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http://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-feminist-defecates-on-is-flag-in-the-nude/A well known Egyptian social activist and blogger posted a photo to Facebook Saturday of herself and another unidentified women defecating and menstruating on an Islamic State flag while in the nude, in what appears to be a protest against the Islamist terror groups recent advances in northern Iraq and Syria.
Aliaa Magda Elmahdy did not specify why she posted the photo, though past controversies, such as a 2011 incident in which she posed in only stockings and red shoes for her blog to protest against Egypts conservative culture suggest that she was opposing the Islamic State terror groups brutally restrictive and misogynistic ideology.
Picture is rather inappropriate to post.
Orrex
(63,086 posts)Including the one in that Greyhound station in Effingham, Illinois.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)That's a joke.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)The menstruation is even more offensive, actually, to strict adherents of particular forms of patriarchal Islam.
pic.twitter.com/Wd4xNUGJIZ
-Laelth
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)Like Spiderwoman?
Who didn't send her the memo?
Orrex
(63,086 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)at a time.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)her Number Two concern.
that was good.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)there are at least three reasons why you could think so, but I continue to be impressed by the courage shown by women of FEMEN like Inna Shevchenko and Aliaa Magda Elmahdy to use non-traditional methods of protest to highlight issues of inequality and bias towards women.
When it comes to protests like this one against ISIS from within the Middle East, its no stretch at all to say that it is done by Aliaa at grave risk to her life.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Isn't there a more effective and less unsavory way to make her voice heard?
What happened to good old-fashioned flag burning??
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I'm just saying if I was a neutral or didn't know anything about the conflict, something like that isn't going to win me over to her side...
(I realize I'm also not the target demographic she is trying to reach...)
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)Most of us who not Islamic fundamentalist are generally on her side and agree with the general message she is trying to express. Her targets are well aware of what this is about, and that's really what matters.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)in her death. I'm certain you'll find that funny too.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)Yeah, it's serious and deadly.
Sometimes you have to laugh when you can get it ?
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Orrex
(63,086 posts)I leave it to the reader to investigate if further information is needed.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)it got attention. Mission accomplished.