ... How dare we claim that we support women’s rights? ... when women... are forbidden from going outside without the escort of a male relative, from getting a quality education or any education whatsoever, from being able to seek emergency medical services…” — Isabel Brown

6. The West’s Contradictions: Apologizing for Islam, Curbing Speech (23:01 - 32:00)

• Isabel critiques Western politicians and media for being silent or apologetic about Islam’s role in oppressing women and stifling freedom, in contrast to the bravery in Iran.
• Example of President of Austria suggesting all women wear hijabs in solidarity against Islamophobia.
• UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer criticized for refusing to ban first cousin marriage (“normalized by mass migration”), while seeking to ban the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), allegedly for “protecting” people.
• Satirical discussion of AI image generators: why focus on banning X instead of tackling root problems.

Notable Quote (28:09):

“Only in 2026 is the Western world responding to radical Islam by telling you, yeah, all women should probably just wear a hijab in solidarity with people, while women in Iran are being willing to die for the freedom to not wear a hijab.” — Isabel Brown

7. Free Speech, Truth, and Social Media (32:01 - 36:00)

• X (formerly Twitter) and Starlink cited as the last bastions for free speech and a connection to protestors in Iran.
• Restricting these platforms is, per Isabel, an attempt to suppress honest conversations about radical Islam.
• The “Iran story, the biggest story in the world, [is] alive this week” because of these digital platforms. (33:16)

8. The Final Message: Hard Truths and Solidarity (36:01 - 37:19)

• Isabel admonishes Western society for lacking the courage to “speak the truth radically,” contrasting it with the sacrifice of Iranian protestors.
• Calls for listeners to “prevent this ideology from taking over the rest of the world by saying the hard truths here at home now.”
• Concludes with the show's signature assertion:
  • “Islam is incompatible with Western civilization. And I would go one step further to say Islam is incompatible with inherent human dignity and freedom.” (36:51)

Notable Quote (36:56):

“If Iran isn’t the most powerful example of that you could have ever asked for, I don’t know what else is.” — Isabel Brown

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “To literally be a light in the darkness and to say, never again will we continue to live under this type of radical Islamic authoritarian regime.” (07:26)
• Regarding women’s bravery:
  “Not a hijab in sight. This is what actual courage and bravery looks like.” (23:43)
• Recalling an elderly protester:
  “‘I am not afraid. I have been dead for 47 years.’ ... An old woman dripping with blood... raises her fist and cries out...” (24:32)
• Quoting J.K. Rowling:
  “If you claim to support human rights, yet you can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for liberty in Iran, you have revealed yourself.” (24:59)
• On Western media’s selective outrage:
  “Everyone wants to call out authoritarianism in certain countries these days. ... But if you are unwilling to speak out against radical Islam... you have revealed yourself.” (25:18)
• Critique of Western politicians:
  “Only in 2026 is the Western world saying... So we’re going to refuse to ban first cousin marriage in the UK. We’ll just ban X to prevent people from talking about it.” (30:32)
• Final challenge to listeners:
  “Never again can we allow our cowardice to normalize this all over the world. So today we say to our brothers and sisters in Iran, we love you, we support you, we salute you.” (36:58)

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Key Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/Event Summary | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:32 | Main episode theme introduction | | 03:11 | Economic crisis triggers Iranian uprising | | 06:01 | Visuals from the protests; flashlights lighting up protests | | 09:40 | Regime’s violent crackdown and internet blackouts | | 13:20 | Protests and symbolism abroad (London, Los Angeles) | | 16:22 | Youth leadership and generational impact | | 18:20 | Women’s leading role; burning hijabs, hair-whipping | | 21:25 | Iconic “cigarette on Ayatollah photo”—origin and spread | | 24:59 | J.K. Rowling’s tweet—Western double standards | | 28:09 | Austria’s president & hijab solidarity; Western contradictions | | 30:15 | UK controversies: cousin marriage law, X ban vs free speech | | 33:16 | Crucial role of X and Starlink in sharing protest footage | | 36:51 | Closing arguments; “Islam is incompatible with inherent freedom” |

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Episode Tone & Language

The tone throughout is urgent, impassioned, and provocative, marked by frequent rhetorical questions (“How dare we?”), and bold, unfiltered assertions. Isabel Brown maintains a direct, accessible style, often looping back to core themes of freedom, the West’s moral inconsistencies, and the extraordinary courage of ordinary Iranians.

