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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: musclecenter on May 06, 2010, 09:24:20 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100505/wl_mideast_afp/lifestylejordansocialwomenbodybuilding;_ylt=Aj7Rxyi1sQW4l6_4WeWsMKoLewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTNlNXNxcjAzBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDEwMDUwNS9saWZlc3R5bGVqb3JkYW5zb2NpYWx3b21lbmJvZHlidWlsZGluZwRwb3MDMjcEc2VjA3luX3BhZ2luYXRlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDam9yZGFuaWFud29t (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100505/wl_mideast_afp/lifestylejordansocialwomenbodybuilding;_ylt=Aj7Rxyi1sQW4l6_4WeWsMKoLewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTNlNXNxcjAzBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDEwMDUwNS9saWZlc3R5bGVqb3JkYW5zb2NpYWx3b21lbmJvZHlidWlsZGluZwRwb3MDMjcEc2VjA3luX3BhZ2luYXRlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDam9yZGFuaWFud29t)
by Randa Habib Randa Habib – Wed May 5, 2:07 am ET
AMMAN (AFP) – Her highly muscled body is smothered in tattoos, she is constantly criticised by her fellow Jordanians and she suffers deep inner torment.
No matter what it takes, however, 26-year-old Farah Malhass is determined to become the first Arab woman to enter an international body-building competition.
"Everyone is against me. No one understands why I want to become an international star in figure body-building," she said.
Her pursuit comes at great personal cost; many Jordanian men have strict views on "correct" behaviour for women, as witnessed by the frequent so-called honour killings -- of female family members suspected of having sex before marriage.
Malhass is a sitting target for Jordan's hardliners, not least of all because her body is covered in tattoos: a bare-breasted angel is depicted on her upper thighs, angel wings cover her back, and edgy statements are branded across her arms.
"You are somebody when you stop being nobody," reads one. "Only the one who hurts you can heal your pain," reads another.
"The tattoo is vital for me. It reveals my identity and the path I want to follow," says Malhass, who travels regularly to Beirut to get her tattoos after receiving her first one at the age of 17.
"Yes, it hurts, but it is therapeutic at the same time because the pain allows me to overcome the inner suffering that eats away at me," she says.
Hailing from a well-off Jordanian family as one of two daughters, Malhass's parents are divorced. She has no contact with her businessman father and her mother is often away on travels.
"It was my grandfather who looked after us. He always spoiled me, but when I was 20 I wanted to live alone and achieve my dream."
A rebel from an early age, she has nurtured the dream since the age of 14, when she swore that one day it would be her pictures splashed out across the walls of the gym.
Malhass began training at 20, but soon came up against the disapproval of her family, who could not understand why she should chose to "deform my body and make myself look ugly."
So she enrolled at Saint Martins College in London to study fine art, but soon dropped out.
Back in Jordan, she joined the International Organisation for Migration in 2007 and worked with Iraqi immigrants, "an experience that scarred me with their stories of torture and abuse."
Malhass left the IOM last year and is now totally committed to her ambition of taking part in international body-building competitions.
Today, she is on the verge of seeing her dream come true.
She is to travel to Canada in September to take part in an amateur body-building competition in the "figure" category, for muscle men and women who do not aim to develop huge biceps.
"If I win first prize, I would then be able to participate in professional competitions," she says.
But in Amman her plans are met with scepticism and derision far more than encouragement.
The Jordanian body-building federation has difficulty accepting a woman into its ranks. "Aren't you ashamed of parading in front of the world in a bikini," she is asked.
So far only one Jordanian athlete, Zeid al-Far, has supported her. He is also competing in Toronto and they are sharing the cost of their training.
They are also seeking sponsorship together but this is proving elusive, with just one radio station manager in Amman and a nightclub owner in Beirut taking any interest.
"Preparations for the competition are expensive, with all the vitamins and other health supplements, gym membership, food ... I've even sold my car to meet the costs," she says.
She insists she wants to reach her goal by herself, without family help.
"Besides, my grandfather is ill and if he ever learned that I was taking part in this kind of competition, he would certainly never recover."
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Dina Al Sabah is the first, and she's royalty. :)
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looking huge here...
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nobody cares...... you jacked this directly from an RX muscle thread...........what is it inside of you that thinks your need to be the one to report every bodybuilding morsel of info you come across, back to getbig
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its soooooooooo fucking weird.....you really have no opinion, and do not talk much.....you just post bb news stories....are you a frustrated newspaper editor??? ::) ::)
meltdown.
