Israeli Women Strip in Support of Nude Egyptian Blogger
- Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:25pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Forty Israeli women posed nude in support of a young female Egyptian blogger who drew criticism and threats for posting a naked photo of herself to protest against the limits of free speech in her country. The organizer of the Israeli event says she wanted to show support for women like Egyptian activist Aliaa Elmahdy, and show the world “a good reason to see the unique beauty of Israeli women.”
“Regardless of whether they are Jewish, Arab, straight or Lesbian – because here, as of now, it doesn’t matter. … Let us show the doubters that our international discourse doesn’t depend on governments,” Or Tepler told YNet News. Tepler organized the event on Facebook. The participants were photographed holding a sign saying “Love without Limits,“ and ”Homage to Aliaa Elmahdi. Sisters in Israel.”
Elmahdy has sparked controversy in the Middle East and global uproar after a friend posted a photo of her naked. The photo posted on Twitter with the hashtag #nudephotorevolutionary was viewed over a million times, while Elmahdy’s followers jumped from a few hundred to more than 14,000 by Saturday. CNN reports that the photo received global media coverage and provoked outrage in Egypt, a conservative Muslim country where most women wear the veil. Egyptian liberals fear that Elmahdy’s actions will hurt prospects in the parliamentary election this week.
The 20-year-old Elmahdy explained to CNN why she allowed a friend to post the photo on Twitter:
“I am not shy of being a woman in a society where women are nothing but sex objects harassed on a daily basis by men who know nothing about sex or the importance of a woman.
The photo is an expression of my being and I see the human body as the best artistic representation of that. I took the photo myself using a timer on my personal camera.”
Elmahdy was not a revolutionary in Tahir Square this past February, but said of the remnants of Murbarak’s National Democratic Party, “Where is the democracy and liberalism they preach to the world? They only feed what the public wants to hear for their political ambitions.”
Tepler told Ynet in regards to her copycat protest, “I got the idea the day that the blogger’s photo was posted.”
“It got on my nerves that she received a quarter of a million abusive comments and death threats,” said Tepler. “I felt that when a liberal, enlightened woman in Cairo cannot express herself and gets threats from her state, I should show solidarity.”
Tepler says she was active in the social protest movement over the summer, made efforts to get in touch with Elmahdy, but was unsuccessful.
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Comments (105)
Hated Backhairs
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:44pmThis will ruin your lunch: “Maybe the first lady should join them!”
Report Post »liberalescheisskopf
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:53pmThat did it….where’s the alka-seltzer
Report Post »neocon1
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:56pmOMG
and hillary………..
NO PLEASE NO
Report Post »let them join bwany fwank, dodd, sinclair and Obambi.
mizflame98
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:54pmOddly enough, you don‘t hear of any feminists coming to this woman’s defense. They tend to defend women wearing the burkas instead.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 3:31pmI am trying to get that image out of my brain as I type this…..(shudder)
Report Post »JRook
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 4:29pmReminds me of a topless/nude beach my wife and i visited in the Canary islands. There definitely has to be some criteria one has to meet and someone should give out steep tickets for those who don’t.
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:35amOMG… that would be the kind of photo that would turn men Gay.
Report Post »BobNH
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 5:58amI just threw up in my mouth.
Report Post »Caniac Steve
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 9:02amat a nascar race too !! hehehe…but i have to give a 2 thumbs up as culturally..the point was they did it in support..and i can see & understand that..I don’t agree but i understand and respect them for the effort
Report Post »Freedom.Fighter
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:18amHow about you people keep your insults to yourselves. These women do something brave in and non-violent in support of their values and amny of you come up with insults? Saying they are not attractive is easy to say when you can’t be seen on here. It would be amazing if we could show the same kind of solidarity that Israel has.
Report Post »TunaBlue
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 7:18pmThere probably isn‘t one of you here who isn’t a fat bast**d, sitting on your arse typing insults about people who are showing support for a woman who is in great peril because she’s speaking out about the injustice in her country. I shutter to imagine what the lot of you fat asses would look like in a picture such as this. But that’s okay, because not one of the you would have the metaphorical or literal balls to do it.
Report Post »neocon1
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:36pmLove the way they EXPOSED for solidarity hiding BEHIND a big sign and arms across breasts….FAKES !!
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:25pmGiven a sizable chunk (no pun intended) of them are not exactly comely, I appreciate their willingness not to cause any sensory harm.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:41amTwobyfour your description was well put.
Report Post »neocon1
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:34pmCan I join them?
Report Post »for solidarity purposes of course :)
pavepaws
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:59pmTime to pull Elmahdy out of there. She’ll have a target on her back now. Political asylum would be good.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:31pmpavepaws, right, strip for landed immigrant status in US, that’d work.
How about 8 million Copts? They don’t usually do something stupid.
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:34pmWhat does presenting yourself naked to the world have to do with speech? I don’t get it. Generally speaking men (oh yeah and some women) like to look at naked young women in a particular context and I don’t mean in an aesthetic sense.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:56pmGenerally… Nudity is a statement of Open Trust, with no fear of Insult or Ridicule… as between Lovers or Married Couples.
Report Post »JohnHW
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 3:16pmHaving been raised as a nudist (male, up to 14), I learned early that girls/women were no different (except for their equipment) than boys/men. I could talk to them without being afraid or in awe of them. I also learned control of myself (except for one girl who finally made me lose it – and I was not allowed to return).
