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| Topic | CNN cancels interview with Iranian president over headscarf demand |
| BB_mofo 09/22/22 8:37:27 PM #39: | g0ldie posted... for those who don't know, there are mass protests in Iran, where the "morality police" killing a young woman for not wearing a hijab/wearing a hijab improperly was the tipping point: The first woman to ever win a Fields medal was an Iranian mathematician. She died back in 2017 from a terminal disease. Her international reknown as a pioneering mathematician was so great that several Iranian newspapers and showed pictures of her without a hijab. I wonder how much of an effect that had with what is occurring now. I'm not saying it was the catalyst. Her name was Maryam Mirzakhani https://council.science/current/news/maryam-mirzakhani-first-female-winner-of-fields-medal/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani --- "But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" -Mark Twain ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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