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Name: Lizzy Benichou on Instagram: "I said what I said. Follow @basedinmalibu"
Channel: Lizzy Benichou
Description: Some image-based comparisons reflect real changes in dress and law, but several sweeping claims about Islam, marriage, and countries being “taken over” are misleading or false.

Verdict: The video mixes a few real historical shifts with major generalizations about Islam and Muslim societies.

Credibility score: 28/100 · 5 claims checked · 0 accurate, 3 misleading, 1 false, 1 unsupported.

Instagram · Lizzy Benichou · Unknown · Aug 11, 2026

Some image-based comparisons reflect real changes in dress and law, but several sweeping claims about Islam, marriage, and countries being “taken over” are misleading or false.

Claim-by-claim breakdown

Misleading (95% confidence): Iran in the 1970s was a Muslim-majority country, not a place where “Islam had not taken over,” and the Islamic Republic was created after the 1979 revolution. Britannica describes the 1979 Iranian Revolution as establishing the Islamic Republic; BBC notes mandatory hijab was imposed in the early 1980s.
Misleading (90% confidence): Afghanistan in the 1970s was not “before Islam took over”; Afghanistan had been a Muslim society for centuries, though women’s dress and rights changed dramatically under the Taliban. Historical sources on Afghanistan note the Taliban imposed severe restrictions and full-body covering, but Islam existed in Afghanistan long before the 1970s.
False (84% confidence): Islam allows men to marry girls as young as nine as a general rule. Academic and policy sources note that Islamic law does not set one fixed marriage age, and some legal traditions tie marriage capacity to puberty rather than a numeric age; modern Muslim countries often set statutory minimum ages.
Unsupported (63% confidence): Children wear burqas because men are allegedly not supposed to be tempted by them. Sources show burqas are worn in some Muslim cultures and are often mistaken as a universal Islamic requirement, but they are not required by most Islamic scholars.
Misleading (92% confidence): Europe and Michigan are being broadly transformed into places where women must dress in Islamic clothing. Pew estimated Muslims at 4.9% of Europe in 2017 and projected growth, not replacement. Michigan Muslim population estimates are around 2% of the state, not a dominant share.

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Lizzy Benichou on Instagram: "I said what I said. Follow @basedinmalibu"

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