Gisele Bundchen‘s burqa has done something decades of negotiations have failed to do — get Israel and the rest of the Middle East to agree on something.
From Saudi Arabia to Jerusalem, critics joined Thursday inmocking the supermodel for hiding under a burqa in an effort to fool the paparazzi and sneak in and out of a Paris plastic surgery clinic.
“We should stop take[ing] these circus performers seriously,” a Jerusalem Post reader sniped Thursday on that paper’s website, under a story about the supermodel’s religiously dodgy press dodge.
American Muslims and imams have denounced Bundchen’s choice of coverup — reported exclusively in Wednesday’s Post — as religiously offensive.
But in Mideast publications, there were far more snark-waves than shockwaves. Laughing emoticons mingled with Arabic script on scores of retweets of The Post’s story.
“A new purpose for the burqa and abaya: ignorance,” Hussain Al Hareth tweeted.
“Probably, it will soon become the most popular style among celebrities and stars,” tweeted Jamal Hussein Ali in Arabic.
“Clothes look good on her,” joked Mona Ahmad from Kuwait.
Laughed another Jerusalem Post commentator, “LOL she was carrying deflategate evidence for her hubby little tommy brady.”