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Television Helps Break Mystique of Holy Warrior (72 dark-eyed virgins need not apply)
The Financial Times ^
| March 24, 2005
| Steve Negus and Dhiya Rasan
Posted on 03/24/2005 9:14:40 PM PST by quidnunc
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:14:49 PM PST
by
quidnunc
To: quidnunc
Well, nobody ever said those 72 virgins had to be female.
To: quidnunc
But for many Sunni, even some who do not support the insurgents' goals, the programme's suggestion that the entire guerrilla movement comprises sexual libertines and petty criminals is an insult to their community. Better send Oprah over there. Members of the Sunni guerrilla movement have had their feelings hurt.
To: quidnunc
One long-bearded preacher known as Abu Tabarek recently confessed that guerrillas had usually held orgies in his mosques, secure in the knowledge that their status as holy warriors would win them forgiveness of their sins.Now it's clear why the leftists and liberals in Hollywood love the insurgents...
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:19:53 PM PST
by
paudio
(Four More Years..... Let's Use Them Wisely...)
To: quidnunc
Wait till Hollyweird gets hold of this.
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:21:36 PM PST
by
Waco
To: quidnunc
OMG, now we're going to have GLAD out protesting to protect the terrorists.
To: quidnunc
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:24:07 PM PST
by
fso301
To: Begferdeth
"No, you dumbass, I said 72 Virginians !!!"
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:24:34 PM PST
by
No Longer Free State
(The last thing Reuters wants is a free and unfettered Iraqi press)
To: quidnunc
Maybe the Abu Gharib pixs were just a brillant ploy by Karl Rove to get these guys to surrender.
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:26:22 PM PST
by
Tribune7
To: quidnunc
The Sunni are offended. Those mirrors sure are tough to look into.
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:28:46 PM PST
by
jolie560
To: quidnunc
The Sunni are offended. Those mirrors sure are tough to look into.
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:29:00 PM PST
by
jolie560
To: quidnunc
Gay orgies, eh? So many "virgin" jokes, so little time, and after trying to type some up here, all way too damn disturbing....
- (a self-censoring, for once) Yossarian
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:32:08 PM PST
by
Yossarian
(Remember: NOT ALL HEART ATTACKS HAVE TRADITIONAL SYMPTOMS)
To: quidnunc
They lied, you get to pick a 72 year old virgin, Medea Benjamin, Gael Murphy, Leslie Cagan, Ramsey Clark or Jeanne Garofalo.
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:32:40 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Support Our Troops, Spit On A Reporter)
To: quidnunc
some of whom appear on the program sporting bruises to embellish their "confessions"
That's why only the Iraqis can solve the insurgency problem they know what it's going to take and are willing to do what's necessary to get the job done
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:38:02 PM PST
by
underbyte
(For Terry Schiavo " First thing we will do is Kill All the Lawyers" Shakespeare)
To: quidnunc
Say the word mujahid or holy warrior these days and many inhabitants of Baghdad are likely to sniggeIf that is really true, the significance is huge.
To: quidnunc
PING -for Liberating Iraq.
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:45:18 PM PST
by
WOSG
(Liberating Iraq - http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com)
To: quidnunc
However, many Iraqis believe that the stern-faced officers of the "Wolf Brigade", the Iraqi security unit that arrested most of the alleged terrorists, may have pushed the suspects some of whom appear on the programme sporting bruises to embellish their "confessions".
Hmm, well look at what Muhammed Atta and his jihadi minions were up to shortly before 9/11 - hitting strip clubs and getting drunk. I'm guessing the former is against Islam and I know the latter is.
Note, however, how the MSM here uses the passive voice to make a case for which they give *no* evidence.
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posted on
03/24/2005 9:45:55 PM PST
by
swilhelm73
(Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian)
To: quidnunc
anyone familiar with Islamic society would not be surprised by the article. Saudi princes have apartment buildings full of young boys for their pleasure, a well known fact in the Arab world.
if Lawrence were still alive - he might confess that this particular aspect was what drew him to partake so deeply of this society...
Raphael Patai writes in the Arab Mind about male bonding...
it's just the location in the mosque that's wierd (well... perhaps not, if one considers that the Arabic word for mosque is jamiyah)
either way, it's a sad indictment of their society.
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posted on
03/24/2005 10:01:46 PM PST
by
ColdWarNavyVet_dirsup
(it wasn't cold... 'specially not below the line of death ;-))
To: jolie560
The Sunni would be a WHOLE lot more offended, if they knew of my wishes for their future.....
Semper Fi
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posted on
03/24/2005 10:19:11 PM PST
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: ColdWarNavyVet_dirsup
"For children a woman, for pleasure a boy"
Arab saying.
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