Sit as I just did, and watch the cell-phone video via YouTube of spontaneous resistance to modesty police in Tehran.

This cell phone video is of poor quality, and half the time it’s sideways, but it conveys the aftermath of the incident. At least hundreds of Iranians, if not thousands, have gathered and are chanting anti-Mullah slogans, including the one that I think must be most chilling to tyrants the world over: “How many people do you think you can kill?”

The modesty cops had tried to arrest a young woman for dressing Western, and I don’t mean sombrero and chaps.  When a young man tried to stop them, they beat him up and threw him into a garbage can.  But by then hundreds had gathered who stopped the arrest and chased the cops.

The mullahs don’t have full control.

Many experts on Iran, including Michael Ledeen, are of the view that encouraging internal resistance may be our most effective way of dealing with the current government. This video offers a window into what is happening in Tehran; for the whole story, go to Pajamas Media.

Citizen journalism of a high order.

Wow.  Why didn’t I think of this?  Sensible Muslims are not silent about Mad Muslims, says Stephen Schwartz.  They just aren’t being reported.

The problem is more that of “MSM silence” than of “Muslim silence.” . . .  MSM silence about moderate Islam discourages the recruitment of moderates to anti-terrorist activism, but also deters the solidarity of non-Muslims who could otherwise assist moderate Muslims.

For instance, the Fort Dix Six, four of whom are ethnic Albanians, stimulated an anti-Albanian binge (though with no mention of Mother Teresa, of course).  Not reported was this from “the Presidency of the Albanian Muslim Community in the U.S. and Canada”:

We condemn all acts of terrorism. …  [We] fully support United States Government efforts to end terror. . . .  We are against all those ‘so-called Muslims’ who misuse and humiliate Islam and create ugly images of the Muslim people… We pray to Almighty God to save and protect the United States.”

Does stuff like that not pass the fit-to-print test?

This came out of the Fort Dix episode:

“If these people [arrested for plotting to attack the fort] did something, then they deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law,” said Sohail Mohammed, a lawyer who represented scores of detainees after the 2001 attacks. “But when the government says ‘Islamic militants,’ it sends a message to the public that Islam and militancy are synonymous.”

Not so.  If they said “Islamic” people when they meant militants, that would send that message.  But to speak of Islamic militants is to say not all Islamic people are militants or all militants Islamic.  Don’t they teach logic where that guy went to law school?