Whitey Ford
02-23-2020, 07:32 PM
Saudi rapper faces arrest for Mecca Girl music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RmliIhwlig
Saudi officials have called for the arrest of a female rapper who released a music video for her song Mecca Girl that praises women from the holy city as "powerful and beautiful".
Social media users reacted angrily, calling the authorities "hypocritical".
The video was released on YouTube last week by a young rapper who identifies herself as Asayel Slay.
She raps about women in the city of Mecca, which is Islam's holiest site where millions of Muslims go on Hajj or pilgrimage annually.
"Our respect to other girls but the Mecca girl is sugar candy," she sings in the video while men and women dance in a café.
On Thursday governor of Mecca Khaled al-Faisal ordered the arrest of the people behind the video, tweeting that it "insults the customs of Mecca" and using hashtag "They're not the girls of Mecca".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51597561
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RmliIhwlig
Saudi officials have called for the arrest of a female rapper who released a music video for her song Mecca Girl that praises women from the holy city as "powerful and beautiful".
Social media users reacted angrily, calling the authorities "hypocritical".
The video was released on YouTube last week by a young rapper who identifies herself as Asayel Slay.
She raps about women in the city of Mecca, which is Islam's holiest site where millions of Muslims go on Hajj or pilgrimage annually.
"Our respect to other girls but the Mecca girl is sugar candy," she sings in the video while men and women dance in a café.
On Thursday governor of Mecca Khaled al-Faisal ordered the arrest of the people behind the video, tweeting that it "insults the customs of Mecca" and using hashtag "They're not the girls of Mecca".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51597561