Nancy Agram (she's a Christian BTW)
Haifa Wehbe
Pascale Machaalanni
Posted on 05/07/2007 7:35:46 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Saudi Women, Oppressed by Husbands, Turn to Stripping in Internet Chat Rooms in Search of "Admiration"
Following are excerpts from a TV report on Saudi women and web cams, which aired on LBC TV on April 18, 2007:
Reporter: Behind closed doors and far from any supervising eyes, they remove their shame and turn their backs on all customs and traditions. Girls display their bodies in chat rooms on the Internet, in most cases, free of charge. As soon as one of these girls places the camera in front of her, she begins to strip, displaying her seductive charms to more than 300 young men of different ages. Some believe that the phenomenon of stripping over the Internet may be understood within the framework of social hypocrisy, especially since they believe that our religious and educational discourse does not attribute importance to the strengthening of self-restraint, and prefers the appearance over the essence. This drives some people to play several roles and wear several masks.
Commentator: Women are seeking emotions and admiration. This way, she gets words of admiration for her personality and even her body. She might remove one piece of clothing after another, in order to gain this admiration.
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Reporter: On the other hand, many believe that web stripping has not reached the proportions of a phenomenon, and that these are merely isolated cases. They emphasize that the vast majority of our girls protect their modesty and respect the customs, and traditions. These people believe that web cams can be useful tools. They can be used to maintain family ties, and can have educational applications, in lectures and conferences, for example.
Many young men and women believe that the endless prohibitions drive them to hide behind closed doors, and surf in relations that rebel against all costumes and traditions, in search of love, in some cases, and in order to satisfy their urges, in other cases, especially since the Internet gives them the opportunity to openly declare their repressed desires without fear.
Young Saudi woman in shopping mall: The girls misuse the web cams. They take them into their rooms, and even their families do not know that they have cameras, or what the girls use their laptops or web cams for.
Young Saudi man in shopping mall: A girl can buy a web cam for a very cheap price, 70-75 riyals. She takes it to her room, closes the door, and begins the show.
Reporter: Although Saudi Arabia has a strict mechanism to block access to site that are immoral, these chat rooms are available to all. Teenagers are the most frequent visitors to these sites.
The camera scans her body, sending an image, with all the details, to the other party. The further she goes with her stripping, the mare admiration she harvests, until she becomes a star, applauded by the masses – or so she imagines.
Saudi psychologist Samira Al Ghamadi: Instead of becoming upset that such images are being broadcast, we should ask why such things happen in our homes. Why do our children enter these sites? Out of curiosity. They seek answers to things we never explain to them. We tell them that this is forbidden, and shameful, shameful, shameful, shameful... We never answer them. We always say: "They will learn in the future." But they learn the wrong things, I am very sorry to say. We do not give them a sense of security. We do not give them enough room to express themselves, so they go to chat rooms. Many women might be upset with me for saying so, but there are married women whose husbands constantly pressure them, while they themselves go out at night and hang out. So the wife withdraws into the Internet and meet many people. She chooses an imaginary name, and meets guys who value her and treat her properly, while on the other hand, her husband humiliates her. Why wouldn't she go there?
Have you ever looked at the recent American converts? Most of the women want to go around covered while they don’t have to in this society. So where is this sense of revolution?
Isn’t she European?
Can’t keep up with my middle east royalty.
First - how converted are they?
Second - habit, fear. Lots of people who came from the “old country” dressed they way they did before after coming here.
Third - maybe they’re unattractive and insecure about it and this is an easy out.
MEMRI is a total anti-Arab propaganda machine. This sounds like a bunch of unverifiable BS. I mean, how do we know these chatrooms even exist? Where are the links to these chatrooms?
Make sure they know how degenerate we can be in watching.
Nancy Agram (she's a Christian BTW)
Haifa Wehbe
Pascale Machaalanni
Exactly! This thread is useless without URL's.
Definately “Bushes” fault
MEMRI provides translations of items appearing in the Arab media, and as far as I've seen, always cites the source. If this is "unverifiable BS", LBC TV should be taking the rap for presenting it as true, not MEMRI. MEMRI certainly cherry picks what it translates and publicizes from the ARAB media, so as to show the most negative items. But they don't claim to be showing a representative sample. They're just providing glimpses of awful garbage distributed by mainstream media outlets, in many cases outlets that are funded by the government of the country in which they are based.
LOL!
I like the beat, it actually sounds like good fusion. And they’re cool for putting together a band an making a name for themselves.
The lyrics are weird, but funny & mocking (”My mother wears a burka, my father wears one too”)
Yeah...I agree. It’s very catchy.
It’s also very weird. It’s like a music video from The Twilight Zone.
I’m not sure if the ladies in the band are mocking the burqa or celebrating it.
Now that I’ve watched the video again...that song is going to be buzzing around in my head for the rest of the day while I’m here at work!
‘sright,
the roots of US stripping come from smart burlesque dancers picking up moves from arabic dancers and translating them ;)
I think they call that an honor killing.
"How dare that unclean, slut, woman parade herself before other men on the Internet. I must kill her immediately to cleanse my honor. I will then return to this tool of Shatan to root out other shameless corrupter's of Islam. Allah willing. I swear I will do this as long as there are any of these unholy women out there. Or until I run out of Vaseline and tissues.
:-)
Links, dammit—LINKS!!!
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While I do think that MEMRI is biased, that wasn’t really the point of my comment. It was a lead-in to the punchline of the last sentence. ASA Vet got it.
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