To advertise their new collection, Italian Fashion Company, Fornarina, used scantilly clad models posing in front of various quotes from the Quran on the walls of an unused madrassa located in Marrakesh.
Islam in Europe Fornarina, who say they got all the necessary permits for the shoot from the Moroccan government, say they will remove the offending images. Muslim leaders in Morocco say the photographs and video are blasphemous to the Muslim religion. The madrassa has not been used as a school or place of worship for many years.
Fornarina gave the Moroccan government all the required permits, and officials did not find anything in the company’s plans to be offensive. But this was not enough to appease some Islamic activists who initiated the dispute. The story has made it onto the screens of the Saudi satellite TV Al Arabiya, where the broadcaster fanned the flames spening a lot of time reporting on interviews with outraged Moroccans both in Morocco and Italy, all of whom condemned the company in the strongest of terms.
The now removed ‘offensive’ video shows a scantily clad model, shooting inside a historic religious school in Marrakesh. Behind her, the walls have engravings of verses from the Quran, the sacred book of Muslims. ”These images are offensive and provoke reactions of anger and condemnation,” said the local Muslim activist Abdul Ghani to Ballut to al-Arabiya. He also accused the government of his country for having granted permission to shoot.
Fashion-Style The Fornarina spring/summer 2012 collection features an array of florals and cute prints taking inspiration from Japan and the fifties revealing the exotic touch of the line.
The Fornarina girl is “a new Venus” who “rises from inlays and mosaics in a kaleidoscope of colours, she is clad in precious and impalpable clothes, the result of painstaking care for details and a mix of couture and design.” Shot by photographer Francesco Musati and Valentina Aimone, the new Fornarina campaign is set to be launched worldwide in a rich media mix, besides being displayed in the Fornarina stores and in a dedicated website.
Flaunt your fashion credentials this season and choose among the wide range of effortlessly chic pieces brought by the renowned Italian brand. There is something specific to every Fornarina collection reflecting a unique lifestyle that revolves around a distinctly fashion and ‘dress-up’ imaginary. Perfect for the independent woman who always loves to interpret her own femininity with taste and a one-of-a-kind feeling.
If the Arselifters are soooooo offended, why don’t they just get the —- out of Italy?!…Rome was where the Christian religion was first proclaimed a state religion, whether one agrees with a Theocracy or not, da– few would argue that a Christian Theocracy is a d— sight better than having a Sharia Islamic ruling class that dictates how everyone there should conduct their business all the way right down to how AND what to think!!…Oh, not to mention eating with your right hand and wiping your arse with the left hand!!…
Well, the shoot took place in Marrakech, Morocco, not in Italy.
Still and all, I say they should just suck it up, shake their heads, and get on with their lives. It was a place UNUSED for DECADES, anyhow. The Italian designer should go ahead with the showing in Italy and elsewhere, and tell the Muslims who are upset at this “offense” to shove it where the sun don’t shine.
Scantiy clad ? I have seen more skin on Super Bowl commercials. Quotes from the Queeran ? Are those the ones that say to kill Infidels ? Or the ones that say how to molest animals ?
This would never be allowed in Morocco, so go there, you inbred, always outraged, little boy and animal molesting savages.
Bob, muslims live in a perpetual state of outrage. I think they must be constipated a lot.
They’re certainly full of enough shi’ite….
So, The Muslims are offended, nothing new there – they are the Perpetually Offended.
It’s ok Muslims you offend me too, or at least your religion of lies and violence against all who are not of Islam does.
Oh Bonni thanks for the laugh with that one!! Perhaps not a normal reaction but not feeling quite normal just now anyway.
Trust the morons to get their rags in a twist over that one! You’d believe the woman naked or shooting a porn!
Alain, the bad part is the company caved. That’s how they win, they get companies and governments to cave by threatening violence.
Ah, yes! Let us read the eternal, inspiring words of Allah, “Slaughter the kafirs”…”Kill the kafirs wherever you find them!”…”Crucify them”…”Chop off their hands”…”Beat your wife”…”Behead the kafirs”…”Men are superior to women”…”The Jews are despised by Allah”.
