[Gendergap] Nudity vs Islam in Western Europe

Daniel and Elizabeth Case dancase at frontiernet.net
Wed Sep 7 15:23:08 UTC 2011


> Did anyone realize just how provocative the illustrations of the
> arabic pregnancy article must appear for certain people then?
> http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D9%81:Hoact21.jpg in the
> lead section of the article.
>
> The question now: Should we consider this a good thing or a bad thing?
> Should the picture of the male doctor touching the belly of the
> pregnant woman be removed from the article, like the picture of the
> nude woman in the english wikipedia? Better to replace it with a
> pregnant woman wearing hijab? does anyone want to start a RFC?

That should be up to the Arabic Wikipedia community, IMO (To have an RFC on 
it and participate, one would not only need an account there but Arabic more 
fluent than I would consider my own to be).

Interestingly, the picture is from a clinic in Central America.

Daniel Case 





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