Harlem Shake from Tunisia to Egypt.

 

 

At the Lycée Pères-Blancs, Harlem Shakin’ to the  great scandal to the Tunisian Moral Police. 

 

The Salafists ready to smash moral degeneracy

 

“un sujet de querelle en Tunisie entre tenants de la morale islamique et jeunes laïcs.”

 

It is not just the hard-line Salafists who have reacted by attacking young people.

 

There have been quick condemnations by the Islamist Ennahda-led government and other  religious figures. The Minister of Education, Abdellatif Abid, a member of the once ‘socialist‘ party, Ettakatol, who has called the dancing ‘indecent‘.

 

This is the result,

 

Parodies of Tunisian political figures.

 

For more on this see:En Tunisie, le Harlem Shake secoue la polémique.

 

The Harlem Shake is now sweeping the Arab world, from Morocco, Egypt to Lebanon.

 

Agence France Presse reports,

From Tunis to Beirut or Cairo, Arab youths have posted YouTube videos where one person starts dancing before the video cuts to a large group of people, in costume or in their underwear, moving frenetically to electronic music.

While in the West the “Harlem Shake” is the latest bizarre — and hilarious — internet trend, the break-dancing performances have turned into a light-hearted way to protest against Islamists in several Arab countries.

Dozens of Tunisian university students scuffled this week against Salafi extremists, who were trying to prevent them from filming what they regard as “indecent” dancing.

There doesn’t appear to be much the Islamists can do to stop young people enjoying themselves and demanding freedom.