Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi, the Egyptian President is no ballet fan. In an interview filmed eight years ago, the then MP said that dance “violates Shariah (Islamic) law”, reported Alarabiya.
The video resurfaced after an Islamist lawmaker threatened to close an Egyptian ballet school. Gamal Hamed, of the ultraconservative Salafist Nour Party, said,
[Ballet] is the art of nudity, spreading immorality and obscenity among people.
He called for the banning 0f dance because it is prohibited in Islam.
Artists immediately took to social media to criticize the Islamist lawmaker. Egypt’s Actors Syndicate chief Ashraf Abdel Ghafour said that a lawsuit will be brought against the Islamist MP:
Ballet is one of many arts around the world that measure a country’s civilization.… [continue reading]
The post Egyptian lawmaker tries to ban ballet: “the art of nudity” appeared first on gramilano.