NEWS: Freedom

MUSIC: Freedom

I admit, before Andrew Sullivan linked to the story, I'd never heard of Deeyah, the Iranian-British-Norwegian singer known as the "Muslim Madonna." The video for "What Will Be?" is a rather mild, though of course extremely topical, statement about freedom of speech and abuse and oppression of women.

The anti-Burka message and images have sparked threats - they were "death threats" according to Sullivan, which is plausible but not actually stated in the linked article. Whatever the nature of the threats, though, they have been effective:

Watch it while you still can.

I wanna see ya' Burka

You wanna see my what?

Ya', ya' Burka, Ya'-ya ya Burka

Burka Burka Burka. Muhammed Jihad.

Sweet. Her song "What Will It Be" is now officially on my myspace profile.

All I need to do now is to post some new caricatures of Muhammed on there too just to make sure I'll have a fatwa issued against me.

i'm totally disgusted at how far men would go to apply forecefully their stupid and mindless power on other beens...

ah yes, no better way of getting a message across than distracting me with your half naked body.

Good for her.