Turban_throwing
Turban knocking
Protest method involving removing or knocking-off the clerical headdress of a Shia mullah
Ammāmeparāni (Persian:عمامهپرانی; "turban throwing", "knocking off the turban"), often referred to as Turban knocking in English, refers to a protest action by Iranians in which they throw the turban off the head of a mullah (Persian: Akhund) in order to express their disgust with the Shia clergy and therefore insult it.[1] The action is normally done through the protester running past the subject, knocking the headdress while continuing to run off to avoid capture. During the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran of 2022, people would take videos doing this action, publishing them on social media, resulting in a brief popularization of the protest method.[2][3][4]
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