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]