A female Lebanese TV host has won wide-spread support after standing her ground against an Islamist scholar following his sexist comments live on air.
Rima Karaki was conducting an interview with London-based Islamist Hani Al-Seba'i for Lebanon's Al Jadeed on the weekend of International Women’s Day, discussing reports of Christians joining Islamic groups such as ISIS in the Middle East when the scholar went off on a historical tangent.
The row, which has been watched more than 2.3million times on YouTube, comes as global views on women’s rights face more scrutiny than ever before.
Last month, a manifesto - reportedly written by an all-women Islamic State militia - advised that nine is a good age to consider marriage for girls, who should have husbands by 16.
It also said women must stay behind closed doors, be veiled and only leave the house in exceptional circumstances.
While in India, a documentary caused outrage last week in which convicted rapist Mukesh Singh blamed his victim Jyoti Singh for the attack.
In the recent footage, Karaki urges Sheik Al-Seba'i to get back to the issues being faced in the present day, and asks him another question, a request which sparks a heated argument.
'It was at its peak during the 1970s, with the leftist revolutionary movement,' he says.
'Back then, we saw leftist organisation like the Red Brigades in Italy, the Red Army in Germany, the Baader Meinhof Group .