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nobody cares...... you jacked this directly from an RX muscle thread...........what is it inside of you that thinks your need to be the one to report every bodybuilding morsel of info you come across, back to getbig
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its soooooooooo fucking weird.....you really have no opinion, and do not talk much.....you just post bb news stories....are you a frustrated newspaper editor??? ::) ::)
musclecenter is the man, stfu
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Was gonna say, Dina has been doing this for a longer time! But that chick is bad ass!
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She is so asking to have her head chopped off. Remember the cleric a few days ago talking about cracking down on women who have sun tans? It's the women that are causing the earth quakes.
BTW, I'd hit it in the fatwa real hard.
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meltdown.
you little fagg0t fuck.....you were one of the pussy cowards the other day.
making completely false accusatioins regarding white men and the tea party being responsible for the times square bombings
there is no one here that likes you......pleae die tonight :D :D
oh, and apologies to musclecenter......if he think its his duty to bring EVERY BB related news story he stumbles across on the internet... so be it
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you little fagg0t fuck.....you were one of the pussy cowards the other day.
making completely false accusatioins regarding white men and the tea party being responsible for the times square bombings
there is no one here that likes you......pleae die tonight :D :D
oh, and apologies to musclecenter......if he think its his duty to bring EVERY BB related news story he stumbles across on the internet... so be it
Is that true? Matrix, explain yourself!
MuscleCenter is GetBig family. Only MuscleCenter would risk his life saving a worthless cat and still give a thumbs up and single bicep shot from a hospital bed.
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Is that true? Matrix, explain yourself!
MuscleCenter is GetBig family. Only MuscleCenter would risk his life saving a worthless cat and still give a thumbs up and single bicep shot from a hospital bed.
Thanks,bro
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=117526.475 (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=117526.475)
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=117526.500 (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=117526.500)
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Musclecenter is THE MAN!!!!!
Mr. Taiwan, I go to the far east for business, the next time I'm there, I'll swing by Taiwan and we will lift together, you gotta teach me your tricks!
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Musclecenter is THE MAN!!!!!
Mr. Taiwan, I go to the far east for business, the next time I'm there, I'll swing by Taiwan and we will lift together, you gotta teach me your tricks!
No problem,bro
E-mail to me before your arrival.
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This is pretty awesome. Some solid genetics on the arab side; some say a consequence of the strongest saxons making it down there during the crusades and spreading their "seeds".
I say damn good people once you're (smart enough) to put every muslim in the same basket.
The key is global reach.
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No problem,bro
E-mail to me before your arrival.
Will do for sure! I doubt it will be anytime this year - but maybe 2011 !!! I will let you know!
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looking huge here...
LOL!
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She looks like a hot piece of ass. I hope that she isn't raped and murdered before she gets the chance to compete.
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Is she training for a suicide bombing mission? Mongrel...
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Gorgeous!
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looking huge here...
I hope this woman starts a movement in the Arab world and ends the dark ages of woman required to be in bee keeper suits.
I also wish her a safe life and pray some idiot wacko doesn't put a death fatwa on her head.
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Is she training for a suicide bombing mission? Mongrel...
;)
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I hope this woman starts a movement in the Arab world and ends the dark ages of woman required to be in bee keeper suits.
I also wish her a safe life and pray some idiot wacko doesn't put a death fatwa on her head.
Women are not required to wear a bee keeper suit in any Arab country. They are allowed to wear them if they please.
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Women are not required to wear a bee keeper suit in any Arab country. They are allowed to wear them if they please.
Most here are Americans so we don't know shit about anything outside our backyard. Doesn't Saudi Arabia require that you wear a burka?
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I'm sure she will be killed by some stupid Muslim extremist for exposing her skin..
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Women are not required to wear a bee keeper suit in any Arab country. They are allowed to wear them if they please.
Hmmmm I think ill wear an all black outfit which covers every last inch of skin while i walk thru the desert today.... ::)
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Women are not required to wear a bee keeper suit in any Arab country. They are allowed to wear them if they please.
Tongue in cheek about bee keeper suits?
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Hmmmm I think ill wear an all black outfit which covers every last inch of skin while i walk thru the desert today.... ::)
Exactly. Maybe it's not a requirement but there has to be some social pressure to wear them. Maybe they call you names like slut and stuff and then stone you to death. I mean, who on earth would want to wear those outfits in any climate let alone a hot one?
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Tongue in cheek about bee keeper suits?
He called burkas "bee keeper suits" so I went along.