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Summary for Non-Listeners

This episode provides a comprehensive, emotionally charged exploration of Iran’s current uprising, framing it as not just a national revolt, but a global test of courage, freedom, and the West’s willingness to face hard truths about Islam and its compatibility with modern values. The host draws stark contrasts between the bold actions of young Iranians (especially women) and the perceived cowardice or willful blindness of Western elites and institutions. Powerful moments are highlighted with vivid descriptions—burning mosques, unveiled women, a grandmother bleeding yet defiant—and pointed critiques of media and political hypocrisies. The episode closes with a call for solidarity, truth-telling, and vigilance against the spread of oppressive ideologies—urging listeners to honor and broadcast the message of Iran’s freedom fighters.

Transcript

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Of people are taking to the streets in Iran to draw a hard line in the sand and say never again. To government, authoritarianism, to the Islamic regime, and to radical Islam itself. And yet the west, in response to this, is refusing to acknowledge that is happening. We're apologizing for Islam and, and we're letting Islam take over our societies in an act of radical inclusion. What's wrong with this picture? And why we should be taking a page out of the Iranian people's playbook? Today on the Isabel Brown show, The biggest story in the world is happening before our eyes in the nation of Iran, and it's getting very little to no coverage by the mainstream media whatsoever. But what we are watching happening in the Middle east this week, make no mistake about it, is a seismic generational shift to topple existing power structures, take back national identity away from radical Islam, and to fight, even being willing to fight to the death for freedom for the next generation in Iran. Why no one is paying attention to this is beyond me, but we are dedicating our show to it here on the Isabel Brown show today because I have yet maybe in my entire adult life to be as inspired by young people fighting back for freedom against authoritarianism, against a too powerful government, and against the lies of radical Islam than what I am seeing right now from the next generation in Iran. In case you are living under a rock or you're not quite as chronically online as I am, I. I don't blame you for not knowing what's going on because no one in the mainstream media is appropriately covering this. But right now, the nation of Iran is going through the largest possible government takeover than we have seen in many, many, many generations. Certainly some something that we haven't seen like this at any point up until now in my lifetime. And all of this really began a couple of weeks ago in late December with what really started as a deepening economic crisis, crisis in Iran. They had soaring inflation, a deprecation of their national currency, and ordinary shopkeepers and merchants in Tehran really started to organize and protest in Tehran's bazaar, which has very, very Very quickly superseded just the major shopping areas in Tehran outside of just shopkeepers and merchants, and now has evolved into a national reckoning of Iranian identity across multiple generations, across different socioeconomic levels, across different religious identities, and so, so, so much more. Students, workers, other people all across Iranian Life, in all 31 provinces of the country have taken a part of now national sweeping protests without really any centralized leadership, but in a totally organic way to say, enough with the Ayatollahs, enough with radical Islam, enough with authoritarian governance. We are taking our country back. If you're not on X or you're not seeing this quite as much as I am on social media, the footage that's coming out of these protests is mind bogglingly empowering. Take a look at this one. This is a tweet from Vivid Prowess saying, dear world, Iran was not a Muslim country. Fun fact. You might not have known that it was conquered by Islam. Today, Iranians are fighting for their freedom and, and their bravery should hold us all in awe. This video, it's about 10 seconds long. I'll loop it for you a couple times here it says all eyes on Iran. And you just see people by the tens of thousands taking to the streets, shining their flashlights, using the flashlights on their phones because up till now they have been protesting in the streets and making their voices heard and making sure that they have a sign of solidarity with all people across the country. But now the government is starting to crack back down. We'll get into that in a second. But shutting off the power, shutting off access to the Internet, making sure people are isolated from the outside world. In response, they're lighting up all of their flashlights and continuing to take to the streets even in the dark. To literally be a light in the darkness and to say, never again will we continue to live under this type of radical Islamic authoritarian regime. Here's another video for you. Salman Seema says the people of Iran have outsmarted the Islamic Republic public. The regime has cut the lights and the electricity in the major streets of Tehran to prevent the greatness of the protesters crowd from being shown and to make it difficult for people to document their unity. But the brave Iranians have turned on the flashlights of their cell phones to create an even more epic scene of unity. This video is from a couple days ago on January 10th. Again, people marching in the streets peacefully waving their their phone, flashlights and other devices that can light up so that they can show that sign of unity and solidarity. And these images are just so incredibly powerful to say Enough to authoritarianism, enough to radical Islam. We are willing to fight to the death for our freedom. And I don't say that lightly, by the way, not every single photo and video coming out of Iran right now is this beautiful light in the darkness moment. I