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Saudi Arabia: Uproar over 11-year-old girl’s dance that “has angered our religion”

Feb 8, 2018 3:30 pm By Robert Spencer

The video “has angered our religion and morals and Arab traditions, the majority of people,” tweeted Saudi commentator Mohammed al-Yahya.

His religion is angered? Islam gets angry? It certainly is the angriest of religions, but that it could get even angrier is news to me. In any case, we can only hope that this girl is not honor-murdered. The uproar over her dance is rather absurd considering that child marriage is justified in many areas of the Islamic world by invocation of the example of Muhammad himself, who consummated his marriage with Aisha when he was 54 and she was nine. So now simulating a wedding dance with an 11-year-old girl is scandalous? The hypocrisy is staggering.

“Saudi uproar after 11-year-old girl filmed in ‘scandalous’ dance,” The New Arab, February 5, 2018 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

A girl wearing a traditional wedding costume and full make-up, but still in hijab, has caused uproar in Saudi Arabia after being filmed in a mixed-gender festival over the weekend in the town of Jizan.

Making matters worse, the girl, who in the video marches alongside a man in simulation of a zaffa, a traditional wedding dance, was later revealed to be just 11 years old.

Following outrage on social media in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the tourism board of Jizan province in south-west Saudi Arabia launched an investigation, and banned the event planner from further activities in the Heritage Village, the venue of the dance.

Saudi press reports suggested the man may have also been detained, but he later appeared on television to defend himself, according to Saudi news outlet Sabq on Monday.

“The man responsible has been suspended… because it is not acceptable for such appearances to take place in a conservative society,” the chief of Jizan’s tourism board Rustum al-Kobeissy told local television.
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“The girl was only 11, but she is tall and was wearing [adult] clothes, so she appeared older,” he added.

The video “has angered our religion and morals and Arab traditions, the majority of people,” tweeted Saudi commentator Mohammed al-Yahya….

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  1. Kh says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 3:36 pm

    Humanly speaking, it’s nobody’s business except her parents what she wears and where and with whom she dances. This islam control thing is disgusting. Who ever gave anyone the right to control everyone else’s life?

    • Richard says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 4:27 pm

      “Humanly speaking”? Considering lots of the things I’ve read on this web site, one could question if Muslims are indeed human. That aside, just a few days ago, a school in America banned a “Fathers and Daughters Dance” on the grounds it was sexist. Is the whole world losing its mind?

      • Marco says

        Feb 8, 2018 at 10:17 pm

        Yes

      • Frank Riley says

        Feb 9, 2018 at 4:18 am

        That’s a serious question, Richard, and there’s such an abundance of evidence to support the suggestion. I’ve just been reading a report from yesterday’s Daily Mail (UK) under the followiing heading: Foreign Office staff invited to wear the hijab for the day’. We’ve lost any focal point of morality, which seems to have resulted also in a loss of sanity — one and one are no longer two.

      • JAK says

        Feb 9, 2018 at 9:55 am

        There is no “Humanly Speaking in Islam” Only islamic crap is allowed!!

    • Laura says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 4:34 am

      Er, that would be…Muhammad.

    • BC says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 10:32 am

      Insanity
      Stupidity
      Lunacy
      Asininity
      Mental disorder

      What does that spell?

    • J D S says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 10:56 am

      Just more stupidness coming from a nation built upon stupidness
      We should have long years ago cut Saudi out of the human race, but for those caught up in a stupid religion.

  2. nicu says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 3:38 pm

    Muslims angered ??? what a surprise !! ~ yawns ~

  3. Jack Dawkins says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 3:38 pm

    It’s not islam that gets angry – but allah – and he gets his panties in a bunch.

  4. Philip McDonald says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 3:51 pm

    It’s perfectly MORAL to whip and behead women in public, but an 11 year old girl busting a move is an outrage? What a depraved culture the Saudi’s enforce.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 5:32 pm

      Yep. Stoning them to death is fine, too.

      • christianblood says

        Feb 9, 2018 at 11:29 am

        Saudi Arabia is the closest and the dearest US ally in the Arab/Islamic world. More below:

        https://mashable.com/2017/05/22/donald-trump-sword-dance-saudi-arabia/#01bEraRzwqqQ

    • Westman says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 12:33 am

      This problem can be resolved by the future “companion” robots that are currently in development.

      Where would be the perfect place to test them? Saudi Arabia!

      Because:

      The robots have no need to be loved in return.

      They won’t complain about being beaten.

      They won’t mind wearing black clothing in 125 degree weather( though it might cause a breakdown).

      Men won’t have to accompany them to market and will have more time between prayers.

      Their entire service life can be spent in servitude to a man.

      They will never ask for a divorce, no matter how poorly treated. This will lessen the burden on the Shariah Councils.

