A couple of Muslim women are making the news in a way that is no doubt sending the Mullah’s knickers into a knot.
First up, we have Pakistani actress Veena Malik, who reportedly posed nude for a magazine, only to deny it later.
U.S. actresses pose nude at the drop of a hat. No big deal. But this nude shot is a very big political deal. Pakistani actress Veena Malik appears nude on FHM India, an Indian men’s magazine’s website — with the initials of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) initials on her arm, a hand grenade in her hand with the pin in her mouth. The photo has caused a loud outcry in her home country for disparaging both Pakistan and Islam.
Now Malik has filed a lawsuit against FHM India. She claims that the naked photo of her was doctored or “morphed.” Her lawyers are demanding that the photo not appear on the mag’s December cover. They also want the so-called altered photos pulled off the website, and for a very sizable sum (RS 100m, or nearly $2 million) in damages.
The lawsuit notice was issued on Sunday with Maxposure Corporate Media, FHM chief editor Kabeer Sharma and photographer Vishal Saxena named as respondents. The suit also discusses the specifics of what Veena was told about what the photo shoot would consist of and a claim that she “was assured that no nude photograph in any manner would be shot.”
But magazine editor Kabeer Sharma argues that Malik gave full consent for the shoot. “We have all the record(s),” he told a Pakistani television station. “Veena was very excited about that ISI idea.” He also claims eight people were present and they have video of the photo shoot and emails from her private account confirming the details.
This is not the first time she has incurred the wrath of Khan. Earlier this year, she was accused of immoral behavior for appearing on the Indian version of Big Brother.
Meanwhile, here’s the contentious photo of Malik (with the Israellycool banner helping cover some dangly bits):
Looks to me more doctors and nurses than doctored.
Next up, we have fellow Muslim and former Miss USA Rima Fakih, who tried to extricate herself from an equally tricky situation – only for her lie to become quickly apparent.
Former Miss USA Rima Fakih, 26, was serving as a designated driver Saturday night for herself and a companion, but realised only after she was behind the wheel that she, too, was intoxicated, her lawyer said.
The beauty queen was arrested Saturday on suspicion of drunk driving in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan.
She initially attempted to deny her arrest with a tweet posted around 5am Saturday morning. She wrote: ‘Let’s clear things up now…I’m NOT in Michigan and I’m not in jail! Wrong Fakih.’
The tweet has since been deleted.
Her attorney said he did not yet know her blood alcohol level, having not seen the paperwork, though according to WXYZ, Miss Fakih blew a .20.
In Michigan, a .08 is the legal limit.
And it looks like the “Who, me?” defence may not have been her only lie. Here’s an earlier report from TMZ, which makes no mention of the “designated driver” excuse.
Police would not confirm the arrest — and Fakih even tweeted yesterday she wasn’t even in Michigan — but her attorney, Donald Elder, told the Detroit Free Press, “Unfortunately she was.”
Elder told the paper Fakih was “very saddened and very apologetic for the situation that she is in right now.”