won't show you some of the more graphic footage that is also going viral on social media, but please go look this up for yourself. Quite literally, thousands upon thousands of people have been brutally beaten, imprisoned or killed by the Islamic regime, by the Ayatollahs for simply speaking their mind and trying to fight back for freedom. The Iranian government is responding with really violent crackdowns, including the use of live ammunition against massive crowds of people, mass arrests of tons of people all at once, and imposing, as I mentioned, that near total Internet and communications blackout specifically to hinder further organization of these protests and external reporting. Amazingly, how people are getting information out there is typically through Starlink. Right now, a handful of Starlink devices have still yet to be confiscated from the government. And so now the Iranian regime is attacking the Starlink network with military jammers to suppress footage from the revolution going out into the world. Absolutely crazy stuff that. The photos, the videos, everything we are seeing is so harrowing and so telling as to how far people are willing to go to fight back against authoritarianism in response. The Iranian regime is really angry about this. Obviously, authoritarianism only works and is only effective when you scare people into submission. But now that Iranians from all 31 provinces, from all generations, from all walks of life have said, enough, we are willing to die for this. We are willing to lay our life down for freedom. The regime is declaring that anyone protesting in the country is going to be criminally charged with the crime of being an enemy of Allah, which literally carries the death penalty. So they have full legal jurisdiction in their minds to open fire with live ammunition on mass crowds of people. And yet this is not deterring anyone in Iran. If anything, the protests are only getting stronger, louder, more resilient, and are starting to inspire similar demonstrations to fight on behalf of the Iranian people all over the world. I'm sure you guys may have seen the footage over the weekend from London where an individual actually went into scaled the side of the building and went into the balcony setting of the Iranian embassy in London, tore down the flag that represents the Ayatollahs and, and raised the lion and sun flag. That's the flag that typically represented the country before the Islamic regime took over Iran and before the Ayatollahs were installed rather than the shahs. Mass groups of people in London were cheering for this and calling for additional flag replacements to be happening all over the world. In Los Angeles, there was a massive rally over the weekend with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people who were protesting the Islamic regime in la. Not everyone is happy about that, even here in the United States. But just as Iranians are willing to die for the cause of freedom in Iran, you're watching people be willing to die for the cause of freedom on behalf of their home country in Iran. Even here in Los Angeles, somebody decided to drive a U haul truck through a crowd of hundreds of people in LA at this one particular demonstration over the weekend with a big sign on the side of the truck that says no Shaw. Basically they're trying to say that they want the Islamic regime and the Ayatollahs to stay in power. And people were not happy about this. Within seconds, well before the police ever showed up, the Iranian demonstrators in Los Angeles gathering to protest the regime, chased this guy down, infiltrated the truck, neutralized the guy trying to run hundreds of people over, and destroyed the vehicle before the LAPD ever even had a chance to get involved. So you're seeing this happen in the streets of Tehran, you're seeing this happen in the streets of London, you're seeing this happen in the streets of Los Angeles. And really what I think you're watching is a generational uprising, mostly led by young people, which is so fascinating because in Iran, our generation has never experienced a life without radical Islam and without the Ayatollahs and without a very authoritarian, communistic style regime. You're watching young people say there has to be something more out there and I am willing to lay my life down for this cause. It's shudderingly inspiring. Like, honestly, it gives me goosebumps. It's something that is stopping me in my tracks. And the more videos and the more photos that I am seeing come out of this, the more I am realizing that what we are watching before our very eyes right now is a reckoning not just between freedom and authoritarianism, not just between freedom and communism, which is what we've seen certainly throughout our lifetime in countries like Iran. But we're also watching a generational reckoning of freedom versus Islam, which is a conversation that, I don't know, we in the west are quite ready to have yet, to be honest, we are still mass apologizing for Islam and trying to usher it into our societies through the lens of being welcoming and tolerant and inclusive and dei. And I just want to be really nice and hold hands and sing Kumbaya around the campfire. But we've said it before for the last several weeks, and we will say it again. Islam is incompatible with Western civilization. I don't need to prove that to you today. We've already been proving that over the last several shows that we've done on this topic in the last several months. But the only and best way that I possibly can prove this to you is how you're watching the Western world, particularly the media, respond to these protests in Iran versus the imagery that we are seeing out of Iran itself. This image shook me to my core, because you would never see the bravery to do this in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in. In the European Union. But you are seeing the bravery to do this in Iran, where this week they are burning down mosques in a declaration that they are done with Islam. They're done. We are not an Islamic society. You forced this upon us. We refuse to