"Saudi Women, Oppressed by Husbands, Turn to Stripping in Internet Chat Rooms..."

Middle East Media Research Institution ^ | April 18, 2007 | MEMRI

[353FMG]

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?

[dangerdoc]

Isn’t she European?

Can’t keep up with my middle east royalty.

[Aria]

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.

[billybudd]

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?

[onedoug]

Make sure they know how degenerate we can be in watching.

[najida]

These are just the singing stars from Lebanon

Nancy Agram (she's a Christian BTW)

Haifa Wehbe

Pascale Machaalanni

[ASA Vet]

Where are the links to these chatrooms?

Exactly! This thread is useless without URL's.

[bedolido]

Definately “Bushes” fault

[GovernmentShrinker]

Following are excerpts from a TV report on Saudi women and web cams, which aired on LBC TV on April 18, 2007

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.

[najida]

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”)

[DogByte6RER]

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!

[DogByte6RER]

Yeah...I know, belly dancing is NOT the same as stripping. But still...I just had to post this photo up on this thread.

[najida]

‘sright,
the roots of US stripping come from smart burlesque dancers picking up moves from arabic dancers and translating them ;)

[Desron13]

"What happens when Mrs. Abdul Achmad is doing a Gypsy Rose Lee in one room and in the other Mr. Abdul Achmad googles her URL?"

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.

:-)

[OCCASparky]

Links, dammit—LINKS!!!

[lesser_satan]

bump

[el_texicano]

bump...me too...this will require further research...

[DogByte6RER]

ping

[billybudd]

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.