The Political Art of Amir Normandi
by tdaxp ~ February 11th, 2006
I was browsing something else when I came across this at One Free Korea:
No tolerance for intolerance
No apology for being free
No Burka for the West. Support Denmark
I’ve been falling the cartoon controversy, and by clicking on the link I found Angantrys Hjorne.
And from that, this:
Well, this too:
But one’s sexier than the other.
(Notthat all of the girls here are as sexy as such as Lebanese protest babes or playmate kajira — indeed, the gallery has a Dove “real beauty” feel to it –but as I and others have been threatened with death by Islamic fundamentalists, if not killed, I’m erring on the side of Danish solidarity.)
There’s more. It’s political
We Shall Overcome
Lifted Red Burka
Islamic JAV?
Prayer Bead and Breasts
Hand of Fatima on Breast
The New York Times uses top 1% of income, not wealth. From the legend:...
August 30th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Ali, I have a question, but I understand if you do not know the answer.
What hapened toall of the African slaves taken into Islamic lands in the middle ? Where are all their descendants?
–purp
September 27th, 2006 at 12:00 am
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September 27th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Another benefit of blogging: learning new acroynyms!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fgf
October 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Thank youappreciate feedback, and I am that Iranians are able to for the reasonable, intelligent comment. I
October 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Peyman, thanks for your comment! I appreciate feedback as well
I have been impressed with every Iranian I have met in real life. In my experience, Iranians are trustworthy, hard-working, and very fun to talk to.
Ciao!
November 1st, 2006 at 12:00 am
In the firest … all of you should to know ( god make this word and lives in not to make problems and to respect all ) and in 2nd most of you and muslems too ~ 95 % think about islam is
!!!TO KILL !! TO HATE !!!
NO … NO … the islam is mean in english pace … yeeeh
Islam = Pace …. so how you can help to change this 95 % ? for you and for me !!! think about it
Have Nice Day
Dr Tamy
November 2nd, 2006 at 12:00 am
Actually, Islam means “submission”.
November 6th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Islam or 'Salaam' means peace.
Islam or 'Sallim' means submission. Please refer to the Arabic language for more clarification.They all come from the same original word.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:00 am
c'mon now. let's keep religion and politics out of this, and just keep posting hot Iranian women naked on here for my viewing pleasure.
January 13th, 2007 at 12:00 am
helllo
January 21st, 2007 at 12:00 am
It's a cheap advertisement
January 27th, 2007 at 12:00 am
We are united in our pursuit for the truth. The Burka is a symbol. What is it a symbol of is something else? Can the Burka be eroticized? It just has… and I thank you for that!
January 12th, 2007 at 12:00 am
See you are doing the least innovative and cheap art whoes only purpose is to prevail immodesty.I am artist and beliv me there is huge and high to be potrayed than cheap and immoral things..Better to take this into consideration or time will take you into consideration…
August 17th, 2006 at 12:00 am
israel fuck you bastared
August 17th, 2006 at 12:00 am
israel fuck people they like bush penish in there mouth and showing this picture of there mother thank for showing i think you are not the son of one penish output of creck condom.
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:00 am
fuck you all you fucking bastard on this website.. you want to spoil the reputation of islam by hiring those shit face girls……. your the shit and the most fucking and idiot assholes
fuck you and fuck your dirty website
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:00 am
Michael/John/Sirona,
Thanks for presenting a calm, reasoned and studied face of Islam to the TDAXP BlogNiche.
Purp
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:00 am
In order to address Sirona's, John's, and Michael's concerned, I've decided to provide “equal time' for Israeli, Jewish, and Zionist girls.
I trust our detractors will now agree that either tdaxp is not trying to spoil the reputation of Islam, or at least is attempting to sully all Semites equally
http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/08/22/beautiful-zionist-girls-hot-jewish-babes-and-sexy-zionist-ch.html
August 29th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Ali from Tehran,
Thank you for the reasonable, intelligent comment. I appreciate feedback, and I am that Iranians are able to discuss these things.
I do not know the ethnicity of his models, though it appears that one but not all of them is black.
I appreciate the secular defense of Iran's laws, but I think it is problematic. I strikes me that prostitution is at least as likely to produce illegitimate children as immodest dress, but Iran (and her neighbor Iraq) have legal this service. [1]
Is the desire to dress conservatively a desire of individuals or of the state? If individuals wish to be modest, that is wonderful. [2] But when the state forces them to be modest, then that is no real modesty at all.
[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/05/05/iraq_legalizes_prostitution_or_religious_escort_services_any.html
[2] http://catholicgauze.blogspot.com/2006/05/oppression-of-muslim-women-and.html
August 29th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Well as an Iranian I must say, its a nicely workedout propaganda.
First The girls are not Iranian. They are black. And we dont have blacks in Iran as far as I can remember.
Second as against your conception we do not wear Burqas. Burqas are worn in Afganistan and some areas in pakistan.
