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Brickbats

Brickbat: You Going to Eat That?

Charles Oliver | 12.22.2017 4:00 AM

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An Egyptian court has sentenced singer Shaimaa Ahmed to two years in prison for inciting debauchery and publishing an indecent film. Ahmed appeared in a music video in her underwear and suggestively eating a banana.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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