Thursday, April 06, 2006
MURDER IMPULSE ANTICIPATED
Hamas culture minister Attallah Abu al-Sibbah vows to crush the bellydancing menace:
“Bellydancing is naked women. This is not Islamic. The Egyptians come here and do it. And there are a lot of Russian bellydancers in Egypt and they come here too,” said Mr Sibbah, 58, an Islamic scholar who joined the cabinet of the Hamas government installed last week.
How come we’ve not heard of this before?
“People do it indoors, in secret. There’s lots of it,” he said.
And this is a problem ... why?
“If the phenomenon of bellydancing spreads our people might react against it by killing people.”
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