Najla Takes Off Her Pants

Tunisian singer and dancer Najla is trying eagerly to return to the scenes, yet decisions to ban her music surround her.

According to the London based weekly, Sayidaty, Najla insists on presenting nudity as an essential part of her music videos.

The most recent is Najla’s fourth music video for "Baghlat Fi Ismak" (I Mistake your Name). The music channel Mazzika was forced to delete a number of scenes in order to make it appropriate for the average viewer, but even after the deletion the clip is still considered too sexual.

It contained scenes of Najla doing a strip tease, taking off her pants, but the channel was forced to censor the scene.

The continuous demands of viewers to ban Najla forced Mazzika’s owner Muhsin Jaber, not to air her music video. This marks the third time the singer has been banned. The previous two clips that were banned were directed by Yasser Sami, who declined to have his name listed in the credits.

Egypt has also banned Najla, refusing her entry into the country. She has made several attempts to return, but has not changed her provocative style.

The Egyptian Musician Association announced that its campaign against pornographic music videos, such as the ones by Najla, is serious and it intends on forming a committee that will be responsible for trying to convince different music channels to stop airing them. The association claims such music videos are an insult to Arab music.

Head of the association Hassan Abu Su’ood revealed that the association does not have the mechanisms to take on such a mission, and its power does not cover any television stations outside of Egypt.

Najla’s banning from Egypt was validated when an Egyptian newspaper reported that the singer was held at the airport for 12 hours trying to gain permission to enter. None of the singer’s contacts in Egypt were able to assist her in entering the country.

It was revealed that the decision to ban Najla was made to please a number of extreme parliament members that had attacked the style of her music videos.

Yesterday, at the start of the ladies skating, they showed a Turkish skater...kind of hard to do a triple salkow in a burqa, eh?

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk outlawed that in 1927.

From Wiki:

Women's rights

With abiding faith in the vital importance of women in society, Atatürk launched many reforms to give Turkish women equal rights and opportunities. The new Civil Code, adopted in 1927, abolished polygamy and recognized the equal rights of women in divorce, custody, and inheritance. The entire educational system from the grade school to the university became coeducational. Atatürk greatly admired the support that the national liberation struggle received from women and praised their many contributions: "In Turkish society, women have not lagged behind men in science, scholarship, and culture. Perhaps they have even gone further ahead." He gave women the same opportunities as men, including full political rights. In the mid-1930s, 18 women, among them a villager, were elected to the national parliament. Later, Turkey had the world's first female Supreme Court justice.

He also was responsible for the:

Abolishment of the office of the Sultan (November 1922)

Abolishment of the caliph (3 March 1924)

Recognition of equal rights to men and women (1926 - 1934)

Reform of Headgear and Dress (25 November 1925)

Abolition of tithe

"The other victim of Atatürk was the traditional way of governing Islam. Islam ceased to be the state religion, and the Caliphate was abolished, an institution of great symbolic importance for many Muslims inside and outside the former Ottoman empire."

Turkey is part of NATO and has had US Military there
throughout the Cold War. Turkey was the primary location
for Electronic Espionage against the USSR.

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