100% grapefruit-laden, propaganda fluff! I dare you to travel to ANY country with an Islamic Theocracy and find a single one of these "Muslim chic" women in public that can wear that burqua or hijab and have even a scentilla of sex appeal. You won't! Their 47xyy keepers (errr... husbands) would never permit it. They would rather beat them black & blue and keep them home than let some Western magazine like Marie Claire exploit them as "sexy" or "appealing". It figures that they'd have that 2-bit nit-wit, Ashley Judd covering her juggs on the cover.

They're wearing makeup. The Iranian religious police will be around shortly to slam their faces into brick walls...er, I mean, "gently correct their immodest behavior."

I used to work with a blonde, blue eyed American woman who decided to convert to Islam right after 9/11/01. She immediately started wearing a head scarf “for modesty” she said. However, it struck me that the head covering (for modesty, remember) clashed with her skin tight Levi’s jeans, and her baby blue eye shadow makeup. When she first began working in my location, she was a staunch feminist who said she would never marry a man. She also said she was ashamed to call herself an American. Then she became a Muslim and married a Muslim. He’s from “the middle-east” was all she would say about him. Soon after getting married, she stopped wearing her treasured Levi’s and eye shadow. One day, I overheard her arguing with her brother about a family gathering at her apartment. She told her brother that if his wife refused to wear “appropriate head wear” to the festivities, his wife could not attend. Her brother’s wife isn’t Muslim. She let the cat out of the bag one day and told her mother over the phone that she became involved with Islam because she thought it was cool to be associated with the “underdog”. It was her way of “sticking it to the man”. Then one day, her husband decided to go back home to his own country. He expected her to go with him. She told her mother she was “real nervous” about leaving America and going to her husband’s homeland. She has since disappeared, and no one has heard anything from her. Well, so much for “being cool and sticking it to the man”.

THERE CERTAINLY is a lot of the “moronic” in that issue of marie claire!

First, Ashley Judd doesn’t have “juggs” she “barely” has “bee stings”~

A petit woman with not even a “handful”, fighting the “good fight” she believes (oh, how our contemporary media has gone “whoring” with that Christian accolade originally applied to the APOSTLE PAUL, disregarding his original courage and relentlessness in spreading the Gospel AGAINST ALL ODDS, and therein only having relevant meaning…and now applying it to any pagan pursuit of general good).

REMEMBER Ashley and others...Good – God = 0

Ashley, as the global ambassador of YouthAIDS…and then on the marie claire “cover nude”…why?…what relevance is your exhibitionism in the fight against AIDS??

The NUDE CRUSADER.

WELL, some crusader– exploiting her petit body form EVEN THOUGH “the exploitation of women and girls is the crux of…” her work, in her fight against AIDS.

Ashley BELIEVES boys and girls, men and women must dissolve their God-given differences and move towards a Judd’s bequeathed UNISEX model.

How WILL WE know when we have arrived in Ashley’s “gender-blender” Camelot?

SIT DOWN…for the sheer stupidity (to the 3rd magnitude!) and the sentiMENTALISM of this ASHLEY JUDD declaration:

“It would begin from childhood with the complete freedom to pursue one's interests. I love that line: "For every girl who tosses out her Easy-Bake Oven, there is a boy who wishes to find one!" (YEAH RIGHT!) I weep every time I read that (you would…). Because just as our definition of girlhood is so stifling, the definition of what it is to be a boy or a man is arid and abusive. It's the most extraordinary curtailing of personhood.”

I THINK Ashley is squeamish about being penetrated…that’s what the Canadien is hearing!

MAKING LOVE would be too violent and overtly masculine a shared act with the “dreaded” male. I’m sure if Ashley ever gets pregnant, it’ll be in-vitro or by anonymous ejaculate that will be dabbed (“a little dab will do ya”) near her cuny, applied with a sanitized turkey baster.

And chic MUSLIM WOMEN?

Right…

Stop ROMANTICIZING Islam.

ISLAM has always been BRUTAL and SEVERE appealing only to obtuse, naive or perverse souls~

Hey Debbie,
I am reviving the idea of the Debbie Schlussel Action Calendar. It would be a great hit on fashion circuit and in the media.

For one of the months--I heard that the shot of you in the eye slit birqua is really hip--where you eat the biggest ball of spaghetti right through the eye hole.... now dat's Italian!

Mohammed Claire? Any chance of a name change in the works.

Those women clearly have not been birthing children! Marie Claire's "Lifestyles of the (Gulf's) Rich and Famous" is as unappealing as Robin Leach's original.

Models would look better with rhinestone laden AK-47's. Need some fashion tips on how to hide the body explosives, too. The Canadien is right. These women are clueless about what they are admiring and romanticizing. A brutal, tyrannical, theocracy where women are chattel and freedom is dead. Don't ever take your freedom for granted. Read more about the dark ages, the inquisiton...they were not the "good ole days". And Islam will resurrect those good times over your fashionably dead body!

Marie Claire should stick with the "naked ambition" of its cover story if it wants to make money.

Only naked women can increase revenues even if it's a women magazine!!

