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Permalink Reply by Hope on November 19, 2011 at 10:05am

here is a reply to her on Twiteer.

thank you for your nude photo. it will help the islamist win the election.

here is a question and answer I translated from Arabic..

Do you agree with Aliaa Magda Elmahdy did?

dont take about her just ignore her.. she's only a tool used by masonic people to spread obscenity in the arab world.

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Permalink Reply by Adriana on November 19, 2011 at 10:11am

I understand posing nude as an act of protest. I think she was very brave to do that, but crazy at the same time. I know I would have never had the courage to put a nude picture of myself on the internet (when I was young, of course, now it would be unthinkable.

 

As a political strategy, it was probably misguided because everyone, liberals and conservatives, condemned her so she will be simply punished and no political message will be spread in the end. There is a time and a place to commit acts of provocation and I'd say her timing was off.

 

On the other hand, I wish the naked human body would stop being considered obscene by society, including religions, because only sadness and repression, and twisted ideas, come out of it. The naked human body, and especially the naked female, are not "obscene", they are simply our physical bodies and we should not be ashamed of them.

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Permalink Reply by Jean Marie on November 19, 2011 at 11:01am

"what Adriana said"

+1

 

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Permalink Reply by Hope on November 19, 2011 at 2:51pm

I agree too :)

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Permalink Reply by Marianne on November 19, 2011 at 10:31am

I'm not sure she really thought about what the risks were involved when she did that...

I'm a prude so I would never or even earlier in my life have posted a photography of myself nude... especially on the net as it exists now...

I don't totally disagree with her wanting to make a statement, but probably it was misguided.

I just hope the consequences won't be too harsh.

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Permalink Reply by Hope on November 19, 2011 at 2:53pm

Sure, she put herself in a risk!

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Permalink Reply by Hope on November 19, 2011 at 2:28pm

people in Egypt are not familiar with that that kind of "nude revolutionary"

they were like, omg! she's totally naked! 

she's now leading for a sexual revolution just like the Western world in the 60s.

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Permalink Reply by Hope on November 19, 2011 at 2:41pm

She explained why she did this on CNN Link

 

CNN: What do you think about the forced virginity tests performed by the Egyptian military on more than a dozen girls arrested in Tahrir Square?

Elmahdy: I consider this rape. Those men in the military who conducted these tests should be punished for allowing this to happen without the consent of the girls in the first place. Instead, the girls walk around feeling the shame and most of them are forced to remain silent.

about harassment she said,

Many women wear the veil just to escape the harassment and be able to walk the streets
I 100% agree with this.

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Permalink Reply by Adriana on November 19, 2011 at 2:43pm

Elmahdy is ABSOLUTELY right!

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Permalink Reply by Hope on December 21, 2012 at 4:44am

She's nude again!!

International women's movement FEMEN and antiislamist Egyptian activist Alia al-Mahdi have called to say NO to Sharia constitution in Egypt! Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.unn.com.ua/en/news/1171479-femen-proveli-aktsiyu-u-yegip...

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Permalink Reply by Adriana on December 21, 2012 at 8:59am

She is certainly courageous and persistent! I fear for her safety, though. 

And it's damn cold where they are protesting! The Ukranian Femen women are used to that, I guess. 

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