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Muslim anger at Beyonce 'sex party'
Friday, 6 November 2009
Beyonce accepts the award for Best Video at the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards at the 02 Arena in Berlin, Germany.
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As Egypt gears up for pop diva Beyonce Knowles' first performance in North Africa, Islamic conservatives are branding her show an "insolent sex party" that threatens the Muslim nation's "social peace and stability".
On giant posters plastered across the Egyptian capital advertising this evening's concert, Beyonce sports a revealing, flame-covered outfit and grips a set of motorcycle handlebars extending from her hips -- a sharp contrast to Cairo streets, where most women wear the traditional Muslim headscarves.
TV ads promoting the show, part of Beyonce's "I Am ..." world tour, have run on Egyptian and Arab satellite stations. The tour, which took Beyonce to the United Arab Emirates last week, had grossed $53.5m (€36m) by October, said 'Billboard' magazine.
But in Egypt, Islamic lawmakers and their supporters have waged campaigns on social networking websites, accusing the government of encouraging debauchery and calling for the concert's cancellation.
"Why are you encouraging this insolent sex party?" lawmaker Hamdi Hassan of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood wrote in a letter to the government. "You are accused of disturbing social peace and stability, encouraging vice and debauchery."
Lawmaker Ali Laban called for the "nudity concert" to be banned. A Facebook campaign against the concert collected nearly 10,000 supporters. But the war of words has not derailed the concert in the Red Sea resort, Port Ghalib.
Source Irish Independent
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Ok. Let me get this straight. The "Muslim Brotherhood" considers a pop concert to be "vice and debauchery" yet presumably condones the evil suppression of women and also the murders of innocent people via their form of "warfare" - the use of sucide bombers. Interesting logic.
Posted by Neal | 25.01.10, 04:43 GMT
i'm an muslim, and i have nothing against beyonce she got a nice voice maybe she could change her clothes a little bit. but other than that she is pretty good =)
Posted by mr.kebab95 | 15.01.10, 22:57 GMT
I pray that right-minded individuals committed to freedom of expression, speech, and equality within these radical nations continue to stand up to the foolishness that is extreme Islam. The similarities between the fundamentalist Muslims of the seventh century and today is astonishing. Both groups have absolutely no respect for anything that isn't male, tribal, and lunatic.
Posted by Misti Nicole | 26.12.09, 20:40 GMT
Some of us that are critical of Islam might recall that we were born Moslem but have been indoctrinated into Christianity, unless of course saved (unwittingly) by the Church of Mormon.
Posted by Graham | 25.11.09, 18:53 GMT
Religion rears its ugly head again, don't you realise that religion was created to control the masses and those who created religion and who now run the various sects are mega rich beyond belief. Shut down all religions and give the riches back to the poor from whom they were extorted in the first place.
Posted by dave | 25.11.09, 09:53 GMT
Are these fanactical Muslims shedding ONE tear over all the 'family honor' killings of girls and women yearly in the Muslim world because of rape? Doubt it. Whther we agree about Beyonce's clothing or not, the bigger issue is put it in perspective. We practice freedom, not oppression like you do.
Posted by Lonewolf | 15.11.09, 19:28 GMT
it is not true to say muslims are critical of christianity rather they are crirical of the secular wests lack of religious values. These are two different things. They aren't complaning because beyonce is a christian they are complaining because she seems not to show traditional christian/islamic values of modesty in public.
Posted by alternativeulster | 07.11.09, 08:50 GMT
it is not true to say muslims are critical of christianity rather they are critical of the secular wests lack of religious values. These are two different things. They aren't complaning because beyonce is a christian they are complaining because she seems not to show traditional christian/islamic values of modesty in public.
Posted by alternativeulster | 07.11.09, 08:48 GMT
How RIDICULOUS does the Muslim world have to get before someone tells them to GROW UP?
Why are they AFRAID of everyone and everyone else's self expression?
Why do some of them justify the keeping women in the DARK for eternity?
What are these guys afraid of?
We are HUMANS.
Cherish God's creation and STOP the Rock dwelling mentality.
I know, they will not publish this because it most likely does not meet the Imam's specifications of decency.
Posted by Riot5000 | 07.11.09, 07:38 GMT
Dear Gods, I wish the Muslim world would grow a thicker skin. They act like little girls over the smallest of things.
Oh no some foreigner is performing in our country!!! We must stop this!!! Some foreigner is saying horrible things about our religion...We must stop them!!!
And forbid if anyone criticizes them! It is ok for them to, but not the other way round.
It is 2009 not 1809 grow up and enter the time period!
Or go talk to Doc Brown, I heard he has a time machine you may want to use...
Posted by F'n Fed up with crybaby religion | 06.11.09, 11:43 GMT