Posted on 06/22/2009 4:00:18 PM PDT by Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
The young people of Tehran who threw themselves in frustration at the security forces seem to be the group that in the great High School Yearbook of the Civilizations would have been voted least likely to succeeded. They are a suppurating mass of social pathologies. Oil wealth has made prostitution an acceptable way for a young woman to earn university tuition. Perhaps 5% of the adult population is addicted to opiates. About two-fifths of them say they would emigrate given the chance.
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I thought prostitution was unislamic.
Islamic prostitution is usually disguised as serial weddings.
Strictly one is supposed to keep at least one menstruation between “weddings”, so no more than one a month. But of course this inane figleaf is not observed.
These short marriages are called mutah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQCw9Nk5YWI
- one of the saddest documentaries I’ve ever seen.
The young people of Tehran who threw themselves in frustration at the security forces seem to be the group that in the great High School Yearbook of the Civilizations would have been voted least likely to succeeded. They are a suppurating mass of social pathologies. Oil wealth has made prostitution an acceptable way for a young woman to earn university tuition. Perhaps 5% of the adult population is addicted to opiates. About two-fifths of them say they would emigrate given the chance.
we screwed up big on this one and will pay the price for our stupidity and arrogance.
Towards the end of this part of the documentary they talk about “sige” (I don’t know how to spell it) which is temporary marriage. It can last from 10 minutes to 99 years. It’s a cover for prostitution and keeping mistresses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fxdjb42iK0&feature=related
It’s not called prostitution. It’s called ‘temporary marriage’. That is why you don’t hear of or see Shias engaged in suicide bombing. They don’t have to wait for 72 virgins. They just go get ‘temporarily married’.
OK ... so maybe they have prostitution in the Islamic nation wedded to the holy Koran. But, they don’t have any homosexuals there. They’ve at least got that going for them.
Please elaborate.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KF20Ak03.html
SunkenCiv
You have to remember that the Russians and the Chinese do not trust the motives of the United States.
Sounds like the male version of the “hillbilly rape” cases I reviewed as a prosecutor. They go something like “you were my boyfriend yesterday, and you might be my boyfriend again tomorrow, but today we’re split up and I’m seeing someone else. So if we have sex, it’s rape.”
I generally found little merit in those cases.
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