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Quantess

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Sat Jun 29, 2013, 11:17 AM Jun 2013

Femen stages topless protest in Stockholm mosque [View all]

Source: alarabiya.net, AFP, expressen.se

AFP, Stockholm
Three feminist activists from the radical protest group Femen staged a topless protest inside a Stockholm mosque on Saturday before they were led away by police.

The women burst into the mosque and tore off their black robes to bare their breasts, which were emblazoned with slogans such as “No sharia in Egypt and the world” and “My body is mine, not somebody’s honor”. The women shouted “Free Women”, “No Sharia” and “No Oppression”.

The mosque was largely empty at the time apart from a couple of employees and some members of the press who had been told of the planned protest in advance.

Mosque employees called police who removed the women from the scene. The women did not explain why they wanted to protest inside an empty mosque.

Read more: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2013/06/29/Femen-stages-topless-protest-in-Stockholm-mosque-.html



http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/femen-lag-bakom-toplessaktion-i-moske/
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DU keeping me a breast of all the latest news Botany Jun 2013 #1
Rasberries are always blacked dipsydoodle Jun 2013 #2
What?! Deep13 Jun 2013 #3
Why this mosque? Was it just randomly chosen? penultimate Jun 2013 #4
Well, it was hot outside, and the air conditioning was a little wonky. Squinch Jun 2013 #24
Swedish Muslims secretly run Egypt, I guess Scootaloo Jun 2013 #26
OK, no, that's taking it too far. I'm not religious, but there are some things you just don't do. DRoseDARs Jun 2013 #5
No way... jessie04 Jun 2013 #6
And if protestors entered a synagog with pork to protest something or other? You'd be OK with that? DRoseDARs Jun 2013 #10
Respectfully disagree. As long as any religious institution enjoys a tax exempt status they are idwiyo Jun 2013 #8
You are aware that Stockholm is the capital of Sweden, right? nt DRoseDARs Jun 2013 #9
Which is part of Utah, right? penultimate Jun 2013 #11
I can't count how many times people assume they're reading a story based in the US, only it's not.nt DRoseDARs Jun 2013 #13
Utah? Your so ignorant! EVERYONE nose it's in British Columbia, which is county in New Mexico! idwiyo Jun 2013 #15
Do they speak African there? Squinch Jun 2013 #23
Yes, absolutely! African, British Columbian, and Mexican. It's a three languages county! idwiyo Jun 2013 #25
No way! Really? I was like SURE there was no world outside of US borders! idwiyo Jun 2013 #12
See #11 nt DRoseDARs Jun 2013 #14
Perhaps they were channelling the rock band that protested in the church in Moscow? nt MADem Jun 2013 #31
K&R Go FEMEN! idwiyo Jun 2013 #7
I assume you know that Femen is a Ukrainian franchise dipsydoodle Jun 2013 #16
Yeah, sure. They are all blond, skinny and drop dead gorgeous with big boobs. idwiyo Jun 2013 #17
Whatever dipsydoodle Jun 2013 #18
Does Femen actively discourage less than fit women from joining their protests penultimate Jun 2013 #19
I saw more than enough pictures of FEMEN ladies who look anything but blond-skinny-young-BOOBIES!!! idwiyo Jun 2013 #20
Anna Hutsol is great. jessie04 Jun 2013 #21
I respect what they are trying to do but... Ash_F Jun 2013 #22
Attention-seeking narcissism, not activism. nt geek tragedy Jun 2013 #27
Was hoping for some sort of Dune reference... Pelican Jun 2013 #28
so they are like the wingnuts who protested the Mosque in NY and other JI7 Jun 2013 #29
Why the women "wanted to protest inside an empty mosque?" DFW Jun 2013 #30
My thoughts exactly. Quantess Jun 2013 #32
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