However, she opposes a complete ban on Muslim immigration. Panahi has accused what she regards as the regressive left for abetting Islamism in the West, stating "the former excuse behaviour that they would never tolerate from non-Muslims." She has described Western feminists who view modesty veils such as burkas, niqabs and hijabs as symbols of diversity or empowerment as an example of such abetment. She is a former Muslim and is critical of aspects of Islam. In January 2017, Panahi was encouraged by Michael Kroger to stand for Liberal Party pre-selection in the Victorian state electorate of Frankston.
Panahi argued that Australia should not be characterised as racist. In a debate over racism in early 2016, Panahi was on a team opposing ABC presenter Stan Grant. News website New Matilda published an open letter critical of Panahi's article. In January 2015, she wrote an article entitled "Islam, you have a very serious problem" which was published in the Daily Telegraph. pretending like Islam is like any other religion as far as being behind incidences of terror" and "if you value the rights of women you’d have issues with the burqa". In January 2015, Panahi sparred with Andrew O'Keefe on Weekend Sunrise over Islamic extremists. Writing for SBS, Margaret Simons observed that Panahi hates homophobia and has argued in favour of women choosing single motherhood, as she has. She has been described as 'surprisingly' progressive on some social issues. In March 2018, Panahi began hosting The Friday Show on Sky News Live. She is also a radio commentator on 3AW and 2GB. Panahi is also a regular guest on Sky News Australia and Sunrise on the Seven Network. In September 2007, Panahi began working for the Herald Sun, published by the Herald and Weekly Times (HWT), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia.
Her column was picked up for a second year and by 2007 she was a regular guest on the AM sports radio station SEN.
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Panahi initially wrote for the daily free commuter newspaper mX, writing a weekly sports gossip column. She has a child with an undisclosed father and was a single parent as of 2016.
Panahi worked as a personal banker at Colonial Mutual and was the youngest branch manager in the company's history. She joined Australian Young Labor and volunteered in the 1996 election campaign. Panahi worked in banking while attending Monash University, studying but not completing a Bachelor of Business Finance. In 1984, they were accepted by Australia as refugees and lived in Melbourne. However, her family was targeted by the Shia Islamist government of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Panahi described her parents as "relaxed Muslims who were not particularly political". Her mother worked for a hospital associated with the Shah during the Iranian Revolution. The family returned to Iran during her infancy, living on the coast and moving to Tehran by 1979. Her mother was a midwife and her father was an agricultural engineer. Rita Panahi was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States, the child of Iranian parents. She works for The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia and is the host of The Rita Panahi Show and The Friday Show on Sky News Australia and is a contributor to Sunrise on the Seven Network. Rita Panahi (born 3 March 1976) is an American-born Australian right-wing opinion columnist.
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