Transgender beauty influencer Sofia Taloni (aka Naofal Moussa) encouraged people in her home country of Morocco to create fake profiles on gay dating apps and out closeted men in their communities. Now, at least one of those men has died by suicide, and Taloni couldn’t care less.
Quick backstory: Speaking to her 627,000 followers on Instagram earlier this month, Taloni instructed people to create fake profiles and identify themselves as “bottoms” to make themselves more appealing to closeted men. After collecting their pics, she told them to circulate the images on Facebook to try and learn their identities. As a result, gay dating apps in Morocco were flooded with new users.
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Now, reporter Hicham Tahir reports on Twitter that a friend of a friend took his own life after having his identity published at Taloni’s direction. The 21-year-old had been studying in France but returned to Morocco to stay with his family during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mon ami parlant de lui "He was a wonderful person"
Les victimes d'homophobie au Maroc, ont maintenant un nom.
Et la loi, continue à être complice avec son article 489.— Hicham Tahir (@HichamTahir) April 17, 2020
In Morocco, homosexuality is punishable with up to three years in prison. LGBTQ people have no legal protections and are often subjected to harassment and physical violence.
After posting the video, Taloni has her Instagram account suspended. Now, in an interview with The Moroccan Times, she says she sorta “feels bad” about what happened but she ultimately doesn’t regret it.
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“In all honesty, I did not want to out them, but they started this war,” she quips. “The Moroccan gay community shared my profile on many Facebook groups and were encouraging people to report me so that my account gets deactivated.”
She adds, “They were outing me, out of jealously, because I am successful on various social media platforms and Moroccans started sympathizing with me. They put my life at risk.”
Taloni says that she “feels bad” for outed LGBTQ people who were just “living their lives normally” and “did nothing against me,” but “the other ones that reported me, I have no regrets whatsoever.”
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radiooutmike
Well that’s just great.
She feels bad about outing people with “normal” lives — who did nothing to her. But for those who did bad to her, F them. Not mention the young man who killed himself.
Ugh.
Catholicslutbox
Well…..
Chrisk
“In all honesty, I did not want to out them, but they started this war,” she quips. “The Moroccan gay community shared my profile on many Facebook groups and were encouraging people to report me so that my account gets deactivated.”
It started by you outing men for some cheap attention in a hostile part of the world and now your playing the victim. That’s rich. You’re just a lying vindictive C*NT.
JamJewel
It will be interesting to see who disownes her first: women, or the trans or LGBTQ communities.
johnnymcmxxx
How does she feel about the murders of trans women? It’s no different. It’s ugly dangerous hate promoting violence and death.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
DAM! At first thought was seeing a bit of good news for a change, thought it read that abhorrent nauseous puddle of puke pig dies by suicide….
Tempus
I can’t get over the attempts at rationalization. I mean first of all I have no idea if a word of what was said is true but even if it is…seek therapy. Some people tried to have your account deactivated by urging people to report you on social media so you decided to try to out the entire gay community not caring if people died, ended up in jail, etc. Sounds like a typical homophobe. You can’t even remotely compare the two events as trying to get your account cancelled was not dangerous to your health. I mean yes they’re from the same place where being gay is definitely not something you typically want the public to know about but they’re supposedly an influencer who by definition wants attention so I doubt having people post on social media about their account was outing them any more than they were outing themselves. People pissed them off so they took action that could and has cost people their lives. I really wish they’d be charged with manslaughter but considering being gay can at best land you in prison for a few years I doubt the authorities in a place like Morocco would be remotely willing to press such charges yet I hate the idea that they’re just going to get away with all the harm they’ve done.
sdwilsn
Obviously she graduated from Trump University…Summa Cum Laude
designdude
Human excrement.
missvamp
ugh- complete garbage!
Hussain-TheCanadian
So let me get this straight, she has a problem with some gay men she was feuding with for one reason or another, so rather than fight those men head on, she decided to wage war on all gay men, regardless if they were good to her or bad? So it’s a scorched earth policy, without giving a damn about whomever else she hurts, innocent or guilty, its their problem that her feelings were hurt?
Well, last time I checked, you ugly, horse faced, poor excuse of a nasty clown looking btch, the Morocco government doesn’t look favorably towards transsexuals, and once your @ss returns there, you wont be safe of their reach because your ignorant, vindictive dumb @ss just started an unnecessary fire because of your stupidity.
garybw
Sounds like she paid for the quadruple surgery package.
Balls dick brains hacked off.
Catholicslutbox
They don’t hack it off. They invert it.
It’s Ironic- he got rid of his dick only to become one.
Troysky
…..uggh, let’s not feed this beast anymore attention.
irbaboon
She probably did this because of islam
RyanMBecker
Oh she’s pond scum for sure, but what’s frightening is that she has a large following — of presumably LGBT people. I can’t imagine any other demographic following a trans personality in a Muslim country. As such, I’m just as disgusted by those LGBT followers who participated in those outing campaign.
It’ll be interesting to see if she’ll lose followers en masse, just as James Charles did in his feud with that Tati woman. Hopefully, we’ll never find out because Instagram changes her suspension to a deletion.
Dick Mayhem
It’s good to know that the creepy self-absorbed “influencer” can be found in other cultures.
Cam
Her explanation falls apart. She’s claiming “gay men” were sharing her profile around and telling people to report her.
She has over 600,000 followers. It isn’t as if her profile was a secret. She purposely tried to use the same hatred and bigotry that I’m sure she claims she’s a victim of. She didn’t target the people she was “Feuding” with, she targeted everybody. What a monster.
I hope the family of the victim sues her into oblivion.
trsxyz
Evil person… And I didn’t know that the fake profiles “identifying themselves as ‘bottoms’ makes themselves more appealing to closeted men”…?
Man About Town
I’m still not clear on what a so-called “influencer” actually does, but I’m probably better off not knowing.
jayceecook
This story actually has a lot of twists and turns that the Western media really isn’t reporting on. Especially because it’s so darn confusing and contradictory. Plus they paraphrase “her” quotes because they contain foul language and a bunch of slurs. Add on to the fact that “she” isn’t disclosing all the details, just the ones that make “her” look like the victim. This is a demented, sociopath going through an identity and sexual crisis brought on by religion and family who decided to take it out on innocent people within the Moroccan LGBTQ community.
yup5hioop
Divide and conquer is a trick religious people use to get rid of their opponents. What better way to mount an attack on the gay community than by provocation of a transgender individual with a mental disorder (no not that one Jordan Peterson fans)
Onecaddy13
She’s a despicable human being. Much lower than pond scum. And that half assed so-called fake apology that she feels kind of bad. There’s simply not enough words in the dictionary to explain what a vile, nasty piece of human flesh on legs you are. Karma will soon be knocking on your doorstep. Unbelievable!!!