162 Mass Protests, Morality Police, and Iranian Bravery | King Raam

The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast

Mikhaila Peterson

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode, I spoke with King Raam about Iran's ongoing anti-government protests in response to the death of a 22 year old Kurdish woman in Iran, Mahsa Amini. I felt the need to cover this as there’s a narrative in the west that women in Iran are not oppressed and that is not the case. We discussed the death of Mahsa Amini, the cause of these protests, Iranian Theocracy, breaking the pillar of hijab, Ebrahim Raisi and autocracy in Iran, and much more. King Raam is an Iranian musician and the host of the Masty O Rasty Podcast, where he's been actively covering the protests occurring in Iran. Thanks for tuning in. If you enjoyed this conversation, be sure to subscribe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I'm about to say is going to piss off a lot of people.
0:02.3	Hijab is a symbol of oppression.
0:04.4	Hijab is one of the main pillars of this foundation
0:07.3	of this Islamic Republic, and it's been completely broken.
0:10.4	This is a huge blow to the Islamic Republic.
0:13.0	This is only the beginning of a much, much bigger movement
0:16.0	in my opinion.
0:20.3	Hey, everybody. Welcome to my podcast.
0:22.1	I'm Michaela Peterson.
0:23.5	I had King Rahm on my podcast yesterday
0:27.3	to discuss the Iranian protests that are going on right now
0:31.6	because a 22-year-old girl named Masa was killed
0:35.8	because her hair was showing outside of her hijab.
0:40.4	So I know in the West we have a couple of narratives
0:43.6	around the hijab and Islam.
0:47.0	And you can be considered Islamophobic
0:50.2	if you talk about how the hijab can be oppressive.
0:53.2	But in a society where if your hair is outside of it,
0:56.8	you can be taken by the morality police
0:59.1	and killed, that counts as oppressive.
1:01.9	So I had King Rahm on to discuss what it looks like in Iran.
1:06.2	What people should know about around the world
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