Idealistic fantasy landed this couple in an Iranian jail

 
 It appears as though many in Western nations cannot accept the fact that not every culture has the same values and/or thinks the way the West does.

Couple Imprisoned in Iran While Trying to Dispel Its “Bad Rap” Are the Latest Victims of the Left’s Fantasy World
By Robert Spencer

The story has invited more ridicule than sympathy: an Australian couple has been arrested in Iran after only traveling there in the first place to “try to break the stigma around travelling to countries which get a bad wrap [sic] in the media.” 



Jolie King and Mark Firkin should have known better, but they are by no means the first naïve Westerners to mock that ridiculed the idea that “the world is a big, scary place” and then place themselves in harm’s way. Those were the words of Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, an American couple that was murdered by Islamic State (ISIS) jihadis last year while biking through Tajikistan.

As naïve as all four of these people certainly are or were, the responsibility for their plight lies not just with the Islamic Republic of Iran or ISIS, but also with the Leftist world in which they moved and lived. The Left’s leaders constructed a fantasy world, because Leftist ideas are dead on the drawing board without it.

In this fantasy world, Islam is peace. Borders and nation-states are unwelcome relics of a bygone age, because people are good everywhere — with the exception of Donald Trump and the “far-right.”

Austin and Geoghegan made this clear as they embarked on their journey. Austin, an employee of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Geoghegan, who worked at Georgetown University, decided two years ago to leave their jobs and go on a bike ride around the world. They kept a blog about their journey, on which Austin wrote:

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