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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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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago (28 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (27 children)

I've spent a good 60 seconds looking at this picture trying to figure out what it is supposed to mean and I still don't know.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (25 children)

It's a reference to Redditors circlejerking about the same picture of an Iranian woman wearing a bikini in the 1960s. The rest of the country was not dressed like that at all but it makes for a good propaganda story about how the west liberated Iran by overthrowing their government.

For more information https://www.reddit.com/r/Izlam/comments/8tpg4l/imagine_thinking_you_understand_the_history_of_a/

And no Muslim that practices the faith will tell you wearing a Hijab is optional for Muslim women. It is not a contested opinion among any scholar either.

[–] footoro@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you follow the madhhab of YouTube and you rely too much on Sheikh Wikipedia, you may draw this conclusion but it’s really more nuanced than this and I thought we’re past this kind of radicalism where only one opinion is valid and everyone else goes to hell since ISIS got busted more or less.

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