On Friday's broadcast of HBO's "Real Time," Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad said that liberals in the West tell her that if she talks about how women are treated in the Middle East, "you're going to cause Islamophobia." But "my fear and the fear of millions of Iranian women" is rational because she was told growing up in Iran that "if you show your hair, you're going to go to jail. You will receive lashes. You will get killed like Mahsa Amini." She also criticized the Combating International Islamophobia Act passed by Democrats by stating that it's those who beat and kill women and those who leave Islam that create the phobia, not those who speak out against it.