An Excerpt from This Is America, FIFA

There are a lot of things visitors should know before coming to America.

Tip your server.

Don’t stand in the middle of the sidewalk in Manhattan.

And for the love of all things holy, don’t try to tell Americans what flags they’re allowed to wave.

Apparently, nobody shared that last one with FIFA.

This week, Iranian fans attending World Cup events at SoFi Stadium showed up carrying the historic Lion and Sun flag — the symbol that represented Iran long before the Ayatollahs hijacked the country and turned it into a theocratic hostage situation with oil reserves.

And FIFA, in its infinite wisdom, decided this was a problem. Imagine that.

The regime that funds terror proxies, beats women, imprisons dissidents, hangs protesters, censors journalists, and spends its time threatening neighbors isn’t the problem.

The people carrying a flag opposing that regime are. Brilliant.

Only an international bureaucracy could arrive at a conclusion that stupid.

Let’s be clear about something.

The Lion and Sun flag isn’t some fringe symbol cooked up on social media six months ago. It represents a Persia and an Iran that existed long before the current regime. It is the banner carried by countless Iranian dissidents precisely because they reject what the Ayatollahs have done to their country.

That’s why the regime hates it. And that’s why FIFA should have kept its hands off it.

Instead, FIFA looked at a stadium full of people fleeing one of the most hateful regimes on earth and somehow concluded the problem was the people.

That’s not wisdom. That’s moral stupidity.

The Ayatollahs spend decades silencing opposition, and FIFA decides the opposition is who needs policing. The Ayatollahs are terrified of dissent, and FIFA practically volunteers to help manage it.

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