Christian Marcussen wrote that a deleted TikTok video from October 2022 showed Afrah al-Jabouri visiting Iran, where she stated that she felt comfortable covering herself as much as possible. He noted that the video was posted while Iranian women were burning their hijabs in protest, and that al-Jabouri wrote in the post's text that some did not understand freedom, and that it was disrespectful to burn something related to Islam. Marcussen wrote that the video was posted a month after 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran's morality police for not wearing a hijab. According to him, Amini was abused in police custody, hospitalized, and died. He wrote that her death triggered the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, where women burned their hijabs in protest against mandatory covering and violence. Marcussen added that the protests were still ongoing when the video was posted, and that over 200 people had been killed and more than 5,000 arrested. He described al-Jabouri's video as mocking and expressed sympathy for Iran's theocratic regime. He called it extremely repugnant and believed it reflected a deeply radicalized mind. He also described the video as an example of what he called islamfluencing: an attempt to portray Islam and the oppression of Islamic regimes as appealing and positive. #Iran #KvindersRettigheder #Protester (translated)
