{"id":8982,"date":"2018-01-03T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T23:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8982"},"modified":"2018-01-03T16:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T23:59:37","slug":"aphrodite-will-not-be-denied-3-and-also-hestia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8982","title":{"rendered":"Aphrodite Will Not Be Denied (3) \u2014\u00a0and also Hestia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l6Fa6cxtjWY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn a 2003 post titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=86\">Aphrodite Will Not Be Denied<\/a>,&#8221; I linked to Muslim clerics&#8217; criticism of Lebanese pop star <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haifa_Wehbe\">Haifa Wehbe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another Muslim singer with more complicated ancestry, Deeyah, &#8220;i<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=623\">rked the Muslim world&#8221; with her music videos<\/a>, and I said, &#8220;As I once wrote, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasclifton.com\/2003\/12\/aphrodite-will-not-be-denied.html\">Aphrodite will not be denied<\/a>.&#8217; You either acknowledge the powers of the gods, or they will assert themselves in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasclifton.com\/2005\/10\/seventy-two-virgins-religious.html\">uncontrollable ways<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/01\/03\/female-pop-star-arrested-egypt-sexually-suggestive-music-video\/\">.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s an Egyptian&#8217;s turn<\/p>\n<article data-insert-mobile-adslot=\"\">\n<div class=\"articleBodyText version-2 section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component version-2\">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">A<\/span> female pop star in Egypt has been arrested after posting a \u201csexually suggestive\u201d music video, in the second such case there in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Leila Amer appeared in an online video called &#8220;Boss Oumek&#8221; or &#8220;Look at your mother&#8221;, which includes sensual oriental dance and provocative gestures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It also includes household laundry, meal preparation, and ducks. Very sensual ducks.<\/p>\n<p>No joke for Leila Amer, however.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prosecutors in Egypt have detained the singer for four days for &#8220;incitement to debauchery&#8221; after the clip sparked controversy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/12\/02\/cracking-raunchy-music-videos-instigating-anti-gay-laws-inside\/\">in the increasingly conservative country.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not knowing Arabic, I wonder if the message is somewhere between &#8220;Listen to your mom, you slacker&#8221; and &#8220;A woman&#8217;s work is never done.&#8221;((From an old folk saying, usually given as &#8220;A man may work from sun to sun [dawn to dusk]. but a woman&#8217;s work is never done.&#8221;)) There is what could be considered a visual allusion to watching online porn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>Even here in the woods, I do know one thirty-something Egyptian woman in the nearest little town. I could ask her to translate, but then, she comes from a devout Coptic Christian family and is now married to an American evangelical Christian, so answering the question, &#8220;Why are you interested in this singer?&#8221; could get complicated. Or maybe not. Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 2003 post titled &#8220;Aphrodite Will Not Be Denied,&#8221; I linked to Muslim clerics&#8217; criticism of Lebanese pop star Haifa Wehbe. Another Muslim singer with more complicated ancestry, Deeyah, &#8220;irked the Muslim world&#8221; with her music videos, and I said, &#8220;As I once wrote, &#8216;Aphrodite will not be denied.&#8217; You either acknowledge the powers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,116,15,34],"class_list":["post-8982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aphrodite","tag-egypt","tag-islam","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2kS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":623,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=623","url_meta":{"origin":8982,"position":0},"title":"Aphrodite Will Not Be Denied (2)","author":"Chas S. 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His posting is just more fallout from an Arab-language television program that frankly uncovers the link between sex (or lack of sex) and martyrdom. More here, including a quote from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Aphrodite\"","block_context":{"text":"Aphrodite","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=aphrodite"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2521,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2521","url_meta":{"origin":8982,"position":3},"title":"Aphrodite Smiles","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Back when this blog was young, I wrote a post called \"Aphrodite will not be Denied\"\u00a0 about the botheration caused to some Muslim clerics by the sultry Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe. If there is anything that drives the mullahs and imams mad, it is female sexuality. The bloom is off\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Aphrodite\"","block_context":{"text":"Aphrodite","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=aphrodite"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.hotair.com\/greenroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Veena_Malik_300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2610,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2610","url_meta":{"origin":8982,"position":4},"title":"Bollywood versus Desert Monotheism","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A discussion (with lots of music and dancing) about why Bollywood movies are a devastating weapon against the more radical desert-father monotheisms. There is some deeper resonance that [these movies] have, which is why people want them. . . . 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