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Submitted by Dr_Frank

Edited by Dr_Frank

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:

Asian music TV network B4U TV dropped the video after receiving complaints.

"We played the video a couple of times and then did not play it again. We had threats which we were forced to take very seriously. These things are sensitive issues," an employee said.


Watch it while you still can.

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SirPsychoSexy

SirPsychoSexy

Ridgewood, NJ
January 2004

FEB 25, 2006 05:04 PM

I wanna see ya' Burka

You wanna see my what?

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

Puuck

Puuck

Brandon, FL
February 2006

FEB 25, 2006 05:51 PM

Burka Burka Burka. Muhammed Jihad.

GiddyIguana

GiddyIguana

Spartanburg, SC
February 2004

FEB 26, 2006 12:26 AM

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. biggrin

jimmyjoe

jimmyjoe

Belgium
January 2004

FEB 26, 2006 02:23 AM

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

Snottlebocket

Snottlebocket

Netherlands
March 2004

FEB 26, 2006 02:54 AM

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

Kris7

Kris7

Bridgewater, MA
July 2003

FEB 26, 2006 06:05 PM

Good for her.

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