bared breasts protests. the new power of protest.

The bared breasts protests !.They have been  and are  becoming a  part of mainstream political protest. They  are giving protest a new power. 

 The last  time it happened in India,  the Odisha police arrested the  protesters   for   " public obscenity" . How different  is that, really speaking , from the reaction of the morals policing "Islamist Preacher" . Laws, religious or secular, are about control. Political control. Control that is about keeping the Other in their place. Their place in a social and political hierarchy. Equality be damned ! As damned as Democracy actually is .

Amina represents me

Politics

by Maryam Namazie

An Islamist preacher says 19 year old Tunisian Amina (FEMEN Tunisia) who posted a topless photo of herself bearing the slogan “my body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone’s honour” deserves to be stoned to death. A lawyer has said she may face up to 2 years’ imprisonment and fines as a result of her topless activism.

Someone identifying herself as Amina’s aunt denounced Amina’s actions on Youtube saying: “I hope she pays for her actions. She does not represent her country or Tunisian women.”

Well, Amina represents me and countless other women across the Middle East, North Africa, and the world.

Adel Almi, president of Al-Jamia Al-Li-Wassatia Tawia Wal-Islah, who called for Amina’s flogging and stoning to death said Amina’s actions will bring misfortune by causing “epidemics and disasters” and “could be contagious and give ideas to other women…”

Of course it has and will just as those of FEMEN or Aliaa Magda El-Mahdy.

I suggest we pick a date for a global day of topless action led by FEMEN to show him and his Islamist brethren what a “disaster” women are for misogyny – Islamic or otherwise.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie/2013/03/19/amina-represents-me/