A Burkha-wearing babe baring her breasts on the cover of a Polish magazine has ignited a culture mini-war
Outraged by what they call an insult to Islam, Yemeni newspaper vendors in Greenpoint are 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."
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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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."
Shopkeeper Abdo Quhshi holds mag with X-rated cover cut off.
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Too bad. Religious people should be offended more often.
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Instead of combating terrorists and those unrulies in Iraq with rifles and bombs we should just have Beautiful big breasted women run at them. They'd be so confused and it would be a great episode of punk'd.
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Instead of combating terrorists and those unrulies in Iraq with rifles and bombs we should just have Beautiful big breasted women run at them. They'd be so confused and it would be a great episode of punk'd.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:40 am Posts: 2114 Location: Coventry
Well, I suppose anyone who thinks that women should have to wear Burkhas and men shouldn't in the 1st place, is going to be offended by the female body...
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:40 am Posts: 2114 Location: Coventry
I dunno about that, most of the ones in my 6th form college in my last year there were hot, and they didn't wear Burkhas ect. I suppose that's the whole point in them really.
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i may need to quote this in the future
