A Tina Turner Moment
This post was written for My.Kali online magazine, under a multi-contributor column under the title…
My.kali hits again..
Hair peace/ Bed peace
Bed-In for Peace Amsterdam in 1969
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
واحد مع التراب
تعبت من النقاشات المحدودة والعقول الضيقة. لسا بنبعبع وبتصيبنا نوبات الصرع والتشنج بس نحكي إسلام…
Tunisian Woman Sent to a Psychiatric Hospital for Posting Topless Photos on Facebook
Amina, a 19-year-old who hoped to join the radical protest group Femen, is also threatened with death by stoning.
Amina, a 19-year-old Tunisian aspirant to the radical, Ukraine-born feminist group Femen has been delivered by her parents to a psychiatric hospital in Tunis, according to reports received by Femen leader Inna Shevchenko in Paris. Amina (her last name is unknown) had posted topless photos of herself on the Femen web page she created for the group in Tunisia several weeks ago. One photo shows her topless, smoking a cigarette, with “My Body is My Own and Not the Source of Anyone’s Honor” scrawled in Arabic across her chest. Another shows her raising her middle fingers to the camera, with “Fuck Your Morals,” written on her torso. The site was subsequently hacked and temporarily plastered with citations from the Quran.
The head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Tunisia, Almi Adel, a Salafi Islamic preacher, has called for Amina to be “stoned to death” for posting the images. He warned that Amina’s action could cause “epidemics and disasters” and “could be contagious and give ideas to other women.” Media reports say Tunisian secular law would punish her with up to two years in prison.
“Amina and I were in contact by phone until four days ago, when she disappeared,” Shevchenko told me from Paris in a Skype interview on Friday afternoon. “Her phone went dead and her Facebook page was removed, which also meant I lost all my correspondence with her. I can’t get hold of her.” Since late February, she and Amina had been discussing Femen’s ideology and the inauguration of a branch of the movement in Tunisia.
Shevchenko was also alerted to a video in which Amina’s aunt declared that the aspiring Femen member “is now with her family. She had decided to kill herself and so posted nude pictures of herself online,” which Shevchenko characterized as “a typical way of reacting to a woman’s demand to be free—they say she’s gone crazy or is being too emotional.”
Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins, author of the 2006 bestseller The God Delusion, has taken up her cause and is calling for a day of action in support of Amina. Twitter is ablaze with reaction to the events (check out #Amina) and a petition has been posted online demanding that those who threaten Amina’s life face the courts.
Femen itself issued a statement calling on women to “Fight for their freedom against religious atrocities” and to “Use your body as a poster for the slogans of freedom. Bare breasts against Islamism.”
Amina’s disappearance follows her appearance on the popular Tunisian television talk show, Labes, on March 16. With her face blurred, apparently to protect her identity, she explains her decision to join Femen.
I asked Shevchenko what she planned to do in response to Amina’s detetion. “The only question for us is,” she replied, “when are we in Femen going to Tunisia?”
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(not ranked, nor in order)
1-Cheese cake/Nutella ice-cream scoop from Gerard
2-Talking about nothing in particular with my super awesome friend, Meesh, in the middle of a busy day on Skype.
3-A hug from my Dad.
4-A heated political discussion.
5-Gossipi…
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, “Speak to us of Children.”
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
-Kahlil Gibran
إن أولادكم ليسوا أولادا لكم.
إنهم أبناء وبنات الحياة المشتاقة إلى نفسها،بكم يأتون إلى العالم ولكن ليس منكم،
ومع أنهم يعيشون معكم فهم ليسوا ملكا لكم.
أنتم تستطيعون أن تمنحوهم محبتكم. ولكنكم لا تقدرون أن تغرسوا فيهم بذور أفكاركم، لأن لهم أفكارا خاصة بهم.
وفي طاقتكم أن تضعوا المساكن لأجسادهم،
ولكن ف نفوسهم لا تقطن في مساكنكم،
فهي تقطن في مسكن الغد، الذي لا تستطيعون أن تزوروه ولا في أحلامكم.
وإن لكم ان تجاهدوا لكي تصيروا مثلهم،
ولكنكم عبثا تحاولون أن تجعلوهم مثلكم.
لأن الحياة لا ترجع إلى الوراء، ولا تلذ لها الإقامة في منزل الأمس.
أنتم الأقواس وأولادكم سهام حية قد رمت بها الحياة عن أقواسكم.
-جبران خليل جبران
Africa for sale.
Consumerism
Eric Lafforgue
إفريقيا للبيع.
الإستهلاكية
إريك لافورج
أظنني سأبيض من جديد
-لدافيد حبشي
My head aches, I think I’m gonna lay more eggs
-David Habchi
مفارقة الطيور
يا طير يا عالى فى السما طز فيك
ما تفتكرش ربنا مصطفيك
برضك بتاكل دود وللطين تعود
تمص فيه يا حلو ويمص…
