Posted on 03/18/2009 12:43:32 PM PDT by slomark
[video of Arab female singer]
Tough to imagine anything more moronic than MTV nor anything more oxymoronic than the term “Arabic MTV.”
Walk down the street in any Arab capital and you’ll see burkah-covered women. Yet turn on the TV in any Arab living room and you’ll find a dozen music video channels filled with bared flesh.
Enter Ahmed Abu Haiba, the founder of 4Shbab TV, which calls itself “Islam’s own MTV.”
The idea behind 4Shbab is simple, he says. Mainstream music videos are “lewd” and do not represent the Arab world’s cultural values. He says they are haram, or forbidden and sinful in Islam....
...he continues
(Excerpt) Read more at ihatethemedia.com ...
Yeah, that should be fun...
Wow. And they want that covered head to toe if she goes out in public...
That’s just wrong on so many levels.
ML/NJ
Just another disco record. I am going to go wash out my ears with turpentine.
The singer converted to Islam in order to get rid of her Christian husband who refused to divorce her.
Cheers!
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