Almazbek Atambayev has tried to dissuade women in the country from dressing in hijabs, niqabs and burkas saying: “Our women have been wearing miniskirts since 1950s, and they never thought about wearing an explosive belt.”
His comments come after several weeks of controversy following a government sponsored campaign to discourage Kyrgyz women from dressing in Islamic garb amid fears of the “Arabisation” of the country.
Banners across Kyrgyzstan have been erected showing women in the nation's traditional clothing contrasted with women in niqabs and burkas captioned: “Poor people! Where are we heading to?”
The article didn't show any of the banners, but this may be a close second...
I have never seen a quote which so simply, beautifully, and accurately sums up our modern age as this one.
8/14/2016, 4:32 pm
Genosse Dummkopf
a shortcut :
8/14/2016, 4:45 pm
Karl Marx Treatment Center
Why now?
8/14/2016, 5:27 pm
Genosse Dummkopf
Red Square wrote:Then there's this ... ( shortcut : )
... and Yemeni photographer's (Boushra Almutawakel) sense of humor : (the Mother, daughter, doll was exhibited in Sana'a ; the What if below, I dunno)
4/27/2017, 1:42 pm
Genosse Dummkopf
Karl Marx Treatment Center wrote:Why now?
uh, the pic of those beach volley ladies was freshly transmitted (from Olympics 2016).
And then, it reminded me of that silent yet highly expressive series from Cairo University.
It's an explosive shortcut of the downslide not just of (post-Sadat) Egypt, since the 80s.
The same thing happened in (post-Pahlavi) Iran, starting in '79 with that fanatic Khomeini.
Same thing running in Afghanistan (post-Zahir, the King, ousted in '73), since '78 Mujahid Revo.
Same again, since 2000, in Turkey - scrapping Atatürk's course, back to Islam + Brotherhood.
1950s, public library.
Q: Kazakhstan? Warsaw? Novosibirsk? Plovdiv (Bulgaria)? București (România)? Wichita, Kansas?