live this way anymore. And this photo now has one and a half million views on X of people burning down mosques in Iran to say, we are not an Islamic society. There is no room for this if we're serious about the cause of freedom and laying our lives down for freedom. You're watching videos like this one come out of Tehran where teenagers, young women in particular Iranian, Iranian young women are dancing and whipping their hair around. They are ripping off their hijabs, whipping their hair around to show up. I am not wearing a hijab. I am not wearing a burqa. I am not being forced to hide my identity and to hide my beauty any longer. This video is taken in Iran, and yet you don't see women have the courage to do this in the United Kingdom, in the European Union, in New York City, or anywhere else in the United States of America. And it's the imagery of the women that's really stuck sticking with me more than anything we're seeing out of Iran right now because we like to call ourselves such a pro woman and such a radically progressive society built upon feminism. And yet when we're watching legitimate, actual feminism take place, when you're watching women say, I want the choice to live like this, which I have not been afforded throughout my lifetime or the last several generations. The Western world is silent. There's one iconic video and image that's really taking the world by storm right now as kind of the poster image of what these protests look like in Iran. And interestingly enough, this actually didn't happen in the streets of Iran at first. This video was taken in Canada from an Iranian defector, someone whose family left Iran in search of a better life and trying to free radical Islam and authoritarianism. But there's a young woman who took a video of herself lighting a cigarette from a picture that she was holding of the Ayatollah as it was being lit on fire. So the picture is burning as she's lighting her cigarette. She's not wearing a hijab. Her hair is in braids, kind of like mine today. And she lights her cigarette from the picture on fire. And this has now become like a poster image for women in Iran as they mimic this exact same behavior. Here's this video for you. She lights the picture on fire with a lighter of the Ayatollah and then leans her face in to light her cigarette as she holds this picture of the burning Ayatollah of Iran, drops the picture on the ground, watches it burn, Watches this picture completely disappear, gives the middle finger to the picture. That's a powerful image, and that has now been memed. This photo is everywhere. The still image of her lighting her cigarette on the picture and is inspiring countless other women in Iran and around the world to say no to radical Islam and authoritarianism. Here's a little compilation of Iranian women and girls all over the world who are now mimicking this exact same behavior. There's that original picture and a handful of other ones. People holding a photo of the Ayatollah of Iran lighting their cigarettes on the photo as it's on fire. And I love how this tweet phrases this. Iranian women and girls in memory of Mahsa Amini are demanding justice by burning a photo of the Ayatollah as an act of defiance. If you guys don't remember who Mahsa Amini is, we covered this at length in my content when it happened several, several months ago. I think it was a little over a year and a half ago now, but Mahsa Amini was a young woman in Iran who was brutally killed. She was murdered by the morality police because she dared to show a sliver of her hair from underneath her hijab, went outside, showed a tiny bit of her hair, was then taken into custody by the morality police, was brutally beaten to death, and became a symbol for women's rights and actual feminism in the Middle east and all over the world when this happened. Now you're watching countless other women in Iran, all throughout the Middle east, all throughout the Western world, take off their hijabs, show their hair, their beautiful, beautiful hair and faces, and literally light cigarettes on the burning image. Basically burning in effigy, the Ayatollah of Iran, while showing the middle finger and saying, you will never treat women this way ever again. Not in a society that I am willing to lay my life down for the cause of freedom. For Back to the biggest story in the world in just a second. But first, I want to talk about something that's hit me really hard. Since becoming a mom, I have realized that every decision I make about my health isn't just about me anymore. It's about showing up for my daughter, Isla, being present for all of her milestones, and having the energy to keep up with her for decades to come. Which is a totally different kind of of motivation. But here's the problem. Our healthcare system is built to be reactive. 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And it's not just young women who are embracing this type of bravery. Bravery. I saw this one clip of an elderly Iranian woman that is so harrowing, I can't stop thinking about it. Literally was laying awake at night in my bed last night of an older woman joining this act of defiance and joining the pushback against the ayatollahs and against the regime. This is an elderly woman saying, I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid. Basically, I'm not afraid to protest. I have been dead for 47 years, since the ayatollahs originally took over society and radical Islam was infiltrated by oppressive force in Iran. This is the courage of Iran's people. Watch this video. This is absolutely empowering. I'm gonna let this loop for you for a second. I am not afraid. I am not afraid. I have been dead for 47 years. Here's a still image of that. I mean, look at this powerful woman's face. An old woman dripping with blood, presumably because she's being beaten by probably the morality police. We don't know much about this particular woman's situation yet. Bleeding from her mouth, all over her clothes, she raises her fist and cries out over and over again, I am not afraid. I am not afraid. I have been dead for 47 years. Here's another