Posted on 02/14/2016 12:00:41 PM PST by Titus-Maximus
ORAN, Algeria -- AFTER Tahrir came Cologne. After the square came sex. The Arab revolutions of 2011 aroused enthusiasm at first, but passions have since waned. Those movements have come to look imperfect, even ugly: For one thing, they have failed to touch ideas, culture, religion or social norms, especially the norms relating to sex. Revolution doesn't mean modernity.
The attacks on Western women by Arab migrants in Cologne, Germany, on New Year's Eve evoked the harassment of women in Tahrir Square itself during the heady days of the Egyptian revolution. The reminder has led people in the West to realize that one of the great miseries plaguing much of the so-called Arab world, and the Muslim world more generally, is its sick relationship with women. In some places, women are veiled, stoned and killed; at a minimum, they are blamed for sowing disorder in the ideal society. In response, some European countries have taken to producing guides of good conduct to refugees and migrants. Sex is a complex taboo, arising, in places like Algeria, Tunisia, Syria or Yemen, out of the ambient conservatism's patriarchal culture, the Islamists' new, rigorist codes and the discreet puritanism of the region's various socialisms. That makes a good combination for obstructing desire or guilt-tripping and marginalizing those who feel any. And it's a far cry from the delicious licentiousness of the writings of the Muslim golden age, like Sheikh Nafzawi's "The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight," which tackled eroticism and the Kama Sutra without any hang-ups.
Today sex is a great paradox in many countries of the Arab world: One acts as though it doesn't exist, and yet it determines everything that's unspoken. Denied, it weighs on the mind by its very concealment. Although women are veiled, they are at the center of our
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Maybe the weight of the hypocrisy of their feminist editorial writers collapsed their building.
An Arab is not allowed to be a homosexual but at the same time he’s allowed to “know” men.
He's allowed to "know" boys. Adult Muslim men are allowed to be "pitchers", but not "catchers". They are also not allowed to be effeminate.
if you would have seen the hatred against Antonin last night on Twitter and the LOVE of all things islam, posted by Americans, you would have thrown up.
Hense...goats and camels are easier they dont tell
“out of the ambient conservatism’s patriarchal culture,”
Ah, it is conservative men’s fault. Uh huh.
I don’t through up unless I have the flu. But the Twitters almost made me toss my cookies.
MOST IF NOT ALL OF THOSE ON THE LEFT ARE SCUM.
Was the Kama Sutra written by Muslims? If so I doubt
they were Arab Muslims or men of the desert if you will.
Throw*
i closed my account. Last time i was on was to cuss at the Eagles coach for getting rid of tebow lol.
but for some reason, i started getting left wing twitter posts in my email.
i argued for two hours with assorted fruits and nuts, and said “what am i, crazy?” and shut it down
people hate Antonin and LOVED mexicans and muzzies.
we’re headed for dark days but there could be light at the end.
A down-low rough trader? Really?
They’d never let a Westerner write this, but since it’s apparently “one of THEM” it’s okay.
Exactly why I stay away from the twit heads and other anti social media.
It ain’t worth it.
no, it’s not. I have no desire for twitter or facebook or instagram or whatever else is out there.
I work on Staten Island now, which is conservative, so i’m good to go.
but when I interviewed in Manhattan, i would have to shut off my facebook account because of the conservative rants I had there lol.
i know it’s sad, but there’s no conservative unemployment fund :)
“An Arab is not allowed to be a homosexual but at the same time he’s allowed to know men.”
And of course Rape 3 and 4 year old boys, or who ever they happen to grab, rape, and pass around. Islam is strictly from the pits of HELL and SATAN.
“if you would have seen the hatred against Antonin last night on Twitter and the LOVE of all things islam, posted by Americans, you would have thrown up.”
I knew there was a reason the LORD told me to stay away from twitter and facebook.
i’m gone for good.
they are evil.
I don’t tweet, but I’ve been staying away from Facebook for the same reason. That and syrupy Valentine’s Day tributes.
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