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“I Am Not Naked” Lebanese campaign in support of Jackie

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Several social media users started campaigns on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to express their solidarity with Jackie Chamoun, the Lebanese champion skier who was criticized for a semi-nude photo shoot, NOW reported on Wednesday.

I Am Not Naked is a Facebook page that was created Wednesday morning to show support for Jackie, where a number of men and women posted pictures of themselves without any clothes on, only holding a paper that reads “Strip for Jackie.”

The pictures’ captions start with I Am Not Naked, followed by the person’s profession.

One of the Facebook page’s administrators told NOW that the page that was created Wednesday at six in the morning and shows people aged between 20 and 30 from different regions of Lebanon.

Twitter users also posed semi-naked and posted their pictures with the hashtag #StripForJackie as a sign of solidarity with the Lebanese athlete.

A social media campaign was waged against Chamoun on Tuesday because she posed nude for an Austrian ski calendar three years ago.

The campaign began when Al-Jadeed (New TV) television published a video of the making of the photo shoot, labeling it as “a scandal.”

Caretaker Sports and Youth Minister Faisal Karami later asked to investigate into the case of Lebanese Ski Champion Jackie Chamoun who is currently representing Lebanon in the Olympic Games in Russia’s Sochi.

Phalange party MP Sami Gemayel joined the list of Jackie Chamoun’s defenders yesterday . He told her on his official Facebook page: “Focus on the Olympics race in Sochi and your supporters we will take care of the rest”

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7 responses to ““I Am Not Naked” Lebanese campaign in support of Jackie”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Way to go Ladies. Excellent. The opening was made by politicians. Just remember that. :-))))

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    5thDrawer

    Cynthia-Maria Aramouni, who came up with the concept for the shoot, told The Daily Star that the campaign aims to highlight the misplaced focus of those who are now supporting Chamoun not because of her talent as a skier and her role as one of only two Lebanese athletes competing in the Winter Olympics, but because of the controversial photographs.
    She points out that in the wake of the scandal followers of Chamoun’s official Facebook page increased from 500 to 11,000 in a single day. By Wednesday afternoon the number stood at more than 45,000.
    “Everyone is supporting her for this now, even though they should have supported her because she was representing Lebanon as an athlete,” Aramouni told The Daily Star Wednesday. “So it’s about who we choose to be defined as, not what we do with our personal lives.”
    Others found black humour in the situation. “Start by stopping terrorism, will you? I would strip for that if it helps,” one blogger wrote on the site “From Beirut with Funk.” “If nobody wears clothes, nobody will have a place to hide the bomb.”

    1. dateam Avatar
      dateam

      The reason they do these shoots is to raise money>>>how else are they to support themselves?

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        And here is ONE reason the ‘shoot’ by cameras was in Russia … besides the gun-shooting in Lebanon, the ‘global warm’ really exists … even if Libnan1 doesn’t agree. 😉

  3. libnan1 Avatar
    libnan1

    I don’t know about this campaign the girl is little chubby and the guy does’t hang low.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      I might put myself on there … a real ‘treat’ for you. :-))))

  4. assy Avatar
    assy

    i like it

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