Who is rita panahi

Panahi comes from the heart of the modern conflict between western traditions and radical Islam. She and her family were refugees from the Iranian revolution of , in which the western allied Shah of Iran was overthrown by the repressive theocracy of the Ayatollah Khomeini. That was the first time the western world was shaken by the power of radical Islamic resurgence and its hatred of the west. This was the revolution that redrew the map of global alliances.

We are still roiling in the aftermath, and Rita Panahi as an influential critic of Islam is one of the legacies. Rita Panahi recalls her family's arrival in Australia. Rita Panahi was born in in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, while her Iranian father was studying at the local university to become an agricultural engineer. Her mother was a midwife.

When Rita was still an infant, the family returned to Iran. Her first memories were of an idyllic life on the Iranian coast. By , the family had moved to Tehran. Panahi was still little more than a toddler, but she remembers the mounting fear when the Shah was overthrown and the Ayatollah came to power.

Panahi's mother had worked in a senior midwifery position at a hospital that bore the name of the Royal Family and was patronised by them.

This put the family on the line. And people fairly close to us; they were in our family. I think I learnt it mainly on television. Her parents, she says, were not particularly political. They are what she describes as "relaxed" Muslims. Nevertheless, the family was targeted. That was enough for you to be under suspicion I remember not being able to go home certain nights because there were raids being done and they thought that would come for us. Meanwhile she was made to feel the weight of being female.

One of her keenest childhood memories is of having had a head injury, which caused her hair to be shaved. Suddenly, people thought she was a boy. This meant freedom. For as long as I could, I kept asking my parents to shave my hair and they humoured me for a few months. I think it was just the sense of freedom where you didn't have to have the hijab and you could play with the boys.

Clockwise from top: Rita's mother Zinat holds a gun in pre-revolution Iran; Rita as an Iranian schoolgirl; a birthday in Australia for Rita's brother Reza centre ; baby Rita in the US with her aunt and mother.

These memories have given her a strong contempt for those who, as she puts it, "appease" strict Islam. In October this year, she wrote about her childhood as part of a column decrying the fact that Muslim children attending a Melbourne school had been excused from singing the national anthem because they were observing Muharram — a month of mourning for Muhammad's grandson.

How foolish and wrong, she argued, that Muslim children should now reject a joyful act such as singing the national anthem of their adopted country. Her family arrived in Australia in , without money or assets, choosing Melbourne because her uncle was already here.

They were accepted as refugees and welcomed in a way for which Pahani remains grateful. Her mother quickly found work as a midwife. Her father was not able to find work as an agricultural scientist, but did many jobs, including driving taxis. By the time Panahi was in high school, the family was established and paying off a house — evidence, she says, that Australia is a welcoming country of opportunity. Women don't have the option of working and supporting themselves and choosing to be single, like I am.

In her column, Panahi has argued in favour of stopping the boats, attacked the "self-loathing shame junkies" who "hyperventilate with rage" over government policies, and strongly supported Australia's humanitarian intake through regular means.

Straight from school, Panahi began to work in banking while studying a Bachelor of Business Finance at Monash University. She was a fan of the then Prime Minister, Paul Keating, and joined Young Labor, working as a campaign volunteer in the election.

What was it that drew her to the left? If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain. Panahi does not talk about political ideas at depth. It seems to be people and life experience that drives her.

When Keating lost the election, her move to the right began. Meanwhile, she was having a spectacular career. At 21, she was working for Colonial Mutual in personal banking, writing home loans and organising term deposits. She became the youngest branch manager the company had ever had, supervising people twice her age.

When Colonial Mutual was taken over by the Commonwealth, she moved into corporate banking. By now, her degree studies seemed irrelevant — of little practical use — and she dropped out without graduating. She has written in recent times that many university degrees are useless, saddling students with debt and giving them false hope.

She sees little point in such education. In her late 20s, she was headhunted by the National Australia Bank, but by now she had concluded that something was missing.

She was getting bored: "I couldn't imagine doing this for the next 10, 20, 30 years". The Rita Panahi byline first appeared in March , when the News Corporation free commuter paper, mX , announced a new weekly column as part of its coverage of the AFL football season.

Panahi's role was to rate the "hotness" of AFL footballers. In her first weeks, she constructed a "perve factor ladder". Hawthorn won and Carlton got the wooden spoon. Her column continued throughout the season, with a mix of commentary on the appearance of players, football gossip and satirical advice on how to get an invitation to the Brownlow. Footballers may not be the sharpest knives in the draw but they have X-ray vision when it comes to cleavage, thus padding will not work.

The solution: implants. If you have the operation now, the scars should be gone by Brownlow time. The column was revived the following season. By now, Panahi was becoming well known among sports journalists and in the social whirl that surrounded the AFL.

She turned up to everything. By , she was a regular on SEN, a radio station specialising in sports news and talk. At the age of 31, Panahi left her secure banking career and became a mother. Her decision to become a parent was a deliberate one and she is a single mother by choice. She is guarded about aspects of her private life and relationships, and will not discuss them in public.

Today, those who know Panahi puzzle at her apparent wealth. Her house on the Mornington Peninsula is more than handsome. She takes regular, expensive overseas holidays and is generous to her friends. Victorians deserve to be treated like adults and furnished with all the facts on Covid deaths, not just ones that fit a particular narrative. Victoria has long prided itself on being the home of major events but if we keep demanding vaccine passports it could cost us dearly.

NSW will give jabbed and unjabbed equal freedoms on December 1, but Dan Andrews wants to maintain vaccine passports well into Forcing young kids to wear masks at school is a hysterical anti-science stance opposed by renowned experts — and it must be ditched.

Millions of Victorians have been under strict lockdown to supposedly save hospitals from being overrun, so why have crucial health workers not been allowed to come home?

Several Labor MPs would like to see chief health officer Brett Sutton return to playing activist, rather than autocrat. The Andrews government has been merciless in punishing those who challenge the wisdom of their lockdowns but the treatment of principal Tim Berryman is disturbing.

One of the most shameful episodes of the pandemic has been the ease and regularity with which authorities have lied to the public. Daniel Andrews has been running Victoria since and was the health minister in the Brumby government.

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