I have to step up and defend Julia here. She is long-time friend and a dedicated Christian who has lived her faith more powerfully than most people I know. She is not overtly political, but uses mainstream media as a means of speaking her faith and making sure that abuses such as she highlights in this article get out.
Thanks for your input, here. I had hoped that one would emerge to allay my darker suppositions. What you’ve shared of Julia’s character is helpful, but it only makes me even more amazed that she lumped Mandela into this article about the plight of Maryam and Marzieh. Does Duin NOT know who Mandela is and what he did?? If she does know, how did she miss the complete lack of moral equivalency between his imprisonment, and that of these two Iranian women??