Third we will continue to dress conservatively and no we will never bocome promicuous sexually pathetic people like in west, by the how many people in west Know their real fathers?
DO YOU?
August 9th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I think you are on to something re the Satantic Verses, though I speak of the novel by Salman Rushdie.
All I know is that when I tried to read through it many years ago, I began having urges to both pound my head down hard on the study tables that I sat at and to search out beer.
Hmm…maybe we understand Ayatollah Khomeini incorrectly. Maybe he was just a very powerful literary critic?
August 8th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Mr. Devil…you are on the side of the Muslims then? I just want to make sure I understand your logic.
August 8th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Purpleslog,
Like a poster reading “¡Solamente Inglés! ¡Vota por Tancredo!”, Devil's comment is bewildering. Is the Lord of Flies protecting Islam because it is his blasphemous creed, or does even Beelzebub shudder at infidelity? Perhaps the Great Tempter is merely vain, and is hoping for the day when we will all read the satantic verses [1] as if they were written by al-Ilah before Time?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_Verses
August 7th, 2006 at 12:00 am
i love iranian girls.any girl interested can contact me through mail .my mail id is asgar_arshad@yahoo.com
August 7th, 2006 at 12:00 am
any girl wanna make friendship no boundaries
msg me on savvy008_intown@yahoo.com
August 8th, 2006 at 12:00 am
ALL YOU NON-MUSLIMS OR BAD MUSLIMS WILL BURN IN HELL!!!!
MARK MY WORDS, YOU'LL SEE ONE DAY
ESSPECIALY YOU AMIR…..
February 15th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Dan,
I was familiar (perhaps too familiar) with the helloziyi web site dedicated to one of China's finest exports. Her cuteness is off-the-charts. The web site even has a special “cuteness” gallery, which I find unnecessary since it is impossible for Zhang Ziyi to not look cute. I don't get too much into the politics of it, (although I think the Chinese are up to something) but Zhang Ziyi can star in a remake of Plan 9 from Outer Space and I would still pay to see her.
July 8th, 2006 at 12:00 am
hello please send your hot sexy pictiure to my e mail adrres thanks for attention
July 18th, 2006 at 12:00 am
my name is oskol.
July 20th, 2006 at 12:00 am
pls send me sex pic .thank u …
July 29th, 2006 at 12:00 am
i like and love Irani sexy nice girl, interest to chat and friendship with their. they can maill me at time , so, i must be happy for that. visiting no problem
February 15th, 2006 at 12:00 am
If she's a mole, Zhang Ziyi has been effective. I can never forget her in “Hero,” A websit[1] was noticed by John Derbyshire [2], and, I'm sure, many others.
I was first surprised by how many non-political Chinese I know were upset at her for making Memoirs of a Geisha. But then, when I think that I have been deprived of another Hero/Flying Daggers because Ang Lee and her made American movies… . *grrrr*
But that face. [3] I can't stay mad her…
[1] http://www.helloziyi.us/
[2] http://corner.nationalreview.com/04_12_05_corner-archive.asp#047892
[3] http://kennygunie.online.fr/dreamgirls/dg-photos/photos/Zhang%20Ziyi/Zhang%20Ziyi%20198.jpg
February 15th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Dan,
One of my favorite ones appeared last summer in Newsweek. They had a special report on “China's Century” and in the cover they had Zhang Ziyi. If they would've had Hu Jintao on the cover I wouldn't had even looked twice at the magazine…but they lured me in with Zhang Ziyi. BTW, if you can have a post on China feautiring Zhang Ziyi I would appreciate it. Adding Zhang Ziyi to any product = a better product (film, magazine, blog, etc…)
Now, is Zhang Ziyi part of some devious 5GW scheme by the Chinese? She already caused some disturbance in Japan with her protrayal of a geisha. Also,Zhang Ziyi is already implanted in the minds of countless Americans including many service members…Hmmm…
February 11th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Dan,
It would be kind of cool to put that banner (love the placement of the letter “p”), however, that would be a not-to-subtle (very 2GW) approach to the issue; you don't want to Maxim-ize your site. I propose a more indirect approach, like when you had the Lebanese protest babes. You can have some discussion on Middle Eastern politics and you subrepticiously throw in a protest babes (or any babe) gallery to illustrate your point. Or you can have a discussion on Asian politics and attach a Japanese car show babe gallery. Still, more babes = better tdaxp. Keep up the good work.
February 13th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Dan,
Hard to resist that new banner over the current one.
February 13th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Sonny,
That's the approach the Economist has been using. I give them props. [1]
As to Maxim-izing — at least I won't be Equireizing. I bought the newest issue for the Barnett article “Monks at War,” but (despite its marketing) Esquire is not a men's magazine. It's a FASHION magazine. That Lady of tdaxp loves it convinced me that it's the Coyote Ugly of magazines (“Hey, look here at the strapless shoulder — pay no attention to the mind-numbing clothing gibberish that makes up the other nine billion pages.”)