Report Post »neocon1
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 7:00pmSCHWANG………..lol
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 10:39pm“What does presenting yourself naked to the world have to do with speech”?
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VANITY THY NAME IS WOMAN
davuf
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 7:12amNormally I woould agree with you if this were in the United States. This is a protest against the burka and it will probably cost this woman her life. I think she was very brave to post it and she has a just issue. Not the right to be a stripper – but the right to walk around the streets and look like a woman instead of a ninja.
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:32pmThey are just so precious…
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:30pmI completely support the idea that women should not be treated as “nothing but sex objects”…as long as they don’t treat themselves just like that.
Report Post »But the 40 nude “graces” photo emphasizes and proves exactly “nothing but sex objects.”
It is only a sick female brain can insists that exposing private parts in public proves their intelligence.
By the way, if they are “not shy of being a woman”, why almost all of them are covering mammillae (nipples) and pubis?
All that female nude crap is nothing but a crazy Liberal invention that is designed to divert attention form real methods of fight for women rights and respectful treatment.
Stoic one
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:46pmbecause in most of the world, exposing one‘s ’privates’ is considered porn. yet everything else is not.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:15pmIt’s called “giving dirtbags the middle finger”.
Anyone that tells me I “can’t” do something will typcally get that exact thing and a middle finger just for effect. Clearly these ladies are more polite than I.
For your own safety I strongly suggest that no one tell me that I can’t be naked.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:25pmTo THX-1138
“For your own safety I strongly suggest that no one tell me that I can’t be naked,” you said.
Every single moron in the USA has the right to get naked in public….until the first policeman approaches.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 3:24pmNext stop 14 and 15 year old girls going topless for freedom
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:43pmConstantine Ivanov, +1.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:30pmThey very well could die for this.. but certainly they have sent a statement.. Egyptian men have treated their wives and daughters like chattel for generations! Although it was rather extreme, because of the nudity..the statement is loud and clear.. God help us!
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:20pmGood for these ladies standing up for their supposed enemy.
Report Post »What do you think would happen if the roles were reversed.
stone them all – the religion of love!!
old white guy
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:29pmunfortunately the young lady blogger wiil be killed. every woman in israel, the u.s. and evrywhere else can go naked the muslim men can get off looking at them but they , the muslim men , will still kill her.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:37pmI too am an old white man
Want an eye opener – read “islamic Antichrist” form the mouths of Islamic scholars
Report Post »nothing hidden right out in the open – scary stuff
Walkabout
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:02pmjakartaman
Have you been to Jakarta?
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:18pm*Love* the shoes!
Report Post »Arc
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:17pmThe Epitome of BRAVERY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rock on ladies…….to hell with Politically Correct attitudes……..and I would support them if they were wearing………………….hats
Report Post »cromag11b
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:39amBrave how? They risk nothing unlike the Egyptian woman.
Report Post »JimmyP
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:16pmAll right, shows over. Move on.
Report Post »Nuttin to see here, boys, back to work!
consrv
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:04pmBho sure has stepped in it, he picked the wrong time to hate the Jews.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 3:22amHe doesn’t hate the Jews. He just refuses to be ruled by them.you should thank him for that.
Report Post »HuskerDave
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:04pmI’m all for women getting naked; but wasn’t this the blogger that proved to be a hoax?
Report Post »GodHatesFigs
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:31pmNo
Report Post »JoePatriot
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:59pmThrow an apple into the pile of ‘em and watch them all scrap over it!
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:55pm“Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/31/world/la-fg-israel-free-speech-20110731
Report Post »Drum Man
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:54pmThe Naked Truth. Gotta love it.
Report Post »blaaaaackwoman
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:48pm41 sluts
Report Post »Jomil48
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:57pmWhat, you don‘t believe in women’s rights
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:08pmShouldn’t it be always this easy to get women to take off their clothes?
Report Post »crusaderinsc
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:34pmsounds like someone needs to get laid. :(
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:09pmAwwwwww look an ugly woman, inside and out, pissed off at empowered women.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 3:29pmWhy would you say that?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:47pm.
That‘s what I’m talking about. The Arabs need to uncover their women and Embrace Porn, it’ll give them something else to hold on to, instead of a detonator……..
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:07pmWhut choo talkin’ about willis? These Hypocrites are busted with porn in their caves all the time. bin laden himself had stacks..
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:19pm.
We have got to get them to believe in the real THING, Damn It…….
Cause those 72 Mythical Virgins are kill’in us……………
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:43pmHate that premature detonation.
Report Post »MySacredHonor
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:43pmBless her and Bless the women in Israel who are supporting her. its not about what she is wearing, its about what she is standing for.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:42pmI wish more women would speak this way.
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Cat
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:09pmA lot of them do
Report Post »Men often respond to them with the term, “yes honey”
chubster
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:41pmI bet that room smelled “funny” Nut’n like 40 nekked chicks.
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:15pmIf you wouldn’t get intoxicated walking in the room from the smell, perhaps a room full of 40 naked men is more your style.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:41pm.
Now that’s a cause I could get behind, or in front of, or under, or……
Oh what the Hell just put me anywhere………
Report Post »MySacredHonor
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:39pmBless her heart, and Bless the women in Israel who stand with her.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 3:23amOh but they’re naked and all. What would Jesus say? More important, what would John Hagee say?
Report Post »Jomil48
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:38pmWomen’s rights, you go girl
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:35pmApparently the rest of the country has no complaints since they all are viewing the photo regardless of what the interim government says.
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