{"id":7221,"date":"2011-05-23T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T04:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2011-07-16T11:52:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T07:52:30","slug":"google-incite-muslim-women-to-throw-off-veil-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/google-incite-muslim-women-to-throw-off-veil-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Incites Muslim Women to Throw Off Veil – Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Google celebrated Martha Graham\u2019s 117th birthday with an animated doodle. Martha Graham (1894-1991) was a remarkable innovator\u00a0 of the art of dance and has inspired modern dancers to this day.<\/p>\n

The doodle displays specific dance movements by Martha Graham, but, apparently, for many saudis the doodle looked like an incentive for women to take off their veils. As this article in the Saudi gazette<\/a> explains:<\/p>\n

ABHA: Tens of thousands of Saudis have reportedly complained to Internet search engine Google after the company celebrated the 117th birthday of the late \u201cMother of Modern Dance\u201d Martha Graham with an animated logo depicting dance motions.
\nAl-Watan Arabic daily reported that the complaints asked Google to remove the images \u201cas a gesture of respect for Muslims\u2019 feelings\u201d, with members of the public saying that they \u201cencouraged Saudi women to remove the veil\u201d.<\/p>\n

The \u201cGoogle doodle\u201d, which depicts a woman casting her veil behind her and starting to dance, was placed on the company\u2019s international zone, and Al-Watan said that complaints from Saudis asked the company to \u201crespect the privacy of its Saudi zone\u201d and remove the images.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Martha Graham was born on May 11, 1894 in Pennsylvania, USA, and received the country\u2019s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for her lifetime\u2019s work in dance and choreography.<\/p>\n

Here is the doodle:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=whZj-LKtRAE&feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n

What do you think? Is this a secret message to Saudi women to throw off their veil? Should the world at large be more circumspect not to offend Muslim feelings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMERICAN BEDU: When Google decided to celebrate dancer Martha Graham’s birthday with an animation little did it understand the furore it would cause in Saudi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":7222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,10,5],"tags":[634,688,4302,18275,3882,5818,18302,133,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}