Selective Outrage: The Left, The Right, and America’s Middle East Hypocrisy

2025-10-07

In this episode of The Grail Standard, Sir Yvain confronts one of the great moral contradictions of our age — the strange alliance between woke progressives, so-called moderate Muslims, and radical Islamist movements whose beliefs stand against everything the modern Left claims to uphold. Why do Western activists defend ideologies that would strip them of the freedoms they champion? And why does the Right refuse to face how decades of U.S. intervention — from the overthrow of Mossadegh in 1953 to the war...

In this episode of The Grail Standard, Sir Yvain confronts one of the great moral contradictions of our age — the strange alliance between woke progressives, so-called moderate Muslims, and radical Islamist movements whose beliefs stand against everything the modern Left claims to uphold.

Why do Western activists defend ideologies that would strip them of the freedoms they champion? And why does the Right refuse to face how decades of U.S. intervention — from the overthrow of Mossadegh in 1953 to the wars in Iraq and Libya — helped ignite the very extremism it condemns?

Through history, philosophy, and chivalric reflection, this episode cuts through tribal narratives to reveal the deeper truth: loving freedom means being honest about your own side’s hypocrisy.

If we seek to rebuild moral integrity in the modern world, we must reclaim the knightly virtues of honor, courtesy, and courage — and face both the sins of the West and the cruelty of its enemies with the same clarity.

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