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Exactly. Maybe it's not a requirement but there has to be some social pressure to wear them. Maybe they call you names like slut and stuff and then stone you to death. I mean, who on earth would want to wear those outfits in any climate let alone a hot one?
Perhaps these women are just really really really really really really really really really really ugly?
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Women are not required to wear a bee keeper suit in any Arab country. They are allowed to wear them if they please.
bullshit...there may be no "requirement" but if they don't want to be set on fire in the street and then hacked to death with a machete they better put on the burka and shut the fuk up.
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Exactly. Maybe it's not a requirement but there has to be some social pressure to wear them. Maybe they call you names like slut and stuff and then stone you to death. I mean, who on earth would want to wear those outfits in any climate let alone a hot one?
Saudi Arabia (the most strict Islamic country) only requires females to cover their bodies with a black robe like, light material abaya. They can show their hair and face though. The rest of the Arab countries allow females to wear anything.
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bullshit...there may be no "requirement" but if they don't want to be set on fire in the street and then hacked to death with a machete they better put on the burka and shut the fuk up.
You seem to be confusing Afghanistan with the Arab world.
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Saudi Arabia (the most strict Islamic country) only requires females to cover their bodies with a black robe like, light material abaya. They can show their hair and face though. The rest of the Arab countries allow females to wear anything.
Perhaps this material is similar to a dryer sheet which also helps with the smell?
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:D
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you little fagg0t fuck.....you were one of the pussy cowards the other day.
making completely false accusatioins regarding white men and the tea party being responsible for the times square bombings
there is no one here that likes you......pleae die tonight :D :D
oh, and apologies to musclecenter......if he think its his duty to bring EVERY BB related news story he stumbles across on the internet... so be it
i thought it was just me that got you to meltdown so easy twink. :-\
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farah is very sexy, but seems to have some mental issues.
i wouldn't hit it :-\
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Hmmmm I think ill wear an all black outfit which covers every last inch of skin while i walk thru the desert today.... ::)
And I think I wear something like this to a beach so my lower body can get tanned too. ::)
(http://www.underu.com/storefront/images/20651_front.jpg)
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Farah does seem to have some issues lol, but I guess I would too if everyone criticized the shit I do.
On another note, I'm actually good friends with a guy that used to train Dina Al-Sabah and he said she was an absolute sweetheart, a very nice genuine person!
Oh and in Egypt, you're not required to wear a veil, I actually can't think of any one in my family that wears one, I see tons of girls going out in the city wearing mini skirts and tanks tops no problem...
Again though, some arab countries are more conservative than others. Egypt is one of the more liberal ones!
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Hit it. Most def.
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Dina is persian no?
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so fucking sexy.... those men in the backround wish she was a guy :-\, and hate her for being hot
fucking islam diasgusts me >:(
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how stupid tatto is that, really suxx :-\
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Dina is persian no?
No, Dina is not Persian. Forgot what she is...
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Dina is persian no?
Kuwaiti.
Pretty chick but disgusting for kissing a cat.
Might be a GetBigger for saying her grandfather wouldn't recover, LOL!
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bullshit...there may be no "requirement" but if they don't want to be set on fire in the street and then hacked to death with a machete they better put on the burka and shut the fuk up.
Have you been there and know this from witnessing this? You sound like brainwashed "berzerkfury". :-\
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stunning without a doubt
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how stupid tatto is that, really suxx :-\
x2
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farah is very sexy, but seems to have some mental issues.
i wouldn't hit it :-\
Outed.
Further evidence that you are a fat homosexual.
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Nice girl and I wish her all the best but if I were her I'd get the fuck out of that gym and whatever country she resides in before one of those guys kills her.
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You seem to be confusing Afghanistan with the Arab world.
that shit happens in SA and if you don't think so your head is in the sand
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She's artsy too......
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She's artsy too......
Looks like the work of a severely disturbed mind.
Crazy chicks can fuck like nobody's business!!
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Looks like the work of a severely disturbed mind.
Crazy chicks can fuck like nobody's business!!
::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
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She's beautiful... But she looks a little Dyked out?
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She's beautiful... But she looks a little Dyked out?
yeah reeAAAllly diked out ::) ::) ::) ::)
I can't phantom the level of crazy in some of these posts :o
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Poor Girl, she will die faster than Dereck Anthony in an AIDS infested bath house. Hopefully all of getbig will be invited to see her stoning for disrespecting the great child molester known as "Allah"
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yeah reeAAAllly diked out ::) ::) ::) ::)
I can't phantom the level of crazy in some of these posts :o
Settle down homo..