      • Hope says

        Feb 9, 2018 at 7:05 am

        It will also lessen the burden on real women! I’m all for it!

      • sally says

        Feb 9, 2018 at 9:25 am

        You want to be careful not to equip them with very much artificial intelligence.

      • Necrophage says

        Feb 9, 2018 at 9:55 am

        Speaking of “companion” robots, a sex-robot conference in London was forced to move venues because of threats from Muslims:
        https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/668123/sex-robot-conference-UK-terror-threat-goldsmiths-university-muslim-extremists

        They think robot sex is either homosexuality or masturbation, neither of which are permitted in Islam. Also, if they’re going to beat their wives, they damn sure want them to feel it.

  5. Gjallarhornet says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 3:55 pm

    11 year old dancing? The outrage will get the muslim world of their rockers. Wonder how many embassies they’ burn down this time. Sure the Arabian peninsula will now run of ink because of all the fatwas and death threats that will have to be written.

    • Marco says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:20 pm

      She was 11 but she was tall so you know that somehow makes it worse! They can f’k babies but omg dancing??!!!!!

      • Joe says

        Feb 9, 2018 at 7:09 am

        She is probably in danger of being “honor” killed, as if Islam had honor. Horror would be closer than honor.

  6. Bill says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    But somehow all the lefties who trumpet the virtue of free expression and art, just fawn all over this barbaric and stifling code of laws called Islam.

  7. elee says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 4:16 pm

    Islam execrates both joy and dancing. People regularly get in big trouble in Muslim lands for eiiher of the above; just recently there was a fatwah somewhere about soccer because it promoted joy and celebration which are unseemly in Islam. If you believe that either joy or dancing has anything to do with the divine, Islam is your mortal enemy. Pederasty OTOH is a long and venerable Muslim tradition, as is emulating the Prophet.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 6:17 pm

      Yup.

  8. Jim says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 4:31 pm

    Saudi Arabia is saturated with hypocrites that travel a short distance across the bridge to Bahrain to be somewhat free. Bahrain is by no means a free state, but compared to other Islamic states, it is doing somewhat well.

  9. Voytek Gagalka says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 4:36 pm

    That only proves that regardless that they are obligated to imitate their “beloved prophet” and all his deeds by any means possible, they must feel deep down very embarrassed by all those very well recorded his excesses. Islam is one big bloody joke and epitome of hypocrisy!

    • Marco says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:22 pm

      You certainly got the “bloody” part right!

  10. Champ says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 5:08 pm

    The Saudis need to calm down, have a little fun, and dance the watusi …

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 6:23 pm

      Cute video, Champ! I can remember dancing the Watusi when I was in grade school.

      • Champ says

        Feb 8, 2018 at 6:37 pm

        Graven, it looks like so much fun! 😀

        Oh yeah–there’s ‘no fun’ in islam so never mind …

    • Marco says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:23 pm

      Excellent!

  11. DHazard says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 5:19 pm

    Maybe this is the real reason there are so many pissed off Muslims – the adults around them get weird when they are just playing. Add that to all the sexual suppression and most people would come out of that kind of upbringing and environment at least a little deranged. It also explains why they hold Western women in such disdain, often generalizing them as whores – which makes raping them sort of O.K.

    It’s impossible for a human being to be shamed into following the example of Muhammad and not have mental issues, especially surrounding sex and gender roles.

  12. gravenimage says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 5:27 pm

    The uproar over her dance is rather absurd considering that child marriage is justified in many areas of the Islamic world…
    …………………………..

    And not just many areas, but in Saudi Arabia itself:

    “Why is no one protecting Saudi Arabia’s child brides?”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/08/saudi-arabia-child-brides-marriage

    In fact, there is no minimal age of marriage in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has probably the highest number of child marriages in the Middle East.

    If this man had “married” this girl, he could have raped her with the full consent of the state. But dancing with her is Haram.

    More:

    In any case, we can only hope that this girl is not honor-murdered.
    …………………………..

    God, I hope not. But while her dancing is condemned, murdering her probably would not be.

    God, I hate Islam.

  13. Georg says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 6:02 pm

    Their demonstrated level of anger over this compared with that over Islamic State is sufficient knowledge to make an informed judgement about their country.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 6:41 pm

      Yes.

  14. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 6:06 pm

    Making matters worse, the girl, who in the video marches alongside a man in simulation of a zaffa, a traditional wedding dance, was later revealed to be just 11 years old.

    Ah, I love this stuff. Who says there is no fun in Islam? These people are multi-dimensional, here combining a bump n grind with pedophilia. SNL could do some hysterical spoofs on Islam, it’d be hilarious. I wonder why they don’t.

    • Marco says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:25 pm

      I am honk you know

      • Marco says

        Feb 8, 2018 at 10:26 pm

        I think you know! Damn autorrect!

