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Linkerbaan Jul 5, 2024

Iranian in UK flees to Israel after pulling off headscarves

Iranian in UK flees to Israel after pulling off headscarves - Lemmy.World

An Iranian monarchist who filmed herself pulling the headscarves off Iranians in London fled to Israel after UK police announced they were investigating her. The woman allegedly responsible is an Iranian pro-Israel activist called Bahar Mahroo, who later closed her Instagram and TikTok accounts and claimed she found the videos online. However, a reserve image search found no sources for the video, other than her Twitter account.

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footoro Jul 5, 2024

What an absurd story.

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Flying Squid Jul 5, 2024

This is just anti-Muslim racism.

There is no reason to believe that this woman is not herself a Muslim. Not all Muslims are in favor of head scarves. Iran was a Muslim country while the Shah ruled it too despite head scarves not being required in Tehran at the time. Is she a horrible person? Did she do something unconscionable? Absolutely. But I think calling her a racist for what she did when she could be Muslim herself is going a bit too far.

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Linkerbaan

She did appear to have racist motivations

Mahroo’s Twitter account also reveals support for far-right politicians across Europe including well known racists like Tommy Robinson. Mahroo posted herself boarding a flight to Tel Aviv shortly after police in London announced their probe into her videos.