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Elias Bejjani - 10/12/2009
On Thursday, 1st October a preplanned and scheduled Brazilian samba show was banned and torpedoed in the recorded southern Lebanese city of Tyre after about 100 Shiite clerics under the chairmanship of Sheikh Ali Yassin, a persuasive Hezbollah follower, met and issued a fatwa (religious decree) forbidding it and declaring it sinful.
A statement by the clerics condemned the flexible-air Brazilian samba display by a dance troupe that has been touring Lebanon and said: “The naked festival is incompatible with the spiritual-minded and Islamic morals of Tyre”. The statement blamed the city's municipality for licensing the performance of the festival and held it obliged”. “We support tourism but are against obscenity,” said Sheikh Ali Yassin, who led the 100 Shiite clerics’ dissent.
The troupe, including musicians
