Story from the blogger nilesider.
All links given here feature nudity.
The Egyptian artist's blog is here:
http://arebelsdiary.blogspot.com/NSFW ^^^
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Full frontal nudity upsets Muslim Brotherhood… and in other news, bear shits in woodsThe Egyptian activist Aliya’a Magdi el-Mahdi has caused a right royal shitstorm by putting up on Facebook a full-frontal nude photograph of herself. This has, inevitably caused conniptions amongst the sexually-frustrated vote-buyers and election manipulators known to the Egyptian voting public as the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Men in Zealot Beards have reacted with horror and thundered in simulated rage (because one just knows that lots of them have furtively saved said offending image onto their hard drives and Blackberries) about how this is all yet another damning example of the sort of thing that happens when evil, Western secularism seeps into the pores of Egyptian society. Some of the nutters online of said persuasion are calling for her death. Others are asserting that this will lead to thousands of unwanted pregnancies as the youth, driven into lustful fits by the sight of Ms. el-Mahdi’s well-trimmed lady garden, start copulating furiously with perfect strangers on the bus. Yet others are announcing that Ms El-Mahdi is no Egyptian… oh no, goodness no… she must be (you guessed it) A JEW!
This is the terribly offensive image. If only all revolutionaries were so brave.
(see link below)There is a very serious side to this. Aliya’a has said that it is time to take action and overthrow all the medieval bullshit in Egypt. She has written:
Put the nude models at art schools on trial, hide art books, break ancient nude statues, then take off your clothes, look in the mirror and set the bodies you despise on fire to rid you of your sexual complexes, before you address me with your bigoted opinions and take away my freedom of pressShe is right and I stand by her right to take this very necessary action. Let a thousand flowers bloom. Long live Aliya’a El-Mahdi!
PS Aliya’a ‘s Facebook page is now down.
link contains nude imagehttp://nilesider.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/full-frontal-nudity-upsets-muslim-brotherhood-and-in-other-news-bear-shits-in-woods/Aliya's blog
(contains nudity)http://arebelsdiary.blogspot.com/