Wonderful Women Of The World
Posted by Michelle Moquin on November 26th, 2011
Good morning!
Social Butterfly: Thank you for sparking my interest in Aliaa Maghda Elmahdy, and her blog “A Rebel’s Diary“! I love and applaud Elmahdy’s boldness…her courageous stance in the face of being an Egyptian woman, and living in Egypt, a place of horrific extremism where women have no rights…where their men treat them as sexual objects, breeding machines…Elmahdy’s story is so inspiring, I could not help but post her today under the title heading. This gutsy girl certainly deserves it.
Here’s a write from an interview that Elmahdy did with CNN. Note: CNN didn’t post her fully naked picture but I decided to include it. I am sure those that oppose are going to be pissy that I’m not only featuring her today as a Wonderful Woman Of The World, but that I am posting her beautiful naked body. Fuck ‘em. Freedom of speech..freedom of press….as long as I am able.
Egyptian blogger Aliaa Elmahdy: Why I posed naked
Cairo, Egypt (CNN) – Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy has become a household name in the Middle East and sparked a global uproar after a friend posted a photo of her naked on Twitter.
The photo, which the 20-year-old former student first posted on herblog, shows her naked apart from a pair of thigh-high stockings and some red patent leather shoes.
It was later posted on Twitter with the hashtag#nudephotorevolutionary. The tweet was viewed over a million times, while Elmahdy’s followers jumped from a few hundred to more than 14,000.
Her actions have received global media coverage and provoked outrage in Egypt, a conservative Muslim country where most women wear the veil. Many liberals fear that Elmahdy’s actions will hurt their prospects in the parliamentary election next week.
Elmahdy describes herself as an atheist. She has been living for the past five months with her boyfriend, bloggerKareem Amer, who, in 2006 was sentenced to four years in a maximum security prison for criticizing Islam and defaming former president Hosni Mubarak.
Here she talks exclusively to CNN in Cairo about why she posed nude.
CNN: Why did you post a photo of yourself nude photo on Twitter, and why the red high heels and black stockings?
Elmahdy: After my photo was removed from Facebook, a male friend of mine asked me if he may post it on Twitter. I accepted because I am not shy of being a woman in a society where women are nothing but sex objects harassed on a daily basis by men who know nothing about sex or the importance of a woman.
The photo is an expression of my being and I see the human body as the best artistic representation of that. I took the photo myself using a timer on my personal camera. The powerful colors black and red inspire me.
CNN: Who is Aliaa Elmahdy inside the body portrayed in the nude photo?
Elmahdy: I like being different. I love life, art, photography and expressing my thoughts through writing more than anything. That is why I studied media and hope to take it further to the TV world too so I can expose the truth behind the lies we endure everyday in this world. I don’t believe that we must have children only through marriage. It’s all about love.
CNN: How have your Egyptian Muslim parents reacted? How do they feel about you living with your boyfriend unmarried?
Elmahdy: I last spoke to them 24 days back. They want to support me and get closer, especially after the photo was released, but they accuse Kareem of manipulating me. He has been my support system and has passed along their text messages to me. I dropped out of AUC (The American University in Cairo where she was a media student) months back after (my parents) attempted to control my life by threatening not to pay the fees.
CNN: The press has labeled you a revolutionary but you were not in Tahrir Square during the 18 days of the revolution in February this year. Is there a political element to you posing nude?
Elmahdy: I was never into politics. I first joined the protests on May 27th because I felt the need to participate and decided I might be able to change the future of Egypt and refused to remain silent. I made it clear that I was not part of April 6th Movement (an Egyptian political group that came to prominence during the revolution) after the rumors were spread by remnants of Mubarak’s National Democratic Party who wanted to capitalize on the reaction to the photo.
What shocked me is April 6th’s statement clarifying that Aliaa Magda Elmahdy is not part of their organization and how they don’t accept “atheism.” Where is the democracy and liberalism they preach to the world? They only feed what the public wants to hear for their political ambitions.
CNN: What do you think about the forced virginity testsperformed by the Egyptian military on more than a dozen girls arrested in Tahrir Square?
Elmahdy: I consider this rape. Those men in the military who conducted these tests should be punished for allowing this to happen without the consent of the girls in the first place. Instead, the girls walk around feeling the shame and most of them are forced to remain silent.
CNN: Do you practice safe sex in your sexual revolution?
Elmahdy: Most Egyptians are secretive about sex because they are brought up thinking sex is something bad and dirty and there is no mention of it in schools. Sex to the majority is simply a man using a woman with no communication between them and children are just part of an equation. To me, sex is an expression of respect, a passion for love that culminates into sex to please both sides.
