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-Short Attention Span Theater-
burqa babes get muslims hot and bothered
2005-01-14
A Burkha-wearing babe baring her breasts on the cover of a Polish magazine has ignited a culture mini-war in Brooklyn.
"Wladislaw! Look! Honkersz!"
"Holy przbliecnie!"
Outraged by what they call an insult to Islam, Yemeni newspaper vendors in Greenpoint are seething refusing to sell the latest edition of Forum magazine. Some have painted big black X's over the exposed flesh and are threatening to boycott the popular Polish-language weekly. "The cover is no good," said Abdul al-Fatah, 30, at Greenpoint Variety Candy & Grocery on Manhattan Ave. "They show something bad about Islam, an Islamic woman naked. We feel angry about it."
"Proper Islamic wimmin don't have honkersz!"
Abdo Quhshi, 48, owner of the nearby Garden Stone grocery, said a Polish customer translated the cover story for him and he was deeply offended. "Saying about my Prophet Muhammed that he loved women, you don't have to say that," he said.
Hokey, then. His true love was little boyz, sheep, and the occasional melon...
But angry Poles said Forum is a respected newsmagazine - and some Yemenis have no qualms about peddling Hustler and Penthouse. "Many American magazines are worse than this," said Emily Branska, 22, of Ridgewood, Queens.
"Yeah! Where's the nekkid wimmin with their ankles behind their ears?"
"They said it's haram - that means something bad," added Kasia Illyas, 22, a Polish immigrant married to a Muslim. "They don't even understand what it's about."
They do know honkersz when they see 'em, though...
The topless temptress is superimposed onto a photo of covered Muslim women beneath the headline "Extremists in the Harem." Inside, there's a photograph of another woman, sitting in the buff amid white-clad female pilgrims in Mecca.
"Hey, Fatimah! Nice buff you got there!"
Forum ran them to accompany an article about sex and Islam by Dutch writer Hafid Bouazza, who claims the religion has been hijacked by "frustrated fanatics" who get their kicks from terror.
... and these guys proved his point.
Waldemar Piasecki, New York correspondent for the Warsaw-based weekly Przeglad, said he is "puzzled" by Forum's choice of cover art. "This is a serious magazine that has offered Poles a window on the world for more than 40 years," he said. "In all that time, I can't recall a naked woman on the cover."
Bartender! Milk for everyone!
Posted by:muck4doo

#31  lil kims purdy sweet. :)
whatn the sayin luv thy enemy?
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-01-14 9:02:34 PM  

#30  I like these, too...







And this one... (too wide for RB)

I'll add another image to the Ebadi thread...
Posted by: .com   2005-01-14 7:49:59 PM  

#29  com - Kind of like that pic that was linked to a while back showing a western couple sitting next to each other and holding each other and a ME couple who were completely seperated - the woman had a head-to-toe berqa and the man looked like he was very upset (and frustrated).

Ah yes... here it is:

Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-01-14 7:32:31 PM  

#28  Here's an interesting image from somewhere in the UAE I believe (not sure), which I labeled "generations"... the original name was DSCnnnnn...

Rather stark, no?
Posted by: .com   2005-01-14 7:17:52 PM  

#27  ...not to mention plain old goats. Won't hear them bitching about going shopping for a new burkha. Twice the ride at a fraction of the price, right, Achmed?
Posted by: tu3031   2005-01-14 7:01:20 PM  

#26  BH-Glad you said that. Their chances of "satisfaction" are "cut" 87% by just that act alone. But frontloading your own failure seems to be the preferred track in the ME--the alternative would be change, and that is too frightening. It's so much easier to keep pet scapegoats.
Posted by: Jules 187   2005-01-14 4:37:08 PM  

#25  Muslim males, being unable to satisfy their women, are frustrated creatures.

Maybe if they quit lopping off the fun button, this wouldn't be a problem.
Posted by: BH   2005-01-14 4:29:18 PM  

#24  "This is a serious magazine that has offered Poles a window on the world for more than 40 years," he said. "In all that time, I can't recall a naked woman on the cover."

Welcome to capitalism my friends. If you don't make the cover attractive, you're gonna lose your readers to other magazines that do have attractive covers (with sex, babes, naked bodies etc). That's a trend that I've noticed lately among "respectable" Polish mags: flipping through the pages you're bound to find a picture of a naked body, or an article about sex, even if it is "artistic" in nature. Sex sells. What's more there to say???

Holy przbliecnie!" What's przbliecnie? Some kinda sausage?

As someone who is quite fluent in Polish, I can say that Fred's Polish is damn well near perfect. :-)
Posted by: Rafael   2005-01-14 4:25:01 PM  

#23  Probably some truth in that, though.
Posted by: Jules 187   2005-01-14 4:09:49 PM  

#22  Jules: My comment was tongue in cheek. Here's what I meant: Muslim males, being unable to satisfy their women, are frustrated creatures. Hence they take it out on the infidel.
Posted by: Mark Z.   2005-01-14 3:56:43 PM  

#21  "Holy przbliecnie!"

