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"Naked" Miss Afghanistan slammed (Shut-Up Burqa Boys, she lives in the Land of the Free)
AFP via Melbourne Herald Sun ^
| 27 October 2003
Posted on 10/26/2003 9:09:04 PM PST by 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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; missafghanistan; pageant
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To: Unam Sanctam
The display is immodest and makes of woman a mere sexual object. Moreover it is a provocation to Moslem believers.Most westerners believe pedophilia, bestiality and homosexuality are provocations or worse, yet they are widespread in Muslim countries. Clean your own house before you make hypocritical comments.
To: Unam Sanctam
Every darn thing we do in Afganistan bad or good is proppaganda for those jerky talibans.
To: Post Toasties
I neither approve nor condone pedophiliac, bestial or homosexual activity wherever such sins be carried out, be they here or in the Moslem world. And I do believe in modesty of dress for women and men anywhere. And as a prudential matter, I don't see this as progress for Afghanistan, but rather a propaganda coup for the Talibans who will blame it all on us decadent infidels.
To: Unam Sanctam
The downside is that we are trying to build a stable, human rights-abiding democracy in Afghanistan, not a Taliban/Al Qaeda Islamofascist state. What good does it do to give propaganda to the Taliban? The Taliban only need point to the U.S. major media as "proof" of our "decadence." To suggest that one bikini-clad woman is going to be a propaganda coup de grace is just silly.
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posted on
10/26/2003 10:12:46 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(---] Stay the course -- Bush 2004 [---)
To: Unam Sanctam
And I do believe in modesty of dress for women and men anywhere. I personally think Kahlil Gibran said it best:
"Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean."
...be not unclean, mmkay?
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posted on
10/26/2003 10:14:56 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(---] Stay the course -- Bush 2004 [---)
To: Unam Sanctam
Well, frankly, I'm all for modesty, but I'm also for people wearing whateverthehecktheywannawear. And for those that don't like it, they can lump it (whatever their religion is).
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posted on
10/26/2003 10:17:53 PM PST
by
Stultis
To: Post Toasties
Most westerners believe pedophilia, bestiality and homosexuality are provocations or worse, yet they are widespread in Muslim countries. I have no use for Islam, but this is nonsense.
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posted on
10/26/2003 10:27:45 PM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: Stultis
Surabi said according to Afghan culture women should not demonstrate their worth using their "beauty or bodies" but by their skills and knowledge. Yeah, their skills and knowledge honed to rapier-sharp perfection in all those schools that Rep. Patty Murray thinks Osama bin Laden has been building.
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posted on
10/26/2003 10:42:17 PM PST
by
mvpel
To: Stultis
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posted on
10/26/2003 10:52:48 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: Unam Sanctam
Just about anything is a provocation with them. even their goats.
To: FreedomCalls
Nice cartoon!
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posted on
10/26/2003 10:57:17 PM PST
by
GulliverSwift
(Leftist protesters undermine their own cause. Please encourage them!)
To: Alter Kaker
I've seen documentation of much of this type of activity in the Mideast. Denying it without any factual basis is not convincing.
To: Unam Sanctam
The display is immodest and makes of woman a mere sexual object. Moreover it is a provocation to Moslem believers. Good. Screw the Moos. Dumbass death cult.
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posted on
10/26/2003 11:00:11 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
To: Unam Sanctam
And as a prudential matter Emphasis on "prude."
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posted on
10/26/2003 11:03:43 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: sheik yerbouty
lol
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posted on
10/26/2003 11:04:51 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Post Toasties
I've seen documentation of much of this type of activity in the Mideast.Show me.
Denying it without any factual basis is not convincing.
In Saudi Arabia homosexuals are put to death. In your country, and also in my country, they are elected to political office.
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posted on
10/26/2003 11:17:09 PM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: Stultis
What in the heck is a "women's affairs" ministry? Do I even want to know?
To: Stultis
And Khatami bleated sour grapes over an Irani woman getting the Nobel prize.
Here's to progress driving the hateful insane.
It's called freedom and they can get used to it or die.
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posted on
10/26/2003 11:26:26 PM PST
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: Alter Kaker
It is not nonsense, pedophilia and homosexuality are widespread in all Muslim countries.
As a Westerner, I find the rampant pedophilia quite disturbing.
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posted on
10/26/2003 11:33:58 PM PST
by
expatguy
To: Stultis
"Surabi said according to Afghan culture women should not demonstrate their worth using their "beauty or bodies" but by their skills and knowledge."
how romantic and quaint to think that women can offer anything to society except their bodies..../sarcasm/
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posted on
10/26/2003 11:36:10 PM PST
by
cherry
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