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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cute cats :)
That is good. I never was involved in either.
The arab spring was like a ruptured appendix, spreading the once-sequestered poisons throughout the body. It was another refutation, if one was needed after the Iraq debacle, of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Islam’s civilizational pinnacle is not self-actualization, but submission. The whole thing is on-the-ground proof that neo-conservatism was/is a conceit of the Western mind, a projection of our values in the noble cause of pacifying the terminally aggrieved.
I gather pitching is ok but catching is not?
I swear you’re a brother from another mother. :)
Great minds.. :)
later
Western women simply do not realize how sick Muslim men are and think they are fixable; they are not.
Thanks!
Limbaugh answered the question “it having sex with a horse legal?”. His answer: only if it is consensual.
But notice they blame conservatives with this linkage: "out of the ambient conservatism's patriarchal culture".
“Hey, you Islamic guys in the Middle East! Why don’t you just get rid of women, it would solve all your problems!”
I don’t know if they’re dumb enough to fall for this, but....
Wait...the writer’s name is Kamel?
I guess you don’t realize: This was meant as a backhanded attack on Christianity.
Staten Island, the only part of NYC I would deliver to when I was driving a truck. Completely different than the boroughs of NYC proper.
Just passing through the city on my way north was enough for me.
I did make a few deliveries in the city when I first started driving.
My impression wasn’t good.
It seemed like a very insulated place.
It was like they were proud of living in their little part of the city and putting down the rest.
Maybe all large cities are like that.
It must be tough being a conservative there.
I don’t think I would survive it.
You must be more forgiving than me!
i was one of two in an office of 50 that was conservative.
thanks goodness the other one was a straight white Italian boss.
lots of gay guys in graphics. Lots of liberals in graphics.
Lots of arguments in graphics :)
We were worse than Cuba. So and so’s boyfriend couldn’t get a job in the medical field because Bush slashed the budget.
Project Innocence was everybody’s pet project.
everyone would leave before fighting for America in a war
and on and on an on.
oh, this one is great!!my psychotic female boss told me she didn’t now how to break to her kids that their two grandfathers were war criminals because we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima lol!!!! I SWEAR!!!
I would have probably educated her on the war crimes of the Japanese and then explained how we actually *saved* Japanese lives by dropping the bomb.
Her head would have exploded and I would have been out of a job!
Yep, you DEFINITELY have more patience than I do!
You probably have enough stories to write a book.
Call it The Idiocy of Liberalism.
With a board name liked OldVirginian you would have been arrested for assault lol!!
I dont know how I WASN’T. Good salary.
and then you have the liberal friends to whom you are a token republican friend.
they run up to you, tell you a terrible story about a republican then leave.
at least Neil was pro Israel so we could talk.
AND he shut some STUPID woman up who admired STALIN!!!!
i have to stop....lol
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