image of these young women lighting their cigarettes on a burning photo of the ayatollah. Not a hijab in sight. This is what actual courage and bravery looks like. And the fact that so few people in the west, especially in the media, are willing to talk about this at all, to even acknowledge that this is going on at all is extremely telling to me. How dare we call ourselves a feminist society? How dare we claim that we support women's rights? How dare we try to say that we live in the best time in history for women ever, when women, our sisters on the other side of the world, not just in Iran, but in many of these radical Islamic societies, are forbidden from going outside without the escort of a male relative, from getting a quality education or any education whatsoever, from being allowed to work outside the home, from being able to seek emergency medical services provided to them by a doctor who is going to save their life. In Afghanistan, for example, it is now illegal for women to go to the emergency room and be seen by a doctor or any medical professional who is not a woman. But you're not allowed to work as a woman. In Afghanistan. So good luck. Good luck. Chances are it's probably a death sentence. Also in Afghanistan, the Taliban recently literally banned women from speaking out loud. You cannot use your voice out loud. In society, and in countries like Iran, women are often married off as young little girls, 7, 8, 9 years old to older men to essentially be sex slaves for the rest of their lives. And we dare say we support women. When you are going to be beaten to death by the morality police for showing a sliver of your hair, we say nothing about that. But go women, go feminism, go women's rights. It's a catchy bumper sticker until it involves the courage of speaking out against radical Islam. And what's really fascinating to me, as I mentioned, is this reckoning between how the Western world is responding to these protests and how real people who are living through these situations, who have lived under the thumb of authoritarian Islam, have been responding all over the world. J.K. rowling hit the nail right on the head. She tweeted this week. If you claim to support human rights, yet you can't bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for liberty in Iran. You have revealed yourself. You do not give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalized so long as it's being done by the enemies of your enemies. Ooh, Everyone wants to talk about certain countries these days. Everyone wants to call out authoritarianism in certain countries these days. Everyone wants to comment really edgy things about certain, I don't know, religious groups these days. But if you are unwilling to speak out against radical Islam and the damage and oppression and death it is bringing to millions of women, then I love how she said this. You have revealed yourself. Luckily, some better angels seem to be poking through. Even aoc, shockingly, is coming out to speak out against the oppression of the Iranian regime. Mark my words. It's because she's running for president. And I'll come back to that in a second. But AOC said the Iranian government's violent crackdown on demonstrators is horrific and must stop. Now. All people have the right to protest their government without fear of violence. I support the Iranians taking to the streets to call for a better future. Interesting. Just want to note this on the record that AOC has posted once about the protests in Iran this week. She has posted once about how Hamas is suddenly evil in her mind and in her worldview this week. And how you shouldn't walk into Jewish neighborhoods and chant that you support Hamas. And she has posted approximately zero times about the situation in Minneapolis and Renee Goode being Killed by an ICE agent. In other words, AOC is running for President of the United States. Mark my words. We'll surely see more on that in the next couple of months. But just as better angels are starting to appear to some people and we're realizing the need to speak up in solidarity against radical Islam with our brothers and sisters in Iran fighting for their freedom. You're watching most of the Western world double, triple, quadruple, quintuple down on radical Islam itself. Reminder that these images and photos and everything we're seeing from women out of Iran have such a level of bravery that women are being literally brave enough to be shot to death in the street, to be beaten to death by the morality police, to lose their life over the freedom to show their hair. To show their hair. And meanwhile, an old clip from a few years ago of the President of Austria is resurfacing, asking all women everywhere to wear a hijab in solidarity against Islamophobia. I'm literally not even making this up. This is the President of Austria telling women everywhere. Still dealing with my cough the last couple days, guys. Sorry about that. But telling women everywhere that with increased Islamophobia around the world, all women should just wear a hijab in solidarity. You literally can't make this up. All women. All women in solidarity with those who wear a hijab for religious reasons. The day will come when we're going to ask you all women to wear a headscarf too, in solidarity because of Islamophobia. The President of Austria telling you that while women in Iran are literally willing to be beaten to death over the freedom to show their hair, do we care about banning that type of authoritarianism in places like the United Kingdom? No. No. The only things that we do want to ban in places like the United Kingdom or the EU or Canada or Australia, or frighteningly, probably the United States. Next is the ability to speak freely about these issues. The Prime Minister of the uk, Keir Starmer, is under intense scrutiny this week because literally, he was asked to ban first cousin marriage, AKA incest, after it has become largely normalized with the dawn of mass migration in the United Kingdom. And he refused, just straight up refused, to ban first cousin marriage or incest in the uk. Listen to this.

