Saturday, February 1, 2014

Egypt's women belly-dancing their way into the new parliament


The country is blooming without the islamists hindering the people's potential. Let's hope the USA and other busybodies don't plot to take away their newly found freedom.  

Sama Al Masry, the popular bellydancer seen below, has announced she's running for a seat in the Egyptian parliament.



Katelyn Fossett writing at Washington Post via GulfNews:
....Belly dancer to run for Egypt parliament. 
Egyptian belly dancer and actress Sama Al Masry has just announced that she would run in Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary elections, and in doing so, she vowed to exact revenge on the Muslim Brotherhood.
“I will run in the elections, and I will hopefully win them so I can show the Brotherhood every day who they really are,” she told the Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm.
Moreover, Masry said that she would seek a seat in the Sharqiyah governorate, the home district of ousted Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi.
But that’s not the end of Masry’s strangely aggressive anti-Brotherhood campaign. The belly dancer also claims to have a “special surprise” in store for the Brotherhood on her new show, Ayouh Bah.
According to the dancer, the programme will “uncover all the traitors and agents” in the Brotherhood — a tall order, but one that sounds very much in keeping with the Egyptian government’s escalating crackdown on the Islamist group. Masry is better known for her kooky political activism than her belly-dancing, though she often finds creative ways to combine the two.
She attracted international attention last year with a video that criticised the Obama administration’s support of the Muslim Brotherhood......

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