Anti-Islam posts by Karla Sofía Gascón have resurfaced amid her Oscars race.
As the star of Emilia Pérez, Karla made as the first openly trans actor to be nominated for Best Actress at the awards. Indeed, she has spoken times — including onstage at the — about the importance of trans rights.
Now, as journalist noted on X, Karla appears to still have a number of anti-Islam posts on the social media site from the past decade. In one 2016 , she called the religion “a hotbed of infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured.”
In another from 2020, she the attacks in Nice of having been perpetrated by “one of these r**arded followers of Allah” and said that “we have to expel these madmen from Europe.” She included a caricature of an Arab man pointing at a paintbrush, surrounded by decapitated heads, crying, “Mama he hurt my feelings.” That same year, she the religion “disgusting” in a post with a woman wearing a burka.
In 2021, she that “the West should ban Islam.” In 2023, she responded to an anti-LGBTQ+ post by , “Put on a burka.”
A source close to the Academy told BuzzFeed that Karla’s posts on X do not constitute a violation of their campaign rules as they do not involve another film or nominee.
BuzzFeed has reached out to a representative for Karla for comment.
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