Sup you beautiful bastards.

Hope even a fantastic Thursday.

Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show

and let's just jump into it.

And the first thing we should talk about today is Iraq and Shema Kassin.

Shema, if you don't know, is Miss Iraq 2015.

She has a large following on Instagram with 2.7 million followers.

And the unfortunate part of that is that's put her in the spotlight in a country where

religious violence is still prevalent.

Kaseim is considered Westernized, meaning she often dresses more akin to European and American

women she doesn't wear the

hijab or other modest clothing by the standards of the region and because of

this she has received a ton of hate online some messages in post criticizing her

for her in modesty and others just saying you will die.

And some post recently seemingly got so bad that she ended up having to disable comments

flat out.

And as past Sunday, she had a live stream where she made it clear that she actually fears

for her life noting that women who have been famous in Iraq have been slaughtered like

chicken. She also mentions that she has received death threats via text message, one simply saying

your next. And as far as, well, how do you know for sure that's a death threat,

Kaseim wouldn't be the first quote unquote Westernized woman in Iraq to face this problem.

And one of those notable women is someone Kacim praised in her live stream as a martyr by the name

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