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She wasn't even a Muslim. She was a part of the very small secular Iranian diaspora. This is literally like getting a German to draw Nazi propaganda about German Jews and then going "Well they are German, so you cannot say anything about it."
She wasn't part of the group she drew racist cartoons about. Do you understand this?
She's siding with the huge majority (non-Muslims in the West which are waging genocidal wars of extermination) against the small minority (Muslims in the Middle-East being genocided).
The "Muslims aren't a race" is a cop-out argument by racists because for the average Westerner there's functionally no difference. You apply the exact logic to Jews not being a race as well.
What "her own people"? She was raised in a secular non-Muslim family and was wealthy under the Shah. She doesn't represent the average Iranian whatsoever.
She sides with Israel against Palestinians what "lived experiences" do you think she has? Real dementors?
It's not about agreeing. It's about understanding that her goal was to demonize Muslims in order to bring "freedom and democracy" to their countries.
Her message of why the Middle East is in shambles wasn't "wow this colonialism thing sure is bad", but "look at what those terrible muzlamics did to themselves. If only they were enlightened like me"
Imagine if Western evangelicals were being genocided and then non-evangelical Westerner made these kinds of cartoons. Do you get it now?
She literally supports Israel, so functionally she supports the Shah.
In her book Her Life Was Good Under the Shah because she was a secular upper middle class Iranian. Then the Shah just spontaneously got up and left.
I'm not sure where your comparisons to Morocco come from. Have you paid any attention where the Middle East is? Hint: oil. Was Iraq a genocide? Was Yemen a genocide? Yes.
Israel is very openly saying they want to genocide all Iranians and have already massacared many. The US is bombing children schools. What do you think the word "war" means?
Iran is just trying to live its life and rebuild for their citizens while their population is being oppressed by the US and Israel. And you are telling me this woman is critiquing the Iranian government and siding with Israel because she wants what's best for the people?
We both know what Israel is going to do to Iran if the Iranian government falls.
I believe you can fully judge the intentions of everyone who wrote anything on the Middle East by their response to the genocide in Palestine.
Her acknowledgement of "Shah bad"doesn't really hold up when she then spends most of her time demonizing those who fought the Shah. Liberalist both-sides fence sitters who "acknowledge" the Shah was propped up by the Brits but oppose a government which Iranians wanted themselves are just two-faced.
Sure, but she wasn't literally 10 when she drew her cartoons. She was writing the comic from the perspective of a 10 year old. I'm sure she had her valid gripes with the Iranian government but her entire comic is just r/atheism zingers with only "and then everyone clapped" missing.
It wasn't a deep analysis of Iranian society. It was flattening it to confirm Western demonization of it.