Brickbat: You Going to Eat That?

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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.

Comments

[JeremyR]

We really need to keep importing that sort of Islam to the US so we can have stuff like this here (again)

[JeremyR]

Though it's still better than the Muslim Brotherhood. This is moderate Islam at work here, she's only facing prison, not death.

[Rat on a train]

The article doesn't mention if she will serve her time in underwear with an endless supply of bananas. She will require constant monitoring.

[TheRedTomahawk]

Surely she will have an endless suply of bananas,what that means is an endless suply of rapes coming from the officers that put her in jail and are supposed to protect her. You famous and a woman in egypt? You dress light? You deserve rape according to them.

[Mr. Smacky]

Yes, Yes I would eat that.

[Jerryskids]

Wait'll those Egyptian judges find out there's a thing called Pornhub.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"I didn't imagine all this would happen and that I would be subjected to such a strong attack from everyone," she wrote on her now-deleted Facebook page.

Well, now you know. The Middle Ages aren't all they're cracked up to be.

[Inigo Montoya]

Inciting Debauchery would make a great punk band name. And besides, it is isually a good thing in practice ? especially in settings where everyone is repressed.

As for the authorities who passed sentence on this poor lady, I believe the proper response is, "Fuck off, slavers!"

[Libertarian]

Fun fact: the U.S. gives Egypt $1,500,000,000 every year.

[Longtobefree]

Or at least we did before that UN vote - - - - -

[Rhywun]

"You're fired on your own!"

If only.

[Conchfritters]

Friendships cost a lot of money.

[juris imprudent]

That's what she said!

[Libertarian]

She should have come here. Inciting debauchery is what keeps the America economy, and everything else, humming along.

[Hank Phillips]

Looka dat! Egypt has finally entered 1927, and with its own Josephine Baker to importune and try to humiliate!

[Longtobefree]

So are the constant posts of "Fuck off, slaver" illegal in Egypt?

[Libertarian]

Inigo Montoya may disagree with me, but I'd feel a lot safer saying here on Hit and Run than I would the streets of Cairo.

[Vernon Depner]

In Egypt, an actual slave dealer might hear you and take personal offense.

[Trollificus]

In Russia, slaver fucks off you!!

[Vernon Depner]

She sexually harassed me. I froze and couldn't stop watching.

[ace_m82]

Calling Shaimaa Ahmed, "Ahmed" is kinda stupid, as most Arabic naming conventions are given name, father's name, grandfather's name (etc.).

So you probably just called her a male name, her father's name.

(Spending a year in Haditha wasn't a total waste, it turns out.)