Wow! How inspiring!
as a descendent of apes and pigs, allah can despise me all he wants. my G-d is gonna kick his worthless butt.
How did mohammud’s finest even notice the “scantilly clad” women; if they are not to even look upon one. They better go kill themselves so as to follow mohammud’s commands.
Looks like the pictures were taken in front of scribbles from a first grader’s lined printing manual. I don’t see what’s so disgraceful here,,, I DO see some nice looking models~!
Well BNI, now you’ve done it. You have discovered the answer to Islam. All we gotta do is spread pictures of naked females all over their cities, flood their Internet machines with porn and drop filthy porno by the box load all over the countryside. Hooray! Problem solved.
WC, not exactly, Muslims are the largest consumers of internet porn in the world. Now, if we could get photos of naked women put on all mosque walls, maybe they’d burn them down.
You keep using the term “fashion” for some reason. That’s why I don’t understand your rant word for word. You are selling SEX NOT FASHION. Then again I guess you don’t differentiate between the two in Europe. I guess my “Mohammedan” sensitiveness is misleading me as usual and this is innocuous posing; trust us to get worked up over material and sticking. Well if you were consistent you would approve your infant daughter to pose like that model, in those clothes. You would be arrested! And rightly so because we all know why. But there is no mention of that aspect of context.
boabdel, you are a typical braindead muzscum. Don’t post here, no one is interested in anything you have to say.
Nice try, boabdel.
Of course, no one would model their infant daughter in such clothing. Difference is that this is an adult woman in these clothes, which are not all that scanty. In fact, on any warm spring or summer day one sees more skin than she was showing (all I could see was her head and arms bare, not even any cleavage shots).
Also, with the exception of the Islamic world, no one would allow nine-year-old girls to get married at all, and most assuredly not to men old enough to be their grandfathers.
Thus, as I used to tell people who accused others of things they themselves are guilty of: “Those in glass houses should masturbate in the basement.”
it would be funny if it was so damn pathetic
too damn bad! Who the hell cares, they’re going to whine and cry about everything that remotely “offends” them. WHO CARES…Let them be offended; quite Bowing and Kowing to them.
God, I detet them ALL
There always going to whine about something except when it comes to the depraved cruelty of their death cult.
moslems offend ME!
People need to stop caving in to their temper tantrums!!!!
Oh the horror of it all! Half naked women in a madrassa! LOL. What is the world coming to!? The world must be going to hell in a handbasket with all these naked and half naked women everywhere!
And half naked women in a religious school at that! Oh my God! Unthinkable! Naked women are everywhere, polluting our airwaves, our schools, and (gasp) even our holy schools which teach faith and instill moral values to our young!
At this rate, soon half naked and naked women will be in our mosques! Praying beside us, preaching in our pulpits, distracting us, while we look at their gorgeous uncovered bodies, making us forget our prayers. What will we do then? The world is going to hell! Horrors!
God save us from beautiful naked and half naked women! LOL :=)
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
I swear I think these idiots are making it up as they go along just so they have something more to complain about.
When muslims walk down a public street and 3 times a day have to be subjected to numerous sphincters lined up in a row, cross-hairs aimed right at you, then I’ll admit they have something to complain about.
How healthy is it for a 3 or 4 year old to be walking down the street and realize they are eyeball to eyeball with some middle-aged man’s anus? It doesn’t get much more offensive than that.
I’d hate to see the nightmares that kid has.
That should have read, “when WE walk down the street”…that’s what I get for posting at night.
Another way to piss off the headbangers…Put naked women in an islamic setting. Add pigs to the pictures…Lets PhotoShop ahead! Imagine porn set to an islamic motif, and then lets photoshop it.
Muslims are not the promary threat. Quislings amongst us or even sympathizers are the real threats we face. Companies like Best Buy will be our death knell.
I heard there was a Porn flick also slated to be filmed at this madrassa. The working title I think is “Muhammad Does His Donkey”.
Abandoned is the clue. I owned it once now I will still own it.
Their logic is nonexistant.