![]() Religious zealots, violent nationalists, and anti-imperialist forces export the ideology of Khomeinism far beyond Iran’s borders to London, Berlin, and other cities worldwide, where people openly and proudly wave the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah. Jew-hatred, anti-Americanism, and an ideological orientation against the concept of a liberal democracy bring together the who’s who of reactionism. On the last Friday of Ramadan, ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iranians gather in the streets across the country to mark Al-Quds Day – an Islamist hate fest dedicated to the annihilation of the Jewish State. However, just over a thousand miles away, a very different ideology is at play today. At least 250,000 revelers from across the world are expected to join the Middle East’s largest LGBT event – a rainbow-colored oasis of pluralism and equality in an otherwise fractured region defined by entrenched prejudices of “the other.” Tens of thousands of people flocked to the streets of Tel Aviv on Friday as Israel’s 20th annual Gay Pride Parade kicked off at noon.
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