I'll Be Your Belly Dancer, and You Can Be My Sheik

Credit: Steven Pisano / photo on flickr

An Egyptian court has sentenced belly dancers Suha Mohammed Ali and Dalia Kamal Youssef to six months in jail each for inciting debauchery through music videos they starred in. They are the third and fourth dancers sentenced to jail this year because of videos they made.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

And yet no matter what she does, Miley Cyrus can't get arrested in this town.

[Radioactive]

isn't that cultural appropriation? just updating my checklist for trigger words and other "violent" behavior...don't you shake those hips at me honey!

[Robert]

What do the belly dancers do in those videos that are considered OK in Egypt?