What's przbliecnie? Some kinda sausage?
Posted by: Dave D.   2005-01-14 3:47:49 PM  

#20  Hustler and Penthouse? The guys who run magazine/newsstands here in NY sell stuff that's a LOT more hardcore (trannies, gay pr0n, and some really vile stuff). And, of course, look at it too (Gotta stock the racks, right?) But it's okay because these are kuffar whores.

That said, I'm a bit surprised to see Arabs in Greenpoint. It's a tremendoulsy Polish nabe.
Posted by: growler   2005-01-14 3:20:48 PM  

#19  Mark-Wanna splain that one a bit?
Posted by: Jules 187   2005-01-14 3:12:44 PM  

#18  I just figured everyone knew this: The "root cause" of terrorism is not sexually frustratred Muslim males. The root cause of terrorism is sexually unfulfilled Muslim women. That, my friends, is the REAL problem.
Posted by: Mark Z.   2005-01-14 3:07:18 PM  

#17  Thanks .com. I'll treasure it always.

The Affhan should thank God he didn't go to a Greek writer.
Posted by: ed   2005-01-14 3:04:16 PM  

#16  A french writer who was friend of Commander Massoud tells that one day an Afghan who was within days of marrying came to him and after much hesistation whispered.

-"They have told me that women have more than hole".
-????
-"And how do I know which is the right one?"

And the french had to teach some basic sexology (no, no THAT way) to the future groom.
Posted by: JFM   2005-01-14 2:59:15 PM  

#15  ed - a slightly bigger image, I believe, for your library.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-14 2:59:02 PM  

#14  No wonder these places breed terrorism. Finding the good-looking babes is an unnecessarily tedious task.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-01-14 2:51:17 PM  

#13  What's under Lil' Kim's burkha. (Courtesy of the thesun.co.uk)
Sorta NSFW
Fatty Fatwa comming in 3,2,1.
Posted by: ed   2005-01-14 2:47:08 PM  

#12  .com. Them singles, can i pick any one of them? How can I tell what they look like? Does it make any difference which one i pick?
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-01-14 2:45:57 PM  

#11  That's about the reality of it.

Geez-the poor fellow in Talibanland would almost have to be a topographical cartographer to be able to make a wise decision in his selection of a wife.
Posted by: Jules 187   2005-01-14 2:45:41 PM  

#10  Here's one that's SFW that you might not have seen before... Taliban Singles Online, baby! W00t!
Posted by: .com   2005-01-14 2:42:09 PM  

#9  With his face in his hands, not looking? Yes... just a higher rez, so a bit more worthy of keeping.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-14 2:38:27 PM  

#8  can peeker cuz im at werk. is itn the one with the litle guy sitin next to em?
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-01-14 2:36:10 PM  

#7  YS - You're baiting me - trying to get me in hock with the Sheriff! I already posted the low-rez version of Under the Burqas pic once, heh. Of course, this is the better quality version, lol!

NSFW
Posted by: .com   2005-01-14 2:32:56 PM  

#6  I'm waiting for .com to post a pic!!
Posted by: Yosemite Sam   2005-01-14 2:24:34 PM  

#5  "The cover is no good," said Abdul al-Fatah, 30, at Greenpoint Variety Candy & Grocery on Manhattan Ave. "They show something bad about Islam, an Islamic woman naked. We feel angry about it."

Well Abdul, this is one of the few good things about Islam you dip wad. Abdul you get the sex bomb dropped on you.

.com: ...the Islamic censor had a dirty job but someone had to do it for er... Allah. Hey Ali, it is getting hot in here, turn up the air conditioner.

LOL about the highlighted comments.

Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-01-14 2:13:10 PM  

#4  Dont you think its a sign of devine intervention
that the comments about this have on their right side the lovely picture of "Dusty" in her underware ? :)

long live Polish journalism !
Heh
Posted by: EoZ   2005-01-14 2:12:01 PM  

#3  thatn was fred. :)
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-01-14 2:05:45 PM  

#2  Muck or Fred or whoever wrote in yellow-love your Polish asides!
Posted by: Jules 187   2005-01-14 2:02:47 PM  

#1  Many here, in spite of what they've learned about Islam, would be surprised at the level of censorship. In Saudi, when you buy CD's or receive your subscribed magazine in the mail, you can expect that the Saudi Ministry of Morality has been there first. They employ an army of people, somewhere, and give them an unlimited supply of black markers. Every CD with a woman's picture, no matter how demure, is blacked out except for the head. The magazines were even more bizarre - with so much marker ink being applied to an advertisement page where a man and a woman are sailing (Newport cigs - waay back when) or whatever, that the pages are soaked - and stick together. Catalogs with the entire women's clothing section ripped out - I'll bet the Pakiwakis employed take this stuff home, heh.

Yep. Beheading and shooting captives in the head are mighty-fine, but tits are radioactive.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-14 2:01:16 PM  

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