Mustapha, this must be cut and pasted. I find it almost impossible to believe that a girl dressed like that, in a bikini top is wandering the streets of tripoli. In fact the only “town” where i see this would be Faqra. Maybe, downtown beirut, kasslik, places like that but this seems like a little too much skin, especially for tripoli…
Correct me if i am wrong

No it looks good to me. The sunlight is coming from the same angle for everyone in the photo. I doubt it is a fake.

Anyway I dont think she is wearing a beacb bikini. Its more of a nightclub type top.

I don’t understand how people fall for photoshopping.

Even in London this wouldn’t happen. People are incredibly gullible though.

“Leo,
You’d be surprised what you can see in Lebanon,”

I hope one day take you up on that.

this is in fact an old photo. i saw it about a year, maybe even two years ago. even if it were photoshopped doesn’t mean it’s not possible, especially in lebanon. i’ve been in restaurants with live music where girls (in barely there clothing) and guys are dancing and drinking and tables of muhajabeen are sitting and watching. this should be seen as a beautiful example of coexistence. if they can only let us live..

Mustapha,

Do you know that we did not have the word Shadoor or Niqab in our Lexicon until about 20 years ago? We had the Hijab, and it wasn’t that institutionalized. It was a scarf that covered the hair, and sometimes it had a nice design pattern.

It makes you wonder, whether you grandmother or great grandmother went to hell because of it. This imported fashion into Lebanon is changing the Lebanese Muslim women to something that they have never been. It is dehumanizing them in a way in my opinion. But I am a Christian, and I have to leave the challenge of this new custom in Lebanon to moderate Muslims like you Mustapha. You have an obligation to spread awareness on this matter and on the imported aspect of this tradition. From this side of the fence, it does not appear as a religious statement, but rather as an entity of suppression.

I hope no one takes this comment as an insult in any way.

I am not sure if the picture is fake or true… I wouldn’t be surprised if it were true though… I have seen the same scenes in Beirut, and I see them daily still.

Like zara said, this is a very old picture (I used it in my thesis in 2005 – so it must be older). It was sent to me by a friend claiming that he clipped and saved it from a newspaper (an-nahar if I recall right).

some of you are caring way too much about wether this is a photochop or not. its the irony that should be discussed here. here is my take on things from an american follower of christ point of view. we (christians and muslims) are on opposite sides of the same coin. where women in the muslim world are to be covered to not have men lust or objectify them, christians are to look at women without lust no matter what is worn. muslims are required to pray 5 times a day, christians are to be prayerful throughout the day. i hope these few examples are easy to understand. where muslims “must” do this, christians “should” do this. i know that there are muslims who just “go through the motions”of following their religious “requirements”, just as i fail at being prayful throughout the day, as well as many other areas of my faith. i pray that i wrote what god wanted me to write and i hope i didnt insult anyone on either side. we all serve god, just in different ways. in the end, the judgement is god’s on who was wrong or who was a sinner/unbeliever. there will be many christians that will be told “i never knew you.” and there will be many muslims that will be told the equvilent.

Fake or not, the idea is still excellent.
I would be personally interested in the woman with the chador.
Who knows! Maybe under that black tent she is a copy of Catherine Zeta Jones.

Ibrahim.

I say it’s fake.

Look at the guy across the street, on the right side of the picture (the one whose face is just a bit cropped).

He’s looking off to the right.

Now you tell me, with a girl like that across the street, what are the chances he wasn’t looking at her?

:)

Jonathan @ 22

“Now you tell me, with a girl like that across the street, what are the chances he wasn’t looking at her?”

None what so ever. Except …

a) Hadn’t noticed her yet.
b) Danger! Wife is near by. Have to fake indifference.
c) Impotent.
d) Blind.
e) Gay.
…..

[...] Encontrado aquí h/t Mike. [...]

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Came across this later a little late mind, lol.

Inevitably Israeli blogs and their evangelical friends are using this quite heavily. I’m just a bit perturbed that so many christians are using this as an example of a so called “superiority”….

This is as far from the virgin Mary’s image as possible (I’m assuming she is loved and viewed as a role model..) honestly I cannot understand why christian would be proud of this. (what do they imagine the nice old christian men are going to be doingwhen they get home I wonder???)

Btw I am not a fan of woman sized tents in any way but I support the hijab absolutely!.