I do practice safe sex but I don’t take pills because I am against abortion. I enjoyed losing my virginity at the age of 18 with a man I loved who was 40 years older than me. Kareem Amer is the second man and the love of my life. The saying suits us: “Birds of the same feather flock together”
CNN: How do you see women in the “New Egypt” and will you leave the country if the ongoing revolution fails?
Elmahdy: I am not positive at all unless a social revolution erupts. Women under Islam will always be objects to use at home. The (sexism) against women in Egypt is unreal, but I am not going anywhere and will battle it ’til the end. Many women wear the veil just to escape the harassment and be able to walk the streets. I hate how society labels gays and lesbians as abnormal people. Different is not abnormal!
CNN: What are your future plans with Kareem and will you find it hard to deal with your new notoriety?
Elmahdy: I have discovered who my real friends are, and I have Kareem who loves me passionately. He works as a media monitor and I am currently looking for a job. I embrace the simple things in life and I am a vegetarian … I am a believer of every word I say and I am willing to live in danger under the many threats I receive in order to obtain the real freedom all Egyptian are fighting and dying for daily.
From Elmahdy’s blog with the caption that /SB posted:
…Elmahdy repeats her initial nude pose, this time covering her genitals, eyes and mouth with a yellow bar. “The yellow rectangles on my eyes, mouth and sex organ resemble the censoring of our knowledge, expression and sexuality,” she wrote.
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Readers: This girl Elmahdy is not just bold and gutsy but she’s got a brain too. I think she is just so intelligent. I am proud to be able to tout her in all of her glory. She is an inspiration to me and no doubt to so many more. I HOPE this is just the beginning of the greatness that we will surely see from her.
Thank you again Social Butterfly! And thank you for sharing how you were able to access my blog once you had trouble seeing it. It seems that was helpful to Dehlia. I HOPE it is helpful for others as well.
Lois: Your guess is as good as mine. Who knows! People are stupid or think that they’re going to be a part of that 1% some day. Romney is telling it like it is, blatantly, and some people will still vote for him. Inane isn’t it?
ZL, Christine, and all those that wanted to but couldn’t wish a wonderful Thanksgiving, thank you.
Howie: I like your words. In these times it can be challenging to see the glass half full, so thanks for the reminder…and the kudos.
Doug: Interesting comparison. It can be those same people who take more time planning their vacation, than planning their retirement. We need to do more than HOPE for our future; we need to be, in the words of Ellie Drake of BraveHeart Women, ”inspiration in action”. Just love that.
Peace out.
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November 26th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Thank you Michelle for putting in this article.
November 26th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
I showed your comment to my husband because he needs to hear an educated Jewish man.
He read what you posted and admitted that he should change the way he has been viewing the world.
November 26th, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Cell Phones Do Cause Brain Tumors
Magda Havas, PhD
Trent University
A bout nine out of 10 US households now have at least one cell phone — and that doesn’t include other wireless devices, such as cordless phones, iPads, baby monitors and computers.
Result: The average adult (and child) is flooded with nonionizing radiation, a form of energy that — for the first time — has been officially linked to cancer. In May, a panel of the World Health Organization (WHO) listed cell phones as a class 2b carcinogen, which means that it’s “possible” that cell phones, like some industrial chemicals, increase the risk for cancer.
This conclusion has been disputed by many scientists. But careful analysis of the best studies to date indicate that people who log the most cell-phone minutes are more likely to develop tumors on the same side of the head that they hold the cell phone, compared with those who use cell phones less often.
DISTURBING RESEARCH
The largest study of cell-phone use, known as INTERPHONE, was conducted in 13 countries over a 10-year period. The study, published in International Journal of Epidemiology, found that people who used cell phones for at least 1,640 hours over the 10-year period — that comes to about 30 minutes a day — had a 40% higher risk of developing a glioma, a deadly type of brain tumor.
Disturbing: The development of a brain tumor to the point that it can be detected often takes 20 to 30 years. The fact that these tumors are showing up after 10 years of exposure is disturbing because it is much faster than expected.
Previous studies have linked frequent or prolonged cell-phone use to an increase in parotid (salivary gland) and auditory nerve tumors.
The actual risk probably is higher than the studies indicate. The INTERPHONE study defined “heavy use” as using a cell phone for about 30 minutes a day. That’s a fraction of the time that many people currently spend on their cell phones.
Also, the study looked only at adults, even though young people are frequent users of cell phones and the ones who face the highest cancer risks from decades of radiation exposure.
