"Naked" Miss Afghanistan slammed (Shut-Up Burqa Boys, she lives in the Land of the Free)

AFP via Melbourne Herald Sun ^ | 27 October 2003

[Stultis]

"Naked" Miss Afghanistan slammed
AFP
27oct03

PRESIDENT Hamid Karzai's minister for women's affairs yesterday condemned Miss Afghanistan, as Vida Samadzai became the country's first woman in the post-Taliban era to appear in a bikini during a beauty contest in Manila.

"Appearing naked before a camera or television is not women's freedom but in my opinion is to entertain men," Minister Habiba Surabi said.

"We condemn Vida Samadzai, she is not representing Afghanistan's women, and this is not women's freedom."

Surabi said according to Afghan culture women should not demonstrate their worth using their "beauty or bodies" but by their skills and knowledge.

"In the name of women's freedom, what this Afghan girl has done is not freedom but is lascivious," the minister said.

The 25-year-old Afghan contestant, who lives in the United States, is the first Afghan woman in 30 years to participate in the Miss World international beauty contest being held in the Philippines capital this week.

The dark-haired, black-eyed Samadzai, apparently from a Pashtun tribe, was born and raised in Afghanistan but left for the United States in 1996 to escape the extremist Taliban regime which forced women to cover themselves from head to toe.

Under the harsh regime women were not allowed to work outside their homes or go out without a close relative beside them. After the fall of the militia in 2001, an increasing number of women left the burqa, or veil, at home and some took jobs.

The only other Miss Afghanistan was Zohra Daoud, who joined the Miss Universe contest in 1972.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

So, don't post this post to it then?

Are you the moderator? If so lock the thread. If not please go sit on a pole somewhere and quit telling everyone what to do about posting.

[freedumb2003]

Muslim Beauty Contest

[b4its2late]

I know beggars can't be choosers, but Miss Austria sure put some lead in the pencil, if ya get my drift...

Dittos!

[Stultis]

"Like Bombs, for instance"

LOL!

[MonroeDNA]

How's the diet going?

[MonroeDNA]

"Perhaps, you should merely hold Islam in high regard."

I hold Islam in low regard, same as other backwards religeons.

There are plenty of religeons who are ashamed of women's bodies, and want to cover them up. Islam is just one.

[MonroeDNA]

..."Perhaps another factor is the history of Mohammed himself. He married a six year old girl at one point, and consummated the marriage when she was nine, I believe. And this is their example. "

If I were a member of such a cult, I would cover my women, too.

They are 1000 years behind the times.

[King Prout]

Perhaps it's better to pave the place over and start again from scratch...

There. I fixed it for you.

[King Prout]

!
best rationale for invasion I have seen to date.
(um, wait, that reads a little funny...)

[King Prout]

excellent riposte

[King Prout]

the meaning of the word "naked" has been highly variable acrosse time and cultures. She'd have been considered naked by the Puritans, for example.

[Thumper1960]

The only problem with religion is that human beings interpret what the prophets received from God.

Except Islam.....there, the "prophet" couldn't make up his mind what the diety said or didn't say. In other words, manufactured in the desert, by a sun addled child molester.

[wallcrawlr]

Makes me think of hot dusty nights.

What can I do...?