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.
“During the protest: ORF surprises ZiB viewers with a headscarf correspondent”.
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.