Blogger's 'Crime' Against the Islamic State

Farouz Farzami has writeen an account of her dealings with the Iranian authorities in response to her blogging in the LA Times:

The next day, I was taken to a room down a long corridor and told to sit down. A fat hand with an agate stone ring set an interrogation form in front of me. Then he began asking about my Web log, which has hyperlinks on it to Western feminist groups. 'Do you accept the charges?' the interrogator asked. 'What charges?' 'That you have written things in your Web log that go against the Islamic system and that encourage people to topple the system,' he said. 'You are inviting corrupt American liberalism to rule Iran.'

Read the whole thing. I have long wondered if I would have the courage to stand up in a similar situation. It is of course easy to say 'I would never stand for that sort of thing,' but much harder to actually do it when your life, and those of your friends and family are on the line. I would hope I could display courage in such a situation. I hope ever more that I am never required to find out for sure.