Enough is enough.
Controversial Q&A participant Zaky Mallah has reached a new low with his latest torrent of sexist abuse — today, we stand in solidarity with the women he’s targeting.
In a fresh round of abuse, Mallah has taken aim at conservative female commentators Rita Panahi and Miranda Divine — labelling them “trashy whores” and speaking in the lewdest possible terms about “gang banging” them.
In case you missed the background on this story, Mallah is a one-time terror suspect who sparked uproar last week when he suggested on Q&A that the Federal government’s behaviour ‘justified’ young Australians’ support of ISIS. (Read more about the original controversy here.)
Mallah first displayed deeply sexist attitudes in January this year, when he appeared to promote the gang rape of Divine and Panahi.
As we wrote yesterday, that comment alone was abhorrent enough.
But even after the backlash he’s received this week — and even following Tony Jones’ clarification that the ABC would never have allowed him on its Q&A programme had they known of his misogynist tweets — it seems Mallah has learned nothing.
Because now, he’s spewed a fresh tirade of hatred directed at the two women. And nothing about that is okay.
Instead of apologising — or even simply retiring from the public eye for a while — Mallah hit back at suggestions his tweets were sexist by making further revolting remarks about women.
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Everyone is free to say what they want ... but we are also free to ridicule someone because of what they say.
All well and good but given that Mamamia is usually all over any incidence of actual or alleged sexism did you object to this back in January? I don't seem to recall it and when the original Q&A furore happened last week y'all didn't seem to think it was such a big deal.
Because he is a nobody, so no one knew about the tweets until after the furore last week. He is a 30 year old unemployed man living at home, hence it wasn't in the media at the time as no one would follow his media profiles.