[UK Parliament Member]

A marriage between first cousins carries significant health issues, many of which aren't even noble until post birth, when practice generation after generation, there is a significant multiplier effect. In addition, the real impacts for the openness of our society and women's rights in our country are also Significant. After all, there are significant dynamics in sharing the same set of grandparents. On Friday, this government has a choice to let my bill go through to ban first cousin marriage to committee stage. Will the Prime Minister think again before instructing his whips to block this legislation? Prime Minister. Mr. Speaker, we've taken our position on that bill. Thank you. That completes Prime Minister's questions.

[Isabel Brown]

Are you serious? Nothing to say about incest being normalized again because of the arrival of radical Islam on the shores of the United Kingdom because of mass migration? Nah. He refuses to ban first cousin marriage. Instead, Keir Starmer this week is going out of his way to try to ban X. You literally cannot make this up. At the exact same time, tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets in Iran, willing to lay their life down, willing to be beaten to death by the morality police. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is trying to ban the right to free speech in the uk, the reasoning for which is that they claim they're really upset with how GROK can create illicit images through its image generation services, like, for example, people wearing bikinis. So because GROK can take an image of someone and put them in a bikini, X at large, the most important free speech platform on the Internet, needs to be banned from the uk. People, of course, are pointing out that Google's Gemini image generation and ChatGPT, owned by OpenAI, will also generate pictures of people in bikinis when prompted, including generating images of Keir Starmer himself in bikinis. These images are going pretty viral all over social media. This week. This post has 23 million views and Keir Starmer, I have to say, looks a lot better in a bikini than I ever could have possibly imagined. So if Google, Gemini can put the Prime Minister of the UK in a bikini and ChatGPT can put the Prime Minister of the UK in a bikini, it begs the question, why is Keir Starmer so focused on Grok and specifically its parent company with X G? I wonder. Probably because it is the only platform, the only one regularly protecting individual citizens right around the world to criticize the people in power, to speak out against authoritarianism, to fight back against a too powerful government, and to radically tell the truth about mass migration and about radical Islam. Do not think it is a coincidence that right now the countries where X is banned are Iran, China, Russia, Myanmar, Venezuela, North Korea and Turkmenistan. And the countries trying to ban X and join that prestigious list now are the uk, Canada and Australia trying to say that it's about bullying, it's about illicit images, it's about pornography. These people aren't actually interested in protecting you from illicit behavior. If they were, they probably would be making a much stronger stance from the UK government in preventing teenage girls from being raped in broad daylight by those with cultural differences coming to the uk. What this is really about is blocking our ability to have an honest conversation as humanity about the future of freedom and the truth about radical Islam. It is not a coincidence to me that the only footage we are seeing come out of Iran is because of platforms like X Starlink continuing to connect people to the Internet when the government is going out of their way to shut it down and to cut people off from the outside world. And our ability to share these videos on X and make sure that they get the right amount of viewership and the right attention and eyes on them all over the world. It is not a coincidence that that is what is keeping the Iran story, the biggest story in the world, alive this week. And those who have fallen prey to the lies of radical Islam, who have allowed radical Islam to take over their society and now are