(Nude Man Runs Naked For $$ In France)
Read These Two Stories From France And You Decide What is Really Happening in Our World Today
| MUSLIM LADY GOES TO JAIL FOR COVERING HER BODY | NAKED MAN ATTENTION & MONEY FOR RUNNING IN THE STREETS |
| A recently-surfaced video, meanwhile, featured a naked male running around the country’s streets while trying to cut a figure as a pole vaulter.
Kenza Drider, a young Muslim that left the southern city of Avignon for Paris to participate in a television program on the day the ban became law, was among the detainees. “This law infringes my European rights; I cannot but defend them, that is to say my freedom to come and go and my religious freedom,” she said. “This law breaches these rights,” said the mother of four. Her husband, Allal, said, “According to this law, my wife would have to remain cloistered at home, do you find that normal?” “They come here for their liberty for their freedom to dress as they want. I thank them to come here to defend this form of liberty,” said a female supporter of the Muslim women.
The recent move by France to impose a ban on burqa, a cover-all headdress some Muslim women choose to wear, has come in contrast with the country’s tolerance of public nudity.
The ban came into force on Monday and was followed by immediate arrest of nearly 60 women that defied the ban by walking outside the famed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, reported a Press TV correspondent from the French capital. Advocates of the ban in country that purportedly advocates democracy and basic freedoms say the regulation protects women’s freedoms as well as France’s firmly-embedded principles of secularism. “Quite a large part of the people believe that the women are weak. So they think that the republic has to protect the minorities, the people, who are weak and then they thought that it was necessary to make a law,” said Velentine Zuber, religious practices professor at Sorbonne — the University of Paris. Based on the procedures dictated by the burqa ban, the police would take the female violators to a police station until they consents to be unveiled for identification. A spokesperson for the police officers’ union warily stated that the police have many other problems to solve. Over thousands of Muslim women wear a full-face veil in France, which is home to more than five million Muslims — the largest Muslim community in the EU. |
Crude Dude in the Nude A French pole vaulting champion has run naked with his pole through the streets of Paris and posted the video on the Internet, hoping to draw attention to his quest for a new sponsorship deal. Romain Mesnil, who won a silver medal at the 2007 Athletics World Championships in Osaka, used to be sponsored by US sports brand Nike but says his contract expired last year and was not renewed. "It was probably for budgetary and strategic reasons. It's the crisis," he wrote on his website. Many athletes have reported difficulties obtaining corporate sponsorship as companies cut costs because of the global economic downturn. In his video, Mesnil runs with his pole as if preparing for a vault at tourist spots like Montmartre and the Pont des Arts across the River Seine. A black square has been added to the footage to cover his private parts.  His "nude dude" video has succeeded in drawing attention to Mesnil's plight, at least in France. It was broadcast on primetime state television news bulletins. |