Officials say unidentified man killed influencer who had previously been imprisoned over dancing videos
A man on a motorbike has shot dead a social media influencer known as Om Fahad outside her Baghdad home, Iraqi security officials have said.
The unidentified attacker shot Om Fahad in her car in the Zayouna district on Friday, a security official said, requesting anonymity because he was not cleared to speak to the media.
Another security source said the attacker appeared to have pretended to be making a food delivery.
Om Fahad became known for lighthearted TikTok videos of herself dancing to Iraqi music wearing tight-fitting clothes.
In February last year, a court sentenced her to six months in prison for sharing “videos containing indecent speech that undermines modesty and public morality”.
Pre-1979 Iran seemed pretty decent.
You mean pre 1953 Iran. After the US, Britain and Israel couped out the democratically elected President and installed the Shah, more than 30.000 people “went missing” at the hands of the interior police which received training from CIA and Mossad.
I just meant how women could dress in Western-style clothing and whatnot.
Looks is not really the be-all-end-all of freedom.
I prefer having limits to what is considered appropriate clothing, over getting disappeared, tortured and murdered by interior police.
Also in regards to clothing, it is always interesting to take a look back at how people in the west dressed at the time and what was deemed acceptable. My father was shunned for being a “beatle” and “rowdy” for having long hair in the 70s in Germany. People at the time would get a heart attack with how people can dress nowadays.
Add also Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq to the list before all the meddling and government overthrowing. Things were a mess, but the Middle East was developed, people were educated, and there was a lot of cultural developments that last until today e.g. in music. That was going on up until like the 60s, 70s when fundamentalism as a reaction to Western interference (Iran and to an extend even Saudi Arabia as ridiculous as it sounds in 2024), or Soviet invasion (Afghanistan).