It is not right to say that the belly dancing we know today dates back to Pharaohs and that those dancing costumes we see on the temples are the same we have now. It is also not right to say that this dancing has been reflecting our true identity through the many generations of dancers like Zouba el-Kolobateya, Bamba Kashar, Hikmat Fahmi, Tahia Carioca, Samia Gamal and Nagwa Fouad. It is yet still not right to say that we taught that type of dancing to the whole world that appreciated it by opening schools to teach it. And it is not true that a dancer like Farida Fahmi in the 1960s was doing it in an artistic way, unlike the dancers of the night clubs today who use it as a way for earning money quickly. That is why I totally agree with those who call for banning belly dancing in Egypt and closing down the dancing schools so as to prevent the spread of decadence, as they say all dancers are prostitutes. Perhaps we should be the only country to ban dancing altogether like we were the only ones to kill all pigs to prevent swine flu. And it doesn't matter how the rest of the world will look at us. They will never be up to the level of our intelligence anyway. I take this opportunity to call for closing down all hotbeds of corruption, including schools, where students are beaten and blackmailed by the teachers to force them to take private lessons. Equally, we should also close down movie theaters and ban music, as there is no music without dancing. Our prophet liked to listen to singing and to music. He was received in Medina with dances. But we are not living in the time of the prophet. We now live in the era of the Taliban, who have banned music in Afghanistan, closed down girl schools and destroyed some of the greatest monuments, as they only saw in these things symbols of decadence and paganism. I greatly admire that Taliban open-mindedness that has spread among us here. It was clearly manifested in our judiciary closing down a magazine for but one poem that was published in it. Welcome to the Taliban regime to be revived in Egypt, the land of culture, the cradle of religion and the heart of the Islam that has produced the greatest civilization ever known in the world. We can establish a new civilization by following Taliban's great example to become a great nation.
