Hissa Hilal in the final of Arab Idols ...(for me a Heroic Woman)

[Trudy]

In the
Arab world has one program Idols. Only it did
not go to the question of who can best sing, but it created a furore
with the reciting of poems.

Last week came the Arab woman Hissa Hilal in the semifinal. And loud
cheers from the audience and the jury she read a poem critical of
fundamentalist clerics. The result: a place in the finals,
but also death threats on the Internet.

Poet of Millions
Hissa Hilal risking its participation in the TV show "Poet of Millions" (the poetic version of American Idol) death threats,
because they live in a society characterized by oppression of women.


Tirade
Her poem is a diatribe against Muslim clerics' who sit on their mighty pulpits "but people"
afraid to make their fatwas' and 'like a wolf lurking "for people who
want peace.

Live
Hilal, dressed from head to toe in a black dress with only her eyes visible
brought her poem live on television:

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'I've seen the evil in the eyes of fatwas, when what is allowed to twist to
what is forbidden, "she said in her poem.
She called the regulations "a monster that comes out of hiding ... barbaric and blind, with death as a dress with a belt
held together.

Death penalty
Her poem is seen as a response to Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Barrak, a prominent Saudi cleric has issued a controversial
fatwa, someone who favor increased contact between man and woman, is an
infidel and deserves the death penalty. But more generally, especially
her tirade against all extremist clerics through universities, TV
programs and websites big influence.
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this is translated by Google from a dutch site: http://www.novatv.nl/page/detail/uitzendingen/7674/ ;
http://www.novatv.nl/page/detail/uitzendingen/7718/Hissa+Hilal+in+d...

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Because the Dutch television paid attention to her third won prize , she wrote a poem for the people in the Netherlands ...

HERE AND THERE
EVERYONE AND EVERYWHERE

SAME STARS SAME SKY AND SAME PLANET
THIS MUCH NEAR

THE SAME SUN AND THE MOON IS SAME
WE ALL SHARE

IF YOU DON' T NOTICE
I HAVE DEATH

IF YOU DON' T DO
I DO CARE

LOVE AND MERCY
WE ALL NEED

IN MY VOICE
YOU CAN READ

YOUR OWN WISH
AND YOUR OWN DREAMS

FOR EVERYONE AND EVERYWHERE
IF YOU DON' T
I DO CARE

HERE THERE
EVERYONE AND EVERYWHERE

SAME STARS
SAME SKY AND SAME PLANET

THIS MUCH NEAR

by Hissa Hilal

[Trudy]

You can also watch the other vid on the Dutch site (scroll down), there she read the poem in english, the poem she made for Holland. You can hear in her voice the tragedy of life in the Middle East, the oppression and exploitation of her people.
You can hear a cry for freedom in it ...

[Trudy]

Yeah right here is the vid, and if someone could translate it, u are very welcome :)))