I can’t endorse Sila Sahin’s action, but I just hope she doesn’t get killed. Non-Muslim women in the West who do this sort of thing to break free from the restrictions of their childhood risk alienation from their families, but generally their lives are not in danger. However, given the Islamic cultural toleration of honor killing, which continues to be ignored in the West, the same cannot be said of Muslim women like Sila Sahin.
“‘I wanted to be free’: Muslim model upsets family by posing nude for Playboy cover,” by Deborah Arthurs in the Daily Mail, April 19 (thanks to Twostellas):
Sila Sahin, a 25-year-old Turkish German living in Berlin, had until now been regarded as a glowing example of how a modern Muslim girl should behave in a multicultural society. […]
Posing provocatively on the cover of German Playboy magazine with one breast exposed, Sila Sahin is apparently sending a clear and deliberate message to her conservative Turkish family.
‘I did it because I wanted to be free at last,’ she said. ‘These photographs are a liberation from the restrictions of my childhood.’
Her family have, unsurprisingly, reacted with horror, and her mother has cut off all contact with the actress.
‘My mother is still angry. It will be even more difficult with my grandparents, my aunts and my uncles,’ she said on the website devoted to her television soap.