{"id":17132,"date":"2018-08-19T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T01:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17132"},"modified":"2018-08-19T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T01:57:16","slug":"cultural-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/19\/cultural-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you were wondering if only the United States experiences religious-based cultural wars, look no further than Egypt and the decision of a former actress who had decided to give up her career and wear the hijab has now reversed her decision. From<\/a> AL Monitor<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

… [Retired Egyptian actress Hala] Shiha created\u00a0new Twitter and Instagram accounts,\u00a0posting pictures of herself without the veil. In one caption, she tweeted “strong independent woman from the beginning<\/a>.”\u00a0Within hours of its creation, the Twitter account\u00a0had gained thousands of followers, according to the BBC, but it was suspended by Shiha shortly afterward, when the pictures drew mixed reactions from supporters and critics. Liberals hailed Shiha’s decision to take off her veil while ultra-conservatives decried the move, exhorting her\u00a0to reconsider her stance.<\/p>\n

“We\u00a0applaud her<\/a>; hopefully other women will follow,” cheered an Alexandria resident on Twitter.<\/p>\n

A critic,\u00a0meanwhile, rebuked Shiha in a\u00a0demeaning tweet on Aug.\u00a010:\u00a0“Who cares about an ‘uncovered apple’<\/a>\u00a0except flies?”<\/p>\n

Not only has Shiha been lambasted by hard-line critics, she has also been the target of a fierce\u00a0campaign to pressure\u00a0her into changing her mind, with some even offering cash.<\/p>\n

“I’ll pay you 300,000 Egyptian pounds [$16,727] if\u00a0you keep your veil on<\/a>,” offered one Twitter user who claims to be a Saudi banker, on\u00a0Aug.\u00a010.<\/p>\n

Osama Gaweesh, a London-based TV presenter with the privately owned Mekameleen Channel, which is\u00a0often critical of Egyptian government policies, tweeted Aug.\u00a08 that removing the headscarf was “a personal choice<\/a>.” Nevertheless, he chided those hailing\u00a0Shiha’s\u00a0move as “stepping out of the abyss of darkness” and “a slap in the face of the Muslim Brotherhood,” warning that such rhetoric is\u00a0“purely racist\u00a0and a form of hate speech against all veiled women.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The tug of war over culture is a universal phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you were wondering if only the United States experiences religious-based cultural wars, look no further than Egypt and the decision of a former actress who had decided to give up her career and wear the hijab has now reversed her decision. From AL Monitor: … [Retired Egyptian actress \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17133,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17132\/revisions\/17133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}