MUSLIM HATE OF NUDITY

 

Those involved in naked photo shoot in Dubai to be deported

 

ISABEL DEBRE

Tue, April 6, 2021

 

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities in Dubai say those involved in a naked photo shoot on a balcony that went viral and prompted a crackdown in the city will be deported.

 

Dubai’s Attorney General Issam Issa al-Humaidan said Tuesday that the public prosecution has completed investigations and those accused of public debauchery will be sent back to their countries. Authorities declined further comment.

 

Earlier Tuesday, authorities confirmed that 11 Ukrainian women and a Russian man who were involved in the photo shoot were arrested. The footage came as a shock in the Gulf Arab sheikhdom governed by an Islamic legal code.

 

The move Tuesday is highly unusual for the legal system in Dubai, an absolutely ruled sheikhdom. Typically, such cases go to trial or otherwise adjudicated before deportation.

 

Police in Dubai have arrested 11 Ukrainian women and a Russian man for their involvement in a nude photo shoot on a high-rise balcony in the city, authorities said Tuesday, after the footage went viral and prompted a crackdown in the Gulf Arab sheikhdom.

 

Dubai is a top destination for the world's Instagram influencers and models, who fill their social media feeds with slick bikini-clad selfies from the coastal emirate's luxury hotels and artificial islands.

 

But the city's brand as a glitzy foreign tourist destination has at times provoked controversy and collided with the sheikhdom's strict rules governing public behavior and expression, which are based on Islamic law, or Shariah.

 

The nude photo shoot scandal comes just days before Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar, and as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lands in nearby Doha, Qatar, for an official state visit. Over the years, Dubai increasingly has promoted itself as a popular destination for Russians on holiday. Signs in Cyrillic are a common sight at the city's major malls.

 

Dubai police announced earlier this week they had arrested a group of people on debauchery charges over a widely shared video showing naked women posing in broad daylight on a balcony overlooking the city's upscale Marina neighborhood. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry confirmed Tuesday that 11 of detained women were Ukrainian, while a Russian diplomat in Dubai said the photographer who filmed the naked women held Russian citizenship.

 

Dubai police declined to identify those detained. More than a dozen women appeared in the video and the nationalities of the others arrested were not immediately known.

 

The generally pro-Kremlin tabloid Life identified the Russian man arrested as the head of an information technology firm in Russia’s Ivanovo region, though his firm denied he had anything to do with the photo shoot. The Associated Press was not able to find if those arrested had legal representation or reach a lawyer for them.

 

Stanislav Voskresensky, the governor of Ivanovo, asked the Russian Foreign Ministry and Russia’s ambassador to the UAE to offer the Russian man their support.

 

“We don’t abandon our own,” Voskresensky wrote on social media.

 

It's not the first time that foreign social media influencers, amateur and pro, have drawn unwanted scrutiny in the United Arab Emirates. Earlier this year, as Dubai promoted itself as a major pandemic-friendly party haven for travelers fleeing tough lockdowns elsewhere, European reality TV show stars came under fire for flaunting their poolside Dubai vacations on social media and for bringing the coronavirus back home. Denmark and the United Kingdom later banned flights to the UAE as virus cases surged in the federation of seven sheikhdoms.

 

Although the UAE has recently made legal changes to attract foreign tourists and investors, allowing unmarried couples to share hotel rooms and residents to drink alcohol without a license, the Gulf Arab country’s justice system retains harsh penalties for violations of the public decency law.

 

Nudity and other “lewd behavior,” carry penalties of up to six months in prison and a fine of 5,000 dirhams ($1,360). The sharing of pornographic material is also punishable with prison time and hefty fines. The country’s majority state-owned telecom companies block access to pornographic websites.

 

Foreigners, who make up some 90% of the UAE’s population of over 9 million, have landed in jail for their comments and videos online, as well as for offenses considered tame in the West, like kissing in public.

 

Dubai police often turn a blind eye to foreigners misbehaving — until they don't.

 

 

Painting with bare breasts removed from Swedish Riksdag dining room

 

Dec. 19, 2013


STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A painting of a bare-breasted woman has been removed from the Swedish Riksdag's guest dining room on orders from the legislature's deputy speaker.

 

Deputy Speaker Susanne Eberstein of the Social Democrat party ordered the painting, "Juno" by baroque artist G.E. Schroder, to be removed from the guest dining room, where it had hung since 1983, TheLocal.se reported Thursday.

 

"We routinely change paintings from time to time," a Riksdag representative said in response to an inquiry from news agency TT.

 

A parliamentary source who asked to remain anonymous told TT lawmakers were concerned about the painting's effects on foreign visitors.

 

"You have to think of the foreign guests, especially those from Muslim countries," the source said.

 

Eberstein said the painting's removal was also for the comfort of herself and her fellow female officials.

 

"I think it is more a feminist issue. It's tiresome [looking at] a bare-breasted woman when I sit at public dinners with foreign guests. I think it feels a little hard to sit there with men who look at us women," Eberstein said.



Ahmadi Muslim Boy Expelled for Not Bathing Nude

 

PRESS RELEASE

NUDE BATHING

(Rashid Ahmad Chaudhry)

 

Hashim Ahmad, an eleven year old boy, was expelled from school a week after he joined the fee paying Friern Barnet Grammar School, North London, because he objected to participate in communal nude bathing after the P.E. and games session.

 

Hashim, son of Mr Rashid Ahmed of North London, said that he believed that Islam does not allow its followers to go naked in the company of others. Hashim's parents approached the headmaster of the school and tried to resolve the situation. They requested that their son should be allowed to take bath in swimming trunks, but the headmaster refused to give such permission.

 

During the first week at school when Hashim was forced to take a shower in the nude, he was so upset that he started to vomit when he reached home. His doctor, therefore, wrote a note to the headmaster asking him to reconsider his stand and find a compromise in the situation, but this request also fell on deaf ears.

 

The Muslim community of Great Britain is furious about the incident and is taking the case to the Race Relations Council.

The father of another Muslim boy, who also paid the fees, has withdrawn his boy from the school after his similar request was turned down by the headmaster.

 

The Imam of the London Mosque, Maulana Ata-ul-Mujeeb Rashed, has issued a statement on the issue: "Communal nude bathing is completely out of the question for a Muslim. It is compulsory for all Muslims to cover the private parts of their bodies and make sure that these are never exposed to others at any time. It is incumbent upon every Muslim to adhere to these teachings and rules most faithfully and there is no room for any exception in it."

 

Mr Rashid Ahmad Chaudhry, the Press Secretary of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, when contacted remarked: "Compulsory group nude bathing in a school is a gross infringement upon the civil liberties of a child. Private parts are just what their name implies and are not for indiscriminate viewing by others, whether at a young age or old.I wonder why such a practice is allowed to continue in British schools when other dehumanising rituals such as corporal punishment have all been stopped. I wonder how in this modern age and in a multicultural society such as ours, a headteacher can force the youngsters in his charge to partipate in nude bathing. The sensible teachers who care for children have realised this problem and have dropped the requirement of having group showers in the nude, specially in the case of children who express their distaste for such a practice. However, regrettably, here is a headmaster who was obstinate enough in his approach to expel a young promising boy from school simply because he refused to take part in the parade of naked bodies."

 

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