A video has gone viral of a Lebanese television presenter who cut short an interview with a London-based salafi scholar after he told her to “shut up”.
A video has gone viral of a Lebanese television presenter who cut short an interview with a London-based Islamist scholar after he told her to “shut up”.
Rima Karaki, a TV host and university professor, told the scholar: “In this studio, I run the show.” .
During the discussion about reports of Christians joining ISIS, which aired on Al-Jadeed TV on 2 March, Sheikh Hani Al-Siba’i, an Egyptian scholar, told Karaki: “Are you done? Shut up so I can talk.”
The presenter responded by saying: “How can a respected sheikh like yourself tell a TV host to shut up?”
Siba’i then said: “It’s beneath me to be interviewed by you. You are a woman who ….” His microphone is then cut off.
Karaki stopped the interview after just three minutes, saying: “Just one second. Either there is mutual respect or the conversation is over.”