Somebody at the Times is paying attention, and calling it right: I liked this headline: "Young celebrate freedom in a city where fear is still lurking:"
There was not a hijab or niqab in sight as clubbers at the Global Dance Hall worked up a sweat to gangsta rap and Kenyan hip-hop. Instead, women shook their hair and stole glances at the men lining the wall.>br>Quite what Mogadishu’s Union of Islamic Courts would have made of the occasional flash of ankle beneath the long dresses is anyone’s guess. But no one cared as they celebrated their new freedom.
Flashes of ankle, oh my yes.
But the Somalis have the right idea: celebrate freedom with music and with women (come on, who cares about men's ankles?). I wonder if M Net's Rock Down Africa is still around? It should be imported into Mogadishu, and a former co-host brought back: I'm sure I'm not the only guy who finds Gerry Rantseli worth celebrating. I only went to that story for the gown, you know.
And did you catch the line about what the women were doing? They "shook their hair and stole glances at the men lining the wall." Some things, I guess, are universal: guys line the walls of the club instead of dancing with babes, in Somalia as in America. No wonder The Game was a bestseller. Maybe, if it did some good here, there should be a Somali edition?
(Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds
Posted by Craig Ceely at January 3, 2007 09:54 PM