Chirol,
Your mission: playboy bunny or jav idol. Downtown Sioux Falls. The Zip Feeds Tower. Combine those three, and the banner must change.
[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/01/31/ideal.html
[2] http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/articles/
February 11th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I'm still waiting for the tdaxp cheerleaders!
February 11th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Dan,
I love your theoretical discussions on 5GW and such, but I think that more babes = a better tdaxp. I checked out your “Babes” section and it was a real morale booster.
I don't think that Islam is a joke, but the fact that practioners of this “religion of peace” have killed people and burned buildings over a cartoon that appeared in some obscure (to most of the world) Danish paper, certainly is ridiculous. I wish they could muster the same energy to actually rebuild their societies.
February 13th, 2007 at 12:00 am
united states society and culture is an upside down pyramid based on a single point of “morality”. amazes me how it can continue to exist. but maybe, perhaps it is because of it's diversity or personal freedoms or richest shareholders in the world .. all 3, some or none of the above .. don't know. but I do know that women and men have the ability to be erotic no matter what their covering type (or what their covering). just don't think it's a big deal. i sense that if the people of the US disrobed entirely for a least a year, you'd all get over this obsession with nudity and consider that eroticism is truly an art form to be admired and not drooled over.
my 2¢
March 5th, 2007 at 12:00 am
you even don't worth that I post you a comment
asshole
February 11th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Cheerleaders? Babes? a better tdaxp?
Here's to you, Chirol and Sonny. A proposed new banner
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=98479097&size=o
Next week, TR Reid, the author of “The United States of Europe,” will come to UNL. Part of his argument is that Europe is a more open society, and doesn't generate the animosirty of the United States.
It will be interesting…
March 9th, 2007 at 12:00 am
It is very selfish and irrational to make a monckery of other cultures and religion. This is not a freedom rather egotism, racism and prejudice. To expose skin and promote nudity is not a sign of civilized society but sexism and moral degradation.
March 10th, 2007 at 12:00 am
bastard jew israel bastard not iran israel respect bush bastard islam mullah jihad penish fuck fuck you jew.
just kidding.
March 13th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Eroticized. Perhaps. Commodified is my read. I think the very existence of the Burqa is erotic. And judging from the amount of wacko sexual-devastation it wrecks upon those societies, I'm thinking it signifies an awful lot of sexuality that needs beating down and breaking.
The kinds of anxieties the Burqa produces in Muslim countries is pretty much maximized. Men are men everywhere. And I know, when I see a Burqa, my first thought is, “I wonder what's under the hood?” – but instead of, as is the case with Uncovered women, this flicker-thought dies as soon as it is born (unless other cues seek to enforce it) it is nothing but a momentary, instinctual, even unconscious, preverbal, and ulimately, fleetingly and immediately resolved question. Not so with the Burqa. It is alluring surface. For males, it energizes these primal, evolutionary drives and causes them to linger – forever. As men the world over know men everywhere. It also engenders in us the kind of distrust that is INEXTRICABLE and UNAVOIDABLE that becomes enshrined in the laws of more repressive cultures. I don't give a damn whom you pray to or how many times a day you do, knowing that other men, as yourself, below cultural and religious development, biology drives pathways that are constantly surveying the sexualized gender-landscape. Pray for chastity, and fecklessly claw away at the inextinguishable need for visual cues that the Burqa prohibits, but know that the razor-thin, violently enforced social norms that keep the highly artificial muslim family afloat, that these are in turn the strategy of brutal repression reflected in the laws of muslim countries laws that are designed by men, who know their hereditary drives – to lift the onus from our own sexual-histories – and crucify women upon their own feelings of inadequacy.
Eroticized? The burqa is already eroticized, it is a sexualized, black hole. A deadly, free-floating, arbitrary, sexual event-horizon.
It needs to be commodification. This is a good strategy – as commodities allow for substitutes, and substitutes are the reservoirs of cultural change. And, as any social worker/anthropologist can tell you, if you want to change the society, change the women. Even the most brutal, legalistic, insane tyranny balks at killing its own mothers, and when they do, when they cross that line, not for nothing is it safe to say that they have forfeited their humanity for something more base.
April 10th, 2007 at 12:00 am
merci
June 13th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Iran is going to fall.
Israel gonna N^U^K^E your ass!!!!
June 13th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Adi,
Your IP address ( 88.153.126.147 ) resolves to Jerusalem. Congratulations. Yours is the first incoherent comment by an Israeli at this blog.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:00 am
all can I say is………….
FUCK YOU !!!
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:00 am
?!?! Mark — is that you!?!?
November 24th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Hi there,
While wanting to do some more research ehm following the link on Israeli celebrities in a previous posting I found that google had blacklisted the site as containing malware and so it does. Kaspersky reports a trojan on the site as it has probably been hacked by some unhappy individual. I recommend you post a warning in the thread with the links to that site.
Cheers
VoidMan — Without Religion, Race or Whatnot the world would be a better place!
November 24th, 2007 at 12:00 am
What url?
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