Shakira Accused Of Inspiring Suicide Bombers To Blow Shit Up. Or Just Blow In General.
23 November 2007, 12:45 PM. By Alex Alvarez
Afghanistan’s Tolo TV is facing harsh criticism from the culture ministry and senior Muslim clerics after broadcasting a Shakira concert chock full of dangerous gyrations:
State television broadcast interviews with clerics and MPs criticising the concert while one pro-government newspaper attacked the “notorious” broadcast of a “naked US pop singer and dancer” claiming it provided inspiration to suicide bombers.
Expand on that thought, please:
“We believe Shakira’s song will be shown with Tolo TV’s exclusive logo at the training camps for suicide attackers to urge our immature young people to leave a number of our mothers bereaved,” said the Weesa newspaper.
Juanes has that precise effect on us, actually. However, not everyone is morally outraged over Shakira’s truthful hips of doom:
Meanwhile, opinion on the streets of Kabul is divided over the Shakira broadcast. “Her clothes were very tight,” said Sharif, a 41-year-old doorman who watched the concert. “Religious people say it is the West trying to impose their values but I had no problem with it.”
Nor do we, Sharif. Nor do we.
Shakira broadcast sparks row in Afghanistan [Telegraph]
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I don’t doubt the story in a post-Taliban world still fighting the Taliban there. But, it seems MUCH more likely the context was meant in a way to say terrorists could use this in training and say, “This is what the West wants to do with our women and put them on display.”
Which, of course, *is* what we want. That’s why we wine about the veils so much here.