Who wants to see a covered woman?

Muslim men drool like dogs and get horny when looking at a naked female heel!!

Nope. Sorry. Not even a '2' on the turgid meter.

You are missing the point.

If this magazine was mailed to mosques in the Middle East - it would lead to a violent protest worse than the Pope and Cartoon debacle.

You see, this ridiculous pandering is offensive in actuality. They would be justified in protest. I want to go buy one to burn a copy right now.

Oh yeah, this is sexy.
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/10/09/wbafghanshawl_wideweb__430x284.jpg

Why does this story cause me to think of Bruno inquiring about cardboard?

[Quote} You are missing the point.

If this magazine was mailed to mosques in the Middle East - it would lead to a violent protest worse than the Pope and Cartoon debacle.

You see, this ridiculous pandering is offensive in actuality. They would be justified in protest. I want to go buy one to burn a copy right now.[/quote]

Why burn it plus why not spend a little to destabilise the infrastructure send the porn as well, especially the less hardcore stuff the soft porn is what I mean just send it to the islamic country of your choice with the name Mohammed and the town and street it's bound to hit the target.......They seem to hate the little stuff as it's only a little the dads will keep it.......

Olsen Twins?

They actually look like Paris and Nicole!

If they heard that these 'fashions' were hot, they'd be the first to wear them!

ok well here is my first issue with this article:
It's not factualy correct.
Woman are allowed to drive in every Muslim country BESIDES our greatest Allied force SAUDI ARABIA. This was shot in Dubai where woman drive everywhere.
Second:
Have you ever met a woman who wears a hijab? No? Just checking. Because if you had actually met one and spent some time talking to her..you would see that she is a whole lot more then a piece of fabric on her head.
Just like I'm sure teh writer would not like to be degrated to just another idiot for being a blonde these woman would like the same respect in return.
In all Arab countries (again: besides Bush's best friend SAUDI ARABIA) the woman are allowed to wear whatever they choose. Hijab or Niquab is not inforced. Woman who choose to wear it do so because it's tradition, or they like it, or because they feel it's right with their spiritual beliefs. It does not change them as a person, just as putting on a low necked, high skirted cocktail dress does not change a woman into a slut.
Shame on you for really believing that CLOTHES are what defines a woman. Being a woman that's pathetic. Really....honestly....you believe that these people can be reduced to fabric!? I'm ashamed for you. After all you dont seem bright enough to be ashamed for yourself.
By the way, Woman in Iran vote. So do woman in just about every other Middle Eastern Country including Afghanistan.
Baharain has woman in office.
Domestic violence cases are the same in Syria as they are in the USA (1 in 4)
Most of the graduates from colleges in the Middle East are WOMAN.

Ya know all I have to do is reread this with 50 year old eyes and substitute Arab for Black and it's all to familiar. One day we'll consider this a dark period in our history as well. Glad that writings like this will be around then...to show our future cildren just how superficial and embarassingly simplistic some writers made Arab woman out to be.
You will be a shining example of ignorance to our future children. Hope you can square with that now. All I can do is shake my head a pray that one day..you'll all grow up and realize the world is an okay place when it includes more then middle class white girls and boys. Named of course Madison and Tiffany, Brock and Chad...welcome to the future my friends. Fatima and Khalid have arrived, get used to it.

I tried to ping you from Not Just the Veil - New Islamic Fashions - http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/12/not_just_the_veil_-_new_islamic_fashions.html - but got a server error.

Samirah is so wrong it's pathetic, "In all Arab countries (again: besides Bush's best friend SAUDI ARABIA) the woman are allowed to wear whatever they choose." This is so absolutely untrue it's unbelievable anyone could utter that without breaking out into laughter.

As for Syria's domestic violence, yes it is 1 out of 4, see http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=269314&area=/insight/insight__international/

but Syria does not recognize Honor killings as an abuse case or recognise crimes committed by family members against daughters, so that statistic is meaningless. In addition, it is 1 in 20 in the US not 1 in 4.

Where did you get the number 1 in 4 for America?

You are a perfect example of living in denial.

Who are you trying to fool?

well well bravo guys .i read so many comments up there but couldnt find a single one with a use of brain.seems all of u are really bothered by the women who cover themselves.what could be the reason.hmmm lemme think...oh ya u might be feelin aggitated cuz of the fear what if this trend crops up and u guys are forced to cover your selves or may b cuz u men n women dont have an access to see muslim women in n out.well i have a news for u. dont gather fears and frustration for yourselves.leave claded women to their own fate and try to butter up your faith and fate.marie claire has done a wonderful job in this issue n im not saying it cuz it has muslim women in it im sayin it cuz it has somethng which can attract muslim community also . being a journalist i quote best journalism is what has an interests of every individual.it really doesnt matter if out of two thousand issues a single issue has few pages for other community as well.u guys shoud have a sharing corner.if u guys can try to share iraq ,afghanistan or dunno how many muslim countries with muslims then y cant u guys can give them few pages of your magazine.thats strange.the conversation started by debbie was regarding the magazine but none of u said anythng closer to it.what u emphasised was islam n muslim faith.my advice to u all is to stop poping in other faiths. try to respect other religions too if u cant respect yours cuz thats what u just did.

