ORF couldn’t very well be expected to join the uprising. Still, the tone-deafness is so typical of Leftist multiculturalists. Western feminists hold Hijab Day every year and have never said a thing about Iranian women risking everything to be free from the hijab. Katharina Wagner’s headscarf was emblematic of the West’s submission even amidst the uprising of Iranian women.
“During the protest: ORF surprises ZiB viewers with a headscarf correspondent,” translated from “Während Protest: ORF überrascht ZiB-Seher mit Kopftuch-Korrespondentin,” Exxpress, September 29, 2022 (thanks to Medforth):
The pictures of the courageous women in Iran protesting have gone around the world – and the videos of police violence against the demonstrators are shocking. At least 76 people were killed, said the director of the Oslo-based human rights organization Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, citing video footage and death certificates.
Despite hundreds of arrests and threats from the government, the protests continue: In several Iranian cities, women could be seen taking off their veils and setting them on fire or symbolically cutting their hair. Riot police beat demonstrators with batons.
In this situation, the ORF newsroom let editor Katharina Wagner broadcast live in Tehran – wearing a headscarf. Many viewers were surprised: Ironically, in a TV report about the protests against the headscarf, against the radical mullahs, does the ORF employee make a “model Iranian”? This was probably a requirement of the Iranian regime, which the ORF accepted for this contribution.
Caused an emotional debate: The ORF’s acceptance of the guidelines of the regime in Tehran.
FPÖ politician: “Van der Bellen likes it.”A heated debate immediately broke out on social media channels. And Harald Vilimsky, the FPÖ MEP, poured fuel on the fire: “Van der Bellen likes that,” he wrote on Twitter, alluding to the headscarf-sayer of the Green Federal President.
As is well known, Van der Bellen caused irritation with this saying: “We will have to ask all women to wear a headscarf – out of solidarity.” In view of the massive protests by courageous women in Iran, this sentence hasn’t really aged well.
An official statement from the ORF leadership or the ZiB1 editor-in-chief about the strange headscarf appearance has not yet come.
Tweets immediately recalled Van der Bellen’s statement in 2017.
Medforth says
The Austrian public broadcaster ORF is once again courting the regime by having an editor who reports on the women’s protests in Iran wearing a headscarf
So it was not an isolated action that “happened” to the ORF news editors: Once again a ZiB1 employee wearing a headscarf appeared in the news programme – just when thousands of courageous Iranian women are demonstrating against the forced wearing of headscarves. are protesting.
“The women in Iran are fighting for their freedom and are taking off their headscarves. The ORF Tehran correspondent on ZiB1 wears a headscarf …” is how the well-known journalist Isabella Klausnitzer criticises the repeated appearance wearing a headscarf in one of Austria’s most important news programmes.
More: https://medforth.biz/the-austrian-public-broadcaster-orf-is-once-again-courting-the-regime-by-having-an-editor-who-reports-on-the-womens-protests-in-iran-wearing-a-headscarf/
gravenimage says
Thanks for that background, Medforth.
bill carr says
Maybe for her own protection. A papradox to say the least
Hank says
Just follow the thread and find out who the “useful idiot” is that is giving the orders to the editors to wear a headscarf while brave Persian women are being killed by the dictates of Mr Mo from Arabia for a few strands of hair. Then boot-out the culprit and cronies
gravenimage says
To be fair, I doubt they would have been allowed to report from Tehran without this.
somehistory says
Back when the *allies* were fighting the taliban in afghanistan, several Ameran reporters wore headscarves while talking about the lack of freedom for the women and girls of that nation…whipped in the street by the taliban for not being properly covered. the *reporters* didn’t want to be whipped in the street, so they wore headscarves while talking about the poor women who would be *freed* by the allied forces there to get rid of the taliban.
Now, the *poor women* of iran are fighting for their freedom, so who shows up to talk about that?
The U.S. *news* orgs could send a bevy of beauties to also wear headscarves as they talk about the lack of freedom for women under the mule uhs and how many are dying for their courage.
perhaps dr jill and pretend vp harris, along with tlaib, elmi (alias omar), aoc, jayapal, pelosi, cheny and s. abrams could go on over and i. elmi could give them instructions on wearing it correctly so as not to anger the immoral “morality police.’ And they could all then stay there and lecture the mule uhs on ice cream, phobias, progressivism, birth control devices, etc.
PRCS says
The tone-deafness of wearing a scarf while reporting on the current protest by Iranian women aside, Qur’an applies to Muslim women.
As an aside, the Islamic Republic of Iran government may have stipulated that she wear that scarf.
And, likely clueless that Qur’an 33:59 mandates ‘the veil’, she missed the real story.
European pagan says
I’m waiting for the transgender lesbian hijabis
GreekEmpress says
She’d better be careful—she’s got too much hair showing—
somehistory says
a little too much chest, Ie: some, showing. and for the rabid mozlums. some is too much.
gravenimage says
Yep.
gravenimage says
Austria: State broadcaster features headscarf-wearing correspondent reporting on women in Iran protesting headscarf
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Ah–hard to know what to say here. Of course, I’m sure the Mullahs would not have let her broadcast from Tehran at all if she *didn’t* wear the slave rag. Still, the irony is stunning.
pattyw says
Just shameless and brainless. No other words. Evil at its finest.