    • dsinc says

      Feb 10, 2018 at 1:07 am

      SNL are too busy knocking President Trump.

  15. Eric jones says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    A n 11 year old girl? What the Muslims are mad about is that it was not an eleven year boy made to dance and dress up like a woman dancing with a man. Man boy love is what Muslims prefer.

    Eric

  16. pfwag says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 7:18 pm

    Islam is such an asinine religion it shouldn’t even be called a religion. Labeling it a “Nazi sex cult” is probably more accurate. I wonder how old her pervert “husband” is?

  17. CRUSADER says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 7:30 pm

    Just doing what comes naturally to an 11 year old girl.

    Sort of like what came natural to Mudhamman when he came across the little Aisha.

  18. Evelyn Warren says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 7:34 pm

    If Obama were still president with HIllary Clinton as Secretary of State, this incident could be used to justify overthrowing the US embassy in Saudi Arabia, and of course the child would be blamed, like an innocent filmmaker living in America was blamed for the deaths of Americans in Benghazi.

  19. Mel says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 8:25 pm

    These cavemen are seriously deranged. Generations of inbreeding will do that to you. The innocent children live a life of hell and if they are lucky enough to not be married off before they’re 12, they still can’t have any fun like normal children. Being a child is supposed to be the most magical, curious, and innocent time of our lives, but not these children. It’s no wonder they turn into monsters when they grow up. Even the women are brainwashed to believe that they were put here to serve their male masters. It’s the most disturbing and disgusting thing on the entire planet. When will these people get a clue and wake up from their slavery.

  20. Norger says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    So well said Mr. Spencer. Marrying a 6 year old is exemplary behavior, but an 11 year old girl dancing is considered religious and moral depravity. Morality turned upside down.

  21. No Fear says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 9:06 pm

    Saudi Arabia still behead people and you are worried about an 11 year old dancing?

  22. PRCS says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 10:38 pm

    Anyone else notice: the newspaper’s name is The New Muslim.

    Should be The Old Muslim.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 10:57 pm

      The New Muslim
      Same as the Old Muslim

      • Hope says

        Feb 9, 2018 at 7:11 am

        Right. The 1400 year-old Muslim.

  23. MFritz says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 11:55 pm

    It’s about girls and women having fun. Every regime that hates and oppresses human beings doesn’t like the sound laughter.

  24. Cyndi-Lu says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 12:23 am

    This little girl is detained. You know what that means? She is being lashed. This is a horrific story.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 9, 2018 at 2:16 am

      Thanks Mo

  25. kevin says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 3:25 am

    So in saudi arabia it is ok to marry and have intercourse with a girl as young as nine but if she is still single and dancing by 11 years old it is a day of islamic rage?

  26. IanB says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 3:43 am

    Dancing the Hokey-Cokey – HARAM!

    FGM – HALAL!

  27. John says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 5:47 am

    islam is only unhappy because she was not married.

  28. FYI says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 7:30 am

    “allah khayru I-makireena”
    koran 3:54

    “allah is the best of deceivers”

    he certainly is !……and so…

    ….let’s dance the “Macarena”..in honor of allah{the makireena}

    ! … ey makaireena… !

    It should go down well in the the land of Sod All.

    I’m sure allah won’t mind…unlike if ,say,a muslima songstress sings “hallelujah”;allah has promised to pour molten lead into the ears of any muslim who listens to a “song of a songstress”..at least according to islamic teaching{Reliance of the Traveller,Umdat al salik r40.1}.

    Yes,this is an actual islamic teaching showing allah’s hatred of…..female singers.

    We can assume that allah would be outraged at any muslima songstress for doing such an evil thing as to sing a song in public(especially if muslims hear it…).

    Remember,allah has sworn to pour molten lead into the ear of anyone caught listening to a female singer.
    {But that’s just allah:the actual God is intelligent enough to respect our right to sing and dance as part of His gift of free will}

    If our good Judeo-Christian God had a younger brother who was an anti-social,psycopathic,monosyllabic monoglot,violent,theologically illiterate,deranged half-wit..that would be ………..allah

  29. Eur says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 8:13 am

    Islam, where having sex( rape) a young girl is halal but dancing is haram….

  30. roberta says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 9:13 am

    There must be only about 3 musical notes in Islam. All the music sounds the same.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 10, 2018 at 12:21 am

      The islamic solfege goes like this”

      Mo Rape Fi Sa Bil Al Ah

  31. terry says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 9:42 am

    A decade ago, “here’s an idea, let’s welcome islam with open arms, would could possibly go wrong”?

  32. mj says

    Feb 9, 2018 at 10:33 am

    “…because it is not acceptable for such appearances to take place in a conservative society,” Read that: “Do not display in public what is really going on behind closed doors in our society.”

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