Tunisia frees three Europeans jailed for topless feminist protest

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11. I looked her up, there is something strange going on.

Amina Tyler is the woman's name. Amina is an Arabic name meaning, truthful, trustworthy and honest. It is the 24th most popular name for girls in Tunsia:
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/penpals/stats.php3?Pays=TUN

On the other hand, Tyler is an ENGLISH name. An ancestor may be an Englishman, or the family adopted it due to reforms that permitted a change in surnames.


http://www.everyculture.com/To-Z/Tunisia.html

http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/tunisia-country-profile.html

http://www.tunisia-live.net/2011/12/29/changing-family-names-in-post-independence-tunisia/


Now, traditional Arab Culture was, if you were male, you last name was your father's first name. Thus a father's sons would have all the same last names, but they would be different from their fathers. Thus Saddam Hussein's son was Qusay Saddam (Sometime the grandfather's name was added as an additional last name, thus you read about Qusay Saddam Hussein).

The same rule applied to women, but it was their father's I.e. the same as their brothers). When they married, their retained they name, but their children borne the name of their husband's and his father.

The French, when they took over control of Tunisa in the 1830s seems to have stopped this and force everyone to have proper sur names like good Frenchmen, Thus your last name was the same as your fathers. This complicates the situation, for why dies she have an English Last Name? Her family may have adopted it for it was short name that they knew was rare in Tunisia, but that most people knew how to pronounced given the widespread adoption of Television and the domination of US shows on those Televisions.

My problem with her and the whole Femen movement is, what is the intention? What do you really want? They claim more respect for women from religion, but then come up with how that is suppose to be done. Thus it appears to be more a protest group without a goal except "Woman's rights" without defining what that means. Vague titles and goals are good slogans, but sooner or later you have to state WHAT you actually want. Being left alone is a goal, but how is that being achieved by showing your breasts at a mosque? Why go to a protest of Radical Muslims and bare your breasts? How is that going to achieve your goal (unless your goal is your personal ego)?

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/05/21/Amina-Tyler-Tunisia-s-topless-jihad-activist-under-arrest.html

Just a comment, something is strange here. Femen is strange in itself for it appears to protest for vague goals and once people start to ask for details, they find none and leave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMEN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/11/femen-nudity-racist-colonial-feminism
http://mondediplo.com/blogs/the-fast-food-feminism-of-the-topless-femen