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.
“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.