In addition, the study “diluted” the data by identifying people as regular cell-phone users who may have used their phones only once a week for at least six months.
These light users were obviously exposed to far less radiation than heavy users. Including them in the study caused the cancer percentages to appear artificially low.
For example, we would not expect someone who smoked one cigarette a week for at least six months to develop lung cancer.
SAFER USE
Skeptics of cell-phone dangers argue that nonionizing radiation is too weak to heat tissues or break chemical bonds, factors that are known to increase cancer risks.
But recent studies indicate damage to DNA in rat brains exposed to cell-phone radiation, and this type of damage can lead to cancer.
Ways to stay safe…
The fine print in cell-phone manuals usually advises users to hold the phone at least 7/8 of an inch away from the ear. Farther is better. Use speakerphone mode.
Wait for good reception. Cell phones emit much higher levels of radiation when the antenna is sending out signals to search for a tower or satellite.
These signals can travel hundreds of miles — and the poorer the reception, the greater the radiation emitted by your cell phone.
Use a hollow-tube headset. This is the safest type of headset because the last few inches, those closest to the ear, consist of a hollow tube.
This hollow tube transmits sound like a stethoscope. Wired headsets need to be kept away from the body because the continuous wire that runs from the phone to the earpiece will expose you to some unnecessary radiation.
Hollow-tube headsets can be purchased at http://www.Mercola.com or http://www.WaveShield.com/products.
Use “airplane mode.” Even when you’re not talking on a cell phone, the phone is sending out signals every few minutes to search for the nearest tower.
Turn off the phone when you’re not using it. Or switch it to airplane mode so that it can’t send or receive signals, but you still can use the phone to listen to music, watch videos and check your calendar.
Keep the phone on your desk when working. When the phone is switched on, don’t keep it in your pocket or attached to your belt. This is particularly important for men.
Preliminary research indicates that men who keep their phones close to their bodies (often in holsters or pockets) have lower sperm counts and poorer sperm quality than those without this exposure.
We do not know the effects on egg cells because they are more difficult to harvest.
Caution: The worst way to use a Bluetooth wireless headset is to place it on your ear with the cell phone in your pocket. This way, your head and lower body are both being irradiated.
A better way to use a Bluetooth is to keep the cell phone on a table several feet away from all body parts and to periodically move the earpiece from one ear to the other to minimize one-side radiation exposure.
Text instead of talk. There’s a burst of radiation when you send or receive a text message, but the intensity and duration of the radiation are lower than when you talk.
Texting is a better alternative to talking on your cell phone, but keep the phone as far away from your body as possible. Normal clothing, including leather, will not reduce your exposure.
Don’t use your phone in a car, train or bus. Using a cell phone inside a metal vehicle can increase levels of radiation due to reflection and the fact that your cell-phone signal has to be higher to exit the vehicle.
The best practice is to keep the phone off or in airplane mode and to check it periodically for messages. Then return messages by text or use a landline phone later.
Personal interviewed Magda Havas, PhD, associate professor of environmental and resource studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
She is a leading expert in radiofrequency radiation, electromagnetic fields, dirty electricity and ground current.
She is coauthor, with Camilla Rees, of Public Health SOS: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution (CreateSpace). http://www.MagdaHavas.com
November 26th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Thank you Michelle for you timely article. While the men of Egypt are again asking us women to help them gain a better life for themselves, they expect us to take a worst position when they enact some from of Sharia to replace the present law which is not as bad for women as the one they are asking us to help them implement.
Men are the most selfish creatures God ever gave breath to.
Fiyal
November 26th, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Thanks for the link of Lois’s article back to her article. I am a long time republican. But I don’t believe that I will ever make the class that Romney intends to enrich at my expense.
So if he gets the nod from the republican committee, I will be staying at home this Presidential election cycle.
Henry
November 26th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Democrats are divided over a provision in President Barack Obama’s health care plan that requires free contraceptives through insurance provided by religious groups although they might object to the use on moral grounds.
Democrats for Life of America says it is confident Obama will grant a religious exemption for churches, universities, and hospitals to opt-out of providing insurance that does not require a copay to purchase birth control pills.
“The Administration has no intention of forcing Catholic institutions to provide insurance coverage for services that are directly in opposition to their moral beliefs,” said Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life.
“It does not make any sense from a public policy perspective and it certainly is not smart politically to alienate Catholic voters.”
Day says the Obama administration is “under attack by Catholic conservatives who are using the proposed final rule to spread anti-Obama sentiment to lay Catholics.”
But the New York Times says the “dispute has erupted between President Obama and Democrats in Congress over a proposal to broaden the exemption.”
