BIKYA MASR: CAIRO: Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani has left much of the Islamic world in an uproar over her nude image in a French magazine, which she then posted on Facebook. The actress has spoken out, saying she wanted to make a symbolic gesture about nudity and sex.
“This video clip is a symbolic gesture to remove the common taboos that exist in various societies and does not aim to promote nudity or sex,” a Facebook statement from her said. “By taking part in these photo shoots the people taking part wish to demonstrate their redeem[p]tion from these taboos by the way they act and talk.
“The objective is to liberate their soul and bodies at the same time. As long as an individual has no power iver [sic] her or his body and their soul does not have the command of the way they wish to think, then they do not have a true freedom.
“Although I do not think looking at the nude photo of another human may have an attraction, but it is certainly far more enjoyable than looking at the fully covered and burqa and hejab wearing body of a woman who has been wrapped and imprisoned by her man. So much for not looking at women as sex symbols as the fundamentalists want us to believe!” she added. » | Joseph Mayton | Friday, January 20, 2012
