Hamas Regulates Ladies' Lingerie
Another scene of mass deprivation in Gaza. This photo appeared on Yahoo next to a sensational, spicey story about Hamas' interest in Ladies' Lingerie as a possible demonstration of immodesty and immorality. The photo is of interest too as it shows a sidewalk formed of checkered, smooth paving stones, something you might expect to find on Rodeo Drive in LA or on Fifth Avenue in New York. The Via Condotti in Rome has nothing like it, as I noted the last time that I visited there.
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Hamas targets women's underwear in modesty drive
28 July 2010
GAZA (Reuters) – The Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip have ordered lingerie shops to display more modesty.
A week after banning women from smoking water pipes in public places, the Hamas-run police force has told stores selling women's underwear to remove scantily-clad mannequins and any posters of racy undergarments.
"These measures have stemmed from complaints and pressure by ordinary people. They have to do with upholding our traditions," police spokesman Ayman Al-Batniji said Wednesday.
Hamas leaders have repeatedly denied any intention to impose Islamic law on the Gaza Strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians.
But Hamas police have broken up a hip-hop concert in the territory and tried -- unsuccessfully -- to force women lawyers in court and female school students to wear traditional Muslim clothing, a step that drew a public backlash.
Hamas's modesty moves were widely seen by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as attempts to mollify more conservative Islamic factions that have accused the movement of failing to uphold Islamic Sharia.
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This article needs little comment, although I do point again to the photo as a sign of prosperity or maybe just some petit bourgeois inclinations on the part of the good burghers of Gaza City. There may well be some economic deprivation in Gaza. But is it Israel's fault?
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MORE ON GAZA
An Egyptian reporter tells us that Gaza is in the midst of economic good times [here], especially for the wealthy and the nouveau riche [source MEMRI].
And getting back to the Turkish Thug Armada supported by the "free gaza movement" run by Obama's friends and sympathizers [like Jodie Evans, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, etc], here is what some say in Gaza:
"Gaza Health Ministry Officials Complain that Medical Donations Supplied by Aid Convoys Are Past Their Expiry Date or Otherwise Useless" [see video here source MEMRI]. Remarkably, I was told this back in early June by an Israeli army official of the COGAT [the unit that inspects and supervises delivery of supplies to Gaza]. He said that COGAT had inspected the "humanitarian supplies" brought on the Turkish Thug Armada which its ignorant supporters in the West called "the Gaza Freedom Flotilla," and that the medications supplied had either expired back in April or were about to expire in July. Now we are in July, actually near its end. And what do we hear? Gaza health officials echo the words of the COGAT representative.
Click here for photo in larger format.
Hamas targets women's underwear in modesty drive
28 July 2010
GAZA (Reuters) – The Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip have ordered lingerie shops to display more modesty.
A week after banning women from smoking water pipes in public places, the Hamas-run police force has told stores selling women's underwear to remove scantily-clad mannequins and any posters of racy undergarments.
"These measures have stemmed from complaints and pressure by ordinary people. They have to do with upholding our traditions," police spokesman Ayman Al-Batniji said Wednesday.
Hamas leaders have repeatedly denied any intention to impose Islamic law on the Gaza Strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians.
But Hamas police have broken up a hip-hop concert in the territory and tried -- unsuccessfully -- to force women lawyers in court and female school students to wear traditional Muslim clothing, a step that drew a public backlash.
Hamas's modesty moves were widely seen by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as attempts to mollify more conservative Islamic factions that have accused the movement of failing to uphold Islamic Sharia.
- - - - - - end of article - - - see original article here - - -
This article needs little comment, although I do point again to the photo as a sign of prosperity or maybe just some petit bourgeois inclinations on the part of the good burghers of Gaza City. There may well be some economic deprivation in Gaza. But is it Israel's fault?
- - - - - - - - -
MORE ON GAZA
An Egyptian reporter tells us that Gaza is in the midst of economic good times [here], especially for the wealthy and the nouveau riche [source MEMRI].
And getting back to the Turkish Thug Armada supported by the "free gaza movement" run by Obama's friends and sympathizers [like Jodie Evans, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, etc], here is what some say in Gaza:
"Gaza Health Ministry Officials Complain that Medical Donations Supplied by Aid Convoys Are Past Their Expiry Date or Otherwise Useless" [see video here source MEMRI]. Remarkably, I was told this back in early June by an Israeli army official of the COGAT [the unit that inspects and supervises delivery of supplies to Gaza]. He said that COGAT had inspected the "humanitarian supplies" brought on the Turkish Thug Armada which its ignorant supporters in the West called "the Gaza Freedom Flotilla," and that the medications supplied had either expired back in April or were about to expire in July. Now we are in July, actually near its end. And what do we hear? Gaza health officials echo the words of the COGAT representative.
Labels: Gaza, Hamas, Islamic fundamentalism, shari`a law
posted by Eliyahu m'Tsiyon at
11:54 AM
1 Comments:
i like it!!!
Strapless bra || Push up bra || Transparent bra ||
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Priya Kundu, at 4:11 PM
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