Rita Panahi Biography
Rita Panahi is an Australian right-wing opinion columnist of American origin. She is the host of The Rita Panahi Show and The Friday Show on Sky News Australia, as well as a contributor to Sunrise on the Seven Network, for The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT), a division of News Corp Australia. She may be heard on 3AW and 2GB.
How old is Rita Panahi? – Age
She is 47 years old as of 2023. She was born in 1976 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States.
Rita Panahi Family – Education
Panahi was born to Iranian parents in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in the United States. Her mother worked as a midwife, while her father was a farmer. During her childhood, the family returned to Iran, staying on the seaside before relocating to Tehran in 1979. During the Iranian Revolution, her mother worked for a hospital affiliated with the Shah.
Panahi’s parents were described as “relaxed Muslims who were not particularly political.” Her family, however, was targeted by the Shia Islamist government of Ayatollah Khomeini. They were recognized as refugees by Australia in 1984 and settled in Melbourne.
Panahi worked in banking while studying but not completing a Bachelor of Business Finance at Monash University. She became a member of Australian Young Labor and volunteered throughout the 1996 election campaign. Panahi served as a personal banker at Colonial Mutual and was the company’s youngest branch manager.
Rita Panahi Marriage
Panahi has been tight-lipped about her life partner. She had a child with an unidentified father in 2016 and was a single parent.
Rita Panahi Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Rita Panahi Sky News
Panahi also appears on Sky News Australia and Sunrise on the Seven Network on a regular basis. She also works as a radio commentator for 3AW and 2GB. Panahi began hosting The Friday Show on Sky News Live in March 2018.
Sky News Australia is a news channel in Australia owned by News Corp Australia. It debuted on February 19, 1996, and provides continuous news coverage throughout the day, with its prime-time roster devoted to opinion-based programming showcasing a lineup of conservative pundits.
Rita Panahi Hijab
She is a former Muslim who criticizes certain aspects of Islam. Panahi has blamed the regressive left of fostering Islamism in the West, claiming that “the former excuse behavior that they would never tolerate from non-Muslims.” As an example of such abetment, she has portrayed Western feminists who see modest covers like burkas, niqabs, and hijabs as symbols of variety or empowerment. She is, however, opposed to a blanket ban on Muslim immigration. She favors offshore prison camps for illegal immigrants, as well as asylum seekers who arrive by sea in Australia.
She has fought against the burqa and chastised non-Western women who wear hijabs in solidarity with Muslim women, claiming that the hijab is a political as well as a religious symbol and that she was compelled to wear one as a child in Iran. She has backed anti-veil sentiments made by former Muslims such as Darya Safai and Yasmine Mohammed.
Rita Panahi Career
Panahi started out by writing a weekly sports gossip column for the free daily commuter newspaper mX. Her section was gotten for a subsequent year and by 2007 she was a normal visitor on the AM sports radio broadcast SEN. She acquired her MBA from Swinburne. Panahi began working for the Herald Sun, a publication of the Herald and Weekly Times (HWT), a News Corp. Australia subsidiary, in September 2007. Additionally, Panahi appears frequently as a guest on Sunrise on the Seven Network and Sky News Australia. She also participates as a radio commentator on 2GB and 3AW.
Panahi began hosting The Friday Show on Sky News Live in March 2018. It has been said that Panahi is conservative. On a few social issues, she has been called “surprisingly” progressive. Margaret Simons made the observation while writing for SBS that Panahi despises homophobia and has supported women choosing single motherhood, just like she has.
Panahi and Andrew O’Keefe fought over Islamic extremists on Weekend Sunrise in January 2015. She stated that “if you value the rights of women you would have issues with the burqa” and “We’ve got to stop… pretending like Islam is like any other religion as far as being behind incidences of terror.” She published an article titled “Islam, you have a very serious problem” in the Daily Telegraph in January 2015. News site New Matilda distributed an open letter disparaging of Panahi’s article.
In a discussion over prejudice in mid 2016, Panahi was in a group restricting ABC moderator Stan Award. Panahi contended that Australia ought not be described as bigoted.
Michael Kroger encouraged Panahi to run for Liberal Party pre-selection in the state electorate of Frankston in Victoria in January 2017. Panahi has stated that she used to support republicanism but now supports keeping Australia’s monarchy, arguing that the monarchy is flawed but “the reality is that it works for Australia.” We have a stable government with a figurehead who is nice, admired, and doesn’t care about our business. She also disagrees with Peter FitzSimons, chairman of the Australian Republican Movement, and she agrees with former Senator David Leyonhjelm’s assessment that monarchy debates are a non-issue for average Australians but are pushed obsessively by republicans. Notwithstanding, Panahi has scrutinized the political explanations made by Meghan Markle and Ruler Harry, contending they have “destroyed” the tradition of Sovereign Elizabeth. She has also suggested that Prince William should inherit the crown in the event that the Queen passes away.
Panahi and Andrew O’Keefe fought over Islamic extremists on Weekend Sunrise in January 2015. She stated that “if you value the rights of women you would have issues with the burqa” and “We’ve got to stop… pretending like Islam is like any other religion as far as being behind incidences of terror.” She published an article titled “Islam, you have a very serious problem” in the Daily Telegraph in January 2015. News site New Matilda distributed an open letter disparaging of Panahi’s article.
In a discussion over prejudice in mid 2016, Panahi was in a group restricting ABC moderator Stan Award. Panahi argued that racist stereotypes should not be applied to Australia.