A former porn star, Mia Khalifa has opened up on how she received death threats from ISIS after filming a scene while wearing a hijab.
The 25 year old American Mia Khalifa, who was born in Lebanon said that the idea to wear the hijab came from the film producers, and she was “just 21 and moderately demure” and didn’t realise she could say no.
While speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live on Friday, she said:
“[The producers] and gave me this script and told me what I would be wearing and I said ‘you are going to get me f**king killed.’
Not even a week later the death threats were racking up. The entire Middle East was after me.”
Miss Mia Khalifa, who was raised a Catholic, disclosed that ISIS shared a manipulated image of herself about to be beheaded by an ISIS executioner in addition to a message warning her that she would go to Hell.
At the time of the incident, Mia Khalifa had replied:
“I’ve been meaning to get a little tan recently”.
That singular scene reportedly divided her home country of Lebanon at the time.
One Twitter user wrote:
“Hijab is something holy, and beautiful, having sex on camera with it is degrading its meaning.”
However, last week during the radio appearance, Mia recalled the controversy at the scene while talking about the terrifying threats.
“The entire Middle East was after me. Lebanon disowned me. My family disowned me.
I had every Muslim on Twitter coming after me with proverbial pitchforks.
There was a Google (Street View) screenshot of my apartment tweeted at me with a death threat.
(ISIS) photoshopped a picture of me on to another person’s body getting beheaded.”
