At some point, a country has to stop arguing with reality

(JNS) — Australia is an open, tolerant democracy and that is worth defending. But openness should never mean blindness.

Currently in the country, events are being organized to honor the memory of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the 86-year-old theocratic dictator slain on Feb. 28 in the joint U.S.-Israel war on Iran, who ruled the Islamic Republic for nearly four decades through one of the most repressive regimes in the modern world. The disturbing part is not only that these memorials are being planned. It is that they are proceeding openly, including in venues that are public, council-owned or conne...