Some girls are just trouble on a stick, aren’t they? Some of the best ones, that is.
When we first featured Tehmeena Afzal,
we were dismayed by the venomous comments that showed up on our post.
Her parents are Muslims, born in Pakistan and brought together in an
arranged marriage, and though Tehmeena was born in Queens she says she
is Pakistani with a Muslim background. It’s a fair and factual statement
as far as we’re concerned. But wow — such nastiness in the comment
thread about her ethnicity and her relationship to Islam. In fact it’s a
little hard to follow the comments that were on the page because,
frankly, we do not feel obligated to keep hate speech on our site. There
was some really bad stuff there.
We like Tehmeena, and after getting a glimpse of the harassment she
has to endure over bikini pictures we only support her more. Don’t you
dare cover up, girl.
We received an e-mail from Tehmeena yesterday, all about a different
sort of controversy. This time she has posed for a magazine she says is a
fraud. The magazine is called Fannatic, and according to her the people behind it ripped her off. What’s the real story? Is there a magazine at all, or just a nice website?
We don’t really know — and frankly, that’s Tehmeena’s battle to fight,
not ours. We’re just happy to have a few new pictures of Tehmeena and
her giant bulging, er, hairdo. As she says:
They never paid the photographer so they in fact
breached their contract and I am able to present you with the pics from
the shoot!
Really? We’re no lawyers, but if Tehmeena says so we’ll take her at her word. (And remember, Fannatic — there is no such thing as bad publicity.)