I want to congratualate u on being the most ignorant person out there and u should get a fucking clue and then start posting on ur little blog just like the worthless being u really are! With all your disrespectful comments you just proved how clueless you are. So funny.

those girls r not represent all muslims women ..
i'm MUSLIM & i'm proud ..!
whatever u saied & whatever ur comments saied !!
ya .. we r proud of our islam & our HIJAB ..
in each society there is like those girls .. even f they r muslims their behaviors not represent our islam rules & we r not proud of them !!
& don't think that we r forced to follow al HIJAB we r wearing it coz we want that & we feel comfort with it ..
we don't want any guy to look at us so only my husband & al mharim ( those who i can't marry them)
that's better than leave them Exposed to every body !

so plz try to respect others relegions coz that represent ur respecting to urself ..

& ya ,, i myself like wht our country did ..
so we can't drive .. u know why !! coz we r like Queens !!
did u ever c a queen drive her car !! don't think ..

I can't believe what i just read. I am a muslim woman, and here's what i have to say regarding this issue, this article, and these uneducated comments.

I call most of these comments uneducated because you don't know what you're talking about. I don't know where you people are getting ur information about islam, but it is obviously not a good source because you are totally wrong.

A friend of mine went to Suadi Arabia and met a woman, and asked her what she thought about the fact that women there cannot drive. She said to her,
"Why should i drive if i already have someone to drive me around?"

The fact is, you are comparing your lifestyle (our lifestyle - i live here too) in this continent to the people in others. Here, women and men can drive - yes it's our right, and yes because we need to. How else will we get our children to school or go to the mall? so when you hear that when people say that women there cannot drive, you immediatly think that they don't get to meet up, go shopping, or anything else - but you don't know that. If you have ever visited the Arabian Gulf (which i have) you would notice that most people there have got it better than we do. The women have drivers, DRIVERS to help them get places, they socialize, and as a matter of fact, they're very fashionable, but of coarse it's all hidden under their long, black abiyas. And then you assume (and why you assume this i have no idea) that they don't choose to wear that. Well guess what, they do. no one forces it on them, and in the quran (if you've ever read it, and if you haven't i don't believe you are entitled to speak this way about muslims as you did above in your horrible comments) women and men are equal, not one has the right to abuse or force something on the other. The hijab as a matter of fact should not be forced on a women at all, it says so in the quran and in hadiths.

I think it's great that this magazine, took the time to show others that muslim women are fashionable, and can be fashionable while at the same time being true to their religion, and following the quran.

as to you, all of you that have written these comments, take it from me - a muslim woman - you don't know what you're talking about. And if you are ever, EVER going to comment about islam, do your research first.

oh, and just to let you know, all your comments have shown me how little you people know about islam, and today, you have encouraged me to put on the hijab - the headcovering- for the first time, full time, so that i can be a symbol of my religion, and teach people like you about islam, because i don't think you realize that the religion you seem to know so much about, is really not the religion of islam, take it from someone who practices it.

My name is Anna, and I can't believe either, what I read above. In a time where I consider all humans, regardless of race, colour, ethnicity or religion to be my brothers and sisters, to be my fellow human beings, like we are taught to in elementary school, I thought people would know better. Judging from the writing, I assume the comments are made by someone who is older than some kid in grade 2 and I assume that they have some knowledge or degree of learning. And yet they have managed to cough up the most ridiculous article/post I have read in a while.

To be so stupid and naive, to be so blind to think that your own way of living, your own perception, your home, your name, your nation is the only correct one out there is the most immature, backward thing there is. Far more backward than not letting a woman drive.

Your comments under the pictures are not only rude, but so ignorant it baffles me, a fellow westerner.

I cannot fathom how quick you are to garbage the ideologies of another religion and verbally abuse the followers, when you may have one yourself, knowing full well that throughout history your own religion may have been maligned and your own people verbally abused.

Can you even define Jihad? Do you know what the Qur'an is about? Can you define hijab? Do you know what Islam is about?

I studied religions in university and am continuing with it further. World religions. I learnt about Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism and more...and I think it utterly disgusting for you to make ignorant comments on any religion or people when you clearly have no clue what you are talking about. I also studied politics and history. Your ideas about what "muslim countries" are about, about world affairs (clearly you have no idea about the international community), about ethics, about morals, about GITMO (where if you actually read, you'll find a lot of unlawful activity such as torture and such goes on there) and if you had a remote inkiling of what history was about you'd realize we gave them their guns int he first place to battle our own enemies then made enemies out of them, just like we did with saddam and weapons of mass destruction (hint:depleted uranium))

All wrong. Get your facts straight. Read a book. Get out of your NAZI views and learn that before you pronounce yourselves better than anyone you owe ppl their rights. yes I said nazi views because the way you verbally abuse what you may see as the "other", he had the same ideas about the Jews. And what was wrong then, is wrong now and it's worse cause you ought to know better.

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