Islamic internet sites were being monitored by German intelligence agency BND after threats were posted about Turkish-German model Sila \u015eahin, who recently posed semi-nude for the cover of the German edition of Playboy, “shaming Muslim womanhood” and “prostituting herself for money.”<\/p>\n
Other comments, report various media, were more threatening: “\u015eahin, you should be careful” and “She will pay for this.”<\/p>\n
For \u015eahin, being the first Turkish-German woman\u00a0on the cover of the German edition of Playboy was downright revolutionary.<\/p>\n
“I feel like Che Guevara,”\u00a0she told Playboy in the interview accompanying the photo spread.<\/p>\n
“What I want to say with these photos is, ‘Girls, we don’t have to live according to the rules imposed upon us,'” she said. Growing up, her family was more conservative than she wanted to be, she added.<\/p>\n
“For years I subordinated myself to various societal constraints and did what others thought was right for me,” she says in the “making-of” video on playboy.de. “The Playboy photo shoot was a total act of liberation.”<\/p>\n
However, some in the Turkish community spoke about the photos being a disgrace and not the kind of thing a Turkish or Muslim woman should do. \u015eahin told mass-circulation daily Bild that her mother refused to speak to her.<\/p>\n
“We’re not allowed to do things like that,” said Furkan, the owner of a small doner kebab\u00a0restaurant in Bonn. “Muslims are absolutely not allowed to do something like that.<\/p>\n
Asked what he would do if \u015eahin were his sister or daughter, Furkan was unequivocal.<\/p>\n
“I would kill her. If I were to see pictures like that, I would kill her. I really mean that. That’s not something for me, not for my culture. I was raised differently. That doesn’t fit with my culture.”<\/p>\n