That coalition led by Rep. Diana DeGette (D.–Colo.), co-chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus is urging the president to oppose any effort to exempt anyone, including Catholics, from the law.
DeGette says doing so would deny critical coverage to 800,000 people working at Catholic hospitals; 300,000 employed at religious schools; and 1.7 million students attending 900 religiously affiliated colleges.
“The conscience of an employer or an insurance company should not impede a woman’s access to birth control without cost sharing under any circumstances,” DeGette and 64 House Democrats said in a letter last week to Obama.
“We oppose any efforts to further exempt employers from the following law,” the Democrats said.
“We fully support increasing and protecting women’s access to birth control,” the lawmakers said. “We oppose any efforts to circumvent a woman’s conscience. American women won’t stand for it.”
Catholics are not standing for it either and are vigorously opposing the mandate.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of Belmont Abbey College earlier this month stating that it forces the college to either violate its deeply held religious beliefs or pay severe fines.
Although the government has already provided thousands of waivers for a variety of special interest groups including McDonald’s and teachers’ for reasons of commercial convenience, it refused to accommodate religious organizations, opponents said.
“A monk at Belmont Abbey may preach on Sunday that pre-marital sex, contraception, and abortions are immoral, but on Monday, the government would force the same monk to pay for students to receive the very drugs and procedures he denounces,” said Hannah Smith, senior legal counsel at the Becket Fund. “This is much worse than an un-funded mandate; it is a monk-funded mandate.”
To read more on the fight against ObamaCare’s contraception mandate, go to HumanEvents.com.
November 26th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Never has there been a more important time to support your sisters. I for one applaud Aiaa Elmahdy for her courage.
Why do men here think they have the right to control female. God gave them no such right.
Ghayda
November 26th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
I agree with you Michelle, if they don’t agree “Fuck ‘em”.
Thank you for always being there for us. Now, if the women of Egypt and the Middle East can find the courage to be with Aliaa, we will have made a start.
Falak
November 26th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
GLUCOSE ON THE BRAIN HELPS ALZHEIMER’S PATIENTS
Tell someone with Alzheimer’s disease about your day and he’s likely to forget what you said hours — if not minutes — later.
This is the sad and frustrating state of affairs that is affecting many families now, since more than five million Americans have Alzheimer’s. Though there are some treatment options out there, there is no known cure and there are no effective ways to prevent it or delay its progression.
So I was intrigued to read a new study that found promise in a simple intervention — a few squirts of insulin up the nose appeared to stop memory loss in its tracks.
I called the study’s lead researcher Suzanne Craft, PhD, a psychiatry professor at the University of Washington and director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System — both in Seattle — to learn more.
The study was published in the September 12, 2011 issue of Archives of Neurology.
NOSING AROUND
Dr. Craft and her colleagues studied 104 men and women ages 55 to 85 with mild-to-moderate-stage Alzheimer’s or amnestic mild cognitive impairment (often a precursor to the disease) and split them into three groups —
one group was given a moderate dose of aerosolized intranasal insulin (20 IU)… another group was given a double dose of insulin (40 IU)… and the third group was given a placebo (a saline nasal spray).
The doses were administered twice a day (after breakfast and dinner) using 90-second inhalations for four months. Participants used a special device that shoots the spray deep into the nose, delivering it directly to the nerves that lead to the brain.
It may sound unpleasant, but Dr. Craft says that the treatment didn’t bother any patients.
Both before beginning treatment and after four months of the treatment, participants had a story read out loud to them that contained 44 bits of information.
Twenty minutes after hearing the story, patients were given a recall test.
On the second recall test, after four months of the treatment, those who had been given the moderate insulin dose of 20 IU performed 25% better than the placebo group, while the group that got the double dose of insulin didn’t show any increase in recall memory.
So how come sniffing a moderate amount of insulin seemed to help? The brains of people with Alzheimer’s either lack normal levels of insulin or are unable to metabolize the amounts of insulin that are present, said Dr. Craft.
This is important because the brain needs glucose to function, and effective insulin metabolism is necessary for the brain to use glucose. (
This is why past studies have shown an associative link between insulin-related health conditions, such as diabetes, and Alzheimer’s.) So Dr. Craft thought that administering the right amount of insulin directly to the brain —
not too much, not too little and not to the entire body, which could be dangerous — might improve memory. And it looks like she and her colleagues are on to something.
THE SILVER BULLET?
This isn’t the first study to suggest that insulin might be a helpful therapy for Alzheimer’s patients — I first wrote about this in 2007 (see Daily Health News, May 17, 2007).
