Africa Uncovered - Mauritania: Fat or Fiction - 11 Aug 08 - Part 1

Big is often regarded as beautiful in Mauritania, but the controversial act of force-feeding is still practiced in some parts of the country.

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[faisalshahx]

@TaleOfValors this has nothing to do with islam, just local culture. infact islam is against glutony

[goldenismonica]

i come back to this video more than a year later and people are still discussing race and color instead of the video itself and the awful treatment these young girls are going to.

SMH....

[SnowyHil]

waht howadwjohkjowwwr?

i think apples are being corned death now eh?

[MrRuggedboy27]

The prophet of islam, never had a full plate of food, he wouldnt eat meat, until it was someone offering and it was only then that the prophet would gracious accept, so its a Jahali act, but then lets hope Allah give them hidayah and let the men care for piety not gluttony in women :) salam u alaikum

[adrarwelcomesyou]

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[adrarwelcomesyou]

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[bry0pker]

" A long history of FAT women"

[jajajaja29]

the mothers are the one to blame.

[LuckyDukeSeven]

@NewOrleansboii

This culture WAS Western, and it IS inferior. It wasn't too long ago that a plump Briton would be the desire of every well off British citizen. All the racial ethnicities Mauritania is made up of (Blacks to the south, Arabs to the north) collectively think this is ridiculous. Like foot-binding in China, FGM in Subsaharan and Eastern Afric

[NewOrleansboii]

@LuckyDukeSeven What is your point? I was talking about Westernization and how we always discredit cultures like these as "inferior". In fact, your only proving my point.

[LuckyDukeSeven]

@NewOrleansboii

That's ridiculous. This is Mauritanian culture. This is something the Arabs in Yemen, Syria and Egypt have heard of for centuries- and something Nigerians, Ghanian and Benins are also very familiar with. 

[1443Ruppina]

@sittingbull706 Sounds very smart. Let the people who have it eat and be happy. Focus more energy on giving to the starving.