refusing to admit that they did something wrong, are trying to ban those same platforms. Only in 2026 is the Western world responding to radical Islam by telling you, yeah, all women should probably just wear a hijab in solidarity with people, while women in Iran are being willing to die for the freedom to not wear a Hijab. Only in 2026 is the Western world saying, yeah, we know much better about things like incest and first cousin marriage, but we don't want to offend anybody. We want to be really radically inclusive. So we're going to refuse to ban first cousin marriage in the uk. We'll just ban X to prevent people from talking about it. While again, people are being literally brave enough to be beaten to death by the morality police for saying that this stuff shouldn't happen, that society is better than this. We live in such an odd dichotomy, such a weird backwards time where we lack the courage in the supposedly free world to speak the truth radically. But the future of our brothers and sisters lives in Iran. The future of the world against authoritarianism. The future of freedom, even here in the west, radically depends on our bravery. Being willing to speak the hard truths, a being willing to support those who are laying their life down for the cause of freedom. So to all of our friends, brothers and sisters in Iran fighting back against radical Islam and authoritarianism, we stand with you. But maybe even more importantly than that, being willing to prevent this ideology from taking over the rest of the world by saying the hard truths here at home now, so that we can be a strong ally to those laying their life down for the cause of freedom. Hard truth for your Monday. Hard truth to start out your week. Islam is incompatible with Western civilization. And I would go one step further to say Islam is incompatible with inherent human dignity and freedom. If Iran isn't the most powerful example of that you could have ever asked for, I don't know what else is. How dare we? How dare we refuse to honor their bravery, refuse to honor their freedom, refuse to honor their basic human dignity as they are willing to lay their life down, to speak their mind, to show their hair, to worship freely, not from the religion that was oppressively shocked shoved upon them within the last 50 years, but in one they so freely choose. And we call ourselves a more enlightened and progressive society. Never again, never again can we allow our cowardice to normalize this all over the world. So today we say to our brothers and sisters in Iran, we love you, we support you, we salute you. We will be doing everything we can to share your message with the world as it is being completely silenced. And here at home, may we all have the bravery to say the hard truths today.

[Fictional Character (Fantasy Dialogue)]

What was it like, Marlon, to be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with, Maradin? I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world. All men know of the great Taliesin, who are my father, that the gods should war for my soul. Princess Garris, savior of our people. I know what the Bull God offered you. I was offered the same. And there is a new pirate work in the world. I've seen it. A God who sacrifices what he loves for us.

[Narrator/Host]

We are each given only one life, singer.

[Fictional Character (Fantasy Dialogue)]

No. We're given another. I learned of Yazu the Christian, and I have become his follower. He's waiting on a miracle. And I think you can give him one. Trust in Ya'sul. He is the only hope for men like us. Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Light.

[Narrator/Host]

Great light. Great darkness. Such things mattered to me then.

[Fictional Character (Fantasy Dialogue)]

What matters to you now, Mistress of lies?

[Narrator/Host]

You, nephew. The sword of a high king. How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield? So, clinging to the promises of a God who has abandoned you.

[Fictional Character (Fantasy Dialogue)]

I cannot take up their sword again.

[Narrator/Host]

You know what you must do.

[Fictional Character (Fantasy Dialogue)]

Great Light, forgive. The time has come to be reborn.