And Dr. Craft told me that many other researchers are exploring this connection, too. Could this be the treatment for Alzheimer’s that everyone has been waiting for, something that could help stave off its worst effects while scientists continue to seek a cure?
Maybe in a few years, but Dr. Craft said that long-term studies that confirm the results and ensure safety will have to be done first. She’s cautiously optimistic.
Source(s):
Suzanne Craft, PhD, director, Memory Disorders Clinic, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.
November 26th, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Hafa adai
How tired am I of the white boy on our island trying to control us. Now they are filing law suits to stop us from self determination.
The gall of the hypocrites. I could live in America for a 100 years as as long as whites have the majority I will continue to be treated as a nobody.
I want the sanctuary of my own country.
Juan
November 26th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Michelle, I couldn’t get in yesterday to say that it is nice to have it independently confirmed that Fox viewers are ignorant about what is really happening around them.
However, this has long been a given that anyone can surmise if they’ve ever had a conversation with a fox watcher.
Luke
November 26th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
Michelle, you would be surprised to learn that most women in Egypt are against what did. They are complaining that her nude pose will give men the opportunity to say that women don’t need any more freedoms because look what this girl did.
Why should we be begging men for scraps of freedom in the first place? That is what Elmahdy is saying. We need solidarity not nitpicking by insecure and frightened women.
Dahab
November 26th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
It is not Rupert Murdoch we need to worry about. It is Roger Ailes. I imagine Roger gets together with Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh once a month to go over what they need to distort and who needs to be vilified and then proceed to bite the heads of some bats before they fly off.
These three men have set America on a dangerous trajectory. No one has effected American politics more during the last 50 years.
November 26th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Michelle about your article yesterday. What a crock. Who believes that stuff?
I’ll tell you who… people who follow irreputable sites like the Huffington Post.
I’m really sorry that you’re so lashing out because Fox is the NUMBER 1 news station, but it really is petty.
November 26th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
FoxNews is notorious for either skewing the facts to say what they want their viewers to believe, completely ignoring the facts, or not bothering to check the facts at all.
For instance, I bet most FoxNews viewers think that half of all people who are employed pay no taxes at all, that the wealthiest already pay their fair share of taxes, or that taxes are high in this country, all of which are untrue.
The people at the top are making out like bandits at the expense of the rest of us. Their tax rate is a low 35%, which is the lowest rate in many many years, and a good many of them enjoy loopholes that make their taxes substantially lower.
Yet FoxNews continues to interview the republican politian liars who keep telling us they can’t and won’t raise taxes on these people because they already pay enough taxes and they are the job creators
(then where were all the jobs during the Bush years — hardly any were created because the money went to line their own corporate pockets).
The tax hikes would not affect most job creators, as most of them are small business owners and the tax cuts will stay put for them.
In any event, businesses are mainly waiting for demand to pick up and even if they were in the top tax bracket they have said that a tax hike would not keep them from hiring if demand picks up.
November 26th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Michelle, unless Madaline protects her she will be “disappeared.” The only reason she is still alive is because the men are preoccupied with killing each other over their rights.
Duha
November 26th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Hafa Adai
Just so you know. The UFOs flying around Guam is still so noticeable.
November 26th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Hafa adai, Lea.
This may give you a clue. Notice the line about for the second time…
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Another Series of Jet Fighter Drills Coming to Guam from Okinawa
Last Updated on Sunday, 27 November 2011 14:32
Written by Kevin Kerrigan
Sunday, 27 November 2011 12:02
Guam News – Guam News
Guam – Japanese media are reporting that another series of jet fighter drills, originally planned to take place in Okinawa, will be conducted over Guam.
The Kyodo News Agency is reporting that the Japanese Defense Ministry announced Friday that the drills for fighter jets based at the U.S. Marine Corps’ Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture will be conducted over Guam starting next Thursday, December 1, and running through December 18th.
READ the Kyodo story on the Mainichi website
The drills will involve about 20 F/A-18 fighters based in Iwakuni and refueling aircraft from the Futenma Air Station. These drills were initially scheduled to take place at the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture.
This is the second time in recent months that jet fighter exercises originally scheduled to take place over Okinawa, have been moved to Guam. Between October 7th and 31st, another twenty F/A-18s from Iwakuni came to Guam for similar training exercises.
Kyodo speculates that “Japan and the United States are apparently trying to show their stance for easing the base-hosting burden of Okinawa, which has long hosted the bulk of U.S. forces in Japan.”
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So the real is?
Kari
December 23rd, 2011 at 1:47 am
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