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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

MAGA lobbyist suggests Iranian schoolgirls killed in airstrikes are better off dead than ‘in a burqa’

A conservative lobbyist has sparked outrage for suggesting that the Iranian schoolgirls killed in airstrikes this week amid the joint U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign are better off dead than being “alive in a burqa.”

Matt Schlapp, who heads up the Conservative Union advocacy group, which runs the Conservative Political Action Conference, made the remark Wednesday night on Piers Morgan’s Uncensored during a heated debate.

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