[throw0101c]

>> Millions of muslims around the world viewed the Iranian theocracy as the only power in the world fighting for Islam. They are devastated.

> They are devastated but they are were totally quiet on the unarmed thirty thousands+ protesters the islamist iranian regime killed in a matter of days a few weeks ago.

One person's protestor is another's insurrectionist.

See also the folks on January 6: (now-pardoned) patriots trying to 'stop the steal', or crazies trying to overthrow the government?

[Recurecur]

You should read up on “false equivalence”…

[throw0101c]

> You should read up on “false equivalence”…

You should read up on "Terrorists or Freedom Fighters":

* https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/terroris...

* https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/no-volume/on-terrorists-a...

[I-M-S]

I believe the OP's point was precisely that there's no objective true and false equivalence - there's just forces trying to impose a narrative which one is which.

[HDThoreaun]

The US didn’t mass kill Jan 6ers.

[throw0101c]

> The US didn’t mass kill Jan 6ers.

Were the Jan6ers good guys or bad guys? Did they deserve to get punished? (Trump didn't/doesn't think so, which is why he pardoned them; Pence may have a different opinion.)

The fact that different countries have different punishments for the same crime is a cultural artefact. The fact that you find it unacceptable is personal opinion. In Singapore drug use (not even distribution) is punishable by up to 10 years in prison:

* https://www.cnb.gov.sg/singapore-drug-situation/misuse-of-dr...

Too much? Too little?

One can say that a person did bad things, but the punishment was inappropriate in a particular case, but some kind of punishment was needed.

Were the Iranian protestors/insurrectionists guilty of crimes? Did they deserve some kind of punishment?