Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Belly dancing out, cinema in, says Hamas : Mail & Guardian Online

Belly dancing out, cinema in, says Hamas : Mail & Guardian Online: "'Bellydancing is naked women. This is not Islamic. The Egyptians come here and do it. And there are a lot of Russian belly dancers in Egypt and they come here too,' said Sibbah (58) an Islamic scholar who joined the Cabinet of the Hamas government installed last week."

The view of belly dancing as something wicked, "dirty" and pornographic seems to be ongoing around the world. It concerns me that the art form